Paintball

[blackrain]

Buy what ever your budget allows. Regardless they will all go off at the wrong time lol. You know like if your crawling, then you raise the gun to shoot. Find out all your ounds have filled one side of the hopper. Next thing you hear is RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRm. Hopper starts to feed the balls and push them around lol.
Later,
Blackrain

[Tallen702]

That's why I personally like the empire reloader-II black rain, sound activated, so it doesn't start running non-stop when you're crawling and low on paint. That said, with a revvy, I could always tell when I needed to re-load and only one was in the chamber.

[mayor]

I got a a Halo TSA and it works awesome. It is sound activated (it only agitates when it hear a loud shot from you).

[Walking_Target]

i like my Eggolution, other than the weak plastic, it is, from a purely 'play' point of view, a great hopper, the 'semi' force feed means that you can get about 7 shots even if your marker is horizontal.

from a maintenance perspective, it sucks, the shells crack way too easily.

but that is just me

[Cunha]

Egg2 with Z board is the best loader ive ever used by far. I havent got my hands on a good Vlocity, but the later model evo2's with Z boards (evo 3's now) are just great.

[MondoMor]

Originally Posted by mayor

I got a a Halo TSA and it works awesome. It is sound activated (it only agitates when it hear a loud shot from you).

... and sometimes if it hears a loud shot from someone next to you.

My TSA works great (I've got the "Backman" with ~200 ball capacity). A couple of games ago the field rules allowed ramping for one game, so I switched my SF-framed cocker over and sprayed like a ADHD Agglet hepped up on SoBe. The TSA kept up fine.

[Mr. Furious]

I had an Evlution 3 that worked really well and fed plenty fast but the shells were horrible and cracked way too easily.

Loaders and air tanks are things that you can take with you from marker to marker as you progress through paintball and so I always recommend getting one better than you think you need so you don't have to upgrade that component each time you upgrade your marker. While agitated hoppers work really well it doesn't cost all that much more to get a decent forcefeed hopper(many of which are upgradeable) and a forcefeed will keep you happy if you decide to go with a fast shooting electro.

Check out the VL Force and Eye Force. Those seem to get pretty good reviews from those that try them who have experience with Halo's and Vlocities. The Evlution isn't a terrible hopper but the loading door is kind of goofy and as I said above the shells crack way too easy. The nice thing about Evlutions is that the replacement shells are really cheap so that kind of makes up for their brittle properties.

[Railgun]

For mechanical shooting you only need something that stirs them up a little. No need to get anything fancy.

I'm using the Archon hopper on my cockers as well as my Piranha and Automag. It's pretty decent until it gets down near the last 20 to 30 balls then the rather flattish bottom tends to mis feed if you're tilting the hopper at all. But when there's 100 balls in it the Archon works quite well. But if you were to sit and not move it at all for 10 to 20 shots it may need a bit of a shake. The need to do this now and then is worth it to me to avoid carrying a hopper with batteries.

[Carl Hungus]

The Revvy I tried on Sunday seemed to be fine. Thanks for the tips guys. It wasn't that noisy since it only seemed to kick on while I was firing, and the games weren't too stealthy anyway. I try not to shoot like a madman, so it kept up with me without a problem.

Now I'm wondering if a stock and remote setup would be decent on the autococker, but it seems that most of the stock options are for Tippmanns, with all the A-5 mil-siming. Any good mil-simish stocks for the Tactical? Or is that just a waste of time with money better spent on a drop forward?

Cheers,

[shoot to thrill]

I wouldnt go with a stock on the tactical unless you were running a huge tank (like 114ci) and wanted it in a pack. I presonally hate dropforwards so thats a personal preference thing. I find that I have much better control over the gun with just an asa, easier to snap in and out