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Brass Eagle Raptor Extreme Reviews
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Number of Reviews: |
66 |
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Average Rating: |
5.9 / 10 |
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Manufacturer Website: |
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Suggested Retail Price: |
$249 |
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| The Raptor Extreme features an extreme splash
anodized finish, a double trigger, and an
expansion chamber in a bottom line configuration. |
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| The Brass Eagle Raptor Extreme is older, so while it may be available used and in a few cases new, it is not commonly available anymore. |
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Period of
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| 3 years | 12 of 25 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
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4 years |
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Products Used: |
Everything |
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Recommended
Upgrades: |
New Gun!!! |
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| Strengths: |
Ummm... Hmmm... The, no wait, Ummm... Nothing |
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| Weaknesses: |
Hey, this is an easy one, THE GUN!!! |
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| Review: |
I work at an ARMY paintballl field in Germany in which soldiers and their families come out and have some fun, and this is the gun that we rent out. Trust me, I had no say in the choice of this gun, I would never pick anything that has the words BRASS EAGLE on it. They suck, Im suprised they have not yet gone bankrupt. These guns breakdown like CRAZY. The sears are the worst part of the gun, they are cheap peaces of crap, the corners chip and will not catch the hammer, so you have to unscrew everything, take the grip apart, mess with the springs and all that damn grease, put it back together, its a pain in the rear end (moderators made me change my original word after a year)! The ball stops break, The springs dont last long, they wear out, The things leak all the time. IF you have not noticed, most of the people that are giving this a good rating, are newbees, they dont know any better!!! And the big surprise that we just got from Brass Eagle, after being on the phone with them for an hour and a half, is that they will no longer be making replacement parts for the thing! I guess thats good though, because now were moving on to Tippmann Model 98's, which I know from first hand experience are great begginner-intermediate guns. They are very reliable and accurate. STAY AWAY FROM ANYTHING THAT BRAS EAGLE MAKES!!! SPEND YOUR MONEY ON SOMETHING BETTER, I MEAN A COMPANY THAT SELLS A GUN AT AS LOW AS $10, HAS TO BE CHEAP!!! |
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| Conclusion: |
THIS GUN SUCKS!!!!!!!! If you see my rating is 1, Even though I cant do 0, 1 suits it good, because it can actuallly shoot its first couple balls before breaking down |
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| Rating: |
| 1 out of 10 | Last edited on Sunday, March 28th, 2004 at 2:58 am PST |
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The accuracy of this review is disputed. Please see discussion on the comments page.
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Period of
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| 6 months | 10 of 19 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
More than 5 years |
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Similar
Products Used: |
A typical semi-auto |
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Recommended
Upgrades: |
I recommend a new hopper |
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| Strengths: |
Alright I know there is some confusion about this marker so I am going to try to clear this up. This gun has a decent rate of fire for a semi auto, stock barrel is pretty accurate, doesn't chop that much paint unless you use cheap paint.
Pretty easy to field strip if you get familiar with the parts before hand. |
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| Weaknesses: |
chops cheap paint (like brass eagle paint)
If you going trigger finger happy it will eventually chop paint in cold weather.
Gas hog with regular expansion( buy 32 degrees)
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Alright this is a great marker for a person who would like to learn speedball or
woodball. I think this marker is much better for a beginner than a tippman 98 custom because you do not need to upgrade it to get a decent rate of fire. Yes a tippman can eventually be made into a full auto but at what price. You will spend 200 dollars or more easily on that marker. If you buy the Raptor xtreme you will have a very good gun for the price and you will not have to upgrade as much. This thing is tournament ready so if you wanted to enter a rookie tournament you could. Oh sorry the tippman 98 doesn't have tournament knobs well too bad, but this one does. If you really want good advice I would just recommend getting a tippman A-5 with a response trigger for under 300 dollars and it is a really great gun that can keep up with the competition. Just don't buy a 98 custom and upgrade it, trust me it is a waste buying this overrated marker. |
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pb136 |
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2003 |
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Period of
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| 3 months | 8 of 14 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
3 years |
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Products Used: |
Have used raptor xtreme
Most brass eagle guns |
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| Marker Setup: |
Tippmann Prolite
w/ cmi tru flight barrel
12oz co2 |
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Recommended
Upgrades: |
Better Barrel
new bolt
basicaly a new gun |
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| Strengths: |
Nice paint job
Looks good
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| Weaknesses: |
Breaks balls
Hard to clean
Stock barrel sucks
loud as a cannon
Way to high of a price |
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| Conclusion: |
I would not recomend this gun to anyone i have played for a while. Dont listen to your friends and go out and buy it. for the same price you can get a tippmann custom 98 which is a totaly better gun.dont just buy a gun based on looks. |
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Friday, October 26th, 2001 |
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| Strengths: |
This gun has been very accurate and very dependable. It has a very good ball feed and if you get the right kind of paintballs (not Brass Eagle) it does not chop balls. |
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| Weaknesses: |
I have found nothing wrong with this gun (after firing several thousand shots from it) except that it is a little heavy with my 16" sniper barrel and 14 oz. tank. |
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| Conclusion: |
This gun performs good as a stock gun but I decided to go ahead and buy the sniper barrel. The gun is definately worth the price I paid for it ($175 including sniper barrel. This is a low maintenance gun and you only have to do a complete breakdown cleanout every couple months. I have also shot Tippmans and Spiders but they are not even on the same level as my Raptor. I would recommend this gun to anyone. I love it! |
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Period of
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| 1 year | 4 of 8 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
2 years |
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Similar
Products Used: |
Spyders of all kinds 98c and a-5 mag and a MATRIX...I LOVED THE MATRIX |
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| Marker Setup: |
Spyder victor
~smartparts 14' teardrop
~32 degrees v-bolt
~32 degrees gel grip (modified)
~Red sprint trigger w/ 1 mm pull
~pmi inline regulator
~15* assault block
~Phyco balistics drop forward
~72 ci pure energy Hpa
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polished internals....clean constantly new barrel does help...new bolt is u could find |
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PRICE,,,,LOOKS,,,,after mod preformance |
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| Weaknesses: |
weight loud...stock preformance... |
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| Review: |
OK 1st thing u do get firmilliar with the gun...know the parts be able to field strip....THEn go out online..yes its possible find a large bore barrel...and get a squeege with it ....then look online for a new bolt i couldent find one but i hade some 800 and 1000 grit sand paper i used to sand the face of the boltto reduse breaking...test spring tension stock is too high and allways lube the gun after use.... fast feed is needed and u CANT USE CHEAP PAINT no after burners blue ball crap or be.... |
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im givin it a 7 because stock preformance suks,,,,the chopping and all...but im sick and tiered of people saying that this gun if only liked by noobs that dont know better!!!...for 75$ when u can get the gun and a whole mask tank +everything u need kit take it and mod it till it works..thats how most be guns are so....basicly im not a noob and ive played w/ a couple higher end guns..but w/ a lil modding and a player that knows how to use it they can own w/ this gun...not like angels but def...a tippman |
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Jason79 |
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Monday, September 26th, 2005 |
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Period of
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| Only tested | 2 of 3 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
2 years |
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Products Used: |
Tippmann 98 custom. Kingman Spyder. PMI piranha. Brass eagle avenger and marauder. All of these guns are MUCH better than the raptor. |
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| Marker Setup: |
I use a Tippmann 98 Custom. I have a 5" drop forward, a collapsable stock, laser sight, bipod, 16" thunderpig barrel,(or 21" 3 piece barrel) rocket cock2, and the double trigger, response trigger, expansion chamber, |
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Recommended
Upgrades: |
Upgrades for the raptor? Buy a tippmann, or other good name gun, quality is always a good benefit. |
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| Strengths: |
NONE (maybe that it looks cool) |
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| Weaknesses: |
Everything but the finish and barrel. |
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| Review: |
I tested this gun for a friend of mine, we used good paint, the gun looked to be in great shape inside and out, the co2 tank was full, good hopper. But the gun was only able to shoot 2 paintballs before it shredded some, and then for no reason after we cleaned the barrel and chamber it went psycho on us! The gun went full auto, nearly drained a full 20oz tank, and froze the gun up! After cleaning and through inspection, the gun did the same thing. After reading many many other testominals I decided that it was not the operator and not the accesories. I have a few brass eagle products myself as loaners, and they arent to bad. The other brass eagles (maurader and avenger) at least work, without continous repair. The raptor requires alot of attention, not bad when it actually works, but it has alotta down time on the field from breaking paint.
***After trial and error we did finally fix the raptor, had to re-engineer a few of the firing mechanisms, then the gun actually made a few games relatively good. Still breaks alotta paint though.***
***I am adding this note after we got into the beginning of the second season this gun has been attempted to be used. it is up to its old tricks, chopping paint like mad, trigger problems again, after a matter of minutes in play the gun either needs broken paint cleaned out or repairs. We finally convinced him to get rid of it. This gun is the biggest dissappointment ever to come out of brass eagle. |
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My final recommendation as prevously stated, buy a good name brand gun. If you dont have mechanical ability, this gun isnt for you. But if you can be inventive on repairs this is a decent starter gun. You can actually get good at fixing guns if you buy one of these guns!! |
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| 2 out of 10 | Last edited on Monday, July 3rd, 2006 at 3:10 pm PST |
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Se1Fer |
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Saturday, January 1st, 2005 |
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Period of
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| Only tested | 2 of 3 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
3 years |
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Products Used: |
Lots |
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Evil Omen (black)
Pipe Kit
Evil Scion A1r
Evo Hopper |
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Recommended
Upgrades: |
NEW GUN(highly reccomended) :) |
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Hmmm...The...Wait...None :P |
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| Weaknesses: |
See Review |
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| Review: |
Ok brass eagle congrats!!!! Out of all the brass eagles ive tried this is the best 1 ive used but it still sucks. Who the hell is gonna put brass eagle outta bussiness??? But anyway unlike the samurai after about 6 shots every ball chopped and i needed 2 clean the gun..pretty mcuh the same probs as the samurai(see review). Also this gun is $250 who the hells gonna pay that much for a crap ahs gun especially when its a brass eagle!? ....MY god |
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I give it a 2 cuz its the best brass eagle ive used.
Note: Every 1 that gave this gun a 10 was a unregistered User! |
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| Rating: |
| 2 out of 10 | Last edited on Thursday, January 27th, 2005 at 4:23 pm PST |
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Monday, January 22nd, 2001 |
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| Strengths: |
This gun is great i dont know what people are talking about that gave it a 1 out of ten rating this gun deserves a 10 out of 10 i also like the double trigger feature and the paint job and good paintballs dont break in the barell. |
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Sometimes this gun will shoot 2 or 3 balls out of the barell but not that often and brass eagle paint balls break so dont buy those even though my guns made by them |
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| Conclusion: |
in conclusion, this gun is good for beginners and amatures the price is about right maybe a little high but its worth it. |
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Period of
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| Less than a month | 1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
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2 years |
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Similar
Products Used: |
Never anything similar because this gun turned me off of brass eagle and anything like it for life. |
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| Marker Setup: |
2003 Autococker VF
drop
supafly bolt
empire barrel kit
viewloader 12vlt revi
68ci 3000psi |
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Recommended
Upgrades: |
Please buy a new gun |
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| Strengths: |
It is fun to take apart and break all the pieces one by one. |
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| Weaknesses: |
The gun. |
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| Review: |
I know you've heard enough ragging on this gun so ima make this quick. I took this gun out and played one game and came back deaf. After cleaning my barrel from all the breaks i took it back to chrono and the gun went into full auto and couldnt be stopped. The guy at the field had no replacement parts for my gun so i took it to a shop and they said they couldnt do anything to it either because brass eagle didnt make parts for this gun anymore. I straight up left it at the shop. I havent seen the gun since and am happy about it. |
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If you buy this gun after reading these reviews i hope that someone slaps you up and down the field all day long. You deserve it. |
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Period of
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| 3 years | 1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Experience: |
3 years |
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Similar
Products Used: |
Tippmann A-5 the raptor doesnt even compare to the A-5 i would rather have a squirt gun |
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Tippmann A-5 with a 14in CP one piece classic barrel 689 , a expansion chamber, and a dead on paintball Double trigger and 12oz and 20oz Co2 pure energy tanks |
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Recommended
Upgrades: |
anything but i would just get a new gun |
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the looks thats it |
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| Weaknesses: |
piece of crap not accurate always broken i hate it |
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| Review: |
DO NOT GET THIS GUN you will regret it trust me i have one this is a gun that will ruin your weekend :( the grip is coming off it is loud chops paint for the same price you could get a TIPPMANN A-5 or a CUSTOM 98 it is no better then a pump just alot more expensive i seen some pumps that are better then this everytime i try shooting it something else is broke on it and most of the time it just freezes up on me something else is broke on it the only good things about this gun is it looks good and it pissed me off so much becuase it ruined my whole weekend that i went out and bought a Tippmann A-5 i would give this gun a 0 but i cant
im going to try and find somebody else to buy this so i could get my money back i remember saving all my money for ever then i came home and tried shooting it and it started freezing up on me it is a complete rip off i need to turn them into the better business bureua |
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dont even think about buying this gun i wish i would have found this site before i bought the piece of sh** now i look at everything on here before i go but it |
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| 1 out of 10 | Last edited on Monday, June 7th, 2004 at 4:27 pm PST |
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