Best starter paintball guns for kids?

I had a spyder victor when I was younger. Shot hella cats with it

When I say when I was younger I mean like 4 years ago sold it and bought a badass pellet gun to kill the squirrels in my apartments backyard

Just go buy whatever gun Tippmann is putting out these days.

I bought an A-5 a while back a few years after they came out.

I'm sure they are still selling the old 98-custom. It's a solid gun, that works effortlessly and they couldn't break it if they tried.

Tippmann = AK-47s of the paintball world.

ETA: just looked it up for you. 98 custom is 140, A-5 is 180. If he plans to play for more than a year or two. I would go ahead and get the A-5, much better operating gun and leaves room for enhancements later on once he decides he wants to spend more of your money by shooting faster.

Nvm just read through the rest of it, I would go ahead and just get him a 98 custom if he's only going to be playing with friends on someone's land. He's not gonna need anything uppity like an A-5.

Also a really good site is ANS Gear, where I used to buy all my stuff.

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Shot hella cats with it

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I come to the OB to forget that I live in northern California. And voila..."hella Norcal" comes to me.

They'll be trained to use them safely. They already have .22's that they have been trained to shoot safely. You sound like you are no fun.

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teaching muzzle control through repetition is thrown out the window when you buy a gun used as a toy with the intent of shooting your friends

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You just have to reiterate while they are young the differences, real vs toy.

I'm anal as hell around other people handling guns, but I used to play paintball regularly at a field with a bunch of people. This is also a good way to keep the kids minds focused, find a good field like Paintball Command in Mandeville. I worked and played there for a while, and we were preaching every second gun safety.

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if you're going to be having fun, you're not going to get me involved

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unless your kid is full retard he should be able to comprehend the difference between shooting at friends with his paintball gun and shooting at friends with his AK47.


ETA: Teaching muzzle control while shooting at your friends is much more fun than while shooting paper.

Get one that uses compressed air over CO2. Look at the guns Smart Parts make.

Buy used.

Better price and a good gun.

I used to play competitively... 03 Shocker, efficiency kit, flipped switch, low pro smart parts nitrogen setup and vboarded halo, full freak... like a 1700$ setup.

You can buy that setup for 200$ off of craigslist if you bargain hunt.

An automag at 1200 psi with an ultra evil ball will dent car doors. We used to use a buddy's truck as a center bunker for speedball...looked like hail damage.

The two things are unrelated in my mind.