Upcoming products (the prelude)

The year is almost a quarter of the way through, the paintball season is nearing its beginning (for us Canadians anyway), and the paintball extravaganza has just recently ended, unveiling many, many new products from multiple companies.

A decent amount of info on all the new products has already been released, but I think there's more out there,  so. In the following weeks I'll be starting up a bit of a mini series on various products, brands, and markers. Compiling a list of sites/photos and videos of the products, talking about first impressions and thoughts on them.

Starting off the List will be the Tiberius Arms T15.
I'll be scouring the interwebs in search of all the details I can find on this marker.

So anything you'd like to see feel free to send me an email/private message or just a comment somewhere and I will see what I can do for you. 

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Paintball extravaganza Pt2. The merger of the greats!

Scarab arms/maxtact/milsig.ca/tactmark (I don't even know what to call them anymore) Thankfully they've solved that problem for us by merging under one name, (www.honorcore.com) this is an amazing move and I can't wait to see what else they have up there sleeve. www.honorcore.com, you want anything scarab arms/maxtact that's where you'll be heading from now on.

So far they have really come out of the gate running,  looking at all the stuff that they have out and on the way, it's as if they looked at the mag-fed scene and said "fuck you,  this is how it's done". I  mean starting with their bullpup marker that resembles a Fn2000, they have a G36 mockup (looking forward to a release date on that) the TGR1 or Scar type marker is going into full production in all black, a sniper to compete with the milsig m17 sniper  and what appears to be a compact SMG (the m18) resembling a MP7 almost.

 From what I can tell all the new markers (minus the MP7) all still take the standard 18rd scarab mags.  Where the MP7  looks to take TiPX mags (that will go nicely with the 12rd tru feed mags) but they all look gorgeous! I don't even know what I want anymore. 

 Next up we have a marker (or add on to the tgr series) that actually will fire glowing paintballs or tracers! Inside the chamber you can see that it actually will glow to illuminate the balls allowing you to see them as you're shooting them,  Giving you tracers for night games! No more having to guess where you're shooting or what you're hitting. I'm curious to see if this is only for regular paint or will someone *cough tiberius cough* make done kind of first strike or shape round for this. 

 Finally (for now at least) there are some pictures of a blu tooth throat mic, they look incredible, I am looking for more info on this but I would assume they'll have Kingman pins, and a decent battery life,  probably way longer than any radio will last.  Either way that is a must for any tactical player.

That's all I've seen so far from them (so far),  but they are definitely #1 in the mag-fed/milsim race, finally a company to produce markers other than a Ar15 variant! And multiple new toys that I can't wait to get my hands on! 

This year truly is the year for mag-fed! I can't wait to see what else is to be unveiled.

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Flasc Paintball O-Ring rebuild kit

I picked up an O-Ring kit from Flasc Paintball and man what a deal!

 The kit will fully rebuild your marker a set number of times based on what you purchased, I have the x3 kit which retails for 10.99 (It can be found here), which comes with approximately 50 O-Rings. (some of which I'm still trying to figure out what they're for) and it comes in a nifty little case to hold all your rings in too! No more of those plastic bags that don't seal causing you to loose the easily.

 A parts list is as follows

• x3 Hammer rings
• x3 valve assemble rings
• x3 bolt rings
• x12 banjo fitting rings
• x3 safety button rings (3 red and 3 black)
• x6 buffer rings (the ones that go behind the hammer)
• x3 Large black rings
• x3 medium brown rings

I like how the kit includes the safety rings as some of us A5 users still have the original versions of the marker and although I doubt Ill ever use them but its a nice touch.

 An installation guide can be found on the site if you are unsure as to where the o rings go Installation guide
personally I'm very happy with my kit but I think a little sheet of paper inside the kit or even a guide printed on the inside of the lid with a diagram of what each of the rings are for would be a nice added touch especially for newer players or first timers who aren't exactly sure where each one goes.

 All in all its an absolute fantastic kit and for the price of three rebuilds you can not go wrong with this kit, And after all of the rings are used up you have a nice case to put either more rings in, discard or if youd like store spare parts in a great touch to an already great kit,  I highly highly recommend it!

Strikeloader Paintball Backpack

CQB Toronto Sometime ago

Apex review.

So after a more than long hiatus M-POG reviews is back.
  Lets get this show back on the road, Shall we?

I've been meaning to do a write up on my apex 2 tip for quite some time now so what better time to do it than now?

  I'll start off by saying that it is quite a beautiful piece of equipment and a great addition to any marker.
I have run it with about 3 different setups and being short medium or long (pending paint quality - I'll get to that) great performance.

 Retailing at about $50 taxes in you can't go wrong with one. An Empire/BT apex 2 barrel is ready to be used out of the box coming in standard 14" or 18" in either BT/A5, Cocker or 98 threads. The barrel that it comes with is a great barrel but I would recommend swapping it out and throwing on either a 10"/12" Flasc/Lapco barrel, as I just find the stock barrel to  be to long. It can only be used on certain barrels or an attachment that lapco and flasc both sell, I'm not sure if any companies make an adapter for it but it would be cool if it wasn't barrel specific. 

 What makes an apex tip great is its ability to send paint longer distances in a flattened trajectory almost in the same sense as what flat line does but I've found much much more accurate. 
How does it do this you ask? Well quite simple actually by adding back spin to the paintball it cause the paint ball to spin backwards as it leaves the barrel which in turn makes the paintball fly more straight or fly upwards, varying from a little to a lot. 

Now as I said before pending paint quality. If you are using poor grade paint with your apex on even at the first setting, its going to be going everywhere. 

A quick picture of an apex 2 tip

There is 9 different setting to choose from each of increasing intensity (you can see in the picture above there is a little tab that slides forward and back), I recommend using around the 4th or 5th setting, anything more than that causes the paint to dip down as it leaves the barrel, then fly straight up, (I believe that empire calls this the "low and long" shot) it's great for those REALLY long shots, like we're talking like well over 120 ft+

but you start to loose accuracy at that great a distance and the paint has slowed down to much to even really break, again, in my tests anyway not to say that other people haven't had different experiences with it.

I've found that shooting on around the 4th setting, shooting good quality paint, a nice good quality barrel and fair weather conditions. Preforms as follows:  

Short distance 15 - 30 ft. Not really to much to notice here, you will notice on about the 4th setting you paint is hitting slightly below where your aiming. but only slightly.

Medium distance 30 - 60 ft. Here is where your going to really notice it, where your aiming is more or less where the paint is going to hit, no arching of your shots needed, until it start to get to the far end like 90 ft

+

Long Distance 90 - 120 ft. At the 90 ft mark you are going to have to start arching you shots increasing as you start to shoot further. You will still notice a huge difference in how your shooting compared to shooting just a regular barrel. 

 So we have got the flattened flight path (almost flatline mimicking), the "low and long shot" but it has two more settings as well, the barrel tip also has the ability to rotate on the barrel a full 360 degrees. 

Rotating either to the left or to the right 90 degrees with the tab clicked up a couple notches will cause the paintball to literally hook from left to right depending on which way it's turned. Personally I feel these shots to be cheap, but hey, to each his own, it works so why not use it. Right? This particular shot is used for hooking around cover (i.e bunkers) If you play around with rotation on it you can get a variety of effects from the hook, hooking just around the cover, or lobbing the shot up and hooking on top of you target. A nifty effect to use on a paintball marker.

 The last setting that the apex has to offer is the "Dive Bomb", by turning it upside down or 180 degrees from the start position you are able to make the paintball actually come out of the barrel and go over cover if Hooking from the side is not an option. again you can play with this rotation doing a combination of any of the four methods thereby getting paintballs to actually do some pretty cool shots.

    Empire Paintball  Here is the link to empires page for their apex 2 tip as you can see by the picture the different shot it is capable of doing. *Please note that the hook shots do not actually suddenly turn at 90 degrees when reaching their target* 

Breakdown of the tip is fairly simple and I will cover that in a couple of days, just itching to get this done.

  All in all I love my apex 2 barrel the silencer look has a great tactical feel to it, and will give you a great tactical advantage at a reasonable price too!

 My rating for the apex 2 barrel  and tip is  8.5/10

 Pros

•  Great tactical look
• Able to sling paint over long distances
• Fairly straight forward to use

Cons

• Has to be barrel/attachment specific
•  Breakdown is a little tough to do ( I will cover in next article )