from sights for close-quarters battle to scopes zeroed for longer-range shots, not to mention vertical or folding fore-grips, bipods, lights, lasers or anything else a player may want to bolt to their paintball gun, and as the TMC is relatively light, the resulting weapon won’ t be a boat-anchor to drag around all day at the paintball field. Some players may find the bottom-line air adapter awkward or less than authentic, but as the marker is geared towards opening the style of play to a wider swath of players, allowing them the option of using a standard bottle, bottom-line style, rather than painting them into the corner of buying a remote air line or using a tiny bottle built into a shoulder stock was probably a good idea. We chose a small, light Ninja 4,500psi air bottle for our play with the marker and this kept the size, weight and length-of-pull to a minimum allowing us to continue to use the marker’ s shoulder stock comfortably for shouldering and shooting.
While Tippmann includes a hopper adapter with the marker, we left that in the box and stuck with the included magazines. The only trouble we ran into there was that just when we were getting into a good rhythm with the trigger, we got blanks instead of paints and had to drop a mag to reload! We found the stock barrel to be serviceable and accurate, though groups did tend to open up at longer ranges making an upgrade something we’ d consider in the future.
Simple, reliable, durable, functional and certainly looking the part, the Tippmann TMC is an outstanding addition to the company’ s lineup and a great addition to the world of magazine-fed paintball. That the TMC is available at only two hundred dollars retail is an added incentive for players to try out both the marker and the mag-fed style of play, and this will certainly help mag-fed paintball continue to add soldiers to its ranks!
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