Hey guys, now that Thanksgiving is over we're officially in the Christmas holiday season. We here at PaintballGuns.net decided to go out and find the best deals floating around the web for Christmas gifts for 2008, just like we did for Thanksgiving last year.

We searched the internet for what we feel is the best value out there for paintballers like you, and this year’s winner is…the Syndicate Misfit paintball gun. We based our decision off of the gun's features and price (only $85 shipped). The Misfit has them both hands down. Our spokes-lady Claire will be releasing a new video about the Misfit paintball gun every week up until Christmas, showing you its features and available upgrades.

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The New Tippmann X7

The most customizable gun ever made with a thousand different looks
New magnesium receiver is extremely lightweight and durable
New Cyclone EP (Enhanced Performance) system feeds up to 20 BPS
New air-thru stock compatible system eliminates gas line under the marker
New low profile, offset hopper for clear site line
Modular shroud with four rails to add on sights and scopes
AR15 style magazine with built in tool storage
Pica tinny top rail to easily add new risers, sights or handles
Upgraded adjustable rear site helps with long range aiming
Push pin design for easy field stripping and accessory add ons
Includes maintenance pack, barrel sleeve, and gun oil
MSRP: $329

Tippmann X7 Accessories

X7 9mm Mag Well (M5 Style Magazines)
X7 Flatline Barrel
X7 Air-Thru Commando Stock
X7 LP Cyclone Hopper
X7 AK-47 Foregrip
X7 M16 Carry Handle
X7 AK-47 Mag
X7 M16 Foregrip
X7 AK-47 Sight
X7 M16 Mag
X7 Assault Carry Handle
X7 M16 Sight
X7 Assault Mag (Short)
X7 M16 Vertical Handle
X7 Collapsible Car Stock
X7 M5 Mag (Curved)
X7 Double Trigger Kit
X7 M5 Mag (Straight)
X7 EGrip Electronic Upgrade Kit
X7 Response Trigger Kit

Buy the Diablo Wrath - CHEAP!

Though it has flaws, the Diablo Wrath is a great paintball marker in my opinion. The tightness and small length and size are great benefactors, and they make it look great. For a fairly inexpensive electro marker, I surely got what I paid for. With its milling, or lack there of, there is a nice look of two or three markers that have œmelded together, and it has nice polished finishing. The good outweighs the bad on these Diablo markers. The Wrath arrives in a box, packaged in its own foam cutout, and is safely packaged with tools, a micro PC jumper, and all of the tools needed for general care of the marker. It comes stock with a clamping Feedneck, a nice, accurate, clean-looking stock barrel, and a clone Bob Long Torpedo regulator with a gauge on it. The board only comes with only full auto and semi-auto, and a tournament lock, capped at 20 balls per second. There are many cons about this board, though. The trigger switch is very sensitive, but the stock board is not adjustable at all in the sense of eye delay, dwell, or debounce. Trigger checks are also very low, so an average person can only reach about ten or eleven balls per second. You must also get some upgrades to make the Wrath work well. There are boards, Delrin and Teflon bolts (the stock bolt is aluminum), a new, more comfortable trigger, a new ASA and personally I like a macroline setup, and a barrel kit. As soon as grips come out, get them too, because the stock grips are very uncomfortable.

When the Wrath is opened, there is a very bad and vague manual inside it. It has almost no helpful topics at all, and has almost no troubleshooting help at all. In the manual it says the marker can run on straight co2, but this is not advised. CO2 will crack hoses, and eventually cause problems in the marker. I have heard of the occasional Wrath or Wrath clone breaking down, but they have some of the best customer service in the paintball industry. All you have to do is send the marker to National Paintball Supply, or NPS, and they will fix it as soon as possible to get it back in your hands. I personally love the Wrath. It seems to run very consistently, shoot fast, feel comfortable, and it has its own design, FASOR, or Forward Air Spring Operated Return. Overall I think this marker is a great investment, and it can compete with almost any other marker out there, high end or low end. With the price of these beauties and the style, there is no reason why somebody shouldn't buy one. The great customer service and warranty, the awesome optional upgrades, and the Wrath's design all make it ideal for an experienced paintballer, and the price tag is great for occasional recreational paintballers.

Tippmann A-5 Review

Update! Tippmann has now dropped the price of the A-5 to only $199.00 - Brand new

Specs:

• .68 caliber
• semi-automatic
• 15+ BPS
• 8.5 stock barrel
• 3.5 lbs

Looks:

Modeled after the MP5K submachine gun by Heckler & Koch, stock with forward grip. This grip can be removed to attach other under mounted accessories. I think the marker looks pretty cool myself, and of course, lends it self extremely well to cosmetic modification to whatever the owner desires. Cost is the only limit.

Weight and Balance:

The A5 is a heavy little guy in my hands, weighing in at 3.5 pounds before any modification. Even with a stock, my marker tends to be very front heavy. Especially as you add mods to the marker, this thing becomes a beast. However, the low profile of the Cyclone Feed System and its hopper avoids the wobbly-off-balance feeling I get from my MR2 and its Halo B hopper.

Reliability:

This is of course, where the A-5 shines. The marker has been branded by the well-known Tippmann brand. That alone will tell you a few characteristics about the gun if you know about their past reliability.

First, its Cyclone Feed System positively feeds paintballs into the breech via a 5-cell fan-looking mechanism that all but eliminates ball chopping (*unless you have a really bad football or super greasy balls....didn't that last one just sound great?*). The Cyclone itself is well made, although older A5's have a problem with the internal ratchet wearing out after time, a $1.50 replacement and ten minutes worth of work from Tippmannparts.com

The rest of the marker in incredible for its ruggedness, in part due to it having no electronic components stock. I have banged mine off of trees at high speed, had it fly out of my hand and skid ten feet away when I fell, and played for an hour in heavy rain and never had this marker cease functioning.

Stock attaches securely into the rear of the marker and held in place with pressure and two push-pin bolts. Some stock users, especially the DogLeg users, have had problems with these rear push pins shearing from the stress of stock use. I use a folding stock on mine and have had no problems.

Maintenance:

A two edged sword! On one hand, this is a very easy marker to get along with due to its reliability above. I used to take my marker down after every single game, and noticed all I was doing was cleaning a bit of CO2 residue from the internals. I now take it fully down every 3rd game, or when I have played in the rain or taken hits that might gum up the marker like direct down the barrel.

On the other hand, the A-5 sucks to take down to non-moving parts, unlike say a Kingman Spyder. Four push pins and a half dozen or so machine screws need to be removed, and there are several springs to come popping out on the unwary user. The internals are mostly intuitive, although the user manuals exploded diagram comes in very hand the first couple of times stripping the marker.

My main aggravation is the tombstone latch and spring being under fairly high pressure so it pops out and across the room at times, and the charging-handles spring is much longer than its guide bevel, requiring steady hands to keep it in place while the marker halves are put back together.

Upgradeability:

Simply incredible. This marker has the most aftermarket accessories than any other marker, maybe even three A bewildering array of stocks, barrels, shrouds, internals, grips and other mods are available for it. It comes with a 3/8" dovetail rail on its top for mounting Weaver rails and optics, and again, the front fore grip can be removed to add additional accessories.

The only problem here is price! It is easy to go crazy adding modifications, and each will add to the weight of the marker.

I run a Low Pressure Kit and Palmer Fatty regulator as the main mods on mine, with an OPSGEAR MP5K-PDW folding stock and a BT Apex or 20" SmartParts Tactical barrel. Also added a SwatForce red dot sight on a JCS offset rail and love the hell out of the package!

Function:

First and foremost this is a loud and hungry marker! Operating at about 800PSI internally without modification, the A5 eats up CO2 like a dog eats dinner dropped on the floor. Additionally, the signature BOOM BOOM BOOM of an A5 cannot be mistaken. My LPK + Regulator help out with this a lot. I now get 700+ shots on a 9oz CO2 and the marker has been quieted substantially.

The marker is easy and intuitive to use. However, the safety on the grip pushes to "hot" rather easily if you don't watch your hand placement.

The Cyclone uses exhaust gas from your propellant to function, so when that tank begins to run dry, the Cyclone might cease to function. There is a push plunger that allows manual advancement of the Cyclone and feeding of paintballs in case of this, but in general practice, once it stops functioning, you are just plain done.

I do not run full auto with mine but I have heard that the Cyclone will run out to about 17 balls per second off of a Response Trigger or E-grip without further modification. Standard trigger has a relatively heavy trigger pull and gets around 4-6 bps semi auto without modification.

Accuracy of this marker is very dependant on barrel choice. The stock barrel is fine for close quarter combat of 50 feet or so, but if you plan on shooting at longer distances, or trying to knock over soda cans, a good replacement barrel is a must.

I also like the fact that the Cyclone Feed System and its hopper are very low profile, far lower than most other markers.

Miscellaneous:

I really like this marker:) Reliability is my first priority in all equipment I buy, and it definitely has that down pat! I also am very keen on the fact that I can buy one marker and interchange accessories to make it a sharpshooter, general purpose, close and fast, or whatever else I so desire.

The paintjob is annoying, mine is scraped and bubbled off on many places and will require a new paintjob very soon.

This is an excellent marker for just about any sort of play, and definitely one well suited to the rough-and-ready nature of woods ball play. I doubt you will be disappointed if you get the Tippmann A-5!

Thanks to arclight642 at SpecialOpsPaintball.com for the review

FunnyTippmann A-5 Paintball Gun Video

How to Clean/Disassemble your Tippmann A-5 Paintball Gun Video

There are many levels of the Spyder. These are usually divided up into the groups of markers that have mechanical triggers and electronic triggers. But let's not forget the pump action Spyder Hammer. These markers are manufactured by Kingman International. We won't go into heavy duty history here of the evolution of the Spyder.

The Spyder has become one of the most copied body types on the paintball market. This is the reason behind the vast amount of upgrades and available modifications available to a new Spyder owner. This also applies to those who are owners of Spyder clones. Most of these markers do use the same parts and many times the parts are interchangeable.

The Kingman Spyder semi-automatics are a stacked tube design. They are also a open bolt blow back type. The blow back part means that part of the gas expelled during firing is used to re-cock the bolt and make it ready to fire again. The basic difference between an open bolt marker and a closed bolt marker is the starting position of the bolt before firing. The open bolt starts with the bolt in the rear position behind the feed tube and a closed bolt starts forward of the feed tube. Several sources claim that closed bolt markers are more accurate than open bolt markers. We say if the physics involved apply to real world guns in their action then it also applies to paintball markers. Typically a closed bolt "bolt action" rifle is much more accurate than it rapid firing counter part of the same caliber.

Lets get on with the mods. The Kingman Spyder is a durable reliable marker right out of the package from the factory, however it has some issues that you can address to make it perform much better.

READ SPYDER PAINTBALL GUN MODS