Cheap Paintball Gun - Criteria For Evaluating
By Stephen Turner
Are you looking to buy a cheap gun? Maybe you have been paintballing a while and you are about to make your first gun purchase. Are you short on advice on how to decide what makes cheap gun a good cheap gun? Well look no further for this article gives you clear, practical criteria for assessing what is good and cheap, and what is just cheap.

In a nutshell, a good cheap gun will satisfy all the following criteria, but it will have none of the fancy features of the more expensive models. When doing your research and asking people how they rate a gun, keep the criteria in mind.

Reliability and durability

Even a cheap gun should be reliable and durable. The gun needs to take some heavy knocks and not complain, it needs to function in all temperatures, be able to load paint and charge up with air and fire without causing you problems. If a gun cannot do this, it is a bad gun. It is therefore essential to take a gun for a thorough field test before you decide to buy.

Ease of operation

A good cheap gun will be really easy to use. A good way to assess usability is to have a read of the manual. Does it look easy to use? Avoid guns where you have to use more than one tool to adjust the gun velocity, or where you have to take the gun apart to adjust velocity. Again, a field test will reveal all you need to know about ease of use.

Precision and velocity

Fired at the same spot, the gun should be sending balls to that target with reasonable consistency from twenty five meters. Try fixing the gun to a tree so that it can't move. Then fire away and see how precise it is now that you have removed human inconsistency from the equation. If balls seem to occasionally fall short, then it looks like the ‘chrono’ velocity, the speed with which balls leave the gun, is inconsistent and so precision is suffering. Velocity needs to be consistent and high enough to give you reasonable range.

Paintball gun paint

A good cheap gun will work with any brand of paint ball. A good cheap gun won't get all snooty if it's firing lower quality paintballs, but a bad one will often break the cheaper balls. This an important issue, since when you get to the play area, you often have little choice in the brand of that you are given.

Weight

A good cheap gun should be relatively lightweight. Keep in mind that you will be carrying it all day, running around and if it really takes the strain on your arms then it is no good for you.

A safety mechanism

A good cheap gun will have a safety mechanism which will make the gun impossible to fire.

Ease of maintenance and cleaning

A good cheap gun will be easy to maintain, easy to take apart and easy to clean. You should not have to spend much time on maintenance or cleaning. Again, check the manual and see how easy it looks to maintain and clean. Avoid guns

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that require a lot of oiling. For example, if a paint ball gun needs oiling every two hundred balls then this is going to seriously compromise your playing ability and your fun.

Aftermarket upgrades and accessories

A good cheap gun will be upgradeable and will be compatible with accessories.

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