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Number of Reviews: 143 Average Rating: 8.6 / 10 Manufacturer Website: Click here Suggested Retail Price: $250

Manufacturer Description Subscribe to Reviews on this Product - Edit this Product Listing The first military style, electronic paintball marker released by Kingman. Features removable stock, scope mount and double trigger. Built to withstand the toughest scenario play. Comes with anti chop bolt, a rechargeable 9.6v battery and a range of firing modes. Product Availability   The Kingman Spyder MR2 is newer, so it should be commonly available, both new and used. Places to Buy No Stores Sponsored Links

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kpellon Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 Period of Product Use: 3 months 3 of 3 people found this review helpful. Paintball Experience: 2 years Similar Products Used: Kingman Spyder Xtra, Tippman Custom 98 & A5 Marker Setup: Kingman Spyder MR2, Halo B, Smartparts 16" Freak Barrel, Allen Paintball Products Atomic Elbow. Recommended Upgrades: J&J Ceramic Barrel or Smartparts Freak (MR2 compatible) Barrel. Ball detent from a Bob Long timmy Atomic Elbow from Allen Paintball Products An electronic Strengths: Durable Semi to Full Auto at a great price Great right out of the box Weaknesses: Heavy Too bulky for speedball Review: Pros: Bang for the buck! I found mine at $169 and it rivals much more expensive markers. This is primarily a scenario or woodsball marker and can withstand incredible abuse requiring minimal maintenance. Ready to use right out of the box. Very accurate & incredibly easy to change modes: off, semi, 3 burst & full auto (no complicated trigger settings but does not have ramping) However it is heavy. A sling doesn't help much as it becomes too cumbersome to change firing sides with the stock, but after some sore arms you get used to it. Side loading keeps line of sight clear. Cons: If you use an electronic loader than a stiffer Ball detent from a Bob Long timmy is a must so as to avoid double feeds ($3) This is well covered in most forums. As with many electronic loaders their weight in rough scenario play can easily crack most elbows so an Atomic Elbow from Allen Paintball Products is essential. The rechargeable battery makes the hand grips not adhere to the handle as closely which can make cleaning post game a bit of a task. Conclusion: bang for the buck! rarely have I seen a marker which is so easy to use right out of the box needing minimal maintenance or upgrades, offering such speed 20 to 25bps at such a low cost. Rating: 10 out of 10 I found this review   0 Comments - Add Comment

RektumRipper Sunday, July 15th, 2007 Period of Product Use: Less than a month 3 of 3 people found this review helpful. Paintball Experience: 2 years Similar Products Used: E-MR1 Bt-4 combat with E-grip Marker Setup: MR2 with stock accessories Recommended Upgrades: high feed rate hopper barrel (16 inch or longer) Strengths: Fairly accurate Lightweight Versitile Really really fast Weaknesses: loud Difficult to aim Needs expencive hopper Reqires new spring kit Review: OK, so im going to seperate this reveiw into three different catagories: why to buy, why not to buy, and when bought what next. WHY TO BUY: well, there are probably many reasons to buy an mr2, but im only going to list one main idea. Its the perfect multi senario game marker. the mr2 is great for just about ant type of game weither you are inside, in the forest, or even in sub-zero climates (compressed air rather than co2 is recommended for cold weather). even though the mr2 is designed for mil-sim games and senario-type games, when the stock is removed it can double as a speedball marker. now, if full auto isn't allowed, then the double finger trigger is quite usefull. personnally i can manage about 16 bps MAX on semi but some people might even be able to exceed the fire rate of full auto (which is 25 bps) but i doubt it. the mr2 is also quite accurate when the target is at less than 150 feet away. personnaly in semi auto, I can shoot a target about the size of a quarter 50 feet away in about 2 shots, but others may be able to shoot better than I can. not only is it accurate, but it only weighs about 6 LBS when the hopper and co2 (10 or 12 Oz) is attached. New, the price range is about $240-$300 CAN, so if its an all pourpose marker your looking for, then this is probably the best. WHY NOT TO BUY: there are not too many downsides to this gun and I will be breif, and to the point. because the gun shoots so damn fast, you need a really good hopper such as a Halo B or better, which can and will end up costing you a lot of cash. second, its really loud (compared to other general paintball markers). which means that when you are playing in doors or even out doors, this will give away your position and end up getting you eleminated quickly. to slightly suppress the weapon, add a long barrel to the marker, it will also increace the accuracy (which you dont need). and last it is diffucult to aim with the mr2, so adding a red dot like the newly found ones in Badlands ( made especily for spyders) will hopefully increase the likelyness of hitting some one from a far distance. with these problems, it may end up costing more than you bargened for. WHEN BOUGHT WHAT NEXT: im going to be honest, out of the box the mr2 is mal supported. I my self mainly play indoor and when i first purchased it i dicided to take it for a spin. so i payed to get in, yada yada yada, i started playing with it and for a weapon straight out of the box it wasen't bad. then after about 6 rounds of games like speedball, CTF, attack and defend, i dicided to see just how fast my gun was shooting because i realized i started to outplay alot of the people there, and even I know Im not good enough to out play people with ions. so i checked and the speed was 338 FPS (just so you know the maxumum at that particular place is 230 FPS. so I removerd the stock and loosened the spring as much as it could go and still i got an astonishing 294 FPS. so basicly what i hadent realized is that you need a whole differnent freaking spring kit. not only is that bad but the stock barell (suprisingly) broke when I hit a stone wall. so I would suggest getting a new barrel right away so that you arent forced into getting a new one like I was. and rember like I said before... get a damn good hopper. Edit1: alright, so its already been over 4 months science I have bought the mr2. I have 3 up grades, and one essential. the upgrades are:1. 18 inch sniper barrel. 2. grenade launcher (thunder). And 3. the MR series red scope. Here is why these upgrades are usefull. the sniper barrel provides amazing perscion, the G-launcher provides a destructive spray (optional) when im out of ammo, and the red dot supplies an invisible (to the enemy) "red dot" which is helpfull 'cause you r then able to see exactly where you r going to shoot. the essential is (obisily) the spring kit. And that is my update. o ya and one more thing. You ARE NOT required to spen $300 on an amazing to prevent the hopper from not feedin fast enough. Why? because is not the hopper thats causing the lack of speed, its the gun its self. my recomendation is to purchase an anti-chop bolt. Conclusion: The mr2 is a good all pourpose weapon if you willing to put a little money into it. Screw the bt-4, this is a better starter weapon because if you want speedball, you got it. If you want forest sniper, you got it. If you want full auto for capturing buildings, you got that too. Its a great weapon and id rate it a 10/10 but because of the hopper problem and spriing kit issue, i rate it a 9/10 Rating: 9 out of 10 Last edited on Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 at 5:28 pm PST I found this review   0 Comments - Add Comment

storch Monday, February 19th, 2007 Period of Product Use: 3 months 3 of 3 people found this review helpful. Paintball Experience: More than 5 years Similar Products Used: A-5 with Response trigger - more durable Piranha STS G3 VF - mechanical so cannot compare Spyder E-99 avant - decent gun with a few minor errors Marker Setup: piranha sts g3 vf, LAPCO bigshot barrel, 20 oz CO2 tank, evolution 3 with z board, rest of gun is stock Kingman Spyder MR2, LAPCO bigshot barrel, 20 oz CO2 tank, evolution 3 with z board, Alamo city bolt with 3 o-rings Recommended Upgrades: New car stock but is not needed, stock barrel is very good but I would recommend an upgrade, upgrading to air is always good, new ball detents, new bolt, the ACS works very very well but creates a lot of blow back so get the Alamo city bolt with 3-orings to make blow back null and chopping extremely reduced. A spring set with main springs and valve springs, preferably 3 of each as the spring is very hot out of the box and will need to be broken in. Strengths: Rate of fire Durable Mil-sim look ACS bolt Feel Upgradable Weaknesses: Ball detents Blow back Chops rarely out of the box Review: When I first purchased this gun I was very dissatisfied as I assumed that the ACS bolt would provide reduced chopping. Well it didn't, it chopped every 1 in 20 balls. But wait there is more, I was using Evil paintballs and the temperature outside was around 40 degrees F, or 3 degrees Celsius. I was told by my local paintball shop that this would work well, well I know it will in good conditions but I was playing in cold weather. So I spent about 3 weeks angry and sad because my MR2 was chopping and not performing well. Then I posted some posts on the kingman forum and reluctantly took the advice that it was my ball detents. It was partly that, but mostly the use of good thin shelled paint under bad conditions. As well I got my gun chronographed and it was shooting extremely hot so I bought a spring set by 32 degrees. So I then used Draxxus Frostbite paint and my gun performed well, actually it performed Awesome! I have not had one break or one chop when using this Frostbite paint. And I could comfortably shoot 13 or 14 balls per second. All in all this gun is very good, I purchased it for 250 Canadian, and I know for a fact that you could pay a lot more for a similar gun of the same caliber. Although this is a great gun it does have a few flaws. The blow back on it is very very high, which will once again induce chopping. So I would strongly, and highly recommend a new bolt, preferably the alamo city bolt with 3-orings for $18.95. You can purchase it off their website at http://www.alamocitypb.com/ and then under the kingman and MR2 bolts. Conclusion: This is a great gun that is tough enough for the most harsh paintball environments and will work well in speed ball as a rate of 25 balls per second is achievable on semi-auto, and woods ball as the stock is easily taken off by removal of 1 screw. Overall, this is a great gun with a reasonable amount of upgrades and can be made to look military like without much effort. Rating: 9 out of 10 Last edited on Monday, February 19th, 2007 at 11:47 am PST I found this review   1 Comment - Add Comment

James_MR2 Sunday, December 17th, 2006 Period of Product Use: 6 months 3 of 3 people found this review helpful. Paintball Experience: 2 years Similar Products Used: Tippman 98 Spyder Rodeo Marker Setup: Spyder MR2 Viewloader VLocity 20oz CO2 Nikko Sterling 3-9 x 42 parallax adjustable scope Recommended Upgrades: Barrel Remote Line Strengths: Accurate Powerfull Good Looking Weaknesses: Very Heavy Loud Review: Although heavy, the MR2 is a greatly versatile recreational marker. It stands out from the crowd with it's great looks and nice sound. I origonally had problems with the marker when I first bought it. I tok it back to the store and discovered that the hopper I had was not fast enough to release the full potential of the marker. I upgraded to a VL VLocity hopper and had very little problems with it. It performed well and broke very little paint with the new hopper. The MR2 uses a normal amount of CO2, but it uses all of the power from the 9V battery after one whole days paintballing. This is not a problem as the marker comes with a rechargable battery and charger included in the very reasonable price. Conclusion: I would reccomend the MR2 because it is good value for money, accurate and versatile, although a remote line and expensive hopper is essential. Rating: 9 out of 10 I found this review   0 Comments - Add Comment

Monkey Militia Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 Period of Product Use: Less than a month 3 of 3 people found this review helpful. Paintball Experience: 3 months Similar Products Used: Some crappy field gun, MR1 Marker Setup: "out of the box" stock setup, gravity fed hopper. Recommended Upgrades: Force fed hopper! (VLocity for the win) Better Barrel (J&J Ceramic) HP/Air (for consistency & capacity) Maybe a different stock Spring Kit Different Grips Alamo City low blow + Striker Strengths: Fast Firing, Solid, Stylish, Flexible, Accurate stock barrel. Weaknesses: Needs to be understood! See conclusion Review: Ok, out of the box this gun isn't that great... I took it out to our local fields, expecting a noob-blastathon with my new imposing "death" machine - everyone was fearful... Woe was me! This thing chops balls like an angry ex wife. Chopped 3 balls out of about 140 (from a pod fill). About 30 mins of time wasted in screwing & cleaning... After some research I've found the following: - MUST have a very good hopper, preferably force fed. - New striker bolt spring is hard: this pushes the bolt & ball speed way up and causes chops & barrel breaks. Was getting wild velocity and nothing under 310 fps. Leave the gun cocked for a 24 hours and chopping should decrease, if not, leave cocked for longer until spring softens (definitely buy a spring kit!). - You need to keep the velocity under 280-290fps for the Anti-Chop bolt to work. After my C02 had run down a little, I could empty a hopper rapidly - without any chops. So with fresh unregulated C02, you should probably use a soft bolt spring, and about 2-3 hoppers later, switch to a hard spring. Contrary to what some people say, you DON'T need to take off the T cocking handle or sight rail to take the bolt out, just the stock. The bolt dosen't just fall out - you need to jiggle it a bit. Barrel compatability is a bit of a b!tch, but the J&J Ceramic (not S2 or Full Tilt) and BT APEX fit perfect. The stock grip panels are flimsy, and I fully expect them to break at the screw holes after more screwing. Investigate options! Conclusion: Even with the negatives in mind, I still give this gun an 8. It would've got a 9 if it wasn't so unreliable out of the box. If you dont intend on playing Paintball heaps (thus not investing a lot of time + money), then don't buy this gun. But if you're looking for an instrument to refine and understand, don't hesitate to get this gun. It looks awesome, fires really fast, and can be incredibly effective with the right add-ons. Just be prepared to spend time & money to make it that way. Rating: 8 out of 10 Last edited on Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 at 8:54 pm PST I found this review   0 Comments - Add Comment

nax_a_mack Wednesday, September 13th, 2006 Period of Product Use: 6 months 3 of 3 people found this review helpful. Paintball Experience: 1 year Similar Products Used: Tippman Custom Pro Marker Setup: '06 MR2 w. VL eVLution 2 Recommended Upgrades: Need a hopper capable of 15 bps+ Strengths: Really Durability, Size, Affordability, and it just looks sweet. Weaknesses: Weak feedneck, need to buy fast hopper Review: This marker is the first one i have purchased, and i was totally satisfied. With a fast hopper, it is just wicked. The one thing though is that i needed to buy an expensive hopper, but the guns features totally made up for it. It simply blows away all my friend's guns by far. Conclusion: Works like a charm, good for your money's worth, great gun for everyone Rating: 10 out of 10 I found this review   0 Comments - Add Comment

G.H.O.S.T Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 Period of Product Use: Less than a month 3 of 3 people found this review helpful. Paintball Experience: 6 months Similar Products Used: MR1 Marker Setup: PRIMARY: Spyder MR2, Armotech tactical sling, new feeder neck, Extreme Rage 180 rnd. hopper, 48 ci 3000 psi air tank SECONDARY: Warsenor WSP paintpistol, Armotech tactical holster Recommended Upgrades: New feeder neck, the stock one is to big and the hopper will sit way to high on the gun, remote coil if u r using HPA cuz' the tank will be longer than the stock, fast loader to keep up w/ the speeds of shooting Strengths: See review Weaknesses: See review Review: STREGTHS: great air efficiancy cool looks really fast stock barrel is good enough ACS bolt (delrin) WEAKNESSES: stock feeder neck lot of time to take apart to fix (bad for u people who like to play 24/7) trigger wobbles from side to side u have to take apart the whole gun and tighten everything because the machines that made this gun put them to loose not alot of upgrades 4 it (yet) This is a great gun overall. it has a few weaknesses dragging it down but some more to bring it up. This thing has remarkable air efficiancy (can't say how many shots i got from my tank but i had 2000 psi left and it dropped down to about 500 psi after 2 hours of shooting) plus it shoots around 25 bps if u have a fast hopper. the manual isn't all that descriptive, it just shows u some of the parts and doesn't show were to put them (most don't show). the stock barrel is near perfectly milled and spot-free, and in mine i couldn't notice any machine marks on the inside. this gun is very accurate if ur using some fair paint, (i use the $50 cases) plus it won't chop any paint because of the anti-chop bolt(i stuck my finger in the breech and shot a few times and nothing happened.) The 1 really weird thing about this gun is that my freind bought one after i did and our barrel plugs were completly different(all though it wasn't that bad because the still both work.) This gun is great for woodsball(just don't go near any water-like substance or air-born particles because it will go into your grip frame do to lousy grip frames(get new ones as soon as they come out or when the're available) but this gun isn't all that great for speedball, it's insanly huge and renders as a huge target, but it still works if u get a small hopper and remote coil to reduce size. Conclusion: This gun is greatfor any woodsball fan (and speedball if u got some extra $$$) that is a low cost marker(i found it for $280 canadian) that still is very high quality and comes with alot of great features and a high ROF. I'm giving this gun an 8 because it's not insanly great and nothing's perfect. Rating: 8 out of 10 I found this review   6 Comments - Add Comment

tendervittles Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 Period of Product Use: 3 months 3 of 3 people found this review helpful. Paintball Experience: 1 year Similar Products Used: Icon E Tippmann 98 Marker Setup: MR2 Red dot holosight 12v Revolution Modified stock Recommended Upgrades: New barrel Red dot new hopper Strengths: Look, durable, offset feed, fast, bolt, price Weaknesses: Detent, stock, shroud Review: When I first saw this gun, I decided I was going to get it. It's a great gun, it comes with a stock, has an offset feed, it is fast, and comes with places to mount scopes. The price is pretty good for what you get. At first this gun chopped like mad, but I found out the problem and now the gun is great. All you need to do to fix this is replace the detent. It costs about $2 (some people call it a ball stopper). It rarely chops, and never double feeds. The stock is useless unless you do what I did and cut out the top bar. You can't use it if you don't. The barrel is pretty accurate, but not that great. I'm gonna get a new one soon. It's a really fast gun. Some say this gun is heavy, but not me. It weighs a little less than 5 pounds. I have used it several times, and it is great. I recommend it to anyone who has the money to buy it. Conclusion: This gun is amazing, I love it. Get it because it's cheap, fast, and reliable. Rating: 9 out of 10 I found this review   1 Comment - Add Comment

NextoN Sunday, March 5th, 2006 Period of Product Use: Less than a month 3 of 3 people found this review helpful. Paintball Experience: 6 months Similar Products Used: Tippman A5.. Marker Setup: 06 Spyder MR2 STOCK Evo II Recommended Upgrades: Hopper capable of 13bps or faster. New barrel? REMOTE(Heavy) Scope/Lazer Strengths: 13bps, Accuracy, FAST Weaknesses: Fast hopper, barrel does not like cold weather Review: Almost perfect. It's the first military marker from kingman and they have done a good job. It's a solid marker only the grip and the stock is not metal. But it's not cheap plastic tho(tough plastic).. My marker does'nt chop paint with my 9bps hopper. But I use my egg. The marker is great, it comes with a stock. The elbow is kinda cheap. The ACS is not in aluminum but in plastic I don't think it makes any differences. When you get the marker change the detent right away the following detent is cheap. I like the bladetrigger on this marker! I can fire about 15bps MAX, but I have to pull the trigger really fast to do it tho.. What I like most with the marker is that it is really easy to clean. It would take me about 1 minute. Fast hopper required(not a big deal), barrel is not good in under 8degrees then you just get ballbreak. I have chopped once. Conclusion: I could recommend this to beginner or pro. It is heavy without the remote but that just tells us it's quality. It has all I could ask for :) I give it 10 out of 10 because it's so great. Kingman does not disappoint me! Rating: 10 out of 10 Last edited on Sunday, March 26th, 2006 at 1:17 pm PST I found this review   5 Comments - Add Comment

Insolence Saturday, January 28th, 2006 Period of Product Use: Less than a month 3 of 3 people found this review helpful. Paintball Experience: Less than a month Similar Products Used: Kingman Spyder Flash Marker Setup: Spyder MR2 Halo hopper Recommended Upgrades: Apex Barrel System (hehe yeah let the good times roll!) Electronic hopper capable of 25+ balls per second I have a Halo hopper on mine and its not fast enough. The one that costs 120$ Strengths: Fun gun. Lots of people intrested in the gun when i went to the field. Weaknesses: Great gun although it goes through balls like mad. Review: Great paintball gun! Got the gun last week. Went to the field today. Only problem was I kept having to cock it back since it was skipping balls (But this is only a guess.) Going to have the gun checked out. But once i got the gun going it kept on going so i didn't have to keep cocking it. Full auto works fine, semi-auto works almost fine, three shot bursts does not work so well (Trigger happy not one shot then another shot.) If your having the same problem i would recommend getting a faster hopper. Conclusion: Good buy! Great gun! Even more fun than the last time! Only problem i have is I keep having to cock it since its not feeding balls fast enough even with my halo hopper. I reccomend getting upgrades for the halo hopper. Rating: 9 out of 10 Last edited on Sunday, January 29th, 2006 at 6:38 am PST I found this review   1 Comment - Add Comment

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