[dreamkiller]

Originally Posted by SuperHog

No hate for Tippmann. They make cheap CO2 low end blowback stuff for recreational and rental players. I play both paintball and airsoft. I owned both a 98 and A5, both are overweight potmetal paintball guns and a pain to work on. BT, their competitor took the clamshell design and made the internals more accessible for service.

As for Kee. Kee has been buying up paintball companies and rebrands them under the Empire name, that would include Autocockers, Invert/Axe and JT. I also own Planet Eclipse, Bob Long, DYE and Smart Parts. So I am not a single brand loyal.

I played speedball and all of my guns are speedball guns running on HPA. All cnc milled and anodized, unlike the recreational Tippmann guns that are pot metal and powder coated not even in the same league.

Tippmann was recently bought out by GI Sportz which is another paintball company that also focuses on making paintballs and paintball guns. So essentially this Tippmann airsoft gun is the only thing they have? I certainly will give them a chance. Since all their staff live and breathe paintball and now are airsoft experts overnight.

As to the Tippmann GBBR design, the unregulated CO2 is a turn off. Why don't they use their own propane patents from the past and apply it to this GBBR?

I would expect them to consider HPA, since that is superior over CO2. Then again, Tippmann has little experience with HPA.

Try X7 Phenom, super easy to maintain and work on. Super efficient with HPA and has the robustness of 98.