ChiefBowman
12-21-2002, 07:10 PM
Here's my take on this marker.
I bought my marker from Gator Joe's paintball, which was having a close out on their stock. After I bought it, I learned that they were having troubles with these guns, and so chose not to carry them anymore. That made me a little apprehensive.
And rightly so.
I took it out to play today, along with my Phantom VSC. I bought a bag of PMI Premiums, which were not the freshest I've seen, but were round and in good shape. I stuck a 12oz CO2 tank on the gun, and loaded a Virus 140 round hopper I had lying around. I went to the chrono station.
First shot. 272. Second shot. Blew up. Third shot. Blew up.
Clean out barrel.
Fire a three shot string.
Straight, break, break UP THE FEED TUBE!
Paint had splattered all the way up into the hopper. I removed the hopper, and just shot with three balls in the feed tube. The one ball corkscrews out, and the other two fly TWO FEET INTO THE AIR!
Talk about blowback. Jeez.
So fine. I decide, what the hell. I'll just limit myself to shoot and shake.
That wasn't enough. I still broke one in five.
Then hyperball. I try and make a run up the snake, and my gun fires ONLY BROKEN BALLS! It was PATHETIC! My friend, using my Sidekick mod, bunkered me, because I could only spray him with a mist of paint. He was laughing the entire time.
Then I look down at my gun, and I noticed that the gripframe is 1/2 an inch from the body, because a screw had worked itself loose. I retightened it. I came loose halfway through a game five minutes later. So then I threw it in the gear bag and went back to my trusty Phantom, which wasn't performing well because the *******s at the CO2 fill didn't know how to properly fill a 4 oz tank, and were thus underfilling it. It ran out after about 50 shots, when it should last for about 400.
Also, don't try and tell me it was the poor paintballs. A friend of mine was shooting these balls fine with his field Pirahna. Another guy was shooting fine with his Black Dragun. My Phantom didn't break a single ball all day. My sidekick didn't break a ball all day.
I dunno what the deal is with this thing, but I'm going to call action markers this monday, and see if they can help me out, because right now this Sentinel TS is worthless.
Oh, some girl said it was pretty. That's a positive. And, I could make the marker cycle really fast, even though all the balls were blowing up.
I bought my marker from Gator Joe's paintball, which was having a close out on their stock. After I bought it, I learned that they were having troubles with these guns, and so chose not to carry them anymore. That made me a little apprehensive.
And rightly so.
I took it out to play today, along with my Phantom VSC. I bought a bag of PMI Premiums, which were not the freshest I've seen, but were round and in good shape. I stuck a 12oz CO2 tank on the gun, and loaded a Virus 140 round hopper I had lying around. I went to the chrono station.
First shot. 272. Second shot. Blew up. Third shot. Blew up.
Clean out barrel.
Fire a three shot string.
Straight, break, break UP THE FEED TUBE!
Paint had splattered all the way up into the hopper. I removed the hopper, and just shot with three balls in the feed tube. The one ball corkscrews out, and the other two fly TWO FEET INTO THE AIR!
Talk about blowback. Jeez.
So fine. I decide, what the hell. I'll just limit myself to shoot and shake.
That wasn't enough. I still broke one in five.
Then hyperball. I try and make a run up the snake, and my gun fires ONLY BROKEN BALLS! It was PATHETIC! My friend, using my Sidekick mod, bunkered me, because I could only spray him with a mist of paint. He was laughing the entire time.
Then I look down at my gun, and I noticed that the gripframe is 1/2 an inch from the body, because a screw had worked itself loose. I retightened it. I came loose halfway through a game five minutes later. So then I threw it in the gear bag and went back to my trusty Phantom, which wasn't performing well because the *******s at the CO2 fill didn't know how to properly fill a 4 oz tank, and were thus underfilling it. It ran out after about 50 shots, when it should last for about 400.
Also, don't try and tell me it was the poor paintballs. A friend of mine was shooting these balls fine with his field Pirahna. Another guy was shooting fine with his Black Dragun. My Phantom didn't break a single ball all day. My sidekick didn't break a ball all day.
I dunno what the deal is with this thing, but I'm going to call action markers this monday, and see if they can help me out, because right now this Sentinel TS is worthless.
Oh, some girl said it was pretty. That's a positive. And, I could make the marker cycle really fast, even though all the balls were blowing up.