Quote Originally Posted by CityBoyGoneCountry
I'm thinking about buying my son a paintball gun for his birthday. However, I do not play paintball and I do not know which gun would be a good one to get. So I'm asking you, which paintball guns do you like?
Whats he gonna be playing? Speedball or woodsball?

Tippmanns...yeah their durable, but anyone fairly into paintball hates 'em.

Theres basically 2 categories of guns. Cheaper ones (100-200) and high-end guns (300-2,000).

I haven't looked at anything paintball related in well over a year, but I used to be real into it. Impulses are nice. About $500 for impys.

Cockers aren't bad either, they're 300 or so, probably some cheaper ones. A lot of up-keep though, he'd have to learn to time it an all.

For a decent first gun, I'd say, fuck tippmann, get a Spyder. Those are about the same price, but better. They're not so bad for speedball and work just as well for woodsball.

Seriously, tippmanns suck. I hated my 98c. I was so glad when I got my Rat Jr. Impy.

EDIT: The A-5 blows guys, that whole cyclone feed is a gimmick, it feeds like what, 12bps? thats BS, revvies feed like...the same, without making the gun extra heavy and all. Plus, tippmanns have shit accuracy.