The most important one for a Snake player is knowing the field. I see a lot of guys get into a crucial spot for the other team, like say the 50 Snake, and they don't even know where to put their gun first. They don't know where to shoot, where the bodies are going to be at. It almost seems like they don't know the field very well. So, that's one of the things that I try to focus on when I get into a big spot like the 50 Snake. I like to know exactly where the bodies are going to be at, where to put the paint. That way I get the kill quickly.
And so you learn that just through repetition, through practice. Like you get into the 50 Snake, the first game, you look inside and say, well, I can't see crap from this side, let me try outside next time. Is that type of thing?
Yeah. And just from trial and error, being in events, knowing that I wasn't really prepared and knowing what I can work on to come back for the next event, there was a lot of times where I could have capitalized a lot better if I would have known the shots a little bit better. So, trying to study that on your own time and paying attention to it at the field during practice and memory retention, if you can't remember it, you got to ask for help. He distracted me.
So, would you say let's say they can't remember. Have you ever written down on a piece of paper like, hey, what I should do? Have you ever taken notes like in your phone after practice?
Just take pictures from your spot. If you got your phone with you, take pictures. And that way you can look at it during the week while you're at work, sit at a desk. Or you can make a slideshow of all the different shots of what they look like from each bunker. You can go in and edit it and number them or name all the bunkers.
So, that's super smart, guys. That's really good. So, you don't go from a Sunday playing to the whole another seven days Sunday or seven days away. And you're forgetting. You have to remember all over again. So, at least Friday night review. That's really good. And do you have one more do you have one other skill that you think you should focus on?
Yeah, first ball accuracy. That's a big one for me as well. And a lot of the things that I like to talk about are things that I've had issues with. I wouldn't say I have a bad issue with first ball accuracy, but there's been times where I have missed a shot, and it was a shot that kept a team in the game. And if I could have made the shot the first time, then of course it would have been a little easier of a win. But yeah, first ball accuracy is really huge to work on.
So, how do you think, let's say I'm out doing drills by myself, or not me because I don't play snake. What would you think? Like a quick drill? Like, maybe you have a drill idea, maybe sliding into a spot and snapping that first ball? Or what would you recommend to give a drill just to be able to get repetition better?
You can just make the snapshot just from your bunker. If you're already not good at your first ball accuracy, trying to add sliding in that other mechanic with it and trying to make the shot, you could be making the drill much harder on yourself. Basics. Everybody's done snapshot and drills, but I don't think a lot of people do them anymore. So, just keep it simple. Make the shot from the bunker. Shoot a cone or a mask, like Fuzz said before, you can set up anything to make the shot. And then once you get good at that, then add in that next mechanic.
Nice. Okay. Heck yeah. All right, so we know you work out. You're super fast. So, I had a question. How do you prepare paintball during the week? I get this question all the time. I go know pro paintball players. You don't see them necessarily in the gym all the time, but how do you personally prepare during the week, physically or even mentally, for your workouts and to be more prepared to play paintball that weekend?
Yeah. So, I try to replicate the feeling of being on the field for 40 points to practice. You can't really go into the gym and do a lot of the different workouts that they have set up in the gym, the different equipment and stuff like that. But, if you can replicate what it feels like to be a practice, the different movements, that's going to give you your best ability. So, for me, I like to do a lot of things on the ground. I can pull a sled on the ground. Army crawl with a sled. When your legs get really fatigued and you're trying to crawl down a snake, it makes it really hard. Hip mobility and flexibility, that's really huge. We all use our hips when we're playing, so trying to find the different workouts that you can do to keep your hips strong and your core strong, and then all the mobility is really big. So, stretching, staying limber, even doing yoga. Yoga is really big.
Nice. Okay.
And it's really not all strength. A lot of guys get in there and they tend to want to lift a lot of heavy weight. If you can push a lot of heavy weight from your legs, then you can increase your explosive speed. But, a lot of it's an ability. A lot of people are just kind of born with the speed and agility and athleticism that's super smart.
On the sled, like you said, you're physically crawling. So, if you're used to only pulling your body weight, it's hard, but you're used to pulling your body weight in 30 more pounds when you get to the Snake and you're tired. I never even thought about that's. Genius. I mean, clearly I don't play up front very much.
Well, I don't really like to share all my little tips. And then another thing too, like Fuzz was talking about the football players throwing a football around. They use that tool at practice. They take them home with them. They always got a football with them, right. Well, when we play paintball, we only play on the weekends with our guns. If you can find a facility or a gym that you can take your gun to, to keep those mechanics real crisp, that is the best thing to do. You can pull the sled with one hand and on your hands and knees with one hand while you're holding your gun. That's a movement that you always do on the field. So, having your gun with you during your workouts is only going to make you that much more better.
And Fuzz. I know. I was going to work. You kind of into that same question. I know you tell a lot of people one thing that they can do with their gun during the week. And what is that like?
Oh, the biggest thing I think I know what you're talking about is literally like just grabbing your gun and putting it in your arm and then switching hands and putting in your other arm. Switching hands can be a little bit more advanced if you're call your wreck balled kind of just now getting into tournament paintball, but just picking your gun up naturally, picking it up and putting it in your shoulder, it should be the same every single time, right. So, literally just having your gun kind of laying around in your room, wherever you are, just pick it up, shoulder it, put it down, pick it up, shoulder it in the other arm. Do that thing multiple times.
Do that repetition. Like BJ's. Talking about just that motion of doing it will make it more natural when you go to play on Saturday or Sunday, whichever day it is, doing it from Sunday to Sunday, like John's saying is like that's a long time compared to any other that that makes a huge difference when you're trying to get really good at something. Not having that know, every two days you do this or every other day. Kind of on the question, though, I was going to say this. I want to say the mental aspect of it during the week, if it's a layout, think of the mistakes that you made on Monday, think of the mistakes you made on Tuesday and start playing those through your head to make sure, well, I did this when this happened. Let's not do that this time, right.
So, if you start kind of I say this like patting those mistakes in your head. The idea on that is to make sure you just don't do it again. So, then when you go into the next weekend, you're already that much farther ahead than the guy that forgot about all those things, right. You don't have to relearn the mistakes from the last Sunday.
And that goes into the pictures that he was talking about, taking pictures of the layout and stuff like that. It's amazing. So, on Wednesday, you're halfway through the week, you pick it up, you review your shots and everything you go through.
Cool, fine. At least 20 minutes, 20 more minutes than anybody else is probably doing, especially.
When a layout comes out. If you do that a lot more, then you'll realize on that first weekend you have learned the layout compared to learning it on the last weekend.
That's awesome. That's really good, Fuzz. I know. Fuzz. When you and I used to live together when were younger, we'd never paintball guns set up all the time. Like they never came down. So, we literally would put them on the couch, put on the bed. You would just grab and act like we were snap-shooting at the mirror or whatever. And guess what? When you go grab, it Saturday morning for the first time, not the first time anymore, it's 47th time that week. You just haven't shot a paintball out of it, which is one step past that. So, that's awesome. I think that'd be super helpful.
All right.
And last question for BJ. Here the specific for BJ. Unless Fuzz, you got kids that we don't know about.
I mean, I don't know about them.
BJ, you're a parent and you have also been playing paintball for a very long time. What would you tell other parents out there who are considering letting their kid play paintball for the first time or play tournaments for the first time?
I would let them know that the game is safe. So, it's really a safe sport as long as you learn safety. When it comes to a paintball gun, taking them to a field where they promote safety, where they force them to wear a mask, having your kids go out and play in the woods around the neighborhood, that's probably not a safe idea. But, if you're going to have them at a facility where there's referees and there's a lot of safety involved, it's a very safe sport. It was different for me when I was a kid. My mom let me go to Walmart and get a gun. Of course, she had to be there to buy it. The whole neighborhood got them and we just ran around the neighborhood playing. We didn't even have a mask the first time.
That's crazy.
I bought a gun with no mask. So, there wasn't a lot of education there. So, there's enough stuff out on YouTube, on websites, and then local fields. They can help you out. There's a lot of safety information out for parents to be able to review that stuff, to make a good decision for your kids to be able to play it.
Okay, so in addition to safety, as far as the community, like, clearly you've been around, you've met thousands of paintball players from around the world, literally around the world. And what would you say, like, if a parent walked up and you've got grown men playing with 15 year old kids at the same field? What would you say about that? How's the environment for a parent that's intimidated for the first time to let their kid go play a tournament or something? Like, what do you think?
Awesome environment, very encouraging. A lot of kids play with adults all the time, so having kids around, it's not like you got an adult just beating up on a kid. No one ever really lets that happen. So, it is very encouraging to have kids around.
My kid plays, she has her own set up, own gear, bag everything. She's played some scenarios with me, and she's ten and she had a lot of support from all the people that she played with, and not a single person knew her.
Cool deal. So, if anybody has any questions, BJ, can they reach out to you on social media?
Yes. I'm not really big in the social media, but if you send me a message on Facebook, I may see it. I don't know how long it's going to be….
Better option message our Pro Edge paintball Instagram for a question for BJ or our YouTube comment and we'll make sure we share it with him. Same for Fuzz over there. And Matt, if anybody has any questions, younger players, they have any questions about you or if anybody wants to get any jerseys from you guys or anything like any advice on a layout, can they reach out to you guys?
Absolutely. Anytime you have a question, don't think it's silly, don't think it's stupid. Questions are questions and people at different levels. That's all it is.
And last thing, if a kid sees you at the field, can they come up and say hi?
Always and forever.
They'll be scared, right. Cool deal. All right, guys, thanks so much. Thank you guys for watching. If you guys have any questions, comment below and make sure you subscribe and like this video. Thanks guys.
The Jackson Brothers.
We are doing our first video of hopefully a series of videos, of talk, answering your questions, give us a little background information about our experience and just help those newer players. Let's say you're 15 years old, 25 years old, you're getting into tournaments or you want to get more involved in competitive style paintball. We're going to try to bring you guys some videos, answer your questions and give you a little insight on what it takes, what it took, what not. So, dive in real quick, a little bit about us. We are Jackson Brothers, John and Matt. We get that question a hundred times a day for an event. And we've been playing since 1998.
Matt, Fuzz is the shorter one, John's the taller one.
Yeah, I'm a chubby one, too.
Chubby or slower, balding a little bit. And the sweet hair guy over here. We've been playing paintball since 1998, so we're pretty old. And we've been playing paintball 20 years or so. We played national events since 2003. We were at our first PSP World Cup in Orlando, Florida I think it was Disney World.
The World World of sports when they used to do it at the Disney Conflux.
Yeah.
So, it's cool. So, some of those players have been around. They know where that was. And fast forward 17 years, we are now playing our fifth year of professional paintball. We play for professional paintball team AC Dallas out of Dallas, Texas, owned and operated by Mr. Greg Paulie. So we play with TJ Danaer, Ryan Hall, BJ. Heninberg, and-.
Logan Dyer. Yeah, Logan.
So, small crew. But yeah, been around for a while, so a little bit about us. So before we get started on this, I want to make sure we say this every video. What questions do you have for a pro paintball player? If you are trying to get into paintball, into paintball in general, literally, I was 12 years old, plus was 10 here when we started.
Single mom raised us, got us into paintball. So we're going to talk about that. But, if you're new to paintball and you want to get into the competitive side, the tournament side, let us know. If you have specific questions, don't think any question is too stupid or too small. We are here to try to give you at least our opinion. We're not saying this right or wrong, but we have a lot of paintball experience. We love talking paintball. We do it every day. We can try to give you a little insight. Like I said, help me answer questions. Help me get more players involved in this and see what it takes. Like I said, if you have any questions, go ahead and comment below, please. Just don't be afraid. If you don't feel comfortable posting it online, you can hit us up on Instagram. My Instagram is @JohnJackson22. @johnjackson_22. John Jackson paintball, maybe. Email?
Email me John@prohpaintball.com.
I got that one for sure. My Instagram @fuzzy Jackson. Message me on there. Any questions you guys have, we'll figure it out. Just think of it as perspective, different perspective, pro perspective, the Jackson perspective. Maybe we call it that. I don't know we'll call it that. Anything and everything. Honestly, paintball related, paintball affecting your life, things like that in a sense, too. I think it's good to talk about all that stuff because it's all intertwined when you start getting into the competitive world of it.
So, all right, let's get started here. I've got some questions written down that we've had. I've been reaching out to some local players on my Instagram and stuff to see if we can answer any questions for you guys. We're going to start pretty basic for our first video. First question, how did we get into paintball? How do we get into paintball? What got us into it? How did we get started or whatnot? I'll start it off. But, Fuzz and I both played, I think it was a birthday party our first time.
Yeah, birthday party.
A friend of ours invited us to go play a birthday party in the woods, and we were terrified.
It's absolutely terrifying. I was 10 years old, 12 years old, and I was a pretty small 10-year-old. So the idea of getting shot with a paintball was probably not the most exciting thing to want to go and experience. So, I probably wore six layers. I know for sure.
I wore winter coveralls, the winter hunting ones with the zip up in the middle. I had some shirts on, sweatpants underneath it. I think we were up the entire day. Never shot anybody.
No, not one.
Surrender probably a couple of times. Had a great time.
Shot probably like 300 paintballs.
Total together.
Total, yeah.
Had an amazing time. Loved it, was hooked forever. So, thank you for that guy. We'll say guy that got us involved in paintball and gave us a chance. After that, it was game on. Like I said, we played in the woods for the first time. I know some of y'all don't know what that means. So, the things that are green and brown and stuff that grow out of the woods, trees, sometimes you have them in your yard.
We say this because some of our buddies are terrified to play in the woods. A lot of these new tournament players out there, they're like, man, there's like mosquitoes and stuff. Like, how do you hide behind a tree? And you're like, bro, you got to get good at this stuff. This is part of what teaches you. It gives you your character on the tournament field and stuff. So, yeah, that's how we got started. Birthday party.
And then, of course, we probably had one of our own birthday parties a couple of times. We had a chance to just multiple birthday parties, rented all the gear, all that stuff.
Case of paint was $115 a case for 2000 paintballs. But we couldn't afford that.
No, a lot of times we would buy a 500 round bag and see if we could make that last as long as we could to be able to try to play as much as we could. But, realistically, the same thing I would say most players kind of start off doing. You go with a friend, a birthday party, and then you rent guns for however long it takes for you to get hooked or hate it. I don't know. Sometimes that happens.
But, I'm sure if we took a poll on Facebook how many people got into paintball because of birthday party, probably be pretty high. All right, so second question here. What style did we grow up playing?
Kind of answered a little bit. Yeah, a lot of woods. And so woods fields, if you've never played in the woods, of course there's the paintball scenarios, right, paintball scenarios. Think of it as like a mass game of hundreds of people versus hundreds of people in a large scale field. And sometimes the woods fields are actually just straight woods.
Sometimes it's going to be towns, sometimes it's going to be buildings inside the woods and stuff like that. Right. So that's like, what we grew up on was the woods plus, like, a mixture of buildings in the woods.
Oh, like our speed ball field. Yeah, like our speed ball field was just flat plywood. Like, now you guys grew up, you know what an air-ball field is, or the tube. You might not even know what some people call it hyperpipe or hyper tube. We didn't even have like, our Hyperball. We didn't really have that at the first Seal we ever played at. They didn't have compressed air. I forgot they didn't even have compressed air. When we started playing. We had CO2 tanks and our little spider paintball guns, which probably got those year down the road. So, we started playing woods. Woods and really creamed up at some point. Somebody labeled us Rambo and Rambo Jr. We may have had walkie talkies and earpieces, possibly.
I mean, not upgrades.
Yeah, exactly. I mean, communication, right. If you ever watch this play, right? But then soon after that, Fuzz got a job at another local field because he was too young to work, I guess, at the one I was at. And so mom Saturday morning would drop us off at two paintball fields, but his was not going to say way cooler.
But it was different at the time. It was cooler to us because we had played for a little bit in the woods. And this other field had the Hyperball tubing. And we've hear this a lot. It's like the tubing getting shot was like scarier. So, it sounds different than the trees getting shot or brush getting shot.
So, for us at the time, being pretty young, it was like this cool thing in a sense. There's like this cool factor to it. So, yeah, my field was the cool field that I started at. And John was basically at the field that we first started with a lot of the woods, kind of a different crowd. So same thing, kind of like my field. It's tanks paintball out in Houston and be considered Katie, Texas, I guess it would be, had a lot of hybrid ball tubing and like no woods. So, it's like the exact opposite type of field.
And we always played to go into this a little bit, we always played competitive sports like junior high school. We were always pretty competitive and tried to know, stay outdoor, to be active. And so the woods was cool. But, whenever we went over to this other field, that's when we first saw our ever tournament. Like our first we went and watched our first three man tournament. We didn't know that was a thing. The closest we ever got where we had the doctors come out to the woodsball field and they had angels and they were awesome. And they could afford to buy the $115 case of paint and shoot case after case.
And we're like, they had their own compressed air tanks to fill their compressed Air tanks.
Mind blow, electronic hoppers. I didn't know what that was. That was awesome. And so, we knew that this tournament style competitive side existed. And then when he started working at the other field, we saw it firsthand and we watched the first three men. I remember Tank. You guys have been in Texas and we're in Bonneville for a long time. Some of the older guys, you know who Tank is, has been around for a long time. But he is to credit getting us into the tournament site. He gave us opportunity.
Him and his wife and his family were super like, hey, come check this out. Come watch us. I remember it was freezing cold at the turn. I don't know why I remember that. Because he gave us his jacket, whatever. And so we went and watched that. And like I said, we always played sports. So, it's like an easy, I don't know, whatever, easy segue into like, oh, this is competitive. We got two people here.
There's a structured version of this rather than just like the lawless woodsball where it's like you and the woods deal versus other team.
But, hold up.
We used to run around in the woods in our own camouflage before small. Oh, yeah. And it's not going to go over real well with some people. We used to shoot stuff in the woods with BB Guns. We'll leave it at that. Sometimes each other, sometimes targets and stuff. But this is where we started, shoot BB Guns. We were much younger. So, where we lived, the apartment complex, we were able to just shoot stuff. So, we've always been shooting stuff. I did archery. Both of us did archery when we were much younger because we live north of like North Dallas area, middle of nowhere. And so we're outside quite much. So, we entertained each other, that's for sure. But anyway, so woods was fun. We played all that stuff with shooting stuff. And then we see this, we're like, All right, cool. Let's get going. Anyway, let's get a little bit about us on that one. And so we're talking about getting guns. So, next question I have here is, How do we afford to play? So, like I said, we were super young, single mom raising us. And like we said, I know we said this already, but Fuzz started working in a field. We started playing and mom's like, Oh, this is expensive.
The $115 kids are paying was just not... It wasn't in the realm of possibility as far as that being achievable. And like I said, sustainable for both of us playing as much as we wanted to play. We were always playing together.
Like a lot of you guys know out there? We got kids out there and he's like, All right, we'll just go play paintball today. And you got nine kids and you, Thomas Taylor. I mean, it's a million dollars to go play paintball.
It'll add up really fast if you're doing it consistently, right.
And so mom was like, hey, sorry, not sorry, but you have to go get a job. You have to do this. And so that's when I started working at the local paintball field, the very first one, paintball challenge. I have to respect those guys. They're still friends today.
Let me volunteer at the field for a little bit. Yeah, volunteer. And it wasn't like a paid thing. I think I got paid in paint.
Four paint walls probably because it was worth it at that time.
Which, of course, has a dollar value, right. But, at the same time, that's not money getting paid. So when I had the opportunity to move to the other place and actually get paid, it was the idea of transitioning into this cooler type field. I think.
Those are just our first jobs.
Ever, though. It was. That's my first job.
Yeah.
Yeah. Transitioning into this cooler field with a paycheck. And of course, generally speaking, if you do work at a paintball place, you can have some type of discount, right. You have some type of employee thing or the field does this and it allows you to make it more affordable just by you having connections, right.
Yeah. That helped a lot. We started working at it. We get a question like, Man, paintball is expensive. Absolutely. I understand that. I own a store now. We see it every day. We talk to moms, kids, dads, everybody. I mean, kids want to save up their lunch money and mom's like, Hey, you don't have any money. And moms like, hey, how much money? So, they do what they can, mow lawns, whatever they can. So how do we afford to play? We got jobs and we worked. So we would play on Saturdays a lot of times, I think, and play. I think we only play like once a month, maybe probably once a month to get started if I remember right.
The biggest thing I remember is once we really got into it, it was always the thing where we would basically work. We would work Saturday and Sunday, say four weekends in a month. We work Saturday, Sunday of the first weekend, work Saturday of the next weekend, play Sunday, work Saturday, Sunday of the next weekend, and then play the following Sunday. And that's how we made it. That's how we afforded it with, like I say this, our 14-year-old paychecks.
I remember Uncle would come out, he balled out. He bald out. He was like, Yo, boys, we're buying a case of paychecks.
Cases on me.
We had a Raptors and a Paintball gun. We had spiders. And so to answer your question too about our first guns and stuff. Christmas one year, Mom says, All right. I think it was Christmas. I remember we picked it up in APG magazine. There wasn't the Internet back then, just so you know.
We're aging ourselves with this. The more this conversation goes on.
We weren't shopping online on Amazon to buy this stuff. And so we're like, or proedgepb.com. Plug. We were shopping around and we went to this local traders village. This place is like a flea market. So, they had a little retail store and we went in there and mom's like, look, you're getting paintball stuff and this is it. I remember that Christmas is when we got the add on stuff like the packs and the remote hoses.
Some fancy hoppers.
Adjustable stock.
For my spider. I mean, don't tell them that stuff.
CP flamed drop-forward BJ. Ceramic 14-inch barrel. I'd still recommend the Barrel if you can find one.
I forgot about that. We got barrels. And we got the stuff. And so mom's like, look, this is it. I did what you got to get started. A spider was $250. You can buy them now for like 65 dollars. And I remember I bought them from a good friend of mine still now John Perry at paintball, Bonanza, paintball gear store, Paintball gear store and a flea market in Houston. And so, we bought them and that was it. We had those guns for, I don't remember. We were super young, but probably two years or three years. We had spiders at least for two and
A half, three years, something like that. It was definitely a good length of time.
I think we started playing tournaments when we were 15 and stuff. We got started. We played a lot in the woods. We played both places. We did all kinds of stuff and mixed it up. We're looking to afford to play paintball. I recommend working on a field, save your money, be nice, do your chores. It stinks sometimes, but if you guys are really getting into it, if you're younger players out there. Luckily, it is a little less expensive nowadays. A case of paint anywhere from $35, $45 a case up to $75, $85 a case depending on where you're playing and the quality you're buying. Guns are way better quality now, so hopefully you can get started pretty good. But it does take time. We rented guns for probably quite a while before we.
Actually, I think we played for about a year almost before. It was probably a little bit less than a year before we bought our own equipment. I'll never forget this, our mom's mentality, she'll occasionally be in the store and hear mom talk about it, and she has the same speech that she does all the time. It's scripted. But she tells them she wanted to make sure that we wanted to do it enough where she could spend the money and not regret it in a sense. She's like, Look, my kids are their kids. They're going to get into this hobby and this little fad and then drop it in two months. And I'm going to be out all this money because I can't sell this thing, right. So, she made us rent guns and experience all of the things that you start off playing and getting shot in the neck and- Oh, dude. -playing in the cold.
I was getting smoked in the neck this one time. If I remember right, it was off just like a piece of wood. It splintered into him. He's like, I don't know if he cried, but he was not having a good time. And he was just like, Yo, I'm done. I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this. I remember one time he's crawling through the woods and he goes through ants. And this is all before he owned our own equipment. Rough day. So, he's like, Go through, you get minutes and I just stopped mid game and I'm like, little bro, we're going to watch out for him. We're getting probably pumped by everybody else and just getting ants off of him. He's just like not fun. Pretty over this. This is not fun. You cannot do this. This is not good. But we had each other and so we continue to play.
So, we're going to try to just do like three or four questions a week, check back every Monday. It might be a little abrupt ending here, but again, we won't want these videos 15 minutes or so. We want to try to cut them off and make it a weekly thing that we can put out there and not go on too long.
So, hopefully that at least gets you a little insight on us, a little fun, chat, stuff like that, and hopefully gets some of you newer players out there like someone inside like, Oh, look, I'm not the only one struggling here. I'm not the only one that doesn't eat lunch at school every other day or whatever to save 20 bucks for paintball that weekend or whatever it is. Whatever you guys need, we're here to answer your questions. Make sure to comment below. Thank you so much for watching. Please, if you enjoyed this at all, hit the like video, hit like on the video, and please go down there and subscribe my YouTube channel for the Pro Edge, Pro Edge website and everything. We have tech videos every Tuesday. We do product reviews every Thursday. Hopefully, you're going to start with some pro tips on Fridays being ambitious here, but hopefully I can do some pro tips from the local field and everything and put those out there. And then, of course, Monday afternoon pro chat chat. What would you say?
The Jackson perspective?
Sounds okay, but - Sounds a little ego ish. I mean - Whatever. I don't know. He's got cocky. I mean.
Anyways. All right. Thank you guys so much for watching. Make sure you check back next Monday. See you guys next time. Thanks.
]]>Oh, yeah, you get your die sticker. That's what I was looking for. Good to go.
Okay, so dye sticker, manual, warranty card, all of that stuff.
All right, set that aside. All right, right now the current colors, you're going to have your black with red like that. You've got your black with blue. Both very vibrant colors. I really like dye has always done a good job of making stuff look good. The main difference between this loader and the other one, the original loader, the other one used to have a metal badge on the side of it. There's a few other differences as well, but mainly with a different button on the back and then a different badge. This is definitely less expensive for them to make, but super nice. Cool to go. Red. You've got the green, lime green. This is the newest color, I believe. We just got these in not too long ago. This is a DIECAM. I haven't really seen many people post about this, but you've got your DIECAM loader and these hold up a little under 200. I'm trying to think. Let me see what their box actually says. When we had it before, I don't think it actually was a full 200 capacity. But most of your hoppers or most of your pods are 140 rounds, 100, 140 rounds.
This is going to hold plenty. You're good to go. Last but not least, you have your solid black. Just to give you a quick rundown about it. Again, if you're looking for an entry level loader, maybe if you're really hard on your gear, you might want to consider the die roter, die LTR. This loader is one of the most durable hoppers of all time. If you're doing some research, go ahead and go to YouTube and search die roter durability test. The original loader, like 12 years ago, 10 plus years ago, they take a torch to it, they throw it underwater, all that good stuff, they drop it off a ladder, almost identical loader as this one. Few changes again, but still extremely durable, insane. Give you a quick rundown. Of course, you have your lid up top. It's very nice spring-loaded, snaps, very simple. Some hoppers are very hard to open. What's nice, this is hard enough that you're going to have to physically bump it to accidentally spill your paint balls at the paint ball field. That's really nice.
All right, you got one button on, one button off. If there are batteries in here, it'd be on, it'd be off.
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No settings, no crazy adjustments, nothing fancy, very simple to understand. You're ready to play paintball? Turn it on. The light turns on. You're done. Turn it off. Good to go. It has a little shark fin on the bottom here. It has a shark fin here on the bottom for your anti-jamp. You're able to pull this back and forth. We'll actually turn pieces inside. I'll show you here in a second that help it unjamp. The feed neck on these, some loaders these days are still breaking at the feed neck because of the type of plastic they are. This is more of a rubber, I don't know the official term for it, but more of a rubber type plastic. It's not going to just shatter like Cheap Plastic does. It's more flexible.
All right, to take it apart, take it out there, you want to push this little tab, get your nail underneath there, and push that tab up. This is a locking tab. This helps keep the loader from just falling apart. You're going to press this button here and your loader comes apart. If you're an old school player, you've been playing for a long time and you still got an old halo, or if you're new, the halo is still around, you notice to clean the halo, you have like 8-10 screws.
It does take you a little bit longer. If you're looking to upgrade, definitely look for a tool-like style hop or something like this. You can see how easy that is.
All right, so inside, hopefully you can see this, I'm going to pull the anti jam piece here. You can see how it moves the internal piece. And so this, as you're playing, if the ball is jammed inside there, you can jiggle back and forth and it moves the paint around and hopefully allows not to have jammed up anymore.
The next step here is you're going to press the front tab there and the whole tray comes out. This is a spring loaded tray. This has been around absolutely forever. The Spire IR, Spire 4, you can buy this extra, but this does come standard with the LTR loader. You don't have to pay an extra $10, $15 for that. It's already installed. You don't have to mess with any of that stuff. Good to go. Then inside of here, it does take three batteries.We did a test on this years ago to see how efficient this was. Even as the batteries were dying, it would still feed just not feed as fast. We didn't have any problems other than that. We're talking, I mean, a lot of shots, tens of thousands of shots. I think we estimated if you shot a case of paint or two cases of paint for a month, you could go six months without replacing your batteries. Don't quote me on that. It's been a few years, but it's a very efficient battery or very efficient hopper system. The way it works is simple and so makes it more efficient on the batteries. If you really want to clean it, obviously, you see the tray inside of here. You've got Velcro on your batteries. That way it doesn't fall out. AAA batteries, so the least expensive type of battery. You're just going to push these two tabs to the side. This top piece comes out. This next piece comes out, the floor and the gears. Then you take this and you're good to go. As you can tell, very simple.
I have done this quite a bit, so I'm pretty good at this. If you do decide to get this loader, just revert back to this video if you need to clean it or whatnot, this will show you how to do it. Of course, you've got the last one, at least the little button, little clear button that goes on the front here. Pretty straightforward. This is an awesome loader, very easy to clean.
Again, the shell is extremely durable. I'm going to show you that real quick. If you're in a hurry, once you get good at putting this back together, you can see how fast it is. Let's say between games, you want to clean it up, you can put it together very, very fast. Good to go. What I was saying earlier about the flexibility of the plastic, look at this. You can physically flex it without it breaking. You can drop this, you can beat it up. It's not just going to break very easy at all. The lids, of course, are a different type of plastic. I've seen these if you get shot real close up, you've seen these break. But if you don't want a lid, also die, HK Army, they all make a speed feed or a quick feed that goes inside of here that replaces the lid.
All you do is you take these five screws here, you pull those out, and you can replace the lid and put a speed feed. If you're not sure what a speed feed is, you basically replace the lid so you can just dump paint in and it doesn't come back out. It's pretty straightforward. The feed rate on this hopper is probably I think it is the fastest currently available in 2021. We like to shoot the die R2, which is the higher in loader version of this, or the LTR for a lot of our shooting videos because we can get a very high rate of fire. The Spire IR is pretty good, or IR-2 is good for about 10, let's say, 12 to 15 balls a second pretty consistently. Same for the spire 4, maybe a little bit faster. But this one here, we've never had an issue with this feeding as fast as we want the gun to shoot. Pretty much as fast as the gun can shoot, the die rotors can do that, so no problem at all. Put this back together here, push that piece there and locks together. Good to go. With that in mind, the loader is a little bit heavier and I mean a very small amount because of the type of material, it's a little bit better quality.
Of course, it's going to be a little bit heavier, but you also get the durability out of it. Trying to think anything I missed on that one. Like I said, you can change the lid speed feeds. There's not a lot to do with this. The parts are pretty inexpensive. If you're going to have this for the next 3-5 years and you want to replace parts that wear out, pretty inexpensive to go ahead and replace those. I think it's definitely a great investment. The hopper runs for about $100, depending on if they're doing a sale or depending on if they raise the price or goes up or down, but around $100 for this type of hopper. I think this is one of the most durable best hoppers that's pretty much ever been made. You can't go wrong. If you're rough on your stuff, like you said, or you shoot really fast. If you play at a paintball field that lets you shoot full auto, the die LTR. Hands down, fastest hopper you want to go with. It's going to be durable too in the woods. You're running around getting roughed up. Definitely check out the LTR.
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]]>The issue with this, yes, you've already done all the pod, like packing out the pods and stuff in the morning, so you don't have to worry about later.
That's great. Problem with this is this paint, for example, I'm in Texas, I'm in Houston, so it's very humid here. This paint is going to soak up the humidity. It's going to become very squishy. So, next time you go practice, go ahead and grab the paint that you're shooting over after a couple of hours. If it's been out, grab it and see how squishy that paint ball is. What that means is the paint is not going to be fragile anymore or as fragile as it was before. It's going to hit your target. It's going to bounce off because it's going to be squishy like a gummy bear. And so compared to your brittle paint, if it's fresh out of a bag, it hasn't been hit by the humidity yet. It's going to be more fragile, more brittle. And so that way when you hit the target, hopefully breaks more often. So, what I would recommend next time you go out to go play, grab, let's say you carry four pods, five pods. You want to, that's going to be about two bags. You're going to open your first bag, pot up all your stuff, go shoot your gun.
Good to go. When you go shoot your gun empty out all that paint. Pour that paint into a pod. Remember, you want fresh paint in your loader out of a bag as much as possible. I'm not saying throw paint away or waste it, but any of that paint that's been sitting out for a while, put that in a pod. Again, this is like a back player tip. If you're going to go out and shoot, shoot off, break the next point, you don't want that ball stack that's been sitting basically in this stack here. Or for example, this is a die rotor R2. This holds about five to ten paint balls between the breach, the stack and what's already ready to go inside there. So, if that paint has been sitting there for an hour because I went to go take lunch and I just poured a pod on top of it, that paint is going to be so squishy, not very fragile. Also, I took a pod that's been sitting there for two hours, I poured in here. You're probably not going to shoot anybody off break unless you hit them in a really hard spot or you're shooting really good paint.
Or let's say it's cold outside, you don't have to deal with humidity at all and you don't have to worry about this issue at all. I would say most players though, even as it just heats up, maybe if there isn't very much humidity, as it gets hotter outside, you notice the paint does get a little bit softer. It just naturally does that over time. And this is being pretty nerdy as far as the knowledge of a paintball and the way it works. But this is I think if you want to get more kills off break, especially at practice, practice how you play, all of these same principles that are going over right now are going to follow the same for your tournament. So, when you're playing your next tournament, follow the same rules to guarantee you have better luck. So, back to what I would say, open your first bag, pour maybe 20, 30 paint balls in there. Go chrono your gun, good to go. Shoot out the rest of the paint. Make sure no paint's in your gun.
Take that next bag, go and pot up your pots, good to go. Good to go.
And then when you're done, let's say you're in charge of your own bag of paint. You're not splitting with a team, whatnot. Try to use that old paint first. So, instead of letting 14 bags with like 50, 100 paint balls in here, instead of letting that sit around, go and pour those into a pod. Get those out of there. Go Chrono with those. Get those out of the way quickly. When you're done, roll it up like this. Keep humidity out there. Put it in your box. As you can see right now, the sun's coming out. You also don't want to let the paint inside the box heat up too much. If you keep that in the shade or keep it out of direct sunlight, it's going to help even the bags that haven't been opened yet, it's going to help those stay even more fresh. Now, that you've got your pods potted up, your hopper is empty, you want to go grab the next freshest bag that you can. Let's say everybody's about to go play, you have an opportunity to open a new bag, open that brand new bag, pour that into your loader first, and then give it to your front guys and everybody else on there.
As you're playing, your pods are going to sit there.
Let's say you don't shoot a lot. Don't always pull from the left side. And if you do what I mean by that is the left side of your pack. Don't just pull from the left side of your pack and use them and let this right pack sit there for until three o'clock in the afternoon. And then you come down to a one on one or whatever the case is, and you've got to pull that pod last and it doesn't shoot straight or paint's broken inside of it, or it's real squishy and it bounces off your opponent. So, again, fresh paint is definitely the most important. Keep it out of the sun. And then again, before you go play the next point, let's say you shoot off break, you play good to go and you have, for example, I have about 10, 20 paintballs right here left. Go ahead and shoot those out and pour another fresh bag if you can, at least a newer bag the whole time. I see a lot of, even at the pro level, a lot of players will take a pod as they're walking on the field and pour it in their loader and I watch them when they shoot off break.
I don't know about you, but I would definitely want the best advantage possible when shooting off break. You may not get that opportunity again. You may shoot somebody that skims off the shoulder. That may be the difference between winning that point or winning that tournament or not because you were lazy or you didn't think about it or you just didn't know. But definitely recommend as a back player, even a front player. I mean, if a front player, you have to be a little more careful because you're worried about maybe being too brittle. So, when you go sliding in, it's broken in your loader. So, I know that's been an issue with some of our players or some of the players that I played with over the years at the same time. But as a back player, always fresh bag, keep them wrapped up. Please, next time you got to fill, don't open all your bags. Don't let them just sit there, unless they are too fragile. And we have another video talking about that, talks about why your paint ball is exploding in your barrel and because the paint is too fragile. We talk about that.
But for normal conditions, perfect day to day, keep your bags closed for as long as possible until you need them. Same for your tournaments. Keep the bags closed. You're pulling them out of the trailer from your local field. If it's air conditioning inside of there, or you go into a local tournament and it's kept inside of a building or at the national events, it's kept inside the trailer, don't lay those open. Open all the bags, let the humidity get to all of them, unless that is what you're trying to do. There's a situation for that, of course. But as far as that goes, I think that pretty much covers everything. Hopefully, it wasn't too confusing. But my whole point of this is don't just open all your bags of paint. Don't go to the field. Don't pot up all your paint right when you get in the morning. And if you have a bunch of paint, maybe try to keep it covered up. Keep it out of the shade. If you don't have a place to store it, keep it in the shade, out of the sun, and that way it can stay more fresh.
A lot of players use those caddies like the ball haulers, and that's great. But sometimes the bottom 200 paint balls out of that never get put into a pod or into a loader or they are getting put into a loader, but they've been sitting there for two hours. So, again, I know this is maybe real nerdy, maybe more technical. A lot of players like to think when they're just practicing or playing. But I guarantee you if you're a back player or you shoot off break and you're really trying to get more kills, definitely try to put more fresh paint into your gun or into your loader. Remember, you always have five to ten paint balls ready to go. So, as you turn and shoot, maybe that first ball was right on point. Maybe the second, the third or fourth or fifth, and you would have got that kill. But instead you balance the player because you just didn't think about that first attack that's been in there for two hours because you just took a lunch break. So, make sure you go ahead and get fresh paint when you’re out there and you go out there and shoot. So, if you have the opportunity, of course.
Other than that, I think I covered everything. If you have any technical questions about paint management, I enjoy talking about it and get real nerdy about it. The drop test, the accuracy test, should you bore size, all that stuff. I love talking about that. If you have any questions, make sure you comment below. I do shoot. This is the die UL-less barrel, and so I do shoot different bore sizes. I do bore size my paint. Again, even out here doing drills, I try to make sure I shoot all this paint and shoot my old pods first and go grab new stuff. That way if I do get a jump in some games, I've got fresh paint. It's not been sitting there for three or four hours between doing drills or whatever the case is when you're out there hanging out, being a staging area all-star. Cool deal.
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So, this is the second edition of the Hydra knee pad. The first edition was that blue model that you may have seen posted online at your local field. This is their new edition, I believe they call it their Black edition. This one has been revamped. They've taken all the criticism and all the feedback from the local players and put it into this knee pad. So, this is a size extra large. I was just wearing them around the front of the store to make sure I knew what I wanted to talk about and whatnot. These are extremely comfortable. I've played in the older ones and everybody had the same complaint, it pinched you in the back. They've taken down the amount of material on the back of the knee pad. That way when you're squad or whatnot, it's not pinching the back of your leg. If you watched their promo video online, they actually slide on the block with these to show the durability. They take a razor blade to it. They take all kinds of crazy stuff just to prove that they've really put a lot of time and effort into the front of this knee pad to really make it more durable and hold up.
The only thing that I personally am not a big fan of, and this is because I'm getting a little older and I like to protect my knees, is I like a knee pad that has a little more on the side. So, that way if I fall over or I'm crawling and I hit the side of my knee on something, it protects it. But that's just my personal preference. For most players out there, they're only worried about the front strip, and this is extremely nice. It's going to be thick enough to protect you. Even if you're playing in the woods, what I love about them is how lightweight it is. So, if you're running through the woods or you're playing competition like NXLs or local speed ball type tournaments, they're going to be lightweight. They seem to breathe pretty well, so it's not like a really bad material that's not going to breathe at all. And with the lightweight, you don't feel like you're wearing knee pads. So, you can wear the jogger style pants. You can wear the GI sports race pants that are really thin as well and add on a light pair of knee pads, and you're not really going to be bogged down.
One of my biggest complaints about heavier type equipment or gear like clothing is when they get wet. Basically, it just weighs you down. Not only you're cold and wet usually, but you're going to stay wet all day long. But, now, it adds weight to you as well. So, with this lightweight knee pad, no matter if it gets wet or not, it's still going to stay pretty light compared to some of the other knee pads.
If you guys want to stop by and try on the Hydra knee pads, we do have them in stock at our store in Houston, or you can shop our website. There is a nice size chart on there, so make sure you take some extra time, measure your leg. That way you can get the accurate size. I'm about six foot, about 200 pounds, and this is a size extra large. These are the ones that I would wear. I can technically wear a large but they are a little bit tighter on me. But, technically, I am pretty much between sizes and both of them are extremely uncomfortable.
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Just to get started, again, this is going to be entry level for a tip and paintball gun or a Azodin paintball gun or a Spider paintball gun. Those are the top three probably most popular mechanical entry level paintball guns. At that level, most of them don't take batteries and they don't really have any issues running CO2. I'll cover that in a second.
It includes your 200 round basic copper, just a 200 round basic copper. No batteries, nothing at all. Holds 200 paint balls or 268 caliber paint balls. Also, if you're looking into the 50 caliber paint ball paintball guns, this package will not do good for you because this has a 68 caliber hopper.
They cannot be converted. So, standard hopper. We have a CO2 tank. This is20 out CO2 tank. That means like on your Cronus, your Tippmann gun, your spider paintball guns, you're going to get about 12 to 1,400 shots per air-fill. That's going to be about six or seven of these. Each one of these is about 200 rounds. The only downside with CO2 beyond if it's clean or better for your gun, whatnot, beyond any of that, if you cannot get this air tank filled because your paintball filled no longer feels CO2, you want to make sure you check that before you buy this package. CO2 is a liquid that turns into a gas and a lot of your paintball fields aren't filling it up anymore because they typically have to rent CO2 bottles and fill them up. It just takes longer. It's more of a pain. So, before you buy the CO2 package, the HK Army beginner package with CO2, you want to make sure that the paintball fields you're going to go to will fill up CO2 or the sporting goods company by you will fill up CO2. Because again, some of the bigger ones don't fill them up anymore.
So, check that out. But this is a great bottle. They're normally about $30. They do not come filled. So, you definitely need to get them filled up or have a place to get them filled once you make that purchase. And then, of course, the mask. There are cheaper mask out there, less expensive mask, but they're not going to be nearly as good. A lot of the Amazon packages that you'll see online, they come with the most the cheapest paintball mask out there, which is great. If you're looking for a super low budget, something that's just going to protect your face, not be comfortable at all, and it's probably going to fog up on you, then go with the Amazon package.
If you don't want to spend the least amount, but you don't want to spend a lot of money, definitely consider going with the H. K. Army H. S. T. L. Mask. We also have another mask called the JT Pro Shield we really like. But for this video we're just covering this package. This mask here is going to be a thermal lens, meaning it's not going to fog up on you like those rental mask will.
It has really nice foam here, so it's going to be very soft on your face. It's not going to rub your face raw when you're sweating and you're running around out there. It also comes with one of my favorite features, a top strap. If you're a younger player or if you're buying this for a smaller person, definitely this top strap really helps keep the mask on top of their head. While, of course, the back strap keeps it to their head. It's got a really long face here, face shields. It's going to protect you all the way down the bottom of your chin, all around the side of your ears. And if you actually go to our website, proedgepb.com, and type in HSTL, the letters HSTL, mask, this will come up. And we have videos talking about more in detail about the mask. You can check it out on there. But again, if you're going with a tip man, like an entry level paintball gun, this is going to be our HK Army starter package. There's a great add on package. If you're out there shopping for a gift for somebody, again, CO2 would be the only concern.
We're going to cover a different type of air as well to show you the advanced package here in a second. This is your HSTL or your HK Army beginner package with CO2. The other option we have is going to be your HK Army package with compressed air or high pressure air. The same entry level hopper, same thermal mask available in black, and then it's going to come with your compressed air. Compressed air is a better type of air. It doesn't fluctuate with the weather as much. It's cleaner for your paintball gun. We covered at the beginning with the CO2, CO2 is mainly for non-electronic paintball guns because there's a liquid in there, it can cause problems where your compressed air is going to be just air, no condensation, no liquid. This compressed air will work on mechanical guns and electronic guns. So, if you're wanting to skip the step of going with CO2 at the beginning and you want to just be certain that you can get it filled up, we definitely recommend to go with the compressed air tank because it's just going to be more popular to get it filled up at your local paintball fields.
Big sporting good companies like big stores and stuff like that, they do not fill up compressed air, but pretty much every paintball store, every paintball field in the country will fill up the compressed air on there.
One of the biggest differences is on a compressed air tank you actually have a gauge on the side where on your CO2 you do not. It's going to tell you how much air is left, how many shots and when you need to get it filled up. CO2 you cannot do that on a CO2 tank. Also, you're going to get about 800 shots out of this bottle compared to about 1,200 to 1,400 shots on this. So, you will get fewer shots. But there are a lot of benefits to this as far as it's easier to find a place to fill it up compared to your CO2 depending on where you live. So, again, if you're going to go with like an Azodin, like a Blitz or Empire Mini and Empire Axe, even your tip man guns, your Spider paintball guns like a Phoenix or electronic guns, even your mechanical guns, compressed air would be what we would definitely recommend.
So, it fits in your budget. This package should be, I believe, about $20 to $30 more than your CO2 package. So, not a huge difference. But if you want to be certain that everything you're purchasing is going to work well and be able to get filled up, we definitely go with the HK Army package, the advanced package, the one with the compressed air, the hopper, the compressed air tank, and the mask. One thing you can do is, of course, right now on the website we only have these available in black, but you can buy the HK Army 48,000 tank and other colors. Believe it or not, they make red, green, silver and black and blue, I believe, are the five colors they sell. You can go ahead and add the standard hopper to your cart. You can add the thermal HK Army mask to your cart and then you can go shop for which color air tank you want. That way it matches your gun and your setup better than, of course, just an all black one. So, that's pretty much it today. Again, you can check out more information about the HK Army.
Thermal mask. We have that on our website and our YouTube channel. Of course, we do have an overview video of all of the 43,000 tanks that we carry, especially the HK Army ones. You can see all the colors on our YouTube channel and on our website. If you guys have any questions at all, if you're getting started or you've tried out any of these items like the mask, for example, if you've tried this out and you like it or hate it, just go and leave us a comment below. Also, we really appreciate you guys watching our videos, sharing our videos. Don't forget to like our video if you found it helpful. Anytime you like it or you comment, it really shows YouTube that the video is helpful and that it helps show it to other players like yourself that might be looking for help and getting other information.
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Hey, YouTube. John here with Pro Edge Paintball. I am back today with another product review. Today, I'm going to cover the HSTL HK Army Goggle Cases.
So, HK has been releasing a lot of cases. 2020, 2019 have done a really good job. Like I said in other videos, they always bring a good style to it. I love the fact that they've come out with multiple colors in these. This is their entry-level goggles case. If you're looking for a goggles case just to protect your stuff, it's not going to have all the bells and whistles that their EXO goggles case has. This is going to do exactly what you want it to. I grabbed a pair of EVS and a pair of KLRs. I'm going to show you how they fit in there. We're just going to run down. Let's break one of these apart and see. Let's just go with the black, red, maybe.
Let's just go with black. Black or blue.
To start out, they have the standard carabiner on here. The EXO case, their higher end case, actually has a carry handle on that, so I like that a lot. But this is their simpler version. It's going to still do everything it needs to without all the fancy bells and whistles. So, it has a carabiner, so you can hang that in your backpack if you're going to travel with it or if you're going to and from the field. It does have two zippers in the front. They seem pretty heavy duty, very similar to the same one on the other one, but not as big. It opens up. It's got a nice soft material on the inside of it here. Not that big microfiber cloth that their EXO case has, but it's still going to protect it. It's got a pretty rigid build to it. I like that a lot. Let me grab this pair of Carolers... I'm sorry, a pair of EVS. Oh, it's got plenty of room in there. One thing I don't like about some cases is that they're too small. You can barely fit a normal size pair of goggles. I personally wear the EVS goggles. I have been for probably about three or four years now. I really like them, but they are a little bit bigger. I have bigger heads. They fit me really well. I also like how huge the lens is.
And so when you get a goggles case that is too small, you can't really put anything extra in there. So, you can maybe barely squeeze your goggles in there, which means that the lens is rubbing them outside of the case the entire time. Sometimes that's a pain if there's any dirt inside your case. But other than that, this looks like it's going to do everything you need it to. This looks like it's going to do a great job. So, it's got plenty of room. I love that this has ventilation on the outside here. I don't know if you can tell that or not. Maybe if I hold it up a little bit, you can see through it. What that means is that after a day of playing, when you're all sweaty, instead of going home and having to clean your goggles immediately or clean them at all, you can leave them in here and it's definitely going to dry out. This hopefully doesn't mild or anything like that, but this is going to allow the air to get to it. So, that way your goggles dry out maybe between Saturday and Sunday. Maybe if you got rained on, you forget about cleaning them or letting them sit out.
This goggles case is going to allow them to go and dry out. Let's go and zip it up. It's got a nice pocket here on the front. I like pockets. I like to be organized, especially when you're out the field. Everybody carries their phone with them to check their phone throughout the day. And this makes a really nice pocket you can just put on the table. You can put your keys, your phone, your wallet, whatever you want in one nice little place. It's really soft in here. So, it's actually softer, seems softer than the inside of the goggles parts. If you have a pair of sunglasses or something, you don't want to get scratched up. Everything on the inside of this pocket, there's nothing sharp on it. You could put your phone, your sunglasses, again, anything like that. And it's a large pocket. You can tell my entire hand fits in here. So, you can put your regs if you're traveling between events, microfiber cloths, anything like that is going to be able to fill up that room there. I like it a lot. Let's throw one. Let's throw a KLR just because it's an HK goggles case.
I throw an HK goggles in one of these bad boys. I like the red. Clearly, you can tell Pro Ridge is all red. That's all me on that one. So, you can see how that goggles case just swallow the KLR. So your I4, if you have an I4 goggles, this is going to fit perfectly fine. I-5 is a little bit larger than the I-4. This case is going to be able to fit it. The virtue goggles may be the virtue with the longer face, the extend, the extend, any of those, it should fit perfectly fine. So, the pro-filer, the grill, it looks like it should be able to fit any of these in here. And of course, if you want to throw micro fibers in here, extra room, you've got that too. So, clearly the pocket is going to be huge. But yeah, these are available on our website, proedgepb.com. We just launched a new website this year, so be sure to check it out. Thank you guys for watching our videos. You guys have been extremely supportive. If you really want to help us grow, go ahead and take a second and like this video if you think I did a decent job.
If you like product review videos, if you like tech videos, we do weekly tech videos every Tuesday, and it shows you how to install, how to clean, stuff like that. But yeah, other than that, I think we've covered pretty much everything. I'm a fan of the HK Goggle cases or the cases in general. I think they're doing a great job. We're bringing them in here at Proedgepb.com Of course, we are picky about what we carry. If you guys have any questions, reach out to us on social media. You can comment below. We do have a live chat feature on our website. I'm responsible for all of those.
So, all the social media, all the emails for John@Proedgepaintball.com or help@Proedgepaintball.com, I reply to all that. So, any questions you guys ever need, I'm always there to answer your questions.
So, I think we covered everything. So, thank you guys so much for watching. Again, we'll see you guys next time.
]]>Hey, everyone. John Jackson here at Pro Edge Paintball. Today, I've got the brand new Planet Eclipse GX2 gravel backpack. I'm going to give you a quick little overview and tell you what I think. Let's jump on in.
So, the Planet Eclipse GX2 gravel backpack is available in seven different colors and retails for $89.95. So, you have your fighter dark sub-zero, you have your fighter dark revolution, you have an OG color, their HDE Earth, you have another one of their original colors, the Grit. You have their fighter dark poison. You also have their fighter dark midnight. And you have your fighter dark Hays. So, some of the cool features on the GX2 backpack that you notice first, of course, are the outside straps here. So, you can strap their gun bag on the outside of it or even your full setup, you can strap it there. Each side has Molle webbing on the side of it, so you can put any of your attachments on the side. It also has a nice little pocket here on this side here. You can put a small water bottle or your keys, your phone, anything like that would slide in. You have a spot for a patch. It's disguised here. So, you could also put a team patch if you wanted to or any of your other favorite patches. The other side also has a small little pocket, same size for about a phone or keys, something like that. It's got nice, heavy duty padding on the back here. So, if you're carrying a pretty heavy backpack, you've got a ton of padding and protection and a stiffened back here.
So, it's reinforced and it's not going to dig into your back when you're carrying it. Here on the top of the bag, you actually have a microfiber line pocket. So, this is great for your phone or your sunglasses, so that way they don't get scratched up. And the most outside pocket, open it up, got nice see-through mesh pockets on here. I'm a big fan of these because I love being able to see what's inside the pocket. Otherwise you might lose it the next time you try to dig in your backpack and clean it out. So, it's got two nice pockets inside of here. This is also very stiff and protected. So, if you have something that's important inside of here, like even your paintball gun, you're going to slide into this outside pocket, this is going to get damaged very easily because it's like a reinforced, stiff, outer shell type feel to it.
The main pocket here offers double zippers and opens all the way up. This is one of my favorite parts about this because you can really get into your bag. So, when you're packing it full, you can really load it up. And also when you get to the field, you go to the table, you can open it up and get to all your stuff instead of trying to have to try to dig into a backpack that doesn't, of course, open all the way. Another nice large mesh pocket inside of here, nice heavy new zip. So, this has a nice padded pocket for a laptop, something like that. Nice padded pocket. It also has a Velcro here and it has an internal zip to hold anything else you want to hold. Kind of a small zip, only about four inches deep.
But again, you want to put your wallet in there, you're worried about somebody taking it while you're out the field, you can throw it in something like that. What you see inside of here is actually the expandable part of the bottom of the bag. This is probably the, for a player that really wants to use it as a full gear bag. This is a pretty cool idea. Otherwise, it just presses out of the way. So, on the bottom of the bag here, it's got double zippers. You open up the entire bottom of the bag here and you can pull everything out. It's got a nice handle at the bottom. So, you can really increase the size of your backpack probably by, I don't know, 30%, 40%, 50%, a pretty large amount compared to the full size of the bag. You can almost double the whole it looks like storage space in the bottom of it.
So, this is great for, let's say, when you head to the field, you're organized at the end of the field, you just hurry up and throw all your stuff in your bag. You can throw it all here in the bottom. That way it expands out and you can hold a ton of gear in this. If you didn't want to expand the bottom of it, this does give you another option for another compartment down here. So, let's say you want to throw your dirty paintball pants or dirty cleats in the bottom here and not get the rest of your stuff really dirty.
You can just throw it here on the bottom, zip it up, and you're good to go. That way it doesn't get mud and dirt all throughout all of your other gear. Of course, these bags are available on our website, proedgepaintball.com. We have all the colors in stock, along with the larger gear bags with the matching colors. If you've ever used this bag, go and comment below. Let me know what you think about it. If you've already picked one up or if you have some of their older backpacks, or if you even have a different backpack that you really like, give me a shout out below.
Let me know what you think. I really like to hear from everybody because it gives me good insight on which gear bags are good, which bags are great, which ones you like, which one features you hate. If you enjoy this video at all, if you found it helpful, please go ahead and like the video. That helps our video show up to other players like yourself and other players that might be looking for a new backpack, new gear bag, something like that. Of course, if you like weekly YouTube videos about paintball, go and subscribe to our YouTube channel where I do at least 2-3 videos every single week on anything paintball related. Cool deal. If you guys have any questions, like I said, comment below. Otherwise, thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you next time.
Hey, guys. John here with Pro Edge Paintball and professional paintball team AC Dallas.
This is Matt, Fuzzy Jackson.
Fuzzy Jackson, my little brother here, also plays for Pro Edge Paintball team AC Dallas. Team AC Dallas. Ac Dallas. His car got a little crazy in front of us.
Sorry. We're doing the whole carpool, karaoke, risk and drive and stuff like that.
All right. So, if you guys don't know a little bit about us, we're doing a... We just started a little video YouTube channel-ish, what do you want to call it? Station Monday afternoon Pro talk to Jackson Brothers. Sorry, man. And so what we're trying to do is trying to bring you some good quality videos to help the newer players get into and learn more about competitive paintball. I've been posting a little bit on my social media, asking for people to reach out and send us questions. Today, we've got three more questions to answer, and they're general paintball questions about us and how we got started. If you haven't watched one of our videos before, thank you for watching. A little bit about us. We've been playing paintball for about 20 years now. We have been playing professional paintball for about five years now. We've played on Team VCK, and we've been with AC Dallas out of Dallas, Texas for the last four or five years. We've been, like I said, we started playing paintball in 1998 when we were super young and now we're playing and we have traveled all over the place there.
We've been to France, probably the coolest place to play in France and London. I had an opportunity to play there and we travel the world and this is what we do all the time. Enough about us. Before we get started on the questions, one thing we say every video is make sure if you guys have any questions about getting into tournament paintball, getting into paintball in general, let's say you've never played before and you're curious and you found our channel, go ahead and comment below. Comment below. Send us a message. Any paintball general questions, we'll make sure that way we put them into our next videos.
If you're not a newer player and you're looking for more of an advanced question, like tournament-type stuff, comment below as well. I say this, we're going to get there. This is the early episodes, the early stages of this. We're getting going in a sense. I think.
A little background information on that.
Background information, starting it, and then we're going to progress and go from there. Then we'll get into just I say we literally just joke in Q&A's and jump all over the place just with specific questions.
Last week, if you're curious, last week's questions were, How do we get into paintball? And what style do we grow up playing and how do we afford to play? So, if you want to look on our channel for last week's video, maybe I'll put a link below. And that way you can check it out and then you get to learn a little more about us and check it out. So, cool deal.
Let's get started. This week's video, our first question is going to be, Do you recommend working at a paintball field? What are the benefits? These are questions that some people have actually messaged me. Do you recommend working at a paintball field and what are the benefits to it?
We talked about this a little bit in the first video. It is exactly what actually John and I did to really get into it and be able to afford it when we were young. Short answer, absolutely, I would recommend it because sometimes say you're 16, it's tough to get certain jobs, certain places. For me personally, it doesn't exactly sound exciting to go work at McDonald's or Table Bell or bagging groceries, something like that.
How about paintball field?
A paintball field is a little bit more cool, I think. A little bit more enjoyable, I would say, if you're into paintball. You're around paintball people. You're around people that are playing paintball. Around people that are learning about paintball. All of it just is way more fun. And the benefit side of it can go pretty far, realistically.
I mean, the best thing is a discount. If you get employed discounts pretty much no matter where you work, if you've had jobs before. And so if you're trying to afford to play paintball and your parents are like, oh, this is really expensive, go check out your local field. There's some things that I'm going to go into later on this, but one of the biggest things is you get the discounts out and you learn get to meet the community. You get to meet other players. If you're an only child, not every day people just walk in your life that also do the same thing you do. So, get out, meet great, you stay active, you're walking around the paintball field and maybe it turns into more down the road.
You might find some guys that are also in similar situations like some other kids. If you're a kid, you're a guy, you're a little bit older, whatever it may be, you might find some other people that are in similar situations trying to get into the sport, trying to get into the competition-
Or just- -
Or just play paintball. You don't necessarily have to be a competitive player to be someone that works on a field. You can just enjoy playing paintball. And the pay with the job, of course, and then the discounts that you're going to get and then the community like John is talking about it can be something that is extremely awesome just in your life as a whole. I know there's a lot of people in Houston that it's a local field. They do a bunch of scenarios and things like that. A lot of the guys now used to play competitions, but they don't need more. But it's like a side gig that they do on the weekends that work Saturday and work a Saturday here and there, get some discounts, and they'll play a scenario with all the employees. So, it's like a big group of friends that also work together.
One thing we started in Houston a couple of years ago is called the Houston paintball club. And the whole premise. The whole idea was at my store we have customers come in. I was like, hey, man, I just moved to town. I don't know anybody to play. We're like, oh, cool. Good luck. We're going to send them on their way. Next week another guy comes and you're like, Oh, man, I should have hooked them up. So, we started a Houston paintball club. It's a Facebook page or if you're in Houston or in Texas and you're interested in playing in Houston, it's super cool because people... It's natural. We didn't mean it this way, but the idea was to bring local players together. So, we used to run events that we we scheduled, we brought them together. I was like, look, you got a girlfriend that wants to play for the first time. We controlled the environment. It was a safe environment. Make sure people weren't going to get just blown off the field. The tournament guys noted new to turn it down and it really was to bring the community together. When you go look at work at your local field, it's the same thing. You meet a group of people and now you have more multiple people. Everybody knows that you're not going to go play by yourself usually. So, you get this opportunity to meet other people, at least in the local area, probably live close to you, and you can go play. I'm going to go into the next question and then we're going to touch back on the benefits of working on a paywall field. Question number two, how do we get into tournament play? Also, how do we get into tournament play and how do you get into tournament play? I guess we can do that. I'll let First start off. How do we get into tournaments and whatnot?
The field that I worked at at the time used to do these little local three-mans. By working there, by just being there, basically, I happened to just stumble on to one. I worked the same day that day when it happened, or I was going to work the same day when it happened, and we found out about it. John and I talked about it and we said, Well, we should actually try to watch this and see what this thing is about. I ended up not taking the day off or just not working whatever it was to go watch this tournament. And we discovered basically this idea of paintball by just being there and watching it, and it made us have this desire to do it. And by that, I think John actually put an ad in to-
Oh, yeah. We always played competitive sports too. In high school, I think you ran track, played football. I played football, played soccer.
Every sport I possibly could. I played football.
And did a little bit of track and stuff like that. So, we're already competitive. And so it was a three man tournament series just to give you a heads up. And so we were like, man, we got into the super sweet. And so there used to be a magazine out called Action Pursue Games APG. And so we put a little ad in there. I put an ad in there. It was looking for other players.
Looking for third.
Looking for third paintball player must shoot a spider like we do. We got some really weird adult phone calls back then and it's terrified me. I didn't know better now we didn't have the internet and I still had landlines and cords on the phone and stuff at home with no cell phones. Anyways, we found one of our best buddies that we still know today. Freaking, what's that? -happened to 20 years later?
Oh, yeah, 20 years. It's two years.
It's two years after mine, which is two days after mine.
It was just crazy.
20 years, still friends with him. He still plays occasionally. He happened to live like 45 minutes or so away from us. We met him at a paintball field, played probably just some random day. I don't remember when we picked up. He had a sick gun, though. He wasn't a pro-price guy. He had a really nice gun. He had a really nice gun. We also picked up some other cat. I don't remember when it was. Brian was the first.
So, Brian White, his name. I got to give him credit there. Literally, still a good buddy of ours. Brian White, first one he came out, played paintball. We got along with him. It was awesome. And then I don't know who you're talking about Kyle?
Yeah, Kyle Tate. I actually- I think we're
Still friends with him on Facebook.
I ran into him through a different group of friends completely. It's actually really funny. Kyle Tate, we somehow got introduced to and then we had four people. John and I, Brian, and this guy named Kyle, and I think we probably played a little bit as a group in a three-on-three setting, right. We play the same format that the competition was supposed to be in because we wanted to try and play one of these competitions. We did that probably, I'd say, a handful of times or something like that. Then one of the tournaments was going to come back around. I don't remember how we paid for it or whatever. I don't remember any of this. But somehow we scrounge up enough money and we registered to play this competition and basically just jumped into it head first. Other than watching the one competition didn't have a clue really what we were getting ourselves into.
We had probably been playing paintball in general for probably about I think it was two or three years. I think that was like-
Two years?
I was 15-ish I think we played the first one. 2000, I think is when it was. So, yeah, we just played our first tournament and I think we got second to last.
I didn't even play the first. I think we had eight Dueling games.
Oh, Kyle shot an angel.
Yeah, Kyle shot an angel. Sick gun, by the way. So, Brian and Kyle had very nice guns at the time. John and I not so much.
They were our winger.
I didn't even play. First game with the competition that I think we watched, I think I was only 12 or 13. I was pretty young. I watched it and everyone was shooting so fast and I was terrified. I'm not even kidding. No, just write that.
Not even kidding. Fuzzy, Matt, Fuzzy Jackson, Golden Barrel winner, NXL, kill count leader of whatever. Look, he's even wearing a shirt. We promised you we didn't plan this. This is this top gun award winner shirt. He said he was scared to play paintball.
100%- Don't feel bad. -terrified to get on the same field with these guys shooting so fast with these fancy guns and all this stuff. I think I sat on the first five games out of eight or something like that. And this Kyle guy that we thought was going to be awesome because he had all this awesome equipment. This is a segue. I've talked to him about this. He's fine. It was awful. It was just awful.
You've talked to him about this?
Yeah, I've talked to him about this. I'm watching him play and I don't remember. I think you guys lost all five games. I think you guys lost all five games. John at one point looks to me. He's like, Man, do you really just not want to play? I'm scared, blah, blah, blah. At some point, I literally just said, Sure, let's just do it. Let me just jump in and play. And then jumped in and literally played a game. I don't remember if we won or not, even if I shot a person or anything like that, but played the last three competitive games at that tournament, we might have won one. I don't know.
I don't think we got third to last or something like that.
And when I played it, got hooked instantly with the competition side of it. Different from playing in the woods. But ultimately, to answer the question, how did we get into it?
Part one of the question is how do we get into it? Part two, how do you get in to turn up a paintball? I'll give you a quick answer.
Just jump in. That's my way of saying it. It goes back to the …
First question about being part of the community. You end up being learning with people, you realistically, you have to just meet and greet. You can't rush it. You can't just go into it. Everybody knows if you've ever tried doing anything fun with a group of people, you got to have a group of people. You got to know them. So, how do you get to turn up to paintball? Check out your local Facebook pages. Most regions throughout the country, for example, we have Houston Texas paintball series. We have Houston paintball club. For sure, I know for certain, multiple teams have been formed because of the Houston paintball club. People that want to go play recreationally together and wanted to try something different. You're like, hey, I can see you every weekend go to a paintball field. What's up? And John, let's go play paintball. And you get into it and you get started. So, if your local area doesn't have that, maybe you're the guy, you're the girl to start it. You know what I mean? Just go ahead and create that page. If you can't find other local players to play, what we did, honestly, we started our own team to answer your question, how we get we started our own team. We say, hey, we got two. We only need one more technique to go play. And we've always that's the way we did it. I think we tried out for one team first.
That was way later, though.
No, right when we started, we tried for one team and decided we're going to start our own because we're going to go play with some local paintball players. And we're like, no. Anyway… So, I'm saying start your own Facebook page if you don't know, if there's nobody in your group or in your area playing at the time. If there's a paintball field nearby, that means people are looking to play paintball. And if not, then you've got to be maybe that ambassador and that positive grow model and just bring people together on that one and realistically go back to our first question of, should you work in a paintball field? The answer is yes. If you enjoy it, you love it like we did when we first started and we still do, get out there. The only way you're and it's going to be awkward. I know a lot of you guys are just on the Internet liking girls, Instagram pictures and stuff or whatever, or TikTok. You're going to have to talk to people face to face and get to know them. Just say hi. Just say, hey, what's up? You see them all the time? Introduce yourself. Paintball communities across the world are extremely friendly.
You already have something in common with them if you're at the paintball field, right. You're already somewhat similar in the sense of you have this mutual agreement that you both enjoy paintball. So, you have a common ground right there. Most of the time, people in paintball are very friendly, like John's saying. And you use the resources around you like John's saying. The paintball field and Facebook, Instagram, everything nowadays is so much more connected now, right. We didn't have any of that. We were forced to go to the field and talk to people and find people or use this magazine to put an ad in to try to find players because forums didn't exist at the time. Facebook didn't exist at the time. Use the resource that you have. And I say this too right now John and I are driving home from practice right now and it's a three-hour drive. Don't get me wrong. We're at a different level of competitiveness than what we're talking about just starting out. But, say you have two fields that are both within an hour of you, one's 20 minutes.
That's a good point.
One's 50 minutes.
I like that.
If the 50 minute one has competitions and that's what you want to do, maybe you have to try to convince your parents, Hey, mom.
Maybe even once a month. Once every couple of months.
Go check it out. This field is just better for all of these reasons. This 20 minute drive field is only going to be for fun in the woods or whatever it may be. But, you may have to take that extra leap and sacrifice a little bit more time to get there. Like John said, maybe not be able to go as often because your parents don't want to drive you if you're young. And so this goes back to our third question.
I think you did this on purpose.
I had the accident, but it worked.
The question was how to convince your parents. We'll do two answers on this one, two questions. How to convince your parents to work at a paintball field and how to convince your parents to let you play competitive tournament paintball. And just a brief thing on the paintball. I think people are mainly worried about the tournament side, how to get a tournament. I'll do the paintball field one first. My favorite thing about working in a paintball field is on the weekends. Your parents don't want you to work during the week, work late. They want you to home by 9:00, eat dinner, study, do your stuff.
Focus on your school, get an education. Be smart.
All that good stuff. But, work on Saturdays. Maybe work on Sundays if you don't go to Church. But, if you do, you can work on Saturdays. Still have a little bit income. Still get the discounts to the local field, still meet your community. Plenty of sleep on Sunday. It teaches you the responsibility. You get the discounts and you get paid and it doesn't interfere with your normal life of school and education and maybe school sports-
Family time or whatever it may be.
And paintball fields are they are usually only twice a week. So, they're pretty open. They understand that you have to work part time and stuff and it's very friendly and it's not dangerous. It's outdoors, which I know all the parents want to -
Get your kids off video games.
Get your kids off video games, want to get you outside, all that stuff. So it's a good workout. It's great. It really is. You've already learned all the responsibilities. And realistically, I'm not going to say it's not hard because it's hot.
Are we in Texas? It's hot in Texas.
It could be cold with it. You know what I mean? I'm just saying it's miserable, but it teaches you all of that. And it's not a terrible job by any means. You get to watch people play paintball and if you're just not a cold hearted person, it's cool to see other people have a good time. And if you get to be that person to help meet them and help that birthday party kid play for his first time because you remember how excited you are. Anyways, all of this to convince your parents, there's so many benefits. The main one, though, is it's on the weekends, it's out of the way, good opportunity, good scheduling. And so over to the discount. So, over to the how to convince your parents to play tournaments. It teaches you.
There's so many life lessons that we've learned, I've learned, and I feel like other paintball people that have played for any amount of years can attest to winning and losing in general is something that paintball competitions just force upon you. You're not going to win every game. Every time you get shot, technically, it's a little loss, and it's adding a little character to you because you get to learn how you handle it. I say this, I watch a lot of sports I always talk about this, I use a lot of analogies. It's very similar to other sports in the sense of it teaches you all of these responsibilities, a lot of all of these-
Character building.
-Character building things that all these are going to teach you. It's just a different sport in a sense. It's not some crazy different thing. The easiest way that I look at it is it's just another sport. Unfortunately, no, it's not NFL. It's not NHL, right. But it's very similar in what it's going to teach you as a person and the experience that you're going to learn, the community that you're going to be a part of. I don't really know of very… I say this very few stories I've ever heard of a bad paintball communities anywhere across the world.
To try to go back to the question, how to convince your parents, you meet more people, you're outdoors, it's teaching you, it's building your character, you get to be active. You're making friends on that and they go, Okay, well, hey, it's really expensive. Okay, well, I work at the local paintball field. I raise my money on it. I'll do fundraisers, I wash the dishes, I'll do chores. I know a lot of people out there these days seem to be very open about being anti-my gun. And I respect your opinion on all of that. Very rarely and I shouldn't say this out loud, very rarely has a paintball gun ever physically harmed somebody unless it was intended to or is a complete absolute, disastrous accident.
The joke used to be many, many years ago, we used to talk about it through the sport is that it was one of the safest sports ever.
It still statistically is apparently.
Yes, somewhere someone did some type of comparison that it was safer than walking down a golf course and getting hit with a golf ball. Because the biggest injury in paintball is going to be an ankle injury or a knee injury which happens because you slide.
Which happens literally anywhere.
Yeah. It's safe-wise. And if you compare a... We all grew up being... We're in Texas, so we grew up playing football, right.
Texas football.
Texas football is just insane here, right. If you're not giving it your all, you're not even playing, right. Playing football in Texas compared to playing paintball, our mom was like, Yep, I'm down. Let's do it. 100%. I went to the hospital once because I had this chest spasm while I was playing football. John fractured his vertebrae playing football and could have been paralyzed from the waist down, right. I can't say it's never going to happen in paintball, but if that happened in paintball, pretty sure you'd be the first.
Yeah. So, it's safe. All of these good things. Like I said, the community, our community in Texas has been great. Hopefully, your community in your area again, I've never really had anybody. So, if your parents and you're watching it out there and you're watching this, thank you for watching and letting your kids at least get into paintball. But give them a chance. Straight up. Give them a chance to go meet the community. Go sit out there. There'll be some characters that you're not going to approve of, but that's going to be literally in the grocery store when you go buy groceries tomorrow. So, I'm just saying let them have a chance. Go play, meet some new people. My mother used to go take a book to the paintball field. Now, you'll have Wi-Fi and stuff. We didn't have. Mom would go read a book back in the day and hang out and make sure we didn't get in trouble. And people were super friendly. There are birthday parties there having a good time. I'd say how bad could it be, but how bad could it be? How bad could it be. So, to convince your parents, let them watch this video, the second half of this video.
And just make sure they know that like, hey, you just want to try it. You're going to be safe. Of course, you have to be responsible. You have to show them that you can be responsible with owning a paintball gun, owning the equipment. You're not shooting in the house. You're not doing all the stupid stuff that people are doing. You're not driving down the road with your boys and shooting street signs. Call out to all you people that do that.
Plenty of movies display paintball in this negative ways. And most I would say the competitive community generally does not do any of that. There are going to be your people. I will put this in your mouth. Which is always going to be. If you're that.
Person that's out there shooting street signs, you make us all look bad. Create a bad name for us. I know you think it's funny, and it's real hard not to tell friends of ours that have told us, Oh, man, I shot up this car dealership.
Brand new cars.
Come on, man. Like we're just, literally, asking for somebody to say, You can't do paintball stuff anymore. I'm just saying, be responsible, save your own be responsible, follow through. Show them that it's outdoors, show them you can enjoy it and show them some videos. Don't show them nothing against the HK Army, but don't show them all.
The cussing videos. The old HK videos.
The old HK..
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Somewhere.
Somewhere. Help them get into paintball and go play and join up with the other guy that's watching this video, a girl that's watching this video to go start their own paintball team and be the next famous pro paintball team in 10 years or whatever the case is.
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This is episode two, okay, guys.
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]]>Hey, guys. John here with Pro Edge Paintball. I am back today and have the new Colored HK 48 3,000 aluminum bottles.
So, HK has been doing a really good job of releasing a ton of new products. And of course, their style has always been really good. They've been around for probably 20 years growing up through the sports, they've always had a good sense of style, and I think that's really what set them aside from some of the other brands. So, even down to your entry level, let's say, beginner type player aluminum bottle, this is your compressed air bottle that's going to be a little bit heavier than your carbon fiber bottles, but of course, at a fraction of the price. We are missing one color today, but they have a really cool looking silver gray color tank. So, we should have those back in anytime. We do carry all of these, of course, on our website, proedgepb.com. But we just want to cover today, show you the different colors. Of course, you have your red, your blue, your olive or your green, and your solid black. The regulator on this bottle, I like a lot. A lot of your entry-level bottles you can't rebuild.
They're not easily serviceable. This has mostly standard o-wings on the inside of it. So if you're a newer player, all that means is that you can go to a local field or a local store if they'd like to work on the equipment, and they should be able to rebuild the inside of it and service the inside if you have problems. So, that's a huge benefit to me because you're going to have this bottle for a while. Most players play six months to a year with their entry-level bottle and then they upgrade. So, you always want to keep it as a backup, but it's going to do everything you need it to. So, if you're shooting like a mini or a blitz or even an entry-level tip and gun and you want to go with compressed there, this bottle here is going to be a great option for you to go with. These are a little bit heavier. So, what's nice about that is that most of the weight is going to be on your shoulder when you're holding it. But unless you're just carrying your gun around all day long, really not going to notice the weight too much.
But, if you're a smaller person, you may want to consider to go with a carbon fiber bottle instead of the heavier aluminum bottles, but it does increase your price. One of the things to point out is the gauge. I do like it's an all black gauge, easy to read, easy to see how much pressure you have in there. These are 3,000 PSI bottles. What that means is that the bottle is going to hold up to 3,000 PSI. One question we get a lot is, well, my gauge says five on it, you guys didn't fill it up all the way. So, I just want to make sure I let you guys know if you're in the market for a new compressed air tank and you're used to using CO2, it doesn't have the gauge, most gauges go up to five. That's just a show. It's just a general basic gauge that goes on all bottles. But the bottle only fills up to 3,000. So if you go to your local field or local store and they only fill up to three, that's perfectly fine. You want to go based off the number that's on the bottle here.
Like I said, we do have these on our website. If you guys have any questions, make sure you stop by Proedgepaintball.com or you can comment below. If you don't mind, take a second to like this video if you found it helpful. And of course, we are doing weekly videos. So, if you want to subscribe to our channel, that'd be awesome too. Other than that, I think we pretty much covered everything. If you guys have any questions, comment below. Otherwise, thank you for watching and we'll see you next time.
Hey, guys. John here with Pro Edge Paintball. I've got another weekly video for you. We get a lot of questions, and I mean, a lot of questions. And this is something we deal with a lot in the stores as well. A customer comes in, they say, I want a new compressed air bottle. I want a new air tank, but I don't know what size to get. And especially if you're shopping online, I understand that this is completely impossible for you to know without watching 27 videos and having a little bit of experience of what size your buddies have or what size you've tried before. So, today's video, I'm going to basically try to go over the most popular sizes on a couple of the very popular guns that are out there. And that way you get an idea based on how tall I am, if I'm similar height as you, which air tank would be the best for you, and at least give you a little more insight on what to watch out for when you are out there shopping and understand how we think when we try to help a customer get set up. So, just to get started, I have the two most popular brand air tanks out here.
I have the Ninja bottles and I have the Empire bottles. Empire doesn't make a ton of bottles, but I do have what they're call their 68 megalite. They do have a smaller 50 bottle that I did not grab out here today because it's almost identical to the Ninja 50. I've got Ninja, of course, all the way up to the 90 cubic inch, which is enormous, to the 77, their 68 and down to their 45 cubic inch style. So, just to give you a quick rundown, what I just said was a 90 cubic inch bottle means it's 90 cubic inches. So, I like to compare a 20-ounce Coke bottle compared to a two-liter Coke bottle. So, this would be like a two-liter Coke bottle. And this, of course, would be like a 20-ounce Coke bottle. They still both hold Coke. They just hold more or less of it. So, as far as comparing apples to apples and trying to understand what those numbers mean, that's probably one of the best ways, in my opinion, to understand that. I have the new Shocker Amp. So, this is a Shocker paintball, Shocker Amp. It's got a different frame on the back of it.
That's why I grabbed this. So the length of this one may feel a little bit different than a Planet of Clips gun or an Empire gun, so I wanted to grab that one. Then, of course, I have probably the most popular gun under $400, the Empire Mini-GS. If you have one of these, this is extremely popular, the way it fits and everything. I'm going to start with the Amp first and go over it. I'm almost six foot tall. So, with shoes, I'm six foot tall. That means your arms are a certain length. I play in the back of the field, so I shoot a little bit more paintballs when I'm playing. I typically would lean towards a little bit larger bottle. But more importantly, for most of you recreational players out there, air and efficiency really isn't an issue because when you go play paintball, you play on the left side of the field, you play your game, you play on the right side of the field, and you come back and you get free air. Most of your places, at least in Houston and Texas, have unlimited air. So, you don't need a giant bottle for playing recreationally unless you're just shooting that much paint every single game.
Typically, the size of the bottle is going to be about your comfort. How comfortable do you feel? How tight can you play? Is it too heavy for you? Stuff like that. I'm going to go ridiculous first to get started. I'm going to grab the amp and I'm going to go with the Ninja 90 cubic inch bottle. I think this is the largest. I think Gorilla Air makes a larger bottle, like a 114. But this is a pretty ridiculous, huge bottle. Just to give you some fundamentals, I don't know if you can tell from the video, but it looks ridiculous compared to the size of the gun. But all right, let's just start over real quick. I'll start with this, break it down. So, what I look for, there's a measurement, there's a joke online or a thing online. People say if you can take the air tank and put it in the bottom of your arm here, and I don't necessarily agree with that. Actually, I don't agree with that at all. Typically people can have longer arms, shorter arms. That's a pretty good rule of thumb to get started. But if you want to be as picky as I'm about to be, I don't think that's a good idea.
With this size, what we're going to do is going to put it in our shoulder here and point it at the camera so you can see. One good thing about the length of this is I'm able to tuck my arm completely underneath the bottle here. For example, when I come out to play, if I'm shooting at a flat area, I can come out and play and my arm is completely flush with the side of it instead of being out like this or something. But the downside with this is there's no way I can play close to my bunker with how long this is. You'd have to put it up like this. But for a taller person, let's say you're 6'3, 6'4, 6'5, I would definitely consider going with a 90 bottle because of the length of your arms would be a little more comfortable. So this here is a little uncomfortable for me just because of how far out I feel like I am like this. Here, good to go. So, that's a 90 right there. Again, that does not match up. Obviously, it's going to be too long, which I do like that.
Probably my favorite size bottle that I've ever used is probably a 77 from Ninja or an Empire 80. They don't make the 80 currently, but it is probably the one I'm using currently and I like it a lot. So, this is a Ninja '77. My guess, without actually putting this up to my arm before the video is this is probably my favorite size. So, again, it's pretty close. It's a little bit longer than my bend on my elbow here. Actually, I must feel a little too short. So, again, what's nice about this is the length of the bottle here, my arm isn't scrunched up like this to try to play. It's a very natural setting here and I can put it into my shoulder like this. And again, I'm pointing straight at you. You can see how my arm tucks right in. It's not sticking out like this or anything like that. So, Ninja '77, for somebody that's about six foot is probably a pretty good size.
And depending on your gun, of course, will really determine how many shots you're going to get out of the 77. I'm going to throw this on the mini real quick to see. Because each gun is made a little bit different as far as the way the frame is mounted to the angle, whatnot, really determines what bottle you go with. This is almost a little more comfortable on the mini. This actually is more comfortable on the mini of the 77, because it's a little further away from my face here where the amp I felt was a little closer here. But as I go through this, you'll notice sometimes the bottle can be too long, but the gun sticks back further. For example, on the amp, the back of it sticks a little closer to my goggles. But the tank might have felt a little too long at the same time. So, this one here feels pretty comfortable. Again, I could tuck my arm in right there. It is longer than my bend and my own arm, but it does feel pretty good. So, that's the 77. Again, about six foot tall. The 77 is probably going to be my go-to.
Let's go with the… This is the Empire Mega Light. So, this is our 68. I like the Empire bottle mainly because they're reliable, but also the price is significantly less than the Empire bottle. So, if you're getting started and you want a good budget air tank that has a good warranty on it, check out Empire paintball. Check out proedgepb.com and just search Mega Light. I think it's... Or click on Air Tanks, Empire Air Tanks to pull it up on you. Again, so this is almost the same length as that's 77, but because the way this is fit in the back of it, I think this is a much better fit. Again, my arm can tuck in there like that. You notice it's flush. The reason why I like that is me being real picky. But when you go to snapshot or shoot at somebody, instead of your arm sticking out like this, because the bottle is in the way on some of these, you'll see that, and my arm isn't scrunched up so my elbow wants to stick out, it naturally wants to sit right here and it's very comfortable. As I shoot, this would probably be my size for the 68.
If I wasn't worried about air efficiency and shooting a ton of paint, I do play competitively. I play in the back. I shoot anywhere from eight pods to 10 pods, depending on the type of format, I guess you could say we're playing. I have to have a bigger bottle and that way I can shoot more paint. So, you give up a little comfort for that. But as far as normal playing, I would say that the amp with the Empire 68, I'm going to throw the Ninja 68, it should be almost identical on there, would probably be my favorite. You put a little tank grip on the back of it, that way it doesn't slide off your arm. Boom, good to go.
Yeah, that's probably my favorite right there. Of course, it matches. Does it match? Yeah. All right. This is the white. This is a metallic Ninja 68. This is a light bottle, Ninja 68 Light, but it's our collab special edition. It actually has like a flake, like a metallic inside the bottle. So, it looks pretty cool. You might not be able to see on camera, but good to go. Okay, so that is a little bit… I want to compare the length of these.
I think this one's a little shorter because I can start feeling the gun pull closer to my face like this. Again, I love it. The arm sticks in, sits here, good to go. This would also work. I'm going to compare the lengths of these real quick. And the way I'm going to do that is I'm just going to stand them up. I don't know if you'll be able to see in the camera. But the 68 is maybe a quarter inch shorter than the Empire bottle. So, again, I'm being extremely picky. Now, that's probably not the bottle size itself, it's probably the regulator length. So, you can see on there the Empire regulator length. This part right here is the first thing I saw. It's definitely larger. This is a little bit longer. Again, six-foot tall. This would be the best size. If you're maybe 5'10, 5'9, maybe go with the 68 light, or at least a Ninja regulator, be a little bit different. It fits a little bit better on there.
All right, so let's go with the... This is the Ninja 50 Lite. I'm going to go with the mini. This is the bottle I recommend for a lot of newer players that are smaller or shorter or women that don't want a real heavy setup or younger players or guys that don't want a heavier setup, this is what we would recommend a lot because it is, of course, it's a lighter bottle.
Remember, like we said, you don't have to worry about air efficiency, really. All of these guns nowadays are extremely air efficient. You're going to be able to get on this size here, if I remember right, probably close to about seven to 800 shots out of one air fill. That means you get about four hopper fulls. Go play a game, shoot a hopper and a pod, and then go switch size. Go play a hopper and a pod and be able to fill it up, be good to go.
All right, so this is going to look ridiculous, but see how tight this is to my face and how my arm. This is not comfortable. If you're watching this video, just take your arm and stand there like this. It is not comfortable at all. And that's what this is going to put me into a game because of how small it's going to be. Whereas a shorter person, it may feel like it's a little longer like the longer ones do for me, something like that. So, if you want to play real tight, this would be a good little setup for you. You can play. Of course, it's going to be lighter, real compact.
The Empire also makes a version. It's a 48 cubic inch compared to the 50 like this one. It's going to be a little bit longer, just like we said with the other Empire versus Ninja. But as far as the weight goes and the size is going to be almost identical. But this is definitely smaller. This is great for the mini. I would definitely recommend that if you're looking for a small, compact setup. I'm going to throw it on the amp. If you're a smaller player again or you like a smaller, more compact setup. This is crazy tiny. The way this is designed here, it kicks. It feels like the gun is further back, but the bottle is more forward. So, it's even smaller. It's so tight here. I mean, my goggles would probably hit.
Yeah, my goggles would hit the back of that. So, unless you're just really looking for a small setup, I probably wouldn't recommend the 50 for the amp. But yeah, as you can see, my arm is pretty compact in there. Good to go. This is probably my favorite bottle. It's not as popular as it used to be. This is a 45 cubic inch.
So, a 45 cubic inch compared to a 50 cubic inch. But if you notice the length is different. Let me show you real quick. So, you're going to get a handful fewer shots out of the 45 cubic inch versus the 50 cubic inch, obviously, because that one, five cubic inches is smaller. But you notice the length is there. I love that because what happens is you can still go with a small compact bottle, but not be as compact and as uncomfortable in your arm. If you can see the difference, if you can go back between this clip of this video and the one I just did, you'll notice the other one was like this, and now this one is here. And I'm putting it the same part in my shoulder each time.
So, this is actually pretty comfortable for a smaller player. It's a little bit longer, so I'm able to get in there tight. I could play with this if I had to, where the other one I just would not feel comfortable at all. Again, put a little tank cover, a little tank butter, some grip tape—athletics tape something on the back, so it grips in on your shoulder, so it doesn't slide around.
But yeah, you could definitely play with this on the amp. I like this. I'm turning on the menu real quick. I'm going to do a little way difference so you can see the weight between each one of them. There we go. This is a bit longer. That's good. Arm is tucked in tight. Good to go. Good to go there.
Again, a little too short for me on this one. I think the amp almost felt a little better with this length, but I could definitely play with this if I had to. Good to go. What I was going to show you a second ago, let's see if I can get one of these to do it. Depending on how you're trying to hold your gun, sometimes the bottle will get in your way right here and make your hands stick out a little to the side like that. Depending on the bottle you're going with, this one doesn't really do it because I'm used to tucking my wrist straight down. But, if you're trying to hold it like that, what's going to happen is your wrist is going to stick out and so your elbow is going to stick out and so it's just going to be uncomfortable.
Again, a little bit longer bottle, it helps that wrist sit right into that spot right there and that way it's a little more tight. Naturally, it's more comfortable on that one.
That's not a quick breakdown, but that's my breakdown for it. Again, I wish I could create a little chart. If you're six foot to five, I go with the 77 or the 90, depending on what level of the spectrum you're on, how close you are to the top or the bottom. If you're five, let's say 5'10, 5'9 to 6 foot, you can go with your 68 Mega Light or your 68 Ninja Light bottle on that one. If you are shorter than that, let's say you're five foot to 5'5, you can definitely probably go with either one of the Ninja-50 or the Ninja-45-45. Again, efficiency on most of your guns really isn't going to be an issue. You're going to get 1,000 shots, 1,200 shots roughly off of the 68 bottles compared to, of course, more.
The 90 is going to give you the most, probably closer to 1,500 to 1,700 shot, depending on the type of gun. Some guns are just crazy efficient on that one. But yeah, let's do a weight comparison real quick. I do have a scale right here outside of the video frame. We're going to start with the Ninja 45, 45, 27.6 ounces. These all have, if you've done a little research, you notice there's a pro reg and a standard reg. These are all going to be the standard regulators. The least expensive option for both of them, for all of the bottles, actually.
Okay, let's go.
So, 27.6 ounces for the 40, sorry, for the 45. Twenty seven point six ounces for the 50. I mean, sorry, for the 45. Twenty-seven point six for the 45. Thirty point four ounces for the Ninja 50 Light. 35.4 ounces for the 68 light metallic bottle. What was that again? 35.5. This one I'm curious about the Mega Light versus the Light. We have 35.5. So, 35.5 for the Mega Light. 34.9 for the Ninja. 38, 34.9. Not even a full ounce. Not even a full ounce lighter is the 68.
The Empire bottle will be a little less expensive and it'll be a little bit lighter. Then, of course, you have the Ninja 77. This is an SL2 Ninja 77, 34.4. This is great, 34.4. I'm going to go back to the Empire 68. The Ninja 77 bottle is actually lighter than the Ninja 68 and the Empire bottle. So, this is saying now it's 35 ounces. Thirty-five. The 68 is going to be 35.4, but the 77 is 34.4, 34.5. If this one is in your budget, they are quite a bit more expensive, probably at least 50 to 75 dollars more expensive. If you want more shots, excuse me, if you want more shots with a lighter bottle and a little more comfortable if you're around that six foot, I would definitely recommend the Ninja 77. If again, six foot, six one, that's going to be your best fit and it's lighter. Of course, you are going to pay for the price because they're super light is what they call that.
All right. Okay, let's go. Ninja 77, 34.4 and then the 90. I don't even know what this would be. I have no idea. I can't even guess. 34.4, so 41.9, 41.8, depending on it's going back and forth, 41.8. Obviously, the biggest bottle is the heaviest.
Hopefully, that answers some of you guys' questions. Hopefully, this video isn't too long, too ridiculous. Hopefully, it made sense to everybody. If you do have specific questions about another brand bottle that we didn't cover or another type of gun, I wanted to cover two different guns that way different players out there that have experienced them, they have a little more to compare to. We're definitely trying to get better at our videos, make them more cater to you guys that are shopping online and for the players that are coming in the store, you're a little more prepared coming in. You have a little idea. Maybe this video helps you narrow it down to two bottles instead of seven bottles or something like that, or maybe even helps you choose what gun you want. If you guys have many questions, make sure to comment below.
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Hey, everyone. John here with Pro Edge Paintball. I am back with another weekly video. This video is going to be just to explain the difference between different types of paint and how they're affected by the weather. So, a lot of problems that we run into with paint issues, a lot of players, they'll play up north, they'll shoot an entry level gun. Let's say you purchase like a Azodin and Chaos—it's a very good example—or a Spider, Phoenix, or a Blitz 4, basically a mechanical entry level style gun, and all of a sudden the weather gets real cold. You go out to go play and the paint is just exploding out the end of your barrel. Literally, you're like, man, this is the worst paint I've ever shot. Pump the brakes. A lot of this has to do with stuff that a new player just would not know. It's nobody's fault. They just don't know, I guess, the science behind paintballs and whatnot. That's what this video is about, is to explain to newer players basically how the weather affects your paintball and your entry level paintball gun.
So, today, I have Empire Premium paintballs. This bag has been sitting in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. This pod has been sitting at room temperature, and the blue pod that's inside the box down here has been sitting outside. It's about 50-60 degrees outside. I want to show you just the differences real quick before everything levels off. This is room temperature paint balls. I don't know if you can see. We have three so far that have bound or… Here we go. This is pretty brittle paint as it is already. This is I'm about 6 foot tall. Okay, let's start over. Do bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, and bounce. That one broke. Four out of five bounce. We're going to go with the little bit colder paint. Broke, bounced, bounced, bounced, broke, broke. So, two out of five, bounced. This is hopefully the coldest paint. Let's see if we get the result we're thinking here. Let's start over. Broke, broke, broke, broke, broke, broke, broke. That couldn't have got any better for the video. The point we're making here is cold weather makes paintballs more fragile, which means an entry level paintball gun puts a lot of pressure behind the paintball to shoot it out into the gun. An analogy I like to use is imagine literally punching an egg.
If you're punching an egg with your fist, it's going to shatter everywhere. An entry level paintball gun is more like your fist hitting an egg on paint that's extremely brittle. It's going to break that paint balls down the barrel. It's not the gun's fault. It's not really the paint's fault. A lot has to do with the brittleness of paintballs. If you're a tournament player for paintball and your paint is bouncing, guess what?
A good idea is take your paint, literally pot it up, put in a cooler, chill it, make it colder. That because it makes it more fragile. If you're a newer paintball player, a newer paintball player typically say, if it's not making it on my gun, it's terrible paint. That's not necessarily the truth. For a competitive level professional paintball player, they want the most fragile paint they can shoot because when they hit a player, they don't want it to bounce off. They physically want it to break on that person. When we play competitions, what we want is we want something like this.
Break, break, break.
Oh, that one bounced a little bit. Break. We want it to just explode on impact because that way if we get that one shot on that player, I mean, almost every one of these is breaking.
We want it to explode. We want it to mark that player. But if you were a player that's using an inch-level paintball gun, you're going to want to go with a little bit harder paintballs. An inter-level paintball. The main way to know if your paintball gun is the problem or if the paint is the problem, if everybody at your field or a lot of people in the paintball field you're playing at are having the same problem but shooting different guns, the only thing that is consistent or the same between all of you is the type of paint walls you're using.
We have this issue happen in Texas. All of a sudden, it'll get really cold in Texas, but the fields are using summer tight paint or normal paint walls. All of a sudden, that paint becomes extremely fragile like an egg. What I was saying earlier about punching an egg, it's going to explode. But a higher end of paintball gun, let's say $400, $500 and above, it's using a pillow to push that paintball, meaning it's putting very less little pressure on it. It's very softly touching the paintball to shoot it out the end of the barrel, which means you're able to shoot a higher quality paintball or a more brittle type of paintball. Hopefully this video isn't too technical and I didn't want to go off on it too much. But if you are having problems with your paintball gun just exploding paint out the barrel, very rarely is it an actual paintball gun issue. It is typically a paint issue. The number one thing to do before you go to try to return your paintball gun to the online store you bought it from, first thing first, go try a different batch of paintballs.
Take a breather. I understand that can be extremely frustrating. Clean out the gun very well because as you can see, as thin as this is, any other debris that's in the way as that paintball is launching in the barrel is also going to cause it to explode. So, the paintballs are shooting at 200 miles an hour and are very, very thin shell. Anything that touches it all is going to help make it explode. Whereas your winter formula paint, it's made to handle the cold weather. Maybe the shell is a little bit thicker or it's not affected by the cold, and that's going to give it a harder, tougher shell. When it flies out your paintball gun, it doesn't explode. Do you guys have any questions about this? Again, if you're having your entry-level paintball guns, go try a different type of paint balls first. Maybe wait for it to warm up a little bit.
Also another tip, if it's cold outside, don't leave your paint balls on the picnic table with the paintball field. Put them in the car. Put them in a building. Put them somewhere. Put them in your bag. Don't open all the bags immediately and let the weather get to it and make them colder. You want to keep it warmer. If you're having problems, you definitely want to keep the paint warmer. On the reverse of that, if it's extremely hot outside, don't open all your pods and put out there because the humidity or the heat will make that paint soften up, which means when you shoot a target, it's going to be bouncing like a gummy ball, a gummy bear. What you want to do is you want to keep your paint a little bit colder in the car.
Hopefully, some of you guys found that useful. We're going to use this video a lot of times to share it with other people or customers that are having bad experiences and they don't understand because again, they may be new players. If you have any questions or if you've had this experience before, please comment below. Help other players understand that it may not be their paintball gun. Or if you've had a bad batch of paint, of course, it can be the paintballs on that one. As always, thank you so much for watching. If you know a friend that needs help with this or a newer players or any Facebook pages out there that need help learning something about this, maybe they're catered to newer players like your paintball clubs and whatnot, please share this video in there. This will really help people not have such frustrating weekends when they go out with their brand new gun and it doesn't shoot paintballs at all.
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Hey, everyone. John here with Pro Edge Paintball. Today, I have the brand new HK Army Exo loader case. This thing is sick. Loader case is not an original idea, of course, but I like their new design of it. I like the Sleek design. It seems to be a little bit bigger, so it should be able to handle pretty much a few more loaders than maybe the exalt one wasn't able to or maybe can hold inside more of what you need to take to the field. But, I do like the Sleek design, little rocket ship shape there. Of course, it does come with your carabiner. So, that way, if you need to hang it up on your backpack when you're at the field or you're at a tournament or anything like that and you want to pack it in your bag, it's pretty nice. Of course, it has there heavy duty zippers. I do like these a lot. We've never had an issue at the store. They look clean. And so it opens up like an alligator.
Kind of cool.
And let's see. I haven't put any loaders inside, but this is the new Spire 4. Of course, it's going to sit right inside there. It's got a little pocket inside that the feed necks that's inside.
Yeah, no problem.
Hold it, of course.
So, if you're picking up one of the new Spire 4 from us online, it definitely will hold the Spire 4. I'll throw the dye loader in here in a second too. But to show you the inside of it, it's got a removable floor, basically. I don't know how I feel about this because it doesn't Velcro in place, which realistically, it doesn't have to, I guess, but it just presses in place. And so it's nice. So, your loader is going to be on top of this anyways. So, you really don't need it to stay in place. But, I can see how it's going to fall out maybe, get in the mud. That could be frustrating. But, it does have a small pocket. So if you want to take an extra lid, anything like that, that piece goes in there. Your lid batteries, throw anything like that inside of it. Small little zipper. It's got a small place for, of course, I'll show you here, small place for extra batteries. Most, I think, loaders nowadays take a AAA or then you can do the in-charge on some of the virtual loaders and die loaders, so you don't need a battery pack anyway.
But, it works perfect there. Of course, the feed neck of the loader fits right here inside of it. So, pretty straightforward. It's definitely heavy duty. So, if you're worried about protecting your loader, this is definitely going to do the job. Let's check this out here.
Oh, yeah. So, you can see right there. Closes up plenty of room. You can feel that it does press against the top of the loader, which is nice. That means the loader is not going to just shake around inside of there. Of course, the zippers are really nice and just hang it like that. I like it a lot. Of course, HK has been killing it with the cases lately. We do carry them on our website, proedgepb.com. Also, if you're liking our videos lately or if you like what you see, make sure you take a second to go like our video down there at the bottom. If you like review videos and our weekly tech videos, make sure you go down there and subscribe to our channel. We're really trying to grow that channel.
So, if you guys have any questions about the case, we do have these online at proedgepb.com. Just search to the top EXO Case or Loader case. We have it in there.
So, other than that, I'm excited about it. Everybody that's got one so far seems to be happy with it. Like I said, the zippers are very durable. The case is very firm. It's not going to get crushed super easily. I like the design of it. It's almost harder to crush because it's the round shape there. But you have to fit in your bag fine or hang right on the back of it. Again, you want to pick up the HK Army EXO loader case? Check out proedgepb.com. Otherwise, thank you guys for watching.
]]>Hey, guys. John Jackson here with Pro Edge Paintball. Today, I'm going to talk about hydrotesting, how much should it cost, is it worth your money and your time to do it, and give you a little bit of insight on the basics
So, hydrotesting is the process of testing high pressure cylinders to make sure they're still safe for you to use for years to come. This is a compressed air bottle or a high pressure air bottle. This is an aluminum bottle. So, typically, if you're out there shopping for paintball air tanks, you're going to look for a 48 cubic inch, that's the size, 3,000 PSI. That's the total pressure that can be stored inside this bottle. This is the most popular size bottle, mainly because it's going to be running you about $50 to $60, depending on where you're buying from. And it's a low cost, entry level, all metal, durable air tank. So, something like this. This is a Ninja 77 cubic inch. So, that's just a physical size, 4,500 PSI. So again, that's how much pressure can be put into the bottle. So 3,000 PSI, 4,500. So, not only is this a larger bottle, but it also can hold more pressure. So, this bottle will be able to get more shots. It's going to be a lighter bottle because it is carbon fiber underneath the color here where this is aluminum. So it's going to be quite a bit different than weight.
So, hydrotesting, usually what will happen is you'll have an older bottle laying around the house or you're considering buying a paintball bottle used. The main thing you want to look for is does the bottle hold air and is it still in the hydrodate? The main concern here is the safety of using the bottle. So, for example, if your bottle is out of hydrodate, you don't really want to fill it up because you want to make sure it's tested first to make sure you're still safe to use. What you're going to look for are going to be two numbers, a weird symbol, and then two more numbers somewhere on the bottle. On an aluminum bottle, it's going to be across here on the top. On a carbon fiber bottle, it's going to be cut out like this. It'll be very clear. For example, this one is 07. It has a L with a C around it, so a weird symbol, and then the number 22.
So, 07 is the month that this tank was made, 22 is the year that the tank was made. So, 07 is the month that this tank was made, and 22 is the year that this tank was made. So, it's good for five years from there. So, 07 of 2027 will be when this bottle needs to be tested. So, the question is, is it worth you getting your bottle hydrotested? Typical price of a hydrotesting is going to be about $40. Yes, you can find a little lower and a little bit higher, but on average throughout the country, you'll find it for about $40. This bottle here, brand new, retails for about $50 on that one. So, you say, okay, well, it's actually cheaper for me to go ahead and get it tested than it is to buy a new bottle. Not so much in my opinion. So, I would usually recommend, in that case, to go ahead and purchase a new bottle, mainly because the regulator you're going to get on the new bottle has all fresh new o-wings on there and hopefully there's a warranty that comes with the bottle. Where your old bottle has been sitting around and no idea what conditions, the o-wings are worn out in there and you can need a new regulator as well.
Let's say you pay $40 to get it tested, then you go get your bottle aired up and it leaks everywhere. You're going to pay at least $10 to have it service cleaned or a new regulator. In that case, go and take your air tank, maybe take it to a recycle company, see if they're recycled for you. Go take it to your local paintball store. They should recycle it for you if they offer that. So, as far as your aluminum air tanks go, I would definitely recommend to purchase a new bottle for about $50 instead of paying the $40 to get them hydrotested. There are a few larger compressed air bottles that are aluminum. I still recommend to purchase a new one just because of all the unknowns that you don't know of. So, if you're shopping for a used bottle and you're looking at getting an aluminum one, definitely recommend to spend the extra money a little bit upfront and go ahead and purchase yourself a new aluminum compressed air tank. It's a different story when you're dealing with a carbon fiber bottle because a carbon fiber bottle is going to run you anywhere from $150-$300.
So, even if you were to pay the 40, $45 to get your bottle hydrotested and assuming it passes, which they don't always pass by the way, if it passes, you're only $40 into it instead of buying $150-$250 or even $300 compressed air tank. So, let's say you pay your $40 Hydrotest, but your regulator, for example, needs to be rebuilt. Even a brand new regulator is only going to be about $50-$60 in most cases, sometimes less. $40 to get it tested, $50 to buy a new regulator, you've got $90 into it and your bottle should have a brand new regulator, a new hydro test or a new hydro date, and you're good to go for $60 less or even $160 less, depending on what style bottle you have. So, one important thing to take into account when you're looking to get hydro tested or buy a used bottle is the hydro date, because each bottle has a lifespan of 15 years. From all the research I've done, 15 years is the maximum lifespan of a total bottle. So if your bottle was made in, let's say 2022, it's going to expire in 15 years from that date.
Let's say it's 12 years old, 13 years old, and you're going to go get it hydrotested again, you're only supposed to get another 2-3 years lifespan out of that bottle. So, in that case, it might be worth, go ahead and spend a little bit extra money, get yourself a brand new bottle because that's going to last you 15 years. So, if you think you really like the size that you're looking at and you're shopping for, go ahead and purchase a brand new bottle. And after five years you can get that same bottle hydrotested, I believe, up to two more times because that'll be your 15 years. That pretty much answers most of the questions that we get about hydrotesting in the store. It's not usually a quick process depending on where you go. Sometimes it can be a couple of days, sometimes it can be a couple of weeks. It just depends on the company that you're working with.
If you have any questions about Hydrotesting or any research on purchasing new bottles or anything like that, give me a shout out in the comments below. Leave me a comment and ask your questions. I'm usually pretty quick on replying back to those. So, any question about Hydro testing or different bottle recommendations or different brands, regulators, all that good stuff, hit me a comment below.
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]]>Hey, guys. John here with Pro Edge Paintball and professional paintball team L. A. Ironman. Today, I'm going to go over one of the most popular questions that I get asked, and that is, what size pack should a player wear? If you're a newer player, this is definitely video or this video is definitely more catered towards you, or if you are considering getting to tournaments and playing a little more competitive and you're upgrading your gear. The question is, to be a little more clear if you're a newer player, is what size harness, which size paintball pack should you wear? This is an example of a paintball pack.
This is the dye, jet pack. And of course, this is a 140 round paintball pod. And so the question is, what size should I wear? And that doesn't mean like waist size. What that means is how many pods should I carry onto the paintball field? And what size pack should I go with in order to carry that much? So, if you're newer to playing competitively, at the end of this, I'll give you a pretty black and white answer. But, as far as if you're already playing a little bit as far as just paintball goes, you have an idea of how many paintballs per game you shoot. And typically if you can see the field behind me, I'm out here at TXR paintball here in Cyprus, Texas.
If you're playing a little bit, you already have an idea of how much paint you shoot per game. And a lot of the recreational games, you'll play one game on the left side, one game on the right side, and then you go back in. So, if you start paying attention over the next couple of weeks or next couple of months of how much paint you shoot as you go out, that'll give you a pretty good idea on the low side of how many paint balls and how many pods you should carry once you start getting a little more into tournaments. But, as far as tournament play goes, you typically are going to shoot more paint balls in a competitive atmosphere than you would at a recreational playing recreationally or wreck ball against other newer players. And the reason why that is is when you start playing competitively, you start learning the techniques of the more advanced players, why they shoot so many paintballs. It's not that they're really bad and they're just shooting a ton of paint down the field.
They're using that extra volume of paint in order to control the players against them. For example, I'm considered like a back player. And so what that means is my job is to communicate and to lay paint down the field in order to control the other players from just openly moving down the field. So, my job is to shoot at them a lot and shoot more paint balls down the field. So, the size pack that I wear, and like I said, this is the dye jet pack. Let's see this here. It's got the elastic on the front out there. And so it's all flexible, so you can put it on and pull it pretty tight. This is a four pack or a four, I believe it's four plus seven. Let's see here. So, the reason why this is four main compartments here, and then you have one on the end, it's an elastic loop here. One in the center or three in the center. One more. So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. So, it's actually a four plus five pack. Some of these packs will have two elastic slots on the end of it on each side. So, you have two, three, four, five, six, seven to be a four plus seven
So, this is a four pack. I would recommend if you're not a smaller person, and you're going to play competitively, if you're let's just say an average size person, I would go with the four pack no matter what. The reason for that is you can always carry extra paint balls going out. But, if your pack is too small, you can't just randomly throw extra paint balls in there and extra pots. So, instead of buying a three pack, what that means is we just have three of the main compartments and then a couple here between. I would recommend to purchase a full four pack, a four plus five or four plus seven pack. Go with a good brand. A dye definitely I've been wearing this one for about a month now, about three or four weeks, and I like it a lot. It holds up, I'm about a size 36 waist and it fits me. Some of the other brands are made for a little bit smaller players. I would definitely recommend if you're an adult or you're a larger person and you have, let's say, a 34 or 36 to about a 44 waist, I don't know the maximum is I would definitely recommend check out the dye jet pack. They fit you. It's good.
Like I said, some of the other packs run a little slim, a little smaller. This pack has elastic on the front of it there. That way whenever you put it on, you can actually take this additional elastic and stretch it out. That way, it really pulls the pack tight on you and it doesn't bounce around. Now, if you go to our paintball store, Pro Edge Paintball or proedgepb.com, if you're looking to shop and you're not local to our store, we can definitely show you how to try this on and how to put this on so you're putting it on correctly. Once you load up a full pack like this, let's say you're holding a full nine, 10 pod, something like that, that's almost equal to a case of paint, like a 2,000 round box of paint. And a paint weighs about 15 pounds. So, imagine just like a 15 pound weight dumbbell hanging on the back of your back when you're running around. You don't want it to bounce around. You don't want it to rattle or anything like any loose like that.
So, just to show you real quick, like I said, of course, these hold into the main compartment is pretty easy, but we get a lot of questions about what is this little thing here? The purpose of that is you can put this, I actually like them on the side. I'll show you the ones on the side. Basically, it would be the four full or main compartments and then the two on the ends of what I carry the most of. You put the pot in here. I like to do it down. It would be sitting in my pack like that. Then this little loop here goes around the lid like that. That way when you pull it tight, you're good to go. Some of these strapless packs that are out there, if you notice, if you ever played with them, you accidentally opened the pod. This is very similar to a strapless pack. What's nice about this is now if you hit it, it doesn't fall out. You don't lose your paint balls. But, when you need to use it, it comes off pretty quick. You just pop it off, dump it and dump it in your loader and you're good to go. Again, if you're going to go back and play recreational with this pack, just load up your four main compartments here. Pretty straightforward. If it's hot out there, you can throw a water bottle on the ends here and take that out to the field too. So, it's pretty nice.
But this, like I said, this is a 4+5 dye jet pack. I would definitely recommend picking one of these up. Again, if you're an adult, little bit larger. Of course, they will tighten up. So, if you're a smaller player, you can definitely go with one of these. But if you're a younger player or a real tiny player, this one you may have to tighten up quite a bit to get this one to fit you. I hope that helps someone to answer your question on this. I do gesture I ask this question a lot like, what's the difference? Why go with one or the other one? I would just say a safe bet. If you're really not sure where you're going to be at in a year as far as playing competitively or whatnot and you do shoot more than let's say 200 to 300 paintballs per game when you go out occasionally, I would definitely recommend the four pack and the four plus five, four plus seven, something like that. Check it out.
If you guys have any questions, make sure you comment below. I answer all the questions on there, all the comments. If you guys have any questions about this pack or any other paintball products, of course, at all, make sure to hit me up. Comments are there too. As always, thank you so much for watching our video. Don't forget to like this video and subscribe to our YouTube channel. We do weekly videos. Thanks so much, guys.
In recent years, gender reveal parties have become a celebrated tradition, marking the exciting moment when expectant parents unveil the much-anticipated news about their baby's gender. While traditional methods such as cakes and balloons still hold their charm, a new trend has emerged, adding a vibrant and visually stunning element to these joyous occasions – colored smoke bombs.
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]]>Hey, guys. John here at Pro Edge Paintball. I'm back with another weekly video. Today, I'm excited to show you a barrel. I haven't done any barrel videos before. They take a lot of effort as far as shooting and experience, all that good stuff. Today, I'm going to give you a quick little overview on one of the newer barrels that we started carrying and we've been extremely happy with.
So, today's barrel and today's item is going to be the HK Army XV one-piece barrel. What that means is HK Army brand. If you're new to paintball, it's a pretty popular brand. Then it's a one-piece barrel. What that means is it's completely one piece of metal instead of a two-piece barrel. Some people think a two-piece barrel is better than a one piece. It depends on what you're going for. Being two pieces versus one piece does not mean it is better or worse than one. Just with those facts. You actually need a little more information than that. I like a one-piece barrel. For a lot of newer players, I like it better because there's less moving parts. It's easier to understand until you get a little more experience.
This being a one-piece barrel, this is our most popular recommended barrel that we recommend for a lot of your entry-level guns like your Spider paintball guns, your Azodin, Chaos & Blitz, and your Empire mini GS. This is our number one favorite entry-level recommended barrel that we like. Let's get started on that one. The XV one-piece barrel is available in, of course, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, I think eight different colors. We have pewter. It's like a darker silver, almost like a gray. We have purple. There, I like that a lot. That's a good color. HK has done a real good job making sure they offer everything in a ton of colors. Gold, red. You have your olive, which I think looks sick on this mini. Olive there. Your actual silver.
Good to go.
Out, and then your blue. That looks good on that Victor. I have a couple of guns here that, again, we would recommend. I want to show you the stock barrel versus this barrel, so that way you can understand, is it worth buying the upgraded barrel and what you're going to get for your money, basically. Like I said, they're available.
Oh, and they're also in a solid black. I didn't grab the solid black one. They're available for a spider for spider paintball guns. If it has the word spider on it, it will take a very specific spider barrel and it also will take auto-cocker threading. What that means is the threading on the actual back of the barrel is either going to be designed for a spider paintball gun or guns that take auto-cocker threading, which is the design of this. Azodin and Empire guns are going to be auto-cocker threading. That's what it's going to say on the website. Auto-cocker threading or cocker threading is going to be a Azodin, Empire, Planet Eclipse, like your GETEC, your LVs, your EMEX, all those are going to be auto-cock or threaded barrels. Then again, spider is just going to be strictly spider guns, so spider paintball guns like this one here. As you can see, again, these are 15-inch barrels, so they're going to be longer than your standard barrel. This is a stock spider barrel. As you can see the difference there, pretty obvious on that one. So, it will help you a little bit with distance.
But main thing, just overall better accuracy. Most pro paintball players use about a 14 to 16-inch barrel just because it seems to be the most optimal and perform the best out of compared to like an eight or 10-inch barrel. So, the main difference between a XV barrel, I'm trying to find a good color you can see. Let's try this purple one. You can see all the holes here. This is considered your port ink. So, the more porting typically, the quieter the barrel is going to be. And if you notice your spider barrel there has almost no porting at all. So, very loud and it's going to be, of course, not going to perform as well. You can see that there it's probably about a 10-inch barrel versus a 15-inch barrel. If you have a spider paintball gun and you're considering upgrading, definitely look into the XV one-piece barrel. They do have some good colors to match it. They have red, black, olive, and blue, actually, for all the spider victims. Those are very popular guns and barrel upgrades on that one. I definitely recommend it for your spider. Definitely going to be an upgrade on that one. These are also available in different bore sizes. And what that means is the inside diameter here. The one we recommend is the 0.685. That's the most popular one that we do carry in the boar size because it will fit pretty much like, let's say 95% of every paintball that's out there, that's going to be 68 caliber. So, that's just going to be a diameter. So, 0.685 is what we recommend and what we typically carry the most of. So good to go on that one. So, you got your spider. This is your Azodin one. They don't make like a neon green barrel. So, I just went through a Dust Silver. Dust is the finish on there, so you can see what that looks like. So, Azodin. It's pretty nice on that one. Again, it just screws on.
But a spider-threaded barrel will not fit on the Azodin barrel because again, the threading on there. And then I want to show you the mini-GS, the barrel on there. That's all of tan mini-GS. We do have those on our website, proedgepb.com. You can pick up any of the items here. We have a live chat. So, if you have questions after you watch this video, comment below or go to our website and ask the chat question on there, and that goes directly to me. So, of course, you've got the olive. And again, this is a one-piece barrel, so no insert. It's nothing like that. You've read about that before. So, this barrel, you can expect it to be quieter than your stock barrel, pretty much on most entry to mid-level type guns. Your accuracy should be better because it is probably just a better quality than your stock barrel. This is a mini GS stock barrel. This is your Azodin barrel. Again, this is your spider barrel. So, comparison, as you can see, I'm going to throw it right there, for your spider and your you're definitely going to get probably a little quieter, a little better quality, a little bit better as far as the distance goes, just an overall better quality performing barrel.
A mini, however, I don't know if I would recommend this for a mini because it does come with a pretty nice barrel already out of the box. It has very nice porting on it. It's good quality on that one. On a mini, I would typically recommend a barrel kit, and we'll have more videos on that here soon. But yeah, so HK Army, the feedback we've got so far on this, everybody absolutely loves it. It shoots accurate. Again, the quietness, that's pretty easy to tell. It is definitely going to be quieter than your stock barrel on a lot of your entry-level guns. The price is, I believe, is $44.95. Let me double-check that. So, $44.95, I definitely think it's a fair price for what you're getting. If you are new to and you're looking for inexpensive upgrade to ask for a gift or you just want your gun to shoot a little bit better without spending a ton of money, definitely check out the HK Army XV one-piece barrel. For your spider, your Azodin, the Tippmann guns, I'm not sure if they make it for the Tippmann guns. I'd have to check on that. Then, of course, like your E-Mech, your entry-level, planet-clips gun, stuff like that, you can probably see pretty significant performance but increase on something like this.
We don't have a shooting video yet on this, but if you do have any questions or if you have shot this barrel and used it before, go and comment below. Let the other players out there and let us know what you think about it. We've shot the barrel, we just don't have a video of it. That is just your H. K. Army XV one-piece barrel, $44.95, available on our website. Again, if you have any feedback or you want to see any other barrels, go ahead and comment below and we'll get those covered for you. Pretty straightforward. Like I said, we've been real happy with them. Definitely recommend them, otherwise we wouldn't make a video about it.
Thank you guys so much for watching. If you liked the video, go and hit like on there. That helps our video show to other players like yourself. If you have any other feedback on other barrels that you like, like barrel kits, individual barrels, anything like that or any other videos you would like us to cover, go ahead and comment below. We appreciate any other feedback. Other than that, thank you guys so much for watching and we will see you guy next week.
]]>Hey, everyone. John Jackson here with Pro Edge Paintball. Today, I've got the ultimate weight comparison hopper video for you. Let's get started.
All right. So, I've had a few requests on comparing, for example, the Spire 5, which just came out this year, to the Spire 4 to see what differences it is. And I figured why not do a comparison on every current electronic loader that we carry? And I think that's available right now. If I'm missing one, make sure you go ahead and give me a shout out in the comments. Let me know what hopper I'm missing. I've even got some hoppers that aren't made anymore out here. So, let's go and get started, see what's going on.
All right. So, I'm going to weigh these in no particular order, starting from the right side to the left side. And go ahead and turn the scale on so you know it's been zeroed out. Good to go there. So, I'm going to do it in ounces. So, zero out is good to go. I'm going to start with probably the oldest hopper out here, the Empire Halo. Also, before I do that, every hopper here has batteries in it or is operable.
So, even the Spire 5 normally comes with the speed feed. I would put the lid on there because every other loader, except for the HK-TFX-3, has a lid. I forgot to grab that one. But everything in here has batteries ready to go, ready to turn on. The TFX 3 is a rechargeable battery. It's not charged, but it's in there ready to go. But so even the halo, turn it on, here spin, ready to go. So, I'll prove that with each one. Okay, so we've got zero ounces there. So, for the Empire halo two, we're looking at 20.3 ounces. I'm going to do the Bunker King control loader, show you that it's ready to go. It's on. Okay. All right. So zero Bunker King control loader comes in at 16.9 ounces. So, quite a bit lighter than the halo. I've got the Virtue IR2. Battery is in that one. Zeroed out. 16.8 ounces. Okay, 16.9. Let'sthat. 16.9 ounces for Virtue Spire IR2. I even grabbed we had an old Virtue Spire 4, 4 hopper. They're not really available anymore, but a lot of people are using this loader. I wanted to go ahead and put batteries in here, make sure we're good, so you have a good comparison.
So, zero ounces, batteries in there. 19.2, is that right? So Spire 4, 19.2, IR2, 16.2, and 13.9. Okay. Spire 5, I'll wait till the end, actually. All right, HK Army, sonic copper. So, this only takes one nine-volt battery, one button on. Good to go.
So, this is extremely light, but as far as the feed rate, it's not as fast as some of the other loaders. 13.5. So, so far I think the IR2 was the lightest at 16.9, 17 ounces. And the sonic loader is much lighter, 13.4. Significant difference. Okay. All right. Let's go with the HK Army Speed Hopper. Same thing. Batteries in there. There you go. Turn it off. Zero it out. 15.3. So, HK Army Speed versus HK Army Sonic, 15.3 versus 13.4, 13.5, I believe is what it was a second ago. Okay. The HK Army TFX 3 with no lid, though it has a speed feed, 17.7 ounces. So, that's a little bit heavier than the IR-2, but still lighter than the Spire 4. Yep. Okay. All right. Now we have the die loaders. I feel like this one is going to be a little bit heavier.
The die LTR has been around absolutely forever. The battery is ready to go. Zero it out. Let's try to get the stand up on this thing. There we go. 21.4, 21.5. Is that still lighter than the Spire 4? No, 4 is a little bit lighter. Okay. So, dye LTR was 21.7, 21.6. Okay. Die R2 loader. This is the high end die loader. Good to go.
All right. Zero it out. 20.4. Okay, so 20.4 for the R2. And what was the LTR? So R2, a little bit lighter than the LTR. So, this is their high end. The LTR is their $110 loader, I believe. Okay, every loader out there, the brand new Spire 5. Let's see what it weighs in at. Zero it out. Battery, good to go. 18.5. So, out of all of the loaders on the high end side, I think the Spire 5 is the lightest. Let's see here, 18.5. What was this one? Oh, no, I forgot about the control loader. My fault, 16.9, 16.9 on that one and the IR2 16.9. I think that one keeps changing a little bit. Cool deal. So, it looks like, of course, the sonic loader, I think, was the absolute lightest here.
Second, I want to say, was the HK Army Speed. And then it was pretty close between the IR-2, the control loader, and then the Spire 5, I think, was the next one. So, I think that should solve all the questions on which hopper is the lightest. If you guys have any questions, comment below. If there's any other video ideas that you have that you want to share, go and comment below. Otherwise, please like this video if you found it helpful. And don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more weekly videos. Other than that, thank you guys so much for watching. We'll see you next time.
Hey, guys. John Jackson here with Pro Edge Paintball. I am at the NXL World Cup 2022, and we got rained out today because of the hurricane that came by and hit Orlando. They canceled all the games. I was lucky enough to snag a CS3 from one of the teammates, Matt Derulo on the team. Appreciate you. I'm going to give you a little overview, unpacking video. At the end, I'm going to compare the original CS2, CS2 Pro actually, to the new CS3. Let's jump on in. You got your standard box from Eclipse. You got the team impact. Each pro team that was sponsored by Eclipse. It's got one team team done to shoot, check out. Open her up. Go there. So, first thing you notice, they've got the new case that they carried from the LV2 platform that was just released a few months ago. I've got the new case. A lot of people really like this case. It's like a nice cloth material, still a nice hard case. So, really happy with the case on this one. It's only the first time that I can say case. Open her up. Of course, you've got your new barrel kit that clips again, released on the LV2.
You've got your inserts, your barrel back, your barrel front, get to go there. Depending on what insert you want to use, slide it in the back there, throw it in, reverse threads there, screw it together. Go ahead and set that up. Stock with the gun comes with your lube, your par tip bolt. Most people use a soft tip that comes in the gun. That's perfectly fine. And of course, a great spare parts kit and super nice, heavy duty manual. You can go to the website, download the PDF, save it on your phone, so you have access to it. And of course, the CS3 right there. This is the launch edition, which means there's only, I believe, 40 of these available. Just real quick, they do not come with this trigger on here. This is an aftermarket Infamous trigger that we threw on there for the games tomorrow. So, first thing I noticed on this is just the feel of it. Immediately, a lot of people online already the extension. It's only maybe, I believe, an eighth of an inch or a quarter of an inch longer on the front. But if you have bigger hands and you didn't like the CS2 or CS2 Pro, this is going to be...
It's going to give you just a little bit extra room where it really has a good fit on the side of the gun. If you're going to hold it, put your thumb up here, anything like that, pretty straightforward. Really nice on that one. So, it feels really good right out of the box. Just to get one thing out of the way, a lot of people are dogging on the Planet Eclipse CS3 because it's not a huge improvement or not a huge visual change from the CS2 Pro. But don't forget, there are a lot of newer players out there that are looking for their first high end gun. So, for you guys out there or girls that are out there that are looking for your first high end gun, and you really like and really enjoy the best, most dependable, most reliable, best performing products that you buy just in general. From what I've seen so far on this gun, the shooting videos, the testing, of course, we know Planet Eclipse has, the history of Planet Eclipse has. If you're looking for the highest end gun that you think is going to be the most efficient, the least amount of maintenance, one of the softest shots that I've ever felt, CS3.
This is all the way, no doubt about that. For you guys that own a CS2 Pro, would I upgrade? It is a different shot. It definitely feels different. But, if you're extremely happy they're a CS2 Pro, maybe not yet. Maybe you hold off until they come up with maybe a limited edition model of it. Maybe they do something maybe a CS3 Pro. I have no idea on that one. But, if you're looking for a new high end gun, definitely check these out. They will be available on our website, proedgepaintball.com for pre order right now in every color combo. This is the launch edition. There's only 40 of these made. Once they're sold out. They're sold out. You have to buy them secondhand at that point. I just wanted to get that out of the way. Like I said, a lot of people dogging on it, but just get out of the way. A lot of new players out there that are still going to be looking for a high end guns over the next year or two, they're going to watch this video. This is really for you guys and for people considering if they're going to upgrade or not
So, some of the new features immediately that I noticed, of course, like I said, the extended grip on the front, the frame here feels a little thinner. I didn't measure anything yet, so that's a nice feel. I didn't think the CS2 Pro was big at all in the back, but being thinner was definitely a nice upgrade. Clips is good at giving you things that you didn't know you needed or wanted, and then you go, why did I not have that before. They have the new console in the back, same thing. The new on off here. Double tap there. It's got the new screen, same thing as the LV2. So, very nice upgrade system on that one. I like that platform a lot better.
Some small things. The velocity screw in the bottom here is much easier to get to. It's easier to understand, I think, for the newer players out there beforehand, you couldn't really see what you were supposed to be doing. It had to be actually the pops had to be pushed down in order to be able to see the velocity screw. This is much easier to understand. You're not looking for the screw. You're not trying to smash it in there when it's not put together. Great design change on this one, Planet Eclipse, for being a retail store owner as myself, we get that question a lot like, How do I do this? What's wrong with this? Why can't I fit my Allen key in there? What size is it? This is much better, self-explanatory, much easier to understand, I would say, so good job on that one.
The bolt, of course. The back here is a little bit different lines. You see the back cap isn't the same shape as before. Some people are saying this looks very similar to a 170. Even that GETEC Stealth, I believe that GI did, I thought it looked similar to that. But, I'm wondering if there's a reason why they had to do that. The body is a little thicker than what I remember on a CS2 Pro. And so maybe that's why. Or maybe they just want to make it a little more sleek. Pull that up, slide it out the back, just like your CS2 Pro. Pretty straightforward on that one. Some of the standard changes that everybody knows about is it's supposed to have a 50% larger volume chamber. Typically my basic understandings and plenty of tips, guys, if I'm wrong on this, correct me please, but 50% more volume would typically make a gun less efficient. So, for guys, if you're trying to get your gun to shoot better quality paint, a more brittle, more fragile paint, typically you can increase your volume through different methods, and it'll allow the gun to be softer on paint, but you get less efficiency. But, the CS3, they have a larger 50% larger chamber and they're claiming 20% more efficient. So, they've done a lot of good changes on that. Even though they might be internal on the design side that you might not physically see, that's a pretty big significant improvement because the CS2 Pro was already extremely efficient.
One of our guys, or Matt Derulo actually, he said he shot seven, eight pod yesterday in one of the points we had practice and still had 1,800, 2,000 PSI. If that's the case, that means we don't even know if he had a 4,500 field. That's at least 14 to 15 pods on I believe he uses like a 77 or an 80 size bottle. I'm sure people will do efficiency tests out there. But, you're talking well over a case of paint. That's definitely the case here. But, you're talking maybe 12 or 14, 15, 16 pods. I don't know how crazy it is, but basically you could fill up, play a whole day if you're a recreational player. If you're going to shoot a case of paint, never have to worry about efficiency. Go play your scenarios, go play your big tournaments, anything like that. One tank fill. Or one of our guys brought up to shoot a smaller tank. Instead of having a large 77 or 80 cubic inch bottle in order to get through a game, go with a smaller bottle now, which is going to make it lighter. It's going to make it more convenient for you, easier to handle.
Cool. It's pretty cool. And of course, you have to fill up less. So, that's pretty great on that one. One of the popular questions we've seen already posted up and people ask is, will it have a mechanical frame? As of November at World Cup, there is going to be a mechanical frame available for it, but there is not one. There isn't one available currently. I believe Planet Clips has a mock-up or one on the wall at the event. I'm not sure if it works and what the case is, but you can see it up there. It's definitely coming and it'll be coming. Of course, they'll do that. That would make sense. Definitely, Mech Frame, if you guys are ICP or any of the mechanical players out there, wait for the Mech Frame. We'll have them on pre-order as soon as they're announced. Go proedgepaintball.com. We'll have them on there as soon as they're available. We'll get them to you as soon as possible
.So, do a quick comparison of the two guns, the CS-3 and the CS2. I've got my brother Matt Jackson, Fuzzy Jackson, his impact CS2 Pro here to show you a quick rundown. So, what I've already done is the front grips on these. I just wanted to see what was interchangeable. If the grips are thinner, typically people try to interchange them. So, this is off of his CS-2. So, the front grip, exact same grip. Looks exactly the same, fits no problem. However, the back grips will not fit. One of the first things I noticed was it has this little extension here at the bottom which is supposed to help you get these grips off. So, they come unsnapped, and you can actually stick your finger under here and pull the back off. The other one I did not like the CS2 Pro. You never really have to take this off. I'll preface it with that. You don't have to take these grips off once you're going to clean your gun or something bad happens. But, if you did want to, they're a pain to get off. Another thing I noticed, and I should have said this first, is it actually helps to lift the bolt, that cap up now because these grips go underneath the back cap, which I don't know if it helps hold it in or helps keep the lines cleaner.
But, if you notice here in the back, this actually slides over and it goes around and over top of the back grips. So, take your grips off to make it easier. I would say take your bolt off, take your bolt out, and then take your grips off. Same thing, the grips now come all the way to the back of the breach where they didn't before. Sorry, not the breach, the back of the bolt here in the bolt cap. It makes it much cleaner lines, smoother, locks in the place better. I think everything just fits together better on here. Of course, these grips come off just like that. I did notice that they moved the micro switch when I was installing this trigger. They moved the micro switch from, I guess on the side or further lower in the trigger frame, off from the top of the trigger. They used to be on the upper board or sorry, I guess it is on the upper board of the CS2 Pro, but it used to be above it, and now it's actually on the side. I don't know if that's going to change how the triggers are set up.
The trigger shoe is different, but a CS2 trigger, CS2 Pro trigger will fit the face, like the little trigger upgrades that they sell. Not the entire assembly, but just the trigger itself will upgrade, will fit into a CS3 as well. If you already have a CS2 Pro, or if you're picking one up and you want to throw a trigger in there with it, we do carry the infamous triggers in the HK, CS2 triggers, and they will fit into your CS3. Like I said, the body is a little bit thicker. Trigger is the same, pop, say, back grip here is a little thinner, front grip is exactly the same, new barrel kit. The big question is the bolt, the engine, the design. I'm not going to act like I know all the specific engineering details and everything of this. I know a lot of plane-footed clips, guys that have followed the clips for years are very detail oriented, and I don't want to get it wrong. I'm just going to show you the basic differences between the bolt, compare them side by side so you can see. Feel free to comment below if you have any input on this.
Like I said, I don't want to get anything wrong. This is going to be your CS3, this is going to be your CS2 Pro. You can see they are going to be a little bit different in length and total length seems a little different. I would imagine so because the gun is going to be different than length on that one. Your cans seem a little larger on your... Actually, sorry, on the CS2 Pro, the can's a little larger. The soft-touch bolt has been updated, it looks like. I'm not sure if this is something that is in other guns or not, but I know CS3 bolt definitely looks different than your CS2 Pro. Internal to this, definitely look different. Check it out there.
Definitely some modifications. There are some changes. Of course, volume size, like I said. I know the shot of this gun is significantly lighter. I know when we first pulled this one out of the box, it felt like it was chronic of about 225. We're like, There's no way this is coroner right. You put on the Coroner, it was 285 right out of the box. If you are used to that CS2 Pro shot when you grab this one for the first time, it's definitely going to be lighter.
If you thought the CS2 Pro had a lot of kick or recoil, I should say, this is even lighter than that. So, if you didn't like that one, maybe give the CS3 a shot, give it a try. And that way you can see if you like it, because it's definitely a different shot than the CS2 Pro. But yeah, like I said, there's more technical side of the bolt system, for most of the players out there, they just want to shoot a gun that's reliable. So, I'm going to let somebody else go into extreme detail on the bolt system there. And I don't want to get corrected by the Eclipse guys out there, so don't want to get that wrong. But yeah, overall, extremely happy with it. This is the first weekend this has been officially released. There are rumors that there have been guns out there, of course, for people testing, which is great because, of course, Eclipse does a great job in testing their products. There we go. I have a click on the way. But yeah, looks great. Of course, it's going to have the plantar Eclipse reliability, all that good stuff. I'm curious if the eye covers fit each gun. Take these off real quick. Maybe you have some custom CS2 eye covers that you want to put on your CS3. Nope, they are definitely machined completely different. That is not going to work on there. I was hoping you could take your custom one to put them on there, but they are machined completely different on there. You cannot see the difference or can't tell the difference here. Definitely will not fit on them. The CS3 still has to do two detente inside. The way the ball center works, the eyes are actually on the top board. That way when you pull the body off, it hinges off the top. So, very, very easy to clean and maintenance. Of course, the CS3 still uses the tried and true AAA batteries. Very straightforward, very easy to change, put them in there. I love that feature. Seems so simple. I can't believe we haven't done that or it took us this long for somebody to design such a simple platform with the batteries instead of having screws in the grip frame and wires and everything.
This just seems so much better. Good job of clips. So, if you're new to the CS platform and you're curious about the maintenance, as you can see earlier, the bolt comes out completely tool-less. But if you want to clean the eye centers inside here. It's just one slide forward and then the actually cover comes off there. And so the eye sits in the smaller or the bottom part of the hole here. So, paint doesn't actually ever sit on the eye. It sits on the little mirror piece inside the eye cover. So, some of the entry level guns or even other height and guns, they have a part where paint can actually sit on the actual eye itself. And over time it wears those eyes out and you have to replace the eye piece. $25 to $40, probably a piece. Whereas the planet Eclipse part, the way it works is I believe the little mirror plastic piece inside the reflective pieces is less than five dollars for sure, maybe even less than a dollar. So, very easy to clean it and very low cost if you do have to change this piece over time. Of course, the part that gets the dirtiest on most guns is going to be where the actual paint will travel. Through the breach from the dirty hopper, from the dirty pod, down into your breach out the barrel. This part definitely needs to get cleaned the most and get the most wear and tear. It's nice that they made an affordable option for you once that wears out over time. Then so once you cleaned it, slide that in place.
Another thing I noticed just holding the guns next to each other is the CS3 seems to have not to be as tall as the CS2 Pro. It's going to be hard to show you, but I'll show you an overhead shot. Lining up the top of the breeds, the feed neck, it looks like the height of the frame is actually about an eighth of an inch to quarter of an inch shorter. So, that's cool. We added length of the gun and shortness of the top. So, that's maybe it sits better in your shoulder, maybe it just feels more natural that way. It's a pretty cool change. I don't know how much more they can change on the CS platform to make it better. Everybody seems to be extremely happy with it. Performance reliability, you can't complain.
I very rarely ever have anybody say, don't really care for the CS2 or CS3 once they experience it. I'm not sure what else they're going to do to make this that much better. If you have ideas, throw them in the comments. I'm curious if you don't like the CS2 Pro or if you've shot the CS3, comment below. See what you don't like about it or let us know what you don't like about it. I'd be curious what your perspective is. Not right or wrong. It's just personal preference on that one. Check it out. Pre order your CS3 at proedgepaintball.com. We have all the color swaps and everything available. If you have any questions, comment below. Otherwise, thank you guys for watching.
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Hey, everyone. John here with pro h paintball. I am back with another weekly video. Today, I'm going to do a little video on CO2 tanks. If you've played paintball for a while, that's pretty basic, but we get a ton of questions about CO2. What is it? We have a lot of newer players that are reaching out to us, so we want to make sure we address a lot of those questions. So, to get started today, I have the Tippmann line of CO2 tanks
Tippmann is a branding of it. So if you're out there researching for paintball guns, you've seen a Tippmann brand. And one thing I want to get out of the way is in order to use a Tippmann air tank, you don't have to use a Tippmann paintball gun. So just we get that question a lot. And it seems obvious again for some of the players out there. But for newer players, don't feel bad. A Tippmann brand is just like a branding. It's like a Nike. You can wear Nike shoes with like Adidas socks or something like that. You can definitely use them for different branding.
It's not a problem at all on that one. So this is the Tippmann line of CO2 tanks. This is what they call a Tippmann. Twelve ounce CO2 tank. This is a Tippmann 20 ounce.
And this is a 24 ounce. So, what the ounces mean? That's how much liquid CO2 is going to be put basically into the bottle itself. The more liquid CO2, the more CO2, the more capacity, the more shots that you're going to get out of it. So, these bottles are refillable.
So, if you're out there researching what to get for your first paintball gun, these bottles are refillable. These are not a one time use thing. So, I know a lot of people also will use this for we've seen them for shifters, for their drag cars. You've seen them for fish tanks, stuff like that. So, if you're looking for that, these are refillable at pretty much any paintball store paintball fields.
However, if you're shopping for these and you're not sure if your local paintball field fills a CO2 tank, I would definitely call them first before you make a purchase for any CO2 tank from any location, even if it's not our store. CO2, typically the places of business, the paintball fields and the stores, we have to hire somebody else. We have to pay somebody else to give us larger bottles of CO2. Whereas the other type of air, which is called compressed air, which actually I have a bottle here. This is a compressed air bottle.
This one our filled stores. We can purchase a compressor and we can refill these up for you or for ourselves, so we don't have to depend on anybody else. So, this is becoming more of the way of going. If you read online, you'll say people will say this is a cleaner, a better type of air. And if you're going to get real picky, it definitely is. But, for newer players, CO2 here is a little less expensive and you get more shots. We'll go over that too. So we'll have another video talking about the Tippmann compressed air bottle, but I just want to give you a comparison on that one.
Okay. So, as far as the Tippmann tanks go, again, they are refillable most of your paintball stores. A lot of your paintball stores can fill them up, but paintball fields cannot. So, definitely, check with them first. And the rule is if you're shopping for an electronic paintball gun, you don't want to go CO2. That's a pretty black and white rule, pretty easy to understand if it takes a battery or if you have to turn it on with electronics. You don't really want to use CO2 on that at all.
If you can skip the CO2 stage altogether, is what we would recommend. What we mean by that is if you're going to continue playing paintball, let's say in a year. So, currently you're shopping for your first paintball gun. You've played a handful of times and you want to get an air tank. You're not sure what kind.
These are about twenty five dollars to thirty five dollars, depending on where you go. So, not super expensive, but not real cheap either. What happens is on your next paintball gun, if it requires a battery, which most of them will start with what we call a mechanical entry level paintball gun, no battery. And your next paintball gun requires a battery, it's a little more advanced. It's going to need that other type of air, which means not only are you going to buy a 20 ounce o two tank now, but in six months or a year now you're going to go and buy the other tank.
So, now you've spent more money. So, one thing we try to recommend people, and we're not just trying to sell you a more expensive tank on one hand, a lot of places would love to sell you the CO2 tank now and the compressed air tank later. But, for your experience, we actually recommend, if you can afford to skip the CO2, station the whole level of CO2 and go straight to the compressed air, you're going to save more money in the long run and you're going to have a better experience. But, today what we're going to talk about is if you're not going to skip that and you want to start as least expensive as possible and you're going to go with CO2, we're going to teach you a little bit about all the CO2 tanks, the difference between them, all that good stuff. So, if you're shooting a mechanical paintball gun, you have a mechanical paintball gun, excuse me, or you are going to purchase one, let's say like a spider paintball gun or a Tippmann branded paintball gun.
There are other course, other mechanicals, but those are very popular. So, spider or Tippmann, you can go with the CO2 tank. Let's say you've already called your local paintball filled up and they say, yes, we do fill CO2. Okay, we're good to go on that one. Now, you're trying to decide what size do I want to go with.
So, your twelve ounce, this is going to give you about 500 to 800 shots, first off, depending on how full the local place actually fills it up. And also depending on your gun because just like vehicles out there, some vehicles are more efficient on how much fuel they use. Same for paintball guns. Some guns use more air, some guns use less air. So, the safe estimate would say about, let's say 600 shots, roughly on a 20 ounce bottle. 600 shots is going to be about three of those hoppers, the black thing that's on top of your paintball gun when you rent them or if you buy one, each one of those holds about 200. So, about three of those per twelve ounce bottle.
One of the benefits to the twelve ounce bottle is going to be lighter when it's filled up. These tanks do get heavier, but a twelve ounce, because it is smaller, it will get lighter. So, if you're a smaller player out there, you don't want something super heavy and you don't shoot a lot. Maybe the 12oz is exactly what you need. So, again, these are about, I think, 27, $28. The price has changed because of metal, all that good stuff. So, it does change over time, between 25 and 35 roughly is a good price.
All right, well, let's say you want to get more than 600 shots. You're going to go play on your own property. You want as many shots as you can go with, but you don't really want, let's say, a huge bottle. The 20 ounce bottle, 20 ounce Tippmann bottle is the most popular bottle that we carry hands down compared to any other air tank out there. Of course there's another brand called HK Army, so we have both of those on our website, both of those 20 ounce bottles, extremely popular. Going to do everything you need if you're looking for a 20 ounce CO2 bottle.
So, a 20 ounce is going to give you closer to about 1000 to 1200 shots, again, depending on the gun. And most of these bottles cost about $5 to get them filled up at our paintball store, at other stores roughly around the country, between $5 and $10 at the most typically get them filled up. So, again, you want to get more shots. What's nice about this, it's the same length, so it's not going to add too much size to your setup and it's going to give you quite a more shot. So, the 20 ounce is definitely the most popular choice.
The next one up is going to be the 24 ounce. So, 24 ounce is if you're, let's say a taller person, you have longer arms. This air tank is going to go into a back of a paintball gun. So this is kind of like your stock when you're aiming on a normal rifle or gun. So, of course, the longer the bottle, the taller the bottle, the longer away your gun setup is going to be.
As you screw it in, hold it. And so if you're really tall, you may consider to go with a 24 ounce CO2 tank. They're going to be about $35. And this is going to give you closer to about 1400 to 1600 shots per air-fill. So, what that means is if you've ever been to play paintball, each hopper holds 200 rounds. So, this is going to give you close to about eight of those, which is a lot of paintballs, or it's going to give you almost a full box of paintballs worth of shots out of it. So, again, if you're playing on your own property, you want a ton of shots and you want to maybe purchase multiple of these to get them filled up so you don't have to worry about getting air. The 20 ounce and the 24 ounce is definitely what we would recommend on something like that.
The most important thing on CO2, I would say the two things to take away from this video are going to be does your local place fill them up? That's super hard to find out. You want to make sure you give a call, check their website and give them a call. Because if you buy a 20 ounce bottle and you go to local field and they don't fill it up, you're either going to have to buy one that day or you're going to have to rent one from them. And sometimes they can charge you for it. And then also you want to make sure you're using a CO2 tank on a non electronic paintball gun. Because, again, the CO2 is a liquid. If you're putting the liquid into electronics, it will cause problems. It'll damage your paintball gun. It's not going to be good. It's going to cost you more money in the long run. So, make sure your local place fills them up. And then make sure, of course, you're not using them on the wrong gun.
And before I forget, these do not come filled up. So, I don't know of any store online or whatnot that you can buy them and they do come with air in them. We're not allowed to ship them with air in them. So, if you are purchasing this or shopping around, they're not going to come filled up.
So, if you think you're going to go out that day and shoot them, you got to find a local place to get them filled up with. That said though, if you are here in Houston and you're close to our store. When you purchase these, our prices include to get them filled up or to have them filled. So, when you purchase one of these air tanks in our store locally, come by. We include a free air fill, the one free air fill. And when you leave the store, it does come filled up. You're good to go. You can use it immediately once you get all set up. So, trying to think of anything else. I had some stuff written down. Yeah, that's pretty much it. So, make sure, like I said, they do come empty, refillable. Make sure your local field fills them up or store. Some stores will do them. Some sporting goods companies will do them like Dix Sporting Goods. Academy used to do it. Walmart used to it. You may want to call or try to look at your local sporting goods company. I know Dix is actually, I think they're one of the bigger sporting goods company, and I believe they do fill them up for you. If you have one of those close by and you're not near a paintball field or store, definitely consider giving them a call. You might want to go to CO2. The most popular reason people will go CO2, again, is the price. $25 to $35 were the next type of air that every paintball filter will fill up is closer to $60 to get started. It's almost double the price. Sometimes double the price just to get that same air tank that's going to give you fewer shots. There's a long story on that one. The guns require all that good stuff.
Hopefully, that wasn't too confusing. Hopefully, I didn't move too quick. If you do have any questions about the CO2, we do have live chat help on our website. You can message us on social media. If you're watching this video on YouTube and you have comments about this, I know everybody's going to say don't go with CO2, don't go with CO2, but please understand you do have newer players out there that are on a budget that are trying to get started very inexpensively or affordably and they want to start somewhere. I think CO2 is a good thing. That's not going to hurt a mechanical gun that's designed for it. It should be a good experience. Overall, I started with CO2 tanks way back 20 plus years ago when I first started playing. They're not going to end the world. Just show you real quick on the front here, you can actually see the threads in here.
On the side here, just safety advice. You don't ever want to touch that this is a safety valve. If this tank gets too hot and the air tank fills up too much, that is supposed to let all the air out. It'll be very loud. It'll blow out, let all the gas out of the bottle, all the air out. And that way the bottle doesn't explode and it vents out. So, this is just a safety, basically a little thing so you don't drop your bottle and damage the top. Pretty straightforward. Again, if I missed anything, you guys have any questions or you are shopping for a paintball gun and you're not sure if you want to go with CO2 or the other type which is compressed air, go and comment below. We'll get back to you as soon as possible. I answer pretty much all the comments on YouTube and our live chat on our website, social media and our email. You can do help@proedgepaintball.com. We answer those questions as well. Thank you so much for watching. Again, please like our video. We offer weekly videos every Thursday, product reviews, overview videos, type like that. Go ahead and subscribe and watch our channel. Again, thank you so much for watching and we will see you guys next week.
Hey, guys, it's Tony with Pro Edge Paintball. And today we're going to be disassembling the new Planet Eclipse 180R. I haven't taken one of these apart yet, so this will be fun. All right, let's get started. One of the neat things about it is the new barrel. It's not your standard shaft barrel like it was on the 170R, because it takes the new power insert for the S63 barrel.
That reverse thread gets me every time.
Two piece barrel insert slots in. Awesome.
Now, let's get to the fun part, taking apart this gun. I'm actually really excited about these grips because it's just one screw instead of the normal two.
So, there goes one and here's the other. So, like on the previous 170R, there was a screw here and a screw here. So, let's take a look at this.
So, you can see there's little nubbins up at the top here that are going to slot into the frame on both sides and lock it in like that new wiring. It's actually pretty sick. Like they're doing this on the modern Planet Eclipse Gun, where there's clear paths milled out for the wiring. So, that you don't have to worry about getting tangled up or just having poor wire management. I'm a big fan of that.
Next is going to be this front grip. It's going to pull off just like the 170R. And from there, it seems to be pretty similar. Bolt comes out the same way.
It's going to be this one eight Allen key on these frame screws. But, as we saw when we took off the grip, it is a new board, ish
So, there's the other screw right back here underneath where the bolt system goes through. Just pop it loose and then it slots. And then it just slides apart. You have the little slot that fits the nub that fits into the slot, holds it together. That way the two screws hold it down.
So, we've got that separated. And we still have that tool-less eye cover pops off with the light pipe. But, as you can tell with the top tube, there's no board. No board. So, this whole frame holds all the electronics, just like it did on the 170R, to see it in CS2. It's all down here. And so, like swapping stuff out, like when there's a Mech frame available. Super great. You don't have to worry about pulling electronics out or anything like that. It's going to be just drop the frame.
We've got that. And then what's really neat, you got the screw to drop the trigger, little trigger pin, and it slides out the bottom. Easy as eating pancakes.
Taking apart the pops ASA. Right here you got your little pin. You're just going to push it in. It make sure that you don't shoot that spring off. But there you go, the two screws. But, there we go.
One of my favorite tricks when taking planet eclipse guns apart. Grab the littlest Allen key in your Allen key set and you can put it in the bottom, through the hole in the piston and use it to wiggle that piston back and forth and kind of wedge it out. You can feel it kind of grab because you never really want to put pliers on the outside of these pistons because it'll mar it up. And this slides through an O-ring right here.
So, if that piston gets marred up on the outside that's no longer holding the sealant, it's going to cause a leak for you. So, that's why Allen key through the bottom there. Great way to cut that out. We're going to pop this loose and that's going to give us access to our reg seat and velocity adjuster. That just comes out with a simple one eight size Allen key. So, you want to screw it in and through.
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What's up, everybody? John Jackson here, Pro Edge paintball. We did a few pro tip videos. That was, last year, around World Cup when we were around to DJ and my brother Matt, and both did the little pro tip video. I've been meaning to do mine. I've got a few questions that people have asked me, and I just want to cover those. I appreciate you guys watching and checking in. A lot of people seem to like the pro tips, so hopefully we can bring you guys some more guys and girls, bring you some more pro tips, maybe some more drills. That's the focus for this year. Add another series to our YouTube channel, try to offer a little bit more than just basic product reviews and stuff like that. So, let me go ahead and get started.
First question, do I feel younger players should focus on doing drills or scrimmaging more and why? By the way, don't read phones and text and drive at the same time. It's dangerous. I just don't have a sidekick right now on my way to the field. So, I've got to do what I got to do. All right. So, the question was, do you feel young players, younger players should focus on doing drills or scrimmaging more and why?
So, when I growing up, I was all about the fundamentals. I feel like in the lower divisions, it has a lot to do with just individual gun skills. There's not as much, I guess the way I'm saying there's not as much game strategy. You don't have a ton of plays. You don't have a ton of calls. Most teams are super pumped. If everybody in the team remembers the kill count and all the bunker names, that's a really good starting point for newer teams that are just getting into it. So, with that said, I feel that younger players on their own time, not on a team scrim or a team day, if you're going to go out and play paintball at least for an hour every single time you go shoot your gun, you should be focusing on nothing but accuracy drills. You could be the fastest player out there. You could be the smartest player out there. But, if you can't hit what you're shooting at, I know that sounds super obvious, but if you can't hit what you're shooting at with the first three paint balls that are coming out of your gun, you're missing shots you shouldn't miss, you're losing games you shouldn't lose.
It's just not... You really got to take care of the fundamentals. In your basic three-on-three format, I don't feel like it's the break of the game is you're going snake-off break, running and shooting, shoot the guys out on the way in, dive in and snapshot everybody out of the game. I don't really think that's how it's going to happen. A lot of people are going to take three conservative spots and you are going to physically gunfight out of those spots until you move to your next spots and then you're going to gunfight. One of my personal rules on any team that I try to help out, I try to make sure that everybody's focusing on what you're going to actually do in a game over and over again. Some people love to do snapshooting drills. I think because it's the easiest, you're not running around, but also because you can stand still, you can shoot a target, you can have quick success with it, and that's great. But in a game, if you notice the smarter professional players, they gunfight less than most players because that's a high risk. You're coming out into a into a paintball.
You're physically fighting back and forth constantly, and you've got a high risk of dying. So, I don't think snapshot shooting should be the focus of most players. I think it should be actual in-game situations, maybe snapshot shooting at a pole, sliding into your spot, getting your gun up quick and shooting again to try to get that first ball accuracy. I think, that is the biggest difference between pro and divisional is you see some of these pro guys, they hit the shot every single time. Archie Montemayor, one of the most accurate players out there, Justin Rovikov, my brother Matt Jackson. If you've talked to anybody who's ever watched those guys play, their first ball accuracy is incredible. You look at them, you know you're probably getting shot if you're not tight, you're not playing quick and tight. So, as far back to the question, I think they should do more drills and I think that they should scrimmage only on layouts. And when they do layouts, I think they should be focusing on teamwork. Again, the fundamentals, teamwork and learning the field. I don't think you should spend team days doing drills. That's like spending team days to go work out at the gym.
That's, in my opinion, a personal thing that you should do and not take away from the team. Team time should be spent doing team activities, in my opinion. But, to give you to expand on that, a couple of drills that I think you should really be focused on. I do think snapshot is important. I just don't think you should spend the majority of your time on it. There is a walking and shooting video that I do, and it sounds super lame, but basically to give you an idea, it's all about working on your first ball accuracy. So, if you guys go to our YouTube channel, we have a playlist on there. It's called Pro Tips. It's got other videos like this one, and it actually has a couple of pro tip videos that I've done. And what it is, is you take two steps with your eyes looking either down to the ground or straight ahead, and you pick up your gun. And as you pick up your gun, you find the target with your eyes. So, instead of looking at the target, picking up your gun, aiming it, the idea is you're trying to simulate, you're trying to replicate the idea that you're running to your spot or you're getting to your spot, you see a target that you have to quickly shoot and you pick it up and hit it with that first ball. Anybody can hit a target.
I say most anybody can hit a target with 10 paintballs. If you're still not at the point where you can hit a target quickly with 10 paintballs, then make your goal where you can hit a target quickly with 10 paintballs, and then work your down to the first five paintballs, and then work your down your way down to the first two paintballs. But this drill, I love it because it doesn't cost a lot of paint. You can physically do it between games without wearing yourself out and without costing yourself a lot of money. You take a couple of steps, you pick up your gun, you shoot a target.
When you're looking at that target, a lot of people like to shoot the netting poles. Netting pulls are terrible for accuracy drills because it's vertically. A paintball drops, obviously drops straight. So, if you're aiming at the pole up here and you're aiming up here, but it hits down here, you're really only aiming left to right. You're only working on your accuracy left to right. Your vertical aim is not very good. So, what I like to do is I'll pick a target on that pole, a black notch on the pole, a paint spot.
That's one really good thing. If you've already shot the pole a couple of times or whatnot, you can try to shoot that exact paint spot before. You have to be very specific on the horizontal axis and the vertical axis when you're talking about drills and accuracy, and stuff like that. Because everybody knows depth perception and the elevation of your shot when you see a barrel sticking out of a bunker or a goggles tip or an elbow from far away, you have to get that ball the correct X-axis, the correct height and the vertical axis as far as obviously as the height, sorry, and where you're at on the target. So, be very careful. But anyways, the walking shooting drill is a great one for me. Do your fundamentals left hand, your right-hand, as far as snap shooting goes. If you're terrible at snap shooting left handed, my personal rule, as miserable as it sounds and as it actually is, snap shoot twice as much with your offhand as you do with your on-hand. You want to be as confident because that has a lot to do with it as well. If you're not confident left handed, then you're not going to be as good left handed
You could be way better left handed. I feel that some of the most blood shots that I've ever made and some of our most important matches that I've played in my life, I've hit with my left hand. But if you said, Hey, which would I prefer to gunfight with? It'd probably be my right-hand because I'm just right-hand dominant. So, go on that one. And then running a shooting is one of those things I don't think a lot of people should spend a ton of time on. It's an advanced skill. But, I would say third drill, if you had to pick one, maybe, let's say, shooting off break. We've had experience over the years, I've had experience over the years where your front player wants to shoot off break, because they don't practice it and they don't do it a lot at practice, the team isn't confident in them doing that. So, even if you're a front player, a lot of front players don't spend any time shooting off break. I would say practice shooting off break because the more round of a player you are, I don't mean physically, I mean the more well rounded you are as a player, if you can shoot off break and then run to the snake corner and then get in the snake, you're going to get more playing time.
You're going to be more of an asset than the player that can only run fast with his head down. So, again, shooting off break, you do every single game. And shooting off break, I really think, is probably the most important skill that you can have success at. Because if you shoot a guy at break or a girl at break and shoot a player at break, you're talking about playing like a three on two or a five on four instead of... I mean, it just increases your odds of winning that game significantly. So, shooting at break, I would say focus on that one. And again, be very specific about it. When I shoot off break drill, there's a local field TXR paintball that I play at, they have spools. It's easy to hit a giant four-foot spool, but every spool has a hole in it. Try to shoot for the hole in the center of the spool. That helps you at long-distance getting your elevation on your X-axis, vertical axis accurate, get your eyes trained for that depth, for that distance, and I think you should be very specific on it. Sorry, I went off on a ran on that one. That's a super important one for me.
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All right, next question. What advice would you give to players? This one says, Who are injured or aren't playing well at an event but still want to be a part of the team? I've had an experience... Basically, to clarify the question, let's say you're not playing very well or you're a newer player on the team, but you still going to the event, you're not really expecting a lot of play time. This question is saying, What should your role be? It's really tough because it's a very emotional answer or it's a very emotional decision once you get to the field. You may think you're okay with supporting a team and watching everybody else have fun and compete, and play paintball because you want your shot to be good and be helpful and contribute. But, when you get there, it's really bad. It's really not any fun if you are maybe somebody's playing bad even and you think you play better. You're just fired up inside. You hate that feeling of maybe not valued or people don't think you're that good.
To answer that question, I would say the only answer to what you should do is bury that deep inside when you're out the field. You show up to the tournament. Once you step out of that car, you are a team. Your team is going to win, no individual wins a five-on-five tournament, or a three-on-three tournament, or an X-ball tournament. Not an individual. A team wins that. If you really truly support your team and you want to be a team player and you want to show the captain or coach or team owner or team dad, whatever it is, or team mom, whatever it is, if you really want to show them that you're a team player and you want to show your other players that are on your team that you deserve a shot, do your part. Fill pods. Be motivated. Give them high fives when they do a good job. Slap them on the back when they do a bad job and tell them, Hey, get them next time. Be positive. Be motivated. Because that energy that you carry in the pit, when they walk back in and you're pouting in the corner, does nobody any good. It just doesn't help the situation. The coach probably wants you out of it because if, let's say your team is hyped up and you just had a good point, but you're bringing everybody down, it's not good energy.
So, fill pods, wipe off people, have a gun ready to go help somebody get air. But don't just pick and choose. Do that the whole time. So, basically, you're being a true team player. Be ready to go at any single time. Make sure you're doing your part. Don't moat, don't whine about it. However, if you're on a team that takes advantage of you and is never letting you get a chance and never letting you get play time, maybe it's time to go find another team. I'm not saying that should happen in a month of you practicing with a new team or joining a new team, or if you are new to Tournament Paintball. I don't think that should happen very quickly. It has a lot to do with the confidence in the team as a player. You have to understand too, the core of the players that maybe have already been on the team, they have to trust you. You're not going to go jump out of an airplane and expect somebody that just has never packed your parachute before to pack your parachute. It's important. They got to be able to depend on you. You have to build that trust over time with going and going, going, and whatnot.
Again, if a team is taking advantage of you and you're never going to play and it doesn't look like that, then maybe that team isn't right for you. But, as far as a team that you're confident with and that you enjoy being around and you get play time and practice and maybe a handful at the tournament, just do your part. Don't moat, though. Don't whine. Don't complain in the middle of the tournament. It's not about you. When that tournament starts, it is not about you as an individual. It's not about any of us as individuals. It is about the team winning, the team energy, and the team focus. So, don't be a baby. I mean, as uncomfortable as that might be or as unenjoyable as that will be everybody experiences at some point in your life. I played my very first team at very first event with AC. Dallas. I played one point. I think it was the last or second to last point I played, and I had never experienced that before. And it was terrible, absolutely terrible.
Eight inches of water and mud on the pants that I was wearing because the pits were muddy and nasty. And I just got to watch everybody around me play. And I had to talk with the coach afterwards and told him straight up, like, hey, if you don't think I'm good enough, then don't put me on the team. I'll be here and support them, but I'm not going to stand around and play just because of whatever the reason behind it was. I didn't understand it, but I believe it was the coach didn't have confidence in me because we had just met. I just joined the team as my first event with the team. And so, there was no confidence there until I built that confidence. I didn't get playing time. And so I understood that we had an open communication, but I didn't pout, I didn't throw a fit, I didn't storm off, and I didn't quit the team. I made sure I went and communicated maturely. I didn't scream anything like that maturely with the owner and got it out of the way. All right, so hopefully that answered that question.
All right. And then what is the most important mental or physical skill? I would say a back center player should constantly improve on.
This is kind of cool because I had a question the other day on my Instagram that a player said, do I do any preparation before I practice on a layout? So, this has to do with a back player and just me as a general. I'm very technical player. I love knowing the field and how the field works and operates. But one thing I think a lot of players don't do is I treat a layout and a tournament.
The tournament is a test. The practices are your reviews, your practice exams, your quizzes, whatever you want to call it, that's what your practices are. And I don't think players do that. I think all players are worried about winning too much at practice. Of course, the end game, the big goal, is to win every game at practice.
But, if you win every single game, you're not learning. And again, you're going to use these practices should be to learn. So, one important skill I think every back player should do, because you have to understand the field. I think you have to understand the field better than anybody. Because a back player in the middle of the game can rotate left down the dorito on side, it can rotate right down the snake side.
It can go up the center of the field. Whereas snake player may never even see a dorito bunker except for the people he's shooting at. He or she's shooting at. So, I would say, as a back player, first cool little tip that you can do on your own. And I think it should be very important that you put into your routine is you need to study a layout.
So, well that before you play on it one time, before you even see the layout in person, you can turn a blank piece of paper over or the backside of your printed layout, and you can draw the entire layout without looking at it by memory. The reason why I think it's such so important is you are able to now in your head while playing, you're not trying to figure out the field, you know the field, you know at least where the bunkers are, so then your brain can put together the pieces. If you don't know that there's a gap between the snake one and snake two and you go sliding in and you die in the middle of middle of your practice, you're going to learn, obviously, but imagine skipping that learning curve because you had the field memorized already. And so, I think it helps your learning curve of knowing the layout ten times faster. I even come up with spots that I think I can eliminate off break
I'm like, okay, well that looks like a pretty good spot, or that spot looks terrible. There's too big spot and too much stuff in the way. Don't think I can shoot that shot off break. So, I kind of get these generalizations before I play on an event or before I play on a layout. But, of course you can't just be black and white and be like oh, that won't work on the piece of paper because obviously a piece of paper are 100%.
But, you want to study and get the fundamentals down the position of the bunkers. And so as a back player you can do all that as a physical skill. One thing I think you should work on, of course, is your off brake shots. You have to be able to shoot off break right handed, your strong hand most for most people and left handed, if you're left handed, you have to be able to play strong with your right handed. You can't just only always shoot right handed.
All we played a team way back in the day that only shot right handed off break, no matter what side of the field they switch. It was kind of a cool idea. No matter what, they always shot right handed, which was great for them if nobody ever picked up on it. But we did pick up on it and we would run literally to like the 50 dorito on the opposite side of the field. We did that three or four points in a row, ₩1 our match, because we scouted them and said, you got to be kidding me.
Everybody only shoots right handed. I mean, it's unique and nobody would scout them. They could have done it. So be great at right handed and left handed shooting on break. And then of course, Gun fighting I think is super important. You have to be anchor, you have to be dependable, and you have to be that last person alive on the field. If you're dying out of the back center spot, you're losing most of your communication for your team. You're the central piece that puts both sides together, so you have to stay alive. And then you got to get that kill off break. If you're playing in an event and you didn't kill a single person off break as a back player, you didn't do your job.
I don't think you've done your job. I'm not saying you should kill every single person, every single point, but the one thing you can guarantee, every point that somebody's running somewhere and you get a shoot at them. If your team is playing well in the middle of a point, it's really hard for a back player unless you're going to run through the center to really get easy kills. Because if your front players and your twos on each side of you are very strong, they do a really good job of controlling the players in front of you. And then it's just kind of your job to kind of work the center, get communication across, and close out the game strong and stay alive.
So, shoot off break for the drill. Shoot off break. Hammer it out left handed, right handed. Be very specific as you get better at shooting off break. I think a lot of people think it's very easy.
You can start moving your shots back. So, let's say there's a snake corner that people are going to and they're dying a lot. That's only going to happen early in prelims with the teams that aren't as experienced as you play against better teams and you get to the finals, you've ever played in the finals, you know, those teams start tightening up. They're like, okay, well, that spot, everybody dies going to. We're going to go one shorter than that. We're not going to take that risk. We want to keep five buys, five bodies alive or three bodies alive, but we're not going to take the risk. Imagine being able to shoot the person 10ft off the box. Go, go. They die going into the stand up can on the snake side, even though they thought they weren't taking any risk because they weren't going wide, but you still shot them because you were that good at shooting off break.
Probably, one of the most enjoyable things to do as a back player is to shoot a shot that that player doesn't think he can be shot at. And then he walks up to you, he or she walks up to you and they go, I just died. And I have no idea how you just laugh. You're like, because my quick shot off break is so quick and so accurate because I practiced so much and put so much time in it. I shot a player that thought he had it he or she made it, had it made gravy to go into that spot. So, work on your quick shot. But that is definitely second than just working on your accuracy off break with left handed and right handed.
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I've grabbed the most popular entry-level guns here that don't come with a case. For example, the HK Army SABR, comes in a nice cardboard box. The Empire Mini, same thing. Comes with a parts kit, but a nice cardboard box, die-CZ-R, cardboard box. The Chaos 3, your Blitz. And I've got the Tippmann Stormer. I'm going to start with these smaller gun cases, so get the big ones out of the way here.
To start off, so you have the Exalt case and the HK Army marker case. Both of these have a carrying handle on them. Both of them have two zippers. So, you can see that two compartments. It's a small compartment there. And you've got one here with a divider. This is the Exalt one. Going to the HK Army marker case, it is larger. So the thickness of it, let me show you that, the thickness of the case is quite a bit different. Price wise, the Exalt marker case is only five dollars less than the HK Army one, I believe. Yeah. So the marker case 2.0 by HK Army, is a carbon marker case 2.0 is $4.95, and the exalt carbon case is only $39.95.
So, five dollars difference, but it definitely looks like you get a little bit more room in the HK Army Case. Let's open it up. So you've got the same thing. You've got a nice hard separator there, a ton of barrels. I believe in both of these, the marker separator or the separator here does un-velcro. So, you've got that there. And on this one, yeah, so both of those can come out. So, if you don't need this little extra pocket and zip on both of these, you can get rid of that if you need some more room.
And then on the other side, see what we've got. Just a nice big, heavy duty section, protected. Both of these have pretty good protection, but not as deep. On this side, you look at the HK Army one, you get quite a bit more depth. Turn it sideways there you can see how far that goes in compared to this one here. Almost no depth to it at all. So, definitely looks like you can fit more in the HK Army case. Both of them have really nice zippers, like I said. They've got like a microfiber cloth finish on the inside of it. Way more barrels on the HK Army case. One thing to know, if you're a newer player and you're looking for a gun case, a lot of your entry level guns come with what's called a one piece barrel. Once you get over the 250, 300, you will start seeing a two piece barrel. And what that means is it's a one piece compared to two pieces. So, this barrel has two different pieces here they unscrew. So, the reason why that's important for a gun case is you can unscrew these and you can put them in each one of the slots here. So, that one will go all the way down just like that.
Here.
But a one piece barrel will not fit in one of the holders. I think this is a 10 or a 12 inch. So, one thing you can do, see how it won't fit here, is going to stick out the top.
So, you can do that. You can do it categorized like this. So, you can take the other side of it, I messed with it a little bit, and it will fit. This goes for the HK Army SABR. Let's check out the Blitz. I mean, sorry, the Chaos. I keep saying that. The Chaos 3. So, you can put it in at an angle, so it will close up. So, technically, this case will work. It just won't go in the normal cases here or the normal barrel spots. Your storm or barrel is so short it should go in here. If not, it will definitely fit at an angle on the other side. Both of them come with, I'll show you this side here. The removable part inside here, you can see both have zippers on them. So, nice little pocket. Put your keys, wallet, lube, anything extra like that. Same for here. Got some nice little pocket. This one's labeled though, so just in case you forget, tools. Good to go. So, larger pocket on that one. So that's your smaller one like I said, smaller one is 39.95 from Exalt, 44.95 for your HK Army one.
All right, so jumping into the larger cases, you can see the smaller HK 1 versus the large Exalt. See, quite a bit difference in here. Same thickness as far as the HK 1 goes. Same thickness on the small one and the large one, and similar thickness between the large Exalt and the small Exalt. It definitely looks a tad thicker here. So, it looks like it should be able to fit guns that might be a little wider that you might need more of a deep pocket into it. So, jumping into the large cases, you can see that both of them have two zippers, just like the smaller cases did. So, you open up that first spot there.
So, on the Exalt 1 and the HK 1, same thing, same microfiber finish. This again has a deeper pocket, a deeper case. Both are a hard shell, not like a hard metal shell, but it's like almost like a thin plastic type shell. Both of them feel very similar as far as the durability. You got your insert in both of them.
Good to go there.
On the Exalt 1, let's turn this around here, you can see this has way more spots to put either barrels or swabs or anything you might need. Let's say you're going to throw something like this. It's got a ton of spots that you can customize it and see how you want. Almost like a Molle attachment, but with elastic. And then the HK Army one, just going to grab this zip here, has the deep pocket on the other side, just like the exalt. So, same thing, I'm talking on there, but the middle one is a little different. So, you still have a ton of barrel options. So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 on the HK one. There are small pocket here. Another elastic strap to do what you do as you please.
The same squeegee area and another additional area here for anything elastic. Small Velcro pocket. There's actually two of them here. So one where you can see and one where you cannot. And a couple of small pockets where the tools go. So, let's turn this around one more time. It looks like the larger case has more pockets and more options. So, on the divider here, you've got a large pocket for the Exalt 1, large zip or pocket. But there's no pockets that you can see through. I do like that a little bit better on the HK 1. So, even here in the bottom, I could have a lanyard or something with a certain Allen key or something like that, certain tool. And I can actually see the size or see what's inside of there. Just like on both of them, you do have a large zip or pocket to keep things closed up.
It looks like both of them are very similar. So, both of the larger cases are the same price. They're $49.95. I would say if they're the exact same price, I definitely would lean more towards the HK Army gun case. Of course, all these cases are available on our website, proedgepaintball.com.
Go into there.
You can search exalt case, hard case, gun case, anything like that should pull it up for you. So, good to go there. Let's go and throw some guns in here and see what we've got. So, this one I like because we have a lot of people, a lot of players out there that start with a Tippmann beginner gun, and they need a case because they only come in a big cardboard box. The HK Army 1, throw your case, your gun in there, close it up. Because of the length of the case now, you can actually fit a one piece barrel if you have to.
So, this is my Azodin barrel and it's one piece. I could actually throw that in there. So, you have to stick that out a little bit further, but it does where it's supposed to. So, if you have a two-piece barrel, it most definitely will fit. Let's see if you could fit a 14-inch barrel without taking apart. So this is going to be a 14-inch dice-CZ-R barrel. And you're good to go. So, you technically could fit perfectly right there. As far as the exalt one goes, let's see. Yeah, you could definitely fit that right here on their elastic. Just go like this. And you're good to go. So, that's what that is looking like right there. Of course, you could put more elastic. You can fit quite a few more barrels probably on this. And of course, different insert, different swabs. You could do a very similar idea on that one there.
Okay, so just to show you real quick, we have the Stormer inside here. So, your Cronus tactical, your Stormer basic.
Sorry, your Cronus, not your tactical. The Cronus basic and the Stormer basic will both fit. The tactical guns, the Cronus tactical and the tactical, Stormer elite will not fit in this case. But any of your other guns that you've seen a Azodin Chaos, a Azodin Blitz, mini-GS, and your HK Army SABR, both of these will fit everything you need to. So, even this one, I've got room for other stuff in here because just with my Stormer in there. So, you could technically fit two Stormer or two different gun setups inside of here without a problem. Definitely load these up, no problem at all.
Let's go there. Let's throw the CZ-R in here. This is no problem, without a doubt. It's going to fit. Say we have a mini in here. We're going to throw our mini in here as well. Throw our barrel in here. I'm going to move this one over just a little bit. So, good to go. So, I've got both my barrels in there like that. I've got my mini GS at the bottom, I've got my die CZ - R at the top. I'm going to close it up.
No problem at all.
So, if you're looking for a gun case, I think either one of these will do pretty much what everybody is looking for. If you do need a little bit more room, a little bit more space for carrying items, I would definitely lean more towards the HK Army hard case. Again, they're the exact same price for the larger one. They're $49.95. We do have all of these cases available on our website, Proedgepaintball.com, so either swing by our store or you shop us online. If you guys have any questions about the cases or if there's anything else you want to see about the case or if you have any feedback, if you have used one of these cases before and you like it or hate it or have had problems, makes you comment below. If you like the video, please go ahead and click like please. That really helps our videos show up to other players like yourself. And of course, if you like weekly paintball review videos, go ahead and subscribe to our YouTube channel where we release at least two or three videos every single week. Otherwise, thank you guys so much for watching. We'll see you around.
Hey, guys. John here with Pro Edge paintball. Today, I've got the Planet Eclipse holdall Duffle bag. They've had this bag around for a few years, but I want to see how much it'll hold. I want to show you how much it'll hold.
So, we've got the new colors here. We'll go reach one of those. And then I've got some gear that we're going to cram in here and see just how much. What all we can fit in there, see if we can fit a full setup. First, let's move these out of the way. We got five new colors for this year and two old colors. So, first one's up. I like the new two-tone here. They've got the two-tone color combo. They didn't do that before. Duffle bag, give you a little overview. Got the carry handle. And then I think there is the shoulder strap here, too. Let's open this one up, at least on the first one, so I can show you what's going on. Shoulder strap. Got the matching little print there. That's cool. Throw it on.
Good to go.
So, this bag is perfect for an extra bag. If you already have a large gear bag and you have some handful of stuff you want to take to the field, or if you're new to paintball and you're getting started and you don't want to spin an arm and a leg on a gear bag. These are, I think they're $49.95, $39.95. I will make sure I comment and make sure I get the correct price for you. But pretty inexpensive bag, pretty good. I've got the two tone. This is the first color. This is their Sub-Zero, of course, like the blue. Good to go. Okay. We've got the Revolution color here. Same thing. Carry handle, same thing on the side. It's got your little Velcro pocket for your ID. So, if you need to show maybe your player card at an event or you just want to have your ID, maybe some cash in there. Can you put some cash? Yeah, put some cash for lunch money. You know, Max, we put some lunch money in there for you. I think that's the only pocket on the outside. You've got your main compartment here. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. You've got main compartment on the inside. And you do have one small zipper pocket right there. So, you put your phone, keys, wallet on the inside there so it's safe. Carrying handles on both ends, so you can hold it pretty easy. This one pocket on the end of it here is really nice. It's got their plastic type gray lining on the inside that their large bags have that the large compartment does not. And I would assume this is probably for dirty clothes or a pair of cleats, mainly because it's not going to stain the material on the inside of it. So, if you put paint-filled, paintball pants in the large compartment, you're going to get paint on everything. It's going to be stained on the actually the cloth material. But in this one here, it can be wiped down really easy. So, looking at this, probably we recommend put dirty cleats or dirty pants or something extremely dirty covered in paint, maybe even a dirty loader inside that pocket there. So, this is your revolution.
This one, let's see what color we got here. This is what's called their Midnight. So, all gray and black. Pretty good size there. So, we're looking at probably about two feet in width and then thickness, probably about a foot, a foot and a half maybe. So, a foot and a quarter.
Good to go.
Pretty heavy duty stitching, it looks like. We've got some rivets here on the top. So, it looks like you've put some weight in here. Usually, when we have these on display in the store we put a case of paint inside to make it blow up. So you can hold at least a case of paint size wise in here. So there's your midnight. Of course, these are available on our website, proedgepaintball.com, proedgepb.com. Either one of those goes to the same place. You can search hold all, one word, or you might be the whole Duffle or typing Duffle bag in the search and these will pull up or click on the gear bag section. It'll list all the gear bags in there. All right, next color. Like I said, five new colors for 2023 and then two colors from the previous years so this one here. This one here, this is their Poison color. It's nice little highlight. Nothing too crazy, I don't think. If you're not familiar with this, it actually has the Eclipse E in the logo. You see that there. You might not have noticed that before. It's cool. And last new color, that one was Poison. This one is going to be their Dark haze. So, it's got the black and gray. It's got the cool color on the end of it there.
So, a little accent. Good to go. Matching handle. It's all cute. I like this stuff. So if you like this color. Oh, I didn't see this. It's got another pocket on the end of it. Like I said, these have been out for a handful of years. We sell quite a few of them. A lot of people like them for a good starter bag or an extra bag. They also fold up extremely small. So, realistically, one little pro tip you can do is if you're traveling somewhere and you think you're going to have more gear on your way back than you did on the way to the event, even to a scenario or anything like that, this doesn't take up a lot of room. You can throw this in your bag. And that way, if you're going to be over the weight limit, you can bust this out and you can do another carry on. You can carry this onto the airplane or just extra bag in general without taking up too much room. So don't forget carrying handle, Velcro at the top, really heavy duty stitching. It's got a shoulder strap in there. It's got an end compartment, like I said, probably for cleats.
But, let's go ahead and fill this thing up. Oh, wait, actually, we got the two old colors. These are very popular colors. This is just basic gray and black. This is called grit. This is their HDE Earth. So they make guns in this color. They make other gear bags. They've done arm pads in this color. I've done a lot in this color. So, good to go there. So we use this one to fill it up.
Good to go.
All right. So, open it up. I hope I've grabbed enough gear. Let's see. Grab the full setup. All right. So I've got the bag opened up, got everything. I've got the gear set aside. Let's see what we can fit in here. So, just start with... I've got the HK Army Sonic’s loader, available at proedgepaintball.com. Nice electronic beginner loader. We've got an HK Army 48-3,000 compressed air tank. Put that bad boy in here. Let's just pack it up real quick. I've got a die-CZ-R. So, you've got this in the box. Let's just go and take up as much room as we can, I guess, see what we've got going.
All right.
Good to go.
Let's see what else we've got here. I'm going to do the full NXC four pack with pods for that type of boy in there. All right, get it full. I would say probably not going to fit a mask, but who knows? I'm going to throw an... I've got an HK Army jersey. I've got HK Army pants. So, we have gun in the box, though. You can probably even take up less room if you pull it out of the box, 43,000 air tank, electronic copper, a full pack with four pods inside of it, jersey pants. Let's see if I can zip it up. Oh, yeah. No problem. All right. So, I've got a full setup, except for the mask. Usually, I don't recommend put a mask inside your bag and get scratched up, but you could probably attach this, let's say, to the maybe like a carabiner or something, click it on the on the side here. So, when you carry it, you can hang it on the side. But, we still have a little bit extra room on the outside here. I don't know. We've got a whole extra pocket. So, you could put your dirty cleats because we don't have arm pads or knee pads in here.
We don't have cleats. So right now, if you're going to wear even dirty tennis shoes, you can definitely throw those into here. So, that's nice. Your dirty paintball shoes are always set. You've got your pants and jerseys or pants and jersey. You've got… What am I missing? I don't have a headband. You can throw a headband in here. No problem. You've got the loader, everything you need. This is the basic, like I said, basic bag. Set it up. Carats the field, throw in your car. I don't even really cramp it in there too much. It's cool. Make sure you shop proedgepaintball.com. You can get all the colors. All the colors are in stock. We also have the larger Planet Eclipse backpacks with the matching colors, and we also have their large roller gear bags and all colors in stock, proedgepaintball.com. Thank you guys so much for watching. Don't forget to like our video and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Thanks so much.
Hey, everyone. John Jackson here with Pro Edge Paintball. Today, I've got the HK Army Evo Speed Feed. If you're new to paintball, I'm going to explain what that is and what that means. And also for the players out there that already play, I'm going to answer, is it worth the price?
So, the HK Army Evo Speed Feed is an all metal aluminum Speed Feed. It will fit the Virtue Spire IR, the IR2, the Spire 4, 5, the Bunker Kings control loader, and the HK sonic loader, the new loader from HK. These are loader specific. So, if you have like a halo or a dye loader, this Speed Feed will not work. There are other options for you we have available on our website. So, if you're new to paintball, a Speed Feed is a device that allows you to remove the lid from your hopper and replace it with what's called a Speed Feed, which allows you to still keep the paint balls from falling out while pouring paint balls in fast and when you're reloading. So, you can shoot. If you ever watch any videos, you can shoot, reload without having to open or close your lid. The number one most popular question I get about the HK Army Evo Speed Feed is why is it so expensive and is it worth it?
So, to compare it to other Speed Feeds, for example, this is an HK Army SFR, Speed Feed. It is a plastic on the outside and rubber tabs on the inside. And this is just straight out of the package. If you can tell already some of the fingers in here, I don't want to say worn out because this is brand new out of the package, but they're plastic. The number one issue you're going to run into a plastic speed feed is if you ever get shot from a semi-close distance, the speed feed, the finger itself could break off. So, much so that Virtue already includes one in the package and not the dog on the speed feed. It's going to do what you need to. It's just not going to work as well as the nicest one will, which I believe is going to be the HK Army Evo Speed Feed.
These are $29.95. There's another option out there. This is one of the very first Speed Feeds, Virtue, made available. It's one of the first spring finger ones, I believe, which is really nice.
So, similar to the HK Army one, the Virtue Speed Feed has a little spring inside the finger for spring finger, and it actually makes it perfect. So, the weight of it, one ball can go in at a time, but it's enough spring to basically spring it back up and close it up. So, these are great options for a lesser price, but they're not going to last you as long. They are going to break. Again, they include an extra spring or extra finger inside just in case they do break.
So, back to the question, is it worth the price? I personally think it is. For $54.95, you get an all metal, aluminum, custom color speed feed that's not going to break unless you run it over with your car. Pretty much that's the only time I've ever seen one broken. If somebody takes it, smashes it, runs it over with something. But normal use on a paintball gun on a paintball field, you're not going to have any problems with it, from my experience. I've used it a little bit over a year, and I absolutely love they can customize the color. So, my gun is silver and red. So, of course, I got the silver and red one there. Not only is the HK Army Evo Speed feed going to be extremely durable, but also it's available in more colors than any other Speed Feed out there.
In total, I believe there are 64 different color combinations. Of course, I don't have them all here today because we do custom build them. But this, for example, is a purple with black. We've got your red with gold. I believe you have your blue with black and your red with black. And like my personal one, we have a silver with red. So what we do is we take the ring of the speed feed and the fingers, separate them, and then pick the color of these fingers that you want inside the speed feed.
So, if you wanted, for example, like this one, a red with gold, or you could mix it. You could do red teeth with a gold ring. We have that option as well on our website, proedgepaintball.com. Check it out. I go in there and type in, Evo Speed Feed to pull up all our color options. As you can tell, these are very reliable, durable, cool looking Speed Feed. The Speed Feed also is extremely easy to install.
So, you would just remove your lid. There's a small button type you press into here. You're going to wiggle it back and forth. It's going to lock into place. So, it's difficult to get out at first, work it out. And then whatever speed feed you have, you want to click it back in just like that. I'm going to press the button here in the back. So, it has a little spring tension on it. So, that way it locks into place. I'm going to latch it into place here. Once you get it into place, it's not opening up.
No matter what you do, it's not going to open up until I press the button and it opens up. So, if you want to open it up like a lid before a game, right in the middle of the game, it is locked and loaded, ready to go, not going to come apart and carry the whole loader just from the teeth. So, nothing's going to break.
Very durable.
Like I mentioned, these are all available on our website, proedgepaintball.com. If you have any questions or any comments, if you have a speed feed that you prefer over the HK Army Speed feed, make sure to comment below. Give me a shout out to let me know what you think. Don't forget all these colors are available on our website, proedgepaintball. Com. If you like our weekly videos, make sure you like this video and subscribe. By liking the video, you really help our video and show up to other players like yourself that might be looking for new paintball tips and different reviews and all that good stuff. So, again, if you have any comments or any questions, make sure to give me a shout out below in the comments. Otherwise, thank you guys so much for watching.
Hey, guys. John Jackson here at Pro Edge Paintball. I'm back with another product video. Today, I've got the brand new Gog paintball Freak Junior XL kit.
So, the Freak Barrel System has been probably one of the most popular, if not the most popular, barrel kit for 20 years. I'm about to be 37. I had one when I was 15, 16 years old. They've been around absolutely forever. They made a couple of changes. If you have done research, you have a short freak insert previously, and now you have a freak XL, which is a longer insert, I believe, an eight-inch insert.
The idea behind this is it's supposed to be a longer control board, which is supposed to make the shot more consistent because it controls the ball for a longer distance, I guess, as far as insert length goes. One thing that GOG has... Gog paintballs have always done a good job of making sure that their barrel prices have been pretty good. I mean, under $100 or around $100, even with all the price increases over the last couple of years. This year they came out and they did the exact same thing. So, if you were new to paintball and you were looking for an upgraded barrel, or let's say you just got your mini GS, your dice CZ-R, even your Chaos or your Blitz or your HK SABR, any of your entry-level paintball guns that take auto-caulk or threading, that is the threading of the barrel, and you're looking to upgrade a barrel, from what we've seen so far, this would definitely be a recommended, a highly recommended barrel upgrade that you could do. I'm going to explain why.
A normal standard barrel is usually 12 to 14 inches, but it comes with one insert, one diameter on the inside of the barrel. And in order to really fine tune the accuracy of the paintball, you really need to change that diameter to make it fit the paintball that you're using. For example, if you play at a paintball field that's filled paint only, meaning you have to use their paint balls, that means you can't go by different paint balls. They're going to help you shoot better or more accurate. You have to use what the field is using. So, you can't change that. But, one thing you can change is you can change your barrel. The barrel and the paint match are pretty much the only two things or the main two things that control your accuracy when it comes to a paintball gun firing correctly, firing straight. So, what Gog paintball has brought to us today is an entry level, very low price, in my opinion, barrel kit that you can get started. So, this is the Freak Junior XL kit. It comes in a pod. Now, instead of an expensive case that the other ones came in, it's got a pod. It costs $2.50 retail. So a pod. It's got a little barrel insert there. So, what's nice about this is it holds one insert, the barrel back and the front. So when you're getting started, you don't need the full kit. The full freak XL kit comes with, actually, let's look real quick, it comes with nine inserts. So, we're looking at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, eight inserts are all of the inserts you can buy from Free paintball or from Gog paintball. But, when you get started, you don't know how to use that, so you really don't need that to get started. And if you're new and you're getting started, usually on a budget, you're trying to figure out what you want to spend money on, what you can spend money on. And so Gog paintball has offered a great opportunity, a great alternative to getting started in paintball or in a paintball barrel.
So, Gog paintball has given us a great opportunity and great opportunity for a lot of the newer players out there to get started with a freak barrel or for the barrel kit for low price. So, the price on this is going to be $99. $99.95, I believe. And it comes in a ton of colors. In 2022 and earlier they didn't come in color stock from the factory. You could get them from certain stores that would anodize and custom make their own. But, as far as straight from the factory, we could not get a colored barrel. And so, of course, you see only a handful of colors that are even available in front of you here because we're on other colors that have arrived. You have your pink, your teal. They also offer a blue. They have orange, black, gold, or gray.
What we're missing here is going to be red, silver, blue, lime, and purple. They're going to give you eleven different color choices straight out of the box, which is great. You have a ton of choices to match your gun, especially those Azodin guns or even the HK Army guns. Of course, your CZ-Rs and your Minis all come in a ton of color. So, what's nice about this is you can actually hopefully match it to your color of gun. So, you got a good start. What do you get for $99? You get the pod, which is your case. If this breaks, you break the lid, go get a different pod. $2.50 is great. Or there's always barrel cases out there from HK and Exalt. So, you have a ton of options to go with the barrel kit or barrel case. It comes with a little rubber insert that goes inside of the pod. And so that way your barrels will stand there. And I'll show you the barrel quick. So, if your barrel front with straight porting there, you have your barrel back and you do have your freak Excel insert. So, like I was saying earlier, it's about eight inch control board insert and actually has a number on here. This is 0.689. That's what comes standard with your Freak Junior XL two-piece barrel kit. Every paint ball, we get this question a lot though, every paint ball is 68 caliber. But, of course, with anything mass-produced, it does vary in size. And so 0.689 is still 68 caliber, but it's almost 69 caliber, realistically. So, if you get a smaller paint ball, you may want to go with a smaller insert size and so on and so forth. And that's what bore sizing is in a pretty simple way.
So, for $99 you get your barrel back, barrel front and one insert. You get it inside your kit here. So, you can open this up, have the insert, everything good to go. If you wanted to buy an extra insert, let's say you're shooting smaller paint balls out there. And basically, you're chronicling and you're not getting a real consistent speed over the chronograph, you may want to start experimenting with different insert sizes. So, instead of buying a full freak XL barrel kit, which runs, I believe, $209, so $210, this is $99 to get you started. You can buy one extra insert for $15 or $14.95, maybe an extra insert, $14.95. You're still well under that full price of $210 for the full freak XL barrel kit. As you progress, you start getting better playing, you start getting more experience with boar sizing. You start just learning a little bit more about your gun and what it does. You can slowly buy different insert for different paintball fields maybe. You have different larger paintballs, a little bit smaller paintballs. Again, they're all 68 caliber, but they are going to vary.
In Texas here in the summer, it's very humid, so sometimes the paint balls will swell up a little bit. So, when it's cold in the morning or cooler in the morning, be a little bit smaller boar size. And as they heat up and humidity gets to the paint balls that you have open, it can actually start shooting the paintball faster because the paint ball has swollen up a little bit and the barrel match has changed from when you first started. I know that's a lot. If you're new to it, that's a little bit maybe a little too over your head, but it's great. It's a good learning thing that you can slowly learn and experience more. The better you get at this, I really feel the more accurate of a player you'll be because the paintball will be shooting more consistent over the chronograph, which will make it more consistent out of your gun and more accurate as you're playing. Just a quick little rundown. If you're shooting a paintball gun and it shoots 300 feet per second the first shot, which is the speed of the ball, 300 feet per second the first shot, but the second shot only shoots 250 feet per second, no matter how accurate you are, that paintball is not flying the same distance every single time because there's variation in the speed of the paint ball flying through the air.
So, when I boar size, what I want to do is I want to find a good paint ball that shoots decently straight, of course. But, I go over to the chronograph, take my kit, and I find out which boar size, which insert will shoot the most consistent over the chronograph. And what that does is if it shoots 300 feet per second almost every single time or very little, I know that paint ball, if I'm shooting accurately pointing at the target, that paintball is going to fly the same distance every single time or extremely close to it, which means it's going to make me more accurate. But if your paintball gun isn't shooting the same speed over the chronograph or even close to it, it's going to be extremely hard for you to be really good at shooting straight. Not to go too much into it, but that's the basic principle I have for bore sizing. And I love this, the Freak Junior barrel kit, Freak Junior XL, because there is an original Freak Junior barrel, don't get confused with that. But the new Freak Junior XL two-piece kit offers a great introductory price, barrel, all that good stuff.
Give you a little rundown too if you get started in this and let's say you really like the way this barrel shoots and you want to get all the inserts and a barrel kit, you can go for $120. You can buy the Freak XL insert aluminum kit. What that means is it gives you the full case, all the inserts, and you can actually put your free junior barrel two-piece barrel inside this case. So, the only thing you'll have extra is going to be your one blue insert because it comes in the other one, but not a big deal. You can always have a spare. That's going to be the one you'll probably use the most anyway. But this gives you a full hard case, all the inserts. And that way you can really bore size. You can really get nitty-gritty as far as the detail and over the chrono. And if you maybe you travel a bunch of local fields, you play scenario events. If you play any other type of events, you can really have a ton of options on boar sizing your paint because you've got the full kit. So, you start off $99.95 for the Freak Junior XL kit. In a month or two, you go and upgrade to the Freak XL Aluminum Kit. The aluminum one I use that as an example, they make stainless steel as well. But the aluminum is the same one that your stock barrel comes with. So, to keep everything consistent and you have a nice case, you got a nice barrel and you're ready to go. I just wanted to show you what it looked like on a gun. The grays don't match exactly the same, but also it's not the same company that's doing it, but it looks really good. So, 14-inch, I believe, 14-inch barrel. Got the porting. So, it's going to be pretty quiet. It's definitely going to be quieter than a lot of the stock barrels that are out there. You can upgrade the tips of these. Freak makes, of course, different tips that you can change for sound signature and just the look of it. They've got a couple of options as well on that one, but you're good to go right there.
So, that is your Freak Junior XL two-piece barrel kit, $99.95. They're available at proedgepaintball. Com. Like I said, we're waiting for the other colors to arrive. We should have them any day. If you guys have any questions about the barrel or what we think about board sizing or other barrel options, not just the freak barrel, even the CZ-R. We have all the colors available for the dye CZ-R in stock at our website, proedgepaintball.com. Again, any questions, comment below. Thank you guys so much for watching. Make sure you liked the video if you found it helpful. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Maybe share it on social media. We appreciate that. Again, thank you guys so much for watching. We'll see you next time.
So, if you are new to paintball or you're looking to upgrade your paintball gun, the Azodin Chaos 3 starter kit is a great kit to get started with. So, I just want to cover the colors and options that are available first, and then we'll get that out of the way. And then I'm going to show you how to set up your Chaos 3 starter kit, show you how to set it up, make sure it's ready to go for the field, and give you some input on it.
So, first color, of course, you're going to have your red and black, probably one of my favorite colors. All black. These are available all on our website, Proedgepaintball.com. What I really like about these, as you can tell even with the purple here, is that the grip colors will match the body. So, it's a nice little upgrade on it. This is a 12-inch barrel and the barrels are auto-cracker threaded. So, in the future, if you're looking to upgrade your barrel, it's going to be auto-cocker threading is the name you're looking for. All right, so we have the blue. We have our pink. So, if you like to be a little more flashy, your lime green, it's real bright. Same thing. The grips match. It's really nice combo to see. And your gold. Good gold color there. We have seven color choices to choose from for the Azodin Chaos 3 starter kit. So, ton of options there. The starter kit does come with your basic Gravity feed hopper. So, this hopper holds 268 caliber paintballs and the Azodin Chaos 3 is only available in 68 caliber right now. So, a 50 cal paintball will not work in this. It's got a basic hopper, snap it closed. You're good to go. It currently comes with the HK Army 48 cubic inch 3,000 psi tank. This is a compressed air or what's called a HPA, high pressure air tank. And this type of air tank on the Azodin Chaos 3 starter kit, you'll get about 800 shots, 800 paint balls through the gun, which is about four hopper fulls before you have to refill your air tank. All right, so I'm going to show you what comes in the box, and then I will show you how to set up your Azodin Chaos 3 starter kit.
All right, so the Azodin Chaos 3 comes in a nice cardboard box. It does not come with a nice case, but there are other cases out there that you can purchase if you want to make sure you secure and safely keep your paintball gun stored. So, once you remove your paintball gun from the box, open it up here, you'll notice you get a nice diagram. So, it has a quick start guide. Basically, everything you'll need to get started and everything I'm going to explain in this video. And on the other side, it has an operation guide. Basically, it's going to explain all the parts and pieces. It has a nice diagram. So, if you're the type of person that likes to clean and maintenance your own paintball gun and learn about it, you can definitely do that. It does come with a warranty card, so you can make sure you fill that out when you purchase this gun. Then, of course, you get your basic barrel sock there. You get a small toolkit comes with Allen keys, extra screws, and O-Rings. That's going to be your basic maintenance. The most popular issues you're going to have with the gun over time. So, let's go ahead and move this out of the way to go ahead and show you how to set up your zone three, Chaos. Out of your box, you'll need your barrel sock for safety. I do recommend grab your Allen keys just in case you need to make some adjustments right out of the box.
So, first things first, you're going to have to screw your barrel on. This is just threads on very easy. So, if you have to force it for any reason, something's not going in correctly. So, just screw it on here and just going to screw it on hand tight. You want to make sure when you put your barrel on, there's no air or air tank on the gun and just tighten it up. There's a small O-ring right here that's going to compress as you tighten it up. That is supposed to keep the barrel from loosening up over time and while you're shooting it. So go ahead and put your barrel sock on. You want to go ahead and pull your barrel sock around the back of the gun here and tuck it behind the grip frame just like that. Next, you want to go ahead and put your hopper on. This is called your feed neck here. This is a clamping feed neck, but that means it actually clamps onto your hopper. There's a small screw right here, and you may need to tighten that up to make sure your hopper doesn't fall off when you're playing.
Go ahead and throw this on here. You can notice if it moves pretty easy, like I don't have to use a lot of force to move this, I would go ahead and tighten this up a little bit until it has more of a snug fit in there. The bag that comes with your KS-3 will actually have the Allen key that you'll need to tighten up the feed neck here. You just want to snug it up enough where this doesn't easily move around. If you over-tighten it, it'll actually compress the feed neck too much in the hopper and might not let paintball feed into your gun. Once you tighten that up, you're ready to go.
Next, you want to go ahead and grab your compressed air tank. So, this air tank does have air in it right now. This is a 3,000 cubic inch bottle. So, it'll say 48 cubic inches. That's going to be the physical size of the bottle and 3,000 PSI. That's the maximum pressure you're supposed to put inside the bottle. You'll notice that the gauge does go all the way up to six, which would represent 6,000 PSI. That is because this gauge is a standard gauge that they use on all air tanks, not just this one. So, you want to stop close to the 3,000 or to the three mark on the gauge for 3,000 PSI. This bottle will be empty when you receive it if you order from an online store or from our store. If you come by our store and order it in-store or pick it up in-store, it will come filled. We give you a free fill when you purchase it in-store. So, once you have air inside of your air tank, what you want to do is you want to go ahead and cock the bolt back. You're going to grab it with your finger and just pull it back a little bit. And you also have a safety on your gun. So, on the left side of your paintball gun, if you press it flush, that's going to be your safety. It's not going to fire. If you press it flush on the right side, so I'm pressing from right to the left. Now, I can pull the trigger and the gun will actually fire. So, if you want to put it on safety, I do recommend always to have the safety on and the barrel sock. At least the barrel sock, worst case.
I don't recommend to put the air tank on the gun ever without a barrel sock on there. But you do want to go ahead and pull this back first. And then I recommend pointing the gun down when you're going to put the air tank on there. So, something like this. And the reason why is you want to make sure the air tank is lined vertically. If you put it at an angle, it can actually cause damage and it won't go in. But, if you put it vertically, I don't have to hold the tank there. I can very loosely just turn the bottle and keep screwing it. You can hear air up here in a second. You'll hear air up a little bit, then you go ahead and snug it up with your hand. I'm not really over-tightening it just enough. That's going to be snug until it stops. Once it stops, you don't want to force it. So, right now you're ready to go. Of course, before you're ready to play, you want to make sure you take your barrel sock off, turn the safety off, and you're ready to go.
The KS-3 is a semi-automatic mechanical paintball gun. What that means is it does not take any batteries and there are no electronics. A lot of players will ask, Well, because it has a double finger, can I rapid fire it? No, this is mainly for looks and to make it an easier pull. So, you can use both of your fingers to pull the trigger because it is a mechanical trigger. It'll be a little bit more difficult to pull the trigger. So, what you want to do here, you would turn the safety off. You can hold it about right here and ready to fire. I don't recommend to store the air tank on your paintball gun for safety reasons and because sometimes the air tank can leak out through the gun with a real small leak that you might not hear. So, next time you go play or you want to shoot in the backyard, your air tank will be completely empty. Also, if you have maybe little brothers, little sisters or somebody that's not familiar with paintball equipment, they could grab your paintball gun, pick it up and pull the trigger just thinking that they're playing around and accidentally shoot it in the house or with somebody not wearing a mask.
Once you've played a couple of times, we do have a video that you can click here above that shows you how to clean the Chaos 3. If you're curious if this paintball gun is a good fit for you, if you're a newer paintball player, you're looking to get started and you want a very lightweight, easy to maintenance and easy to clean paintball gun that's reliable, the Chaos 3 is what I would recommend. This compressed air tank will work on pretty much any paintball gun you slowly upgrade to over time. So, that's a good purchase. The hopper you will upgrade over time, but this is a good reliable, gravity feed hopper is what they call it. It's not going to cause any problems. It's ready to go. And the Chaos 3 is an all metal paintball gun, so it's going to be very durable. It's very easy to clean. And let's say you do have a few leaks or a few issues, it's very simple to work on and very inexpensive to get any o-ring or any parts or pieces for it. So, we definitely recommend the Chaos 3. It's probably our number one seller for the entry-level mechanical paintball gun.
So, once you're done playing, you're going to want to go ahead and take the air tank off. On the bottom of the paintball gun here, there's a small hole. This is for venting out any air that's left inside of your gun. And this is important, so don't click away just yet. So, once you unscrew your air tank, I'm just going to point the gun there, my finger is off the trigger, gun is on safety. I'm going to go ahead and unscrew the air tank here. As you're unscrewing, you want to make sure that the top part of your air tank and the bottom part of your air tank are moving together. If they start moving separate, you want to stop and take it to a paintball store, a paintball field. That means that the valve system here, the regulator is actually coming off the cylinder and that can be dangerous. A lot of the air tanks will actually have a white line on here to show you that it's staying together. Remember the small hole. You want to make sure that hole is pointed down to the ground and away from somebody else because that hole is going to ventilate a lot of air whenever you unscrew the bottle all the way.
So, the air tank is off, but if you hear it like a second, it's going to leak out some air. You might be able to hear it. There's about two or three shots left in this gun. So, just because your air tank is off doesn't mean the gun is empty. I'm going to go ahead and fire them out. That's one, two. So, if you weren't familiar with that or you weren't expecting that and you already took your barrel sock off and there's still paintballs in there, you could accidentally fire that paintball gun in your house or in the staging at your local field. So, make sure you keep your barrel sock on. And don't forget, when you take your air tank off, there's still going to be air inside your paintball gun. That goes for the Chaos 3 and the Blitz 4, actually. We do recommend to maintain your paintball gun about once a month. If let's say you're going to play two or three times a month or two or three days a month, I would definitely recommend to maintain it and clean it and oil it probably at least once a month. You want to do a basic wipe down on the outside of the paintball gun when you're done, you don't want to leave any paint sitting on there or any extra mud or dirt, anything extra like that. But you don't actually have to do a full blown cleaning every single time you play. It's like changing the oil in your car every time you drive it.
So, that pretty much covers everything on Azodin Chaos 3 starter kit. If you have any questions about it or something I didn't cover, please comment below and let me know. That way I can get on there directly and answer all of your questions. If you're looking at another paintball gun, you're considering my opinion, go and comment below. I'll go ahead and answer it pretty quickly. That way if you're shopping between, let's say, the Chaos 3 or the HK Army SABR, or even you're considering the Chaos 3 up to The Blitz, we do have all of these available on our website, proedgepaintball.com. You can shop them. We do have some reviews and we have other videos on there. So, if you enjoyed this video, please take a second to like this video. That way this video shows up to other players like yourself that might be looking for another Starter kit themselves. And also, if you like weekly paintball videos, go and subscribe to our YouTube channel. That way it helps us grow and you get to see cool videos every week. Other than that, thank you guys so much for watching. Don't forget to give me a shout out below in the comments, ask any questions, give me some video ideas, and I'll see you guys next time.
Hey, guys. John Jackson here with Pro Edge Paintball. Today, I've got the new HK Army Joint Folding Gun Stand. So, this is a cool little Gun Stand that HK Army's made. It's a very lightweight, compact, fold-able Gun Stand. And I was confused at why somebody would need something like this until you start thinking about when you go to the local field, very rarely do you have a place to actually stand your gun up to load it or to just keep it off the ground or from leaning up against somebody else's stuff. So the more I looked into it, the more I thought about it, it's actually a pretty cool little item.
These are available in $29.95, so not too crazy expensive. They don't take up a lot of room in your gear bag, and they seem pretty sturdy. So, it's made out of plastic. It's flexible. So, see that there. So, flexible in the front, so when you put them on there, but they fold up, pretty cool, pretty nice. So again, $29.95, these are available in 10 different colors on our website, proedgepaintball.com. You've got your purple, your green, black, clear, your pewter or silver, gold, blue, silver and glow in the dark, and red.
So, it's cool.
Glow in the Dark actually works. Turn off the lights. You can see it pretty cool. So a couple of the features on this that I didn't know about originally looking at it, it's got a ball size or here. So, if you're trying to boar size your paint and you don't have a full kit, you can tell by matching it up which one fits the best. And let's see here, each one of them actually on the front, you probably can't see that actually has a number next to it. So it lets you know what boar size that paint is. Kind of a cool idea. Underneath here it's got a spot you can put a couple of extra o-wings. So, if you want to put your tank o-wings or maybe something particular goes out on your gun often and you're worried about it, maybe like a remote line hose o-ring. That's not a bad idea. It's got a couple of spots in here. You can put a couple of o-ring and store them in there.
So, pretty cool idea there.
A couple of features that I personally would have never thought of in a Gun Stand.
It's cool.
So again, available in a couple of colors inside the package, you'll find a little sticky tab here. So, it's got rubber on one side of it. And I didn't call HK to find out what this is for, but I assume it's going to be either for your barrel tip, you can cut it to fit. So, one side is like a double side tape or tape on there. It's sticky and the other side is just like a rubber, soft rubber to keep your gun from rubbing up against the plastic. So, you can actually stick it on the front. And if you're worried about your tank sliding on the back here, you can stick it on the side here. The way they did this finish here, though, it's snug. It's got a sticky feel to it. It's not a smooth plastic so much. So, it's cool on that one. So, I've got a gun here. I've got a Houston Heat, T-M-40. I've got an Empire 80 bottle on there. So, I'll show you what it looks like. And I didn't put the sticky on there, but it doesn't seem like it moves too much unless I'm trying to force it to.
And you can see the front flex a little bit when I put weight on there. So, if you had your hopper on top of it, you'd be able to open your lid, pour your paint on there, and keep it ready to go when you're ready to go play. Go play, go play, pull it off, pull it up. Good to go on there. Not bad for a low cost little upgrade item. This is a great gift idea. If you have a buddy of yours or boyfriend, girlfriend, anything like that that plays and you're not really sure what to get them, this is something I don't think a lot of people would buy on their own or they even know exists. It's a pretty low key item. We don't sell a ton of them at the store because I think a lot of people don't know about it. But it is a pretty cool little item as a stocking stuff or as a gift, a random, hey, you're awesome type gift idea. For $29.95 I don't think it's overpriced at all. We haven't had any of these returned for being broken or anything, so that's a good thing.
A lot of people were worried about it when they first touched it to see how it would hold up. But I think as long as you don't slam it around or slam your gun on there when you're angry because you got shot or something like that, I think it'd be perfectly fine.
A super small compact, again available in 10 different colors, proedgepaintball.com. If you have any comments, if you've used one of these before and you like it or hate it, what not, give me a shout out below, comment below. Let me know what you think. Or if you have another gun stand that you like better, go and comment below because that way it helps other players find out if this is worth buying or if they should shop for another item. So, if you guys like the videos that I'm doing, please be sure to please like the video. That way this video shows up to other players like yourself. It helps YouTube, spread the name, spread the love, all the good stuff. And if you like weekly paintball review videos and different types of videos, go and subscribe to our YouTube channel. That way we can help our channel grow. Otherwise, guys, thank you so much for watching. We'll see you guys next time.