2:42 "Promoting paintball to people who don't have the cash flow to start out at."
If you don't have the cash flow, then don't do it. It's better to not get into it than get into it and immediately waste your money on shit products. Terrible fucking advice.
This isn't about promotion of paintball. People in this category should rent their equipment until they're ready to make the commitment and buy decent stuff.
This is about Tippmann wanting to cut into the money that people would otherwise have spent on renting equipment. It's not like the Gryphon is going to replace the 98 as the standard bearer for a rental marker, so all this sub-entry-level-marker can possibly do is cut into the rentals.
2:52 "When I started, I had a 98, it was a great gun, just like this."
OK. For starters, 98's are not "great" guns.
Often, one of the reasons why 98's are cited as being "great" guns is "you can beat them against a tree and they'll still shoot." You should try that with the Gryphon and let us know if they're similarly great. If they're not similarly great, then perhaps you should not allow this transfer of greatness from the 98 to the Gryphon occur just yet.
Furthermore, it's clear you don't know the Gryphon very well, so it's premature on your part to be calling it a great gun as well. It almost sounds like you're biased in some fashion...
2:55 "You got the 98 internals."
Sort of. You have a cheapened version of the 98 internals. Yes, it is possible.
3:02 "Center feed"
This is actually kind of hilarious. The center feed is a good idea, don't get me wrong.
What's funny is Tippmann refused to do a centerfeed for the 98. For all these years, people have been wanting a centerfed 98; even some of the guys on Tippmann Effect would get the Rufus Dawg centerfeed mod. Tippmann refused to make a center or left feed, citing that right feed was what made sense for right handed players. (I know, right?)
They finally make a centerfed gun, and it's the fucking Gryphon. Talk about shitting on your customers.
Furthermore, in an attempt to shorten the profile up, they moved the feed neck back. But the breech is still in the same relative location as the 98. Is this magic? What's going on here?
If you look closely at the internals, the feed neck is actually an elbow. So technically, this actually raises your hopper higher above the gun. Just what every player wants, right?
Plus, your paint doesn't drop straight down into the breech. It has to go around a bend first, and hits the chamber at an angle which is in the same direction as the barrel. NOTHING COULD GO WRONG WITH A DESIGN LIKE THAT, RIGHT? Yeah. Good catch there, buddy.
3:04 "A5/X7 threaded [barrel]"
The place where you thread the barrel on is bizarre. It's actually this nose that's screwed into the body.
3:11 "Inline ASA just like on the phenom"
Which is great, unless you don't like the ASA. Then you're fucked. Also, the ASA is held in by one screw and a mating plastic bit in the grip. Good luck with that. People have broken the ones on the Carver One.
3:16 "You don't need lines restricting you from shooting."
Air lines don't restrict you from shooting. Unless they're in a ridiculous location.
The real benefit here is you don't spend money on macroline and fittings.
Come on man. Go get yourself a coffee and come back and do the video after you've woken up.
3:24 "The gripframe has been moved down."
The benefit of Tippmann's inline valve is that you can still have a single stack profile -- at the expense of a longer gun.
By moving the grip down (and it very literally is down as well as forward)... you've now made the thing as tall as a classic double stack gun, but it still basically retains the ridiculous length. Worst of both worlds!
3:36 "Blade trigger for smoother trigger pull."
How does the fact that the trigger is shaped in a "blade" make the trigger pull "smoother"?
3:42 "There's 6 screws to get the body off and 8 more inside. You can look at it as a con, but it's actually a pro. It's not meant to be taken apart and fixed up."
Let's get it straight. I think it's 8 screws to get the external shell off. And then 7 more screws underneath that. Plus the 2 screws for the breech. And then 2 more for the valve lock screws. That's an unprecedented 19 screws. Tippmann really outdid themselves this time. And I thought the TPX was bad. By the way, the majority of those screws look like they're self tapping. Self tapping into all plastic construction. Shitty.
This is all bullshit of course. What happens if you break a fucking ball thanks to the fact that there's no anti-chop, and the thing is packaged with a shake and bake hopper and an internal elbow that feeds paint laterally into the breech. I guess beginners don't deserve to clean out their guns.
If 19 screws is a "pro" for the gun, then I have a great idea. Tippmann should go ahead and just glue the entire thing together. Hey, that way you don't have to worry about stripping screws! Damn dude, you are a genius.
4:10
Seriously. Chrono test. Shooting at a target is good. But can we see the grouping?
At least this guy was shooting at a field and wearing a mask this time, not like that SocialPaintball moron.
This isn't a review. It's an advertisement.
Why the fuck is everyone so eager to be a fucking corporate shill in this sport? I hope you at least got paid for your efforts.
Of course, if you got paid, then you should probably say so.
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