Paintball: For Beast

[[AK]Squidly]

Your next gun...

[[AK]The Beast]

LOL--maybe after my next promotion!

[[AK]Devil_Dog]

How much does that gun go for?

[[AK]The Beast]

Action Village lists the Worr Karnivor in black and yellow for $1175 plus shipping. The "Pro Edition" probably adds another couple hundred to that number.

I'll stick with my $100 Spyder, thank you very much!

[[AK]Devil_Dog]

Action Village lists the Worr Karnivor in black and yellow for $1175 plus shipping. The "Pro Edition" probably adds another couple hundred to that number.

OK, just out of curiosity, what would that gun do for you that makes it worth that much?

[[AK]Squidly]

Accuracy at distance would be greatly improved, as would rate of fire. The gun is also very light and has very little kick (which also improves accuracy when you're sending out 15+ balls per second.

With high end guns like that you can reliably hit the shoe or hopper of a player across the field. It basically allows you to walk a stream of paint to the target.

With the low enders, it's basically spray -n- pray. I posted the pick for Beast because we were talking about the Karnivor last Sunday.

[[AK]JD]

This sport is starting to scare me, I thought racing nitro RC's was expensive which pales in comparison to this sport. Beast how do you like your Victor ? or is it a Victor II ? I am looking at something simular for an entry level marker.

[[AK]The Beast]

My gun is a Spyder Victor (not a Victor II). It's a pretty good value for the money--I do fairly well with it. I can reliably hit an exposed torso or head; if a shoe or hopper is exposed, it's more of a spray-n-pray. I wish my gun had a foregrip; I'm about to spend about $60 upgrading it with a T-joint expansion chamber and foregrip. I almost always seem to need to adjust the velocity before each day of play (and sometimes mid-day as well). I really like it (those are minor complaints--it's as accurate as any gun in that price range and it's an absolute miser on CO2--I played all day Sunday without filling up once), but would recommend Fax's Spyder Xtra instead--it's got a foregrip standard.

[[AK]Squidly]

I compare this sport to golf. You can get by with inexpensive gear, but if you want to upgrade there are a zillion and a half ways to go and gadgets to add.

Tweaking your gear is part of the fun, imo.

[[AK]Devil_Dog]

Welp, as long as there is a huge advantage to the gun, then I suppose the price is justified. Better to splat then be splatted on...

[[AK]Squidly]

DD - there is a HUGE difference from low to mid and mid to high end guns.

Where you get "jobbed" is in the minor variations within each bracket.
For instance you can buy an Angel 4, or you can buy the Angel 4 "Joy Division" edition. (Joy Division is the name of a popular pro team.)

The JD edition has slightly different milling (a leopard is engraved on the
side of the gun) and it has a different color scheme (leopard print anodizing), but performance wise it's the same gun as the stock A4. Yet the cost is
something like $200 more. You're paying a premium to walk around with a limited edition. But then again there are tons of examples of products like that in life, so this is but another.

[[AK]Devil_Dog]

DD - there is a HUGE difference from low to mid and mid to high end guns.

Where you get "jobbed" is in the minor variations within each bracket.
For instance you can buy an Angel 4, or you can buy the Angel 4 "Joy Division" edition. (Joy Division is the name of a popular pro team.)

Cool, I guess those high level guns come in handy in speed ball as well

[[AK]Squidly]

They're bought almost exclusively for that purpose.

[[AK]Faxman]

I'm about to spend about $60 upgrading it with a T-joint expansion chamber and foregrip

You may want to consider spending a little more and getting a Palmer Stabilizer regulator instead of the expansion chamber. They retail for about $70, and unlike x-chambers, you'll never have to worry about liquid C02 bleeding into your valve, and it will do more to even out some of the velocity spikes.

[[AK]Squidly]

Or bite the bullet and upgrade to compressed air. The difference in accuracy is remarkable.