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| Value for Money | 9.5/10  |
|---|---|
| Reviewer Rating | 9.5/10 |
| Overall Rating | 6.7/10  |
By hellion666
on 29th Jan 2007
| Value for money | 9/10 |
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| Overall value | 9/10 |
 hellion666's recommendation | |
Awesome gun right outa the box. Serves me well for now, but I will upgrade mine to its fullest (you know, after I win a couple tournys and get the money to pay my dad back the 300 dollars he loaned me =b )
Nice and Quiet, Even stock.
Nice and Cheap, best gun for the price I payed
Nice and Upgradeable, even if you only have 40 bucks
Nice and Accurate, Even stock, but still can get so much better
Nice and Fast, especially once you get that blade trigger on there
Nice and Easy to maintain, lubing and cleaning is easy
Pressure is....
Nice and Low, mine runs about 140psi stock, After a lighter bolt, and other things, it will get lower.
Eh, stock trigger kinda stinx - its all wonky, and wiggles back and forth.
Stock barrel stinx too I start shooting fast and it breaks balls on me, but probably because my paint to barrel match is horrible with the field paint I am forced to use...
Stock grips hurt my hands
Horizontal Regulator is ugly and gets in the way, but I have a vert so it doesn't bother me at all...
Review: You want a review about what you get for your money here it is. I'm not going to tell you how awesome my marker is because i put another 300 dollars after market parts into it. I'm going to tell you my impressions on it out the box. First, its nice milling, low profile which i personally like. People complain about this gun being ugly, well to that i say, who cares? Just cause i didn't spend 800-1000 for a Timmy, Angel, or Cocker and didn't get that wicked awesome eye catching look doesn't mean this marker can't defeat all. Personally if i had one of those guns, high end cocker, Timmy, Angel, i would freak if it was hit with a paintball, especially around the LCD display. With this, you can shoot it all you want and i wouldn't even think about it. Honestly what do looks do for paintball guns any way except jack the price up and get you some comments before or after play when it's during play the marker really needs to show its beauty. And that my friends is where impulses really shine. On to other things. Weight, It was not really heavy to me, before i had been using piranhas and a couple tippmans so, it was about that weight. Normal i guess. People complain about the barrel, and yes i did go out and buy a 150 dollar barrel kit for mine, but that doesn't mean the stock is bad. Hey some people go out and spend $20-$40 for a progressive right, and SP gave it stock. Better than a true piece of junk like on $200 semi and electro guns and some higher end ones like stock cockers. Regulator, while bulky, does an awesome job, I get amazing consistency of +/- 2 or 3(from co2 this is amazing). Again, that alone is not a cheap peice of equipment and SP put it in there stock. Unlike Bushmasters where all the reviews say "must upgrade regulator", here you do not, and should not ever. Grips are prickly and do feel like hard plastic, but i assure you they are rubber and i don't mind, i wear gloves so what do i care. But if it matters, another 15-20 and you got some new grips. Gun is extremely simple to operate, i cannot stress that enough. It was my first electro and i was totally blown away at how many moving parts this actually had; like 5. I never had a problem with first shot drop off, as others may say, and the only reason i upgraded the internals was for a different weight balance and personal preference. If your really scared about the FSDO problem, research has found that on all impulses experiencing the problem, proper lubing of the hammer fixed the problem every time. Permanently. Take out the hammer internals, clean, relube, replace, no more FSDO even after waiting an hour and firing. The last thing i want to go over is ROF. This marker, especially with a blade trigger, can shoot very fast (fast as you can pull the trigger average is like 7-9BPS), it is semi only and that is all you will need. People who own electro's with a ROF selection mode i think waste money if they put it any higher than the first burst setting. Timmy owners and the company bob long, for example, brag about how their gun can fire 22BPS. I laugh at how stupid you are for this, you paid a thousand dollars for a marker that can empty a 200 round hopper in 9 seconds. Wow your cool. For starters most tournies and rec places dont let you use full auto. Second people who use full auto are jerks for trying to hit someone more than once and i would say its pretty equil to purpously shooting hot during play. And third this defeats the purpose's of aiming when you fire that fast. Paintballs are not cheap as well so emptying a hopper that fast cant be appealing to anyone. To make it clear im not bashing Timmy owners or Bob Long, you guys have quality kick ass markers, but so do I and i spent half of what you did. If you really want to make your imp into a no talent machine gun you can get a new board with fire selection for your imp which takes about 3-5 minutes to install. Go to www.exarin.com for info on that. You would want a Genesis board, goes for $110, if you want full auto.
Conclusion: Anyway, your reading these reviews because your comparing this to another gun, most likly a Bushmaster, or Cocker, Automag, Matrix, Timmy, or even an Angel. Let me tell you, impulses are in a world of there own. Pro's use them every day. They don't break. Its got minimal moving parts. And its price, while steep for some, will give you a lot. This is not an autococker or Bushmaster in anyway shape or form because you do not have to upgrade this gun with $100+ worth of parts to get it working as good as the hype. As far as the more expensive markers go, if you have a large budget go for them but i guarantee you will be paying a lot more for basically the same as what this gives you for $300-600 less. It really kicks a$$ stock. Other reviews for different electros put this marker down, but take a look at them closely. Using B2K2 as an example, like 2/4 reviews say that a b2k is better than an impulse but yet its $50 more stock, then according to their own reviews you need a new barrel and a new reg right off the bat. Thats another 150 for the same quality you get for an impulse. Not to mention quite a few of the ICD BK model reviews have people who no longer own their guns, or are trying to sell them. I don't see that in any of these reviews, or any of the after market impulse reviews. Don't trust this review? 300+ people on here agree with me, and there is a site donated to just the impulse, www.impulseownersgroup.com, check it out.
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