Posted by: screaming tree on April 20, 2003 at 23:20:54

if someone would like to tell you that all guns shoot the same .....maybe you should take it with a little, teeensy grain of salt. had alley cat and fancy spiders etc, ALWAYS bit the bullet and got good barrels -lapco, etc. i DID NOT WANT TO DROP 600$ ON A GUN!!! i smoked lots of guys w/their fancy guns, played intermediate level ball with spider on c02!!!(was only one i think!) but, i got hold of a cocker that my friend let me use and it happened to have a good barrel match to mine. i put 9/10 balls through a small crack. had spider for awhile, it NEVER did that! which meant that cocker had a longer USABLE range. so if someone tells you that it's only the barrel that makes accuracy, tell them i said bull. : Accuracy and distance have nothing to do with the gun. Accuracy, as has been proven over and over, is a product of your paint and your barrel, as well as the shooter being able to actually point the gun in the right direction. Distance is simple physics: ball mass, aerodynamics, gravity, velocity, air resistance. A ball shot at 300 fps from a Cocker will go the same distance as a ball shot at 300 fps from an A-5, barring the use of the Flatline barrel. : Reliability from either one should be good, unless you start messing around with them. The Cocker is easier to mess up if you tinker without knowing what you're doing. : What is should come down to is feel, and personal preferance. If your A-5 works well for you, feels good shooting it, and puts paint through the barrel fairly reliably, it's a good gun. If you don't like how it feels, well, maybe it's not right for you. This is pretty much the best argument for getting a bunch of hands-on time with a gun BEFORE you buy it! : Ben Kohnen, Limited Pump Paintball : Veteran of several "felt wrong" gun purchases : www.geocities.com/limitedpump

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