Worst Paintball Gun Ever Made?

[Magageddon]

It could be because of a bad release, the price point/quality, reliability issues, terrible design flaws, horrible tolerances.

I'll start with this thing, I Don't think its the worst, but definitely up there. The Blade, not that cheap brass eagle pump, this semi auto brick with a macroless air through frame that froze your hands during winter play and basically was a ticking time bomb before it beat itself to death and imploded.

[Ecapnation]

I've got some heavy opinions.... None of them well liked.

[Jonnydread]

Well that’s just like, your opinion man

[Ecapnation]

Most of my worst are based on failure of design or quality of product issues..... Several mis machined items in my former inception predator cocker made that fall heavily into the category of worst gun I've ever owned.

[Sharkytrav]

Thank you for putting a lot of work into that marker. I take it to the field every time I go out and it has, on at least one occasion, been the only gun in my bag that worked.

[Tinman74]

I never like these topics. Probably because I like STBB markers and they get bagged on allot. However I will offer an opinion, the worst paintball gun ever made is the one that broke on you at the field before you got to play with it!

[Jonnydread]

I will always love Spyders.

[Cdn_Cuda]

Depends on your definition of “the worst”. Worst at what? Things like Thumpers are pretty bad. Avrotech R7 seemed bad as they ripped off pre-orders and sold to other people instead (I think that’s how it happened at least). Sure there’s many other pre-ordered guns were completely DOA or failed to even launch.

I wouldn’t say any cheap paintball guns are “the worst”. Their price point is cheap and disposable and that’s what they are. I fault expensive guns that were designed or manufactured poorly as much worse than a cheap Spyder or Brass Eagle.

[Junglepeanut]

Autocockers, especially rare private lables like Westwoods/ Bonebrake/ Evos/ AKA.......List goes on and on. Horrible things. If anyone has any they should send them to me immediately so I can properly dispose of them for you. Trust me you don't want them in your home and never want to be seen at a field with one

[Knuckle Dragger]

Those really are cursed. Thanks for your service.

[k_obeastly]

what was the double barrel VM knock off that had a wooden stock?

[RuleOfSines]

https://www.peculiarpaintball.com/manufacturers/paintball-china/s4-launcher/

[dano_____]

Micromag 2K9. One of the most wonderful designs for a mag that solved most of it's perceived shortcomings. Clean beautiful design with a multi configurable breach. No rail and and all aluminum. I hear if you ask about the preorder t-shirts Tracy will hunt you down like the girl from The Ring.

[RuleOfSines]

Gotta break it down into categories I think.

Worst Mainstream? Maybe the Evil Omen - Peculiar Paintball

Worst custom/limited run? Perhaps the Valhalla Air H8TR - Peculiar Paintball

Worst gun that was manufactured and sold by a reputable manufacturer, but required two seconds to recognize shouldn't have been? I'd nominate the Brass Eagle Eagle - Peculiar Paintball

How about a gun that arguably isn't bad, but also wasn't great, and ended up being outlived by its predecessor? Take a look at the CCI The Phantom Revolution - Peculiar Paintball

I've got others, but not all documented yet.

[William the Third]

Does it say something about me that I own two of those, and would happily own the other two?

[Cdn_Cuda]

I quite like shooting my Omen. Now was it more that people sucked at adjusting them or that they just sucked in general?

[lew]

The Omen was ever mainstream?

[Jordan]

Just one answer for me: Emek.

[Jonnydread]

ohohohohoh you saucy devil

[MrBarraclough]

You are hereby banned from r/paintball.

[nobbie333]

I disagree it may not be the best but it is not the worst for that my vote goes to Bruiser Sport from Nu-Line Industries Myrkul

[Myrkul]

The Blade II I had looked fantastic. I had one in LNIB condition a few years ago. The entire breach and detent system where absolutely horrible, and if the screws weren't crazy tight the weight of a Hopper would shift the entire breech and jam the bolt. Also broke paint like crazy due to a bad detent system.

[XEMON]

Always wanted to pick up a blade to check them out 😅

The worst machining I've seen was on a custom inception design, straight from the factory 🤢

There have been a few craptastic guns out there, but only a handful are truly un-excusable (purposely putting out crap products and charging top $$$)

PS, I would love to put my hand on an h8tr, I love the Vector so much I'd love to shoot the 2 side by side ...

[Ecapnation]

Go on..... Because the predator I had the bores were off which made getting the velocity past 260 impossible

[XEMON]

My friend's had crazy rough machining on the body, chatter marks all down the side and sharp edges, not de-burred.
Also the pneumatics leaked straights out of the box, they took it back to rebuild them and shipped it back to him.
It still leaked and the pneumatics were all scratched up ...

I dot know if this was an isolated incident, but on a $1K+ marker its not acceptable.

[lew]

I finger banged a couple Inceptions that looked worse than anything WGP put out in the mid to late '90's.

[k_obeastly]

can't help but think several STBB sidearms need mentioning.

[The Great Equalizer]

I owned a Brass Eagle, Eagle .68 pistol back in the day. I'm reminded of the early Simpson's episode where they need a new TV and the salesman at the knockoff TV store is describing the features of the Carnivale' model. "...durable outer casing to prevent fall-apart...". The Eagle .68 didn't have that. Within 2 years the shell had cracked in a half dozen places despite having been used in maybe 5 games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS8KaFK6fks

https://www.angelfire.com/il/tplovers/brasseagle.html

[coyote]

I had a Smart Parts Impulse that failed so badly I couldn't play with it.

A friend had a Bruiser with a poorly machined power feed that broke paint.

My experience with the Gotcha Deuce is disappointing. It's already heavy and awkward, failure prone is a bug it doesn't need.

[The Great Equalizer]

Same on the Bruiser. My friend bought one and sold me his old Pro-Lite. The Bruiser had a crack in the body where the barrel threaded in, so the barrel was always off-center and slicing up balls.

[Jackson]

The Sheridan Equalizer has to be up there somewhere. Horrendous trigger, regulator with such a bad recharge rate that you get shootdown if you try to go above 1 ball per second, proprietary seals that fail and are unobtanium. On the plus side, you get a cool eeeeeeeeeepppppp sound from the regulator slowly recharging with every shot.

[RuleOfSines]

I love the sound of that thing, forget who it was that referred to it as the 'Wheeze Gun'

[The Great Equalizer]

With great regret, I agree with you. It was my first gun (thus the name). I also found Sheridan's customer service to be terrible. I sent the gun in 3 times. 1st time it came back fixed. 2nd time it came back still broken but with a completely different grip frame. 3rd time they had me send it to a "regional repair center" which was a gun store in PA that kept it for over a year while claiming it was 3rd in line for repair every time I called, then went out of business and never sent me my gun back.

[cougar20th]

The worst paintball gun for me and I understand its my opinion and wont be popular.

Now dont read this wrongly I love AKA guns I still have several. But I swear this thing was a lemon.

AKA Splatt Attack Revenge V2 Poolbottom ano. Beautiful gun to look at but what a nightmare. The gun was always breaking down, Always leaking, Always coming out of tune, The hinge frame had a horrible grindy feel to it. And the way it was laid out meant that it was a complete pain to work on anything.

I got so fed up with it I ended up trading it for a Tippman M98C.

BUT that damned gun its revenge. My cousin somehow ended up with it and guess who he asked to work on it, Then eventually gave it to me. Yea that was one I couldn't sell fast enough.

[coyote]

Had a Revenge V2 in blue marble.

Gorgeous. Not my favorite AKA cocker to shoot. I much prefer a VLM.