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**HippoMaster** · September 8th, 11:57 PM

sidearms are pretty useless, but really cool. But since you already bought it, make good use of it.

I'm going with popular consensus on barrel length

Bipods are losers who camp. Get one, and everyone will know you're a "noob" right off the bat.

Ghille suits bring about much unpleasant from other players. Some see it as "cheating," because it increases the number of bounces. Also, it's hard to move in one of those things, so it has become synonomous with "noob camper," the kind of person who stays in the back and hides. The blanket would go over much better, but It'd be pretty hard to quickly and decently quietly pull it out and lay it over you, and then you wouldn't be able to move much.

That stock looks good. I need a stock for my gun- I shoot much better with one.

Since you seem to like to hide-in-wait for your opponents, I'll give you some advice for hiding:
-Move your eyes, not your head. If you move your mask, it glints, revealing you.
-Wait for the victim to get closer before , or even let him or her pass you. I've seen tons of people fire early, thus ruining their position.
-Stay near high-traffic areas. There's nothing more annoying than the guy hiding in the woods for that one lucky kill.
-Move after every firefight. The sound will definitely give your position away, and even if it doesn't, the person walking away will most likely point you out to a teammate.
-Your position does not necesarilly have to be defendable. If you see that perfect spot, but you're worried that you'll get shot there, take it anyway. Make sure you hit them before they can return fire, then move.

Oh well... that's all I can think of right now. I used to love the "sniper" role, but I realized it's much more fun to run like a mad man into the fray.

**Mr_Pain** · September 9th, 12:02 AM

if that link and this link dosent work then you need to get a new web browser(a good one is mozilla firefox) http://www.ottersccustoms.com/

**lethias** · September 9th, 12:25 AM

Actually I think its my isp....for some reason their having trouble pulling the site. Thats what I get for using a DSL connection over the phone line.

**lethias** · September 9th, 01:58 AM

The only reason I'm wanting to make this sniper setup is for the simple fact that I don't care much for all the extras and sniper accessories for the tippmann's. My brother happens to have tippmann 98 custom and pretty much make his into anything he really wants. I got my spyder xtra and would like to see it be able to be setup for sniper. Don't get me wrong, I think the tippmann markers are great, reliable, & durable markers. I've seen a lot of ways of how to convert spyders to everything but a sniper setup. Maybe hopefully this can later be put on someone's website so that others can know how to go about configuring their markers to do the same as well as what options are available.

Then again this is of my own personal opinion. lol

For those of you that think that a sniper is a cheap shot type of playing, its not for those of us who like to do tatical team strategies. Personally I think going out with two or more teams and playing in a field and coordinating tactical strategies is a blast for me. I would rather be the guy that is protecting that flag from being captured in a risky place but being covered with good camoflage...that is one heck of an adrenaline rush. Like I say thats of my own personal opinion.

**lethias** · September 9th, 10:14 PM

On low pressure systems, does the LP system shorten you shot distance. From what I'm reading you can get more gas effiiciency, more shots per co2 tank, smoother and quieter shots. Any ideas?

**Mr_Pain** · September 10th, 01:16 AM

how could it make your shots go slower or not as far? In LP like you sayd "you can get more gas effiiciency, more shots per co2 tank, smoother and quieter shots" if you are shooting 300 FPS then you are shooting 300 FPS no matter what the set up.
btw today I oreded the rest of what I need to make my imagine LP (32* spring kit, palmers stablizer regulater - the rest I have already)

**lethias** · September 10th, 06:48 AM

Makes sense. Afriend of mine asked me that, I wasn't sure what to answer him with seeing as I'm not really completely understanding of the LP system. I have read that for the LP setup, that most people usually get a lighter bolt, get a spring set with varying strengths so as to find the perfect effeciency, a lower pressure regulator, and possibly a bigger valve. All of which I got from otter customs. At one point it says you can use the stock valve, but on another part of the site it says to think about getting a bigger valve. Any suggestions on what is absolutely needed, whats not, or what doesn't have to be but proves to be a better improvement. LOL eventually I'll have my marker setup to where the guys are gonna have trouble seeing me no matter where I shoot from.LOL

**Mr_Pain** · September 10th, 10:31 PM

ok, I'm going cheap LP, so I'm getting the min of things that I need. The most expencive part is the regulater. the other thing that you should probly buy is a spring kit. As for the valve and valve pin I will mod (drill out and sand) my self to save some money. Rember there are 4 things that matter when going LP: size of vlave hole, valve pin, valve spring and the main spring. Get those in the right setting and you should be just fine.

**lethias** · September 11th, 12:44 AM

Does the porting of the barrels have any effect on your shots. What I mean is as to how the barrel is ported. I have one of my barrels that the porting is further back the on another barrel. Any opinions on this one. lol Apologies for the questions, just would like to get all my facts straight as well as an effecient marker.

**Mr_Pain** · September 11th, 03:24 AM

ok, to anser your question about porting, I read that porting gets rid of any air that will try to go around your paintball thus slowing it down. However I do not think that that is a problem cause I have shot barrels that have it and dont and one performed equaly as well as the other. The main diffrence is that one is louder then the other, but if you get porting that starts to soon (under 5-6") you will vent your accelerating gasses to soon so you will have to use more gas to shoot the ball the same speed. You might be wondering why is not every non ported barrel 7"? Well it's because you still somewhat get the shotgun efect (the longer the barrel the more precise shot) and that is true upto a certan point, after about 16" it gets pointless. for anymore questions try looking in the barrel forum http://www.paintballforum.com/forum/...play.php?f=140

**lethias** · September 12th, 12:39 AM

Ok, so here's a summary of all the information that I have gathered as far a how to go about setting up your marker for sniper. First step would be to get a new barrel that can be a max length of 14". Anything longer pretty much is more friction on the paint thus shortening your shots distance, not to mention the chance of causing a spin on the paint and curving your shots.. When looking at barrels, the porting on them really doesn't make much of difference of shot. The only thing that might cause any problems is if the porting is extended back to far on the barrel thus letting the gas escape to early and losing paint acceleration.
For better effeciency of your markers gas usage, switching to Low pressure setup is helpful. The pluses to this are that u have better gas effeciency, less of a chance of ball breakage, and the best plus is that your marker is quiter. Quieter marker means less of a chance for them to beable to find your position as quickly as with a stock high pressure system. The only thing left is of personal preference. If you would wish to use a stock on your marker for more stable shots, you'll either have to search hard on the net to find an actual stock made for a spyder or use a universal stock that bolts on to where the drop foward is. For anything special your going to have to do some frabricating and moding your gun to give it more realistic feel.
If anyone else has done or has ideas of creating, modifying, or fabrication stocks to fit the spyder guns please post it. If you've got any more ideas, comments or questions pertaining to the this topic, don't hesitate to post.

paintballjunk12 · September 12th, 01:02 AM

So you lethias you can hit the edit button at the bottomright of the last post you made and merge those three posts instead of triple posting

**lethias** · September 12th, 11:02 PM

Does anyone have a cooper T Bolt. I was just curious as to how well that it worked.

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