Trickin’ Out Your Paintball Gun
by Dave Goodin on May 20, 2007
Paintball Gun Mods - The First of a Series of Articles Relating to "Mods That Make Sense"
Do you remember the first time you played a scenario or woodsball™ game? Do you remember looking at the more experienced players’ paintball guns with their killer mods, drooling over the way they looked, and wishing your stock Tippmann™ 98 Custom or A-5 could look as good as theirs? Well, my friend, the wait is over.
The availability of mods (specialty parts, kits, and upgrades) for the paintball gun market these days is astonishing. Recently, the mil-sim market has exploded with new product, innovations, and ideas. Special Ops Paintball leads the way with an ever-increasing availability of paintball gun mods and upgrades. Whether you want to change the way your gun looks, performs, or both, Special Ops can help make it happen.
The use of Weaver rail systems can make a huge difference in the ease of changing the appearance of your paintball gun. Weaver rails allow you to mount many different accessories, such as ), hand grips and bipods, just to name a few. Paintball gun manufacturers like Ariakon™, Airgun Designs, and Warsensor are even starting to make Weaver rails standard features on their new products.
Tippmann paintball guns have a 3/8 dovetail mount, and a 7/8 dovetail mount that you can use to attach Jet City Specialties® Weaver hardware like the following. JCS - 3" Long Offset 7/8 Accessory Rail Mount for 3/8 Dovetails. With these rails in place, you can mount your choice of optics, tac lights, or laser sights.
Aftermarket barrels are another upgrade that will significantly change your paintball gun’s performance. If Tippmann is your gun of choice, and you want some extra distance, then the Flatline Barrel may be what you’re after. This barrel will ad about 100 feet of range over other barrels on the market by adding backspin to the paintball. Use of high grade, medium bore balls is highly recommended. However, accuracy will suffer a bit by using this barrel. If you’re using the Tippmann A-5 as a platform, the Flatline battle shroud gives you many mounting options for any type of equipment that you like, that requires a 7/8-inch Weaver rail.
There are other choices for barrels as well. If you go to a lot of scenario games, you’ll notice that most event organizers establish a field or even paint only (FPO or EPO) policy, where players can only use paint that is sold at the field. If this is typically the case for you, a Python compression kit setup might be a good purchase. It comes with several different bore sizers which each slide into the provided barrel back, allowing you to use just about any size paint. Then just screw your old barrel into the front to complete the kit. If you want to go with a single barrel, or several different barrels, you have a wide variety of choices available from Special Ops Paintball for the A-5 or the 98C.
If you want to add stability and balance to your paintball gun, adding a stock and remote line will work wonders. A stock will add tons of stability to your paintball gun by allowing you to brace it against your shoulder and use iron sights, a scope, or a red dot sight. With over 35 different stocks to choose from, Special Ops can help you get the stock you want. Remote lines help balance your gun out by taking your Air tank off the marker, and letting you put it on your back with a Vest . This vastly increases the mobility and balance of your marker, letting you bring it to bear on your target more quickly than before.
Whatever you are looking to do to your marker, whether it is about looks or performance, Special Ops Paintball has you covered. After all, we do exactly the same with our paintball guns.