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***ChrisTheDuckMan*** · January 5th, 08:19 PM

Other than it being a pain in the ass (literally) when hitting someone at over 300fps...can it damage your marker? I keep my impulse at around 285fps. I was reading up on velocity settings in various places and some said operate at 280-285 and others said around 300 x_X

**2 legit** · January 5th, 08:24 PM

over 300fps can hurt someone.......

while many markers might be able to handle the pressure required to shoot above 300fps it is unsafe to do so. Secondly, i know when i get shot with an extremely hot gun it makes me mad......and youd be much more likely to get hit by someone if continuously shoot over 300fps.

**rustyness** · January 5th, 08:48 PM

Your marker could handle 300, but i like to keep my marker around 280. That seems to be the general velocity limit for places around here. And like 2 legit said, if i get shot by someone shooting hot, i get pissed the hell off.

**DragonFire0729** · January 5th, 09:03 PM

An Ion especially, at least Ive seen a lot of blown guages with them (because noobs are using them...) can blow it if it gets too high.

A good rule of thumb (and this isnt directly related to the thread, but maybe someone will read it and be helped by it) is to (with a new marker) to turn the reg all the way down (Counter clock wise) then slowly bring it up over the chrony.

***ChrisTheDuckMan*** · January 5th, 10:34 PM

Thanks everyone =) What would you say is the max an impy can handle though?

***LILGERBER*** · January 5th, 11:31 PM

i keep mine at about 380-400 i love the f*ck(Evading the swear filter can get you banned) people up.

lol jk about 280.i run mine at.

**Chris Kringle** · January 6th, 01:15 AM

Well any gun is going to **** up if you try to run it as an extremely high fps. Mainly the internals wont be able to handle it and your first shot will blow an O-ring off and all the air will leak out of your tank unless you have an on/off.

You dont have to worry about that unless you mess up and forget which way to adgust your reg and end up trying to shoot at around 400 fps. Anything from 300-340 wont hurt your marker, although the balls will become wildly unaccurate when getting up there in the fps.

***MedicDVG*** · January 6th, 01:26 AM

1) You can blow the gauge
2) you can damage the 'noid
3) you will break balls and make your marker a gooey mes
4) you will be ejected from fields and will not make any friends if you are shooting hot.
5) you will kill your air efficiency

Just stay at 270-280 fps and you will be doing fine.

**Chris Kringle** · January 6th, 01:54 AM

Well I find my gun shoots best at about 296-300, so thats what I keep my gun chrono'd to.

Basicly keep it at your field limit and dont put it above that limit for any reason.

**DragonFire0729** · January 6th, 06:51 AM

Field limits around here are 285 mainly, though anything below 300 is fair play; the refs want to see it around 285. So I keep mine in the 280-290 range

***ChrisTheDuckMan*** · January 6th, 07:22 AM

It's around 285 here too for tourneys and nothing but semi-auto alowed but when it isn't a tourney anything goes ;p

**Homeless Box** · January 6th, 08:21 AM

im at 260 last time i played

**Uncle_T** · January 6th, 02:03 PM

in st louis all the fields say 300 so i generally ran mine about 295... in springfield though its 250?! thats gonna be so different...

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