Paintball

[GetBunkerD]

I posted this on PBNation earlier today.

[OVER ALL FEELINGS]
After purchasing a Mini from my home store, also my main sponsor. I was very pleased with the over all look and feel of the Mini. It was light, small, and extremely fast.
[/ OVER ALL FEELINGS]

Not-So-Basic Expectations
Getting to the field, loading up, I attached my Nitroduck 68/45 tuff skin tank (SCREWING THE TANK IN, WHEN IT IS EMPTY, IS THE BEST CHOICE), and my Reloader B2, and a 2 peice matching Red CP barrel with a bore of 693. The Mini had a great feel for me, and is by far the LIGHTEST GUN, I have ever owned. The Feedneck, is a clamping lever feedneck, and it's really poorly designed. In order for my NON SHAVED B2 feedneck to be put into the feedneck, I had to almost COMPLETLY back out the screw on the feedneck, which tells me one thing...it's going to fall out with general play and movement. BUT, since the Mini is Impulse/Ion threaded in the feedneck area, that leaves me alot of options, I'll probly go with something from CCM. The Mini came with all the allen keys needed to field strip and preform any maintence you need, along with replacement screws/detent and springs in an awesome little case that fits right into the foam in the case. Turning the gun off and on was easy, it has very bright LED's that let you see what's going on. Turning the eye's off to dry fire it, was very easy. Hold the trigger and power up. Changing the modes of the gun, was a bit more challeneging than I would like, but I'm sure I'll get it down sooner or later.

The trigger
The trigger, out of the box, felt great, alittle loosey goosey and basicly TOOK OFF when I did my famous 3 finger action, to the point where it wouldn't stop shooting unless I held the trigger down. I took out my handy dandy Repair kit, with included allen keys and adjusted the trigger to the feel that I like. The trigger gaurd is big enough to fit my beefy fingers in there, which is a plus, because I 3 finger my guns.

Chrono dreams.
Moving down to the chrono, The Mini OUT OF THE BOX, was at about 240 fps. After some popet adjustment, she was shooting in a set of 10 shots, 295, 290, 293, 294, 296, 292, 296, 295, 294, 295. My average being aboiut +/- 4 fps.

Your shits on RAMP!
On the field, when mounted on my shoulder, the mini felt light, mobile and agile. I thought it was going to be TOO SMALL for me, but I didnt even notice it once the game started. I run and gun to my corner and while im in my bunker, I notice one thing. I'm snaping ALOT FASTER then usual AND I can walk the trigger and support the weight of the gun WITH ONE HAND, while I reach for another pod, VERY EASILY. Once I start my 3 finger action, the Mini shows its true colors. It kept very great groupings, and the over all accuracy was GREAT, with my practice paint and white box I was using.

Shits weak.
Since I play hard, my gun's ASA became loose during the day, but once again, I took out my handy dandy repair kit, that was included with my Mini, opened the left side of my grips and tightened the vertical setscrew and the horizontal setscrew to hold the vertical setscrew IN PLACE. THEN, not too much later, my foregrip, that housed the board and electronics, became loose, and once again, I took out my handy dandy repair kit, that was included with my Mini, and tightened up the set screws that go thru the trigger gaurd to the foregrip.

Overall. AKA tl;dr
The Invert Mini, is a great gun for its price tag of $400, which BLOWS AWAY, the Promaster, the PMR and the ION. This gun is the 1st of it's kind, and is totally worth the adventure.

My Mini.



Some pictures of me using the Mini on sunday.

QUESTIONS, if you have them, ASK THEM. (that are NOT, problem related)

Originally Posted by dyeboy1991

nice review. how do you like your CP, im thinking of getting one soon

The CP Barrel, compared to the stock barrel is a 4000% improvement. The stock isn't THAT BAD, but is too short and doesn't provide a very good paint to barrel match.

Originally Posted by McPerkins

Hmm...where did you order your CP? I looked around, and didn't see any cocker threads...

i got my CP Barrel from my local store, which is also my sponsor, I can't name the store, because that would be Spam.

BUT

try Paintball, Paintball Guns, Paintball Supplies from Compulsive Paintball, Inc. which is on the PBN Banner rotation, so :tup:

Originally Posted by Trose Krew

gj on this gabe.
i found it helpful, im sure others will too.
im just wondering, is it really as light as im expecting, with ur loader and tank on the gun? what would u compare it to in lightness.

I could compare it to a marq with a 68 and a halo and an ego7 with a vlocity.

it more or less, MATCHES an ego7 with vlocity.

[g35x]

gabe + mini =
everyone really thought he was in ramp, when he was just 3 fingering it in semi

[BigOldSkool]

Wow.. yours worked out of the box! Im more than impressed.

90% of the ones we had at our shop never worked right out of the box.. hell we have one that has been back 3 times already and still doesnt work quite right.. its now a rental at the field because of this..

[Shocker03]

I've had mine for about 2 weeks now and it's worked flawlessly for me. I've played in a tournament with it and shot about 4 cases through it so far with no problems whatsoever.

[Cunha]

I asked in your other thread - what do you mean by paint to barrel match? Nothing is going to match a .693 cp back.

[GetBunkerD]

Originally Posted by Cunha

I asked in your other thread - what do you mean by paint to barrel match? Nothing is going to match a .693 cp back.

Most of the Paint I shoot, is BIG, because it is white box, its fits better then ya think. and Incase I get the off sized ball that is HUGE, I just use the 693. I've got other bores, I just use the 693.

[Cunha]

Thats mostly called oversizing or whatever term you want to use. A good match means you shoot a ball that fits well in the barrel, not shooting a huge barrel so that no balls will break in it when they vary alot.

Nice to see you found some large paint though.

[Gotpaint92]

Hate to bring this back from the dead, but I'm planning on getting a Mini. I'm trying to decide on the color. I like the red but in the pictures I've seen it seems very dark, even maroonish. Do you find it's that dark in person?

[pizzaluvr]

I have a red one as well...It's a metallic red, very shiny. Without any light it looks dark, but with light(in normal conditions) it looks brighter.

[Cunha]

Not maroonish.

Id go for a gloss color body (any that arent silver or olive i think). On my dust silver there was sand or bead blasting overspray that went into the breech so there was a dusty section inside the gun. Just an annoyance.