98C VS. A-5

Yequan wrote: New version of the A5's shooting is very simple, just switch to the HPA, so I hope worth it, it is not a gun player and took out all 3 faceshots become useful friends, give them the time difference the day....

LOL WAT?!

same. my 98 is always running at top performance. after every paintball day, i go home and do 1-3 hours of maintinince  on everything.

^^^ Never had anything get in the gun through the cocking port.  I like the rocket cock because I always forget and get my thumb in the way of the cocking handle.

branmaaan12 wrote: the 98 is like wine, it gets better with age.

???
Do you mean can store it in a closet with out cleaning for a year and it will work?

I agree, 98c pro has never ever failed me.. iv had it for 6 years, i bought it off a friend who never played back when i was younger. Now all my paintball buddys have a tippy, they saw me having no problems at all and got sick of dealing with their guns breaking. To me my gun only gets better as it gets older, customize it!

tacogood wrote: What you just said is what ive been wanting to say for the longest time.  But never had the chance to.

You can look through these thread and find nearly the same quote about AK's and 98's.

The 98c, in my opinion, is the AK-47 of the paintball world. Is inexpensive. Simple to use. You can drop it, kick it, put bad balls in it and it will still shoot. It may be heavy for a paintball gun, but you can abuse it and still use it. ( Not that im recomending that you intentionaly beat up you marker, the better you treat it the longer it will last and shoot better). Ive used mine in rain, snow, and hot humid summer days and it never failed me. 

I'll bet that would help immensely.  (CO2 seems to normally run in the 1000-1300 psi output range up here during the summer.  (Based on a few random tank checks with my pressure gauge.)

branmaaan12 wrote: the cyclone for the old A5 is originally made for use with CO2.

Incorrect, the A5, like the 98 before it, are both designed to work on either CO2 or compressed air.  (They use pretty much the same internals for the actual operating system.)  However, the valves in both were designed to be CO2 friendly (read up on the CVX valve for this info) as that tended to be the propellant of choice for newer players.  The early A5s did have issues running off of compressed air when accessories were added which required more pressure (such as the Flatline barrel) or increased rate of fire (such as the e-grip).  These issues would manifest as either feeding problems (where the Cyclone failed to fully cycle, low shot velocity, or incomplete cycling of the bolt (as it didn't go back far enough to catch the sear) which resulted in chopping and was sometime blamed on the Cyclone.  The upshot is that these were not the result of the Cyclone being designed for CO2 so much as design problems that were promptly fixed by Tippmann.

With all this said, I do prefer to run my Tippmann's off of CO2.  However, I also like to use response triggers set for high rates of fire and the higher pressures CO2 is generally delivered at in the summer just works better for my purposes.  (On both 98s and A5s.)

the cyclone for the old A5 is originally made for use with CO2.