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| NEW Black Smart Parts ION Paintball Marker Gun - Black | 
 enlarge | Brand: Smart Parts
Category: Sports
List Price: $249.99
Buy New: $164.95
You Save: $85.04 (34%)
Buy New from $164.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  (1 reviews)
Sales Rank: 18873
Media: Misc.
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
MPN: IONBLK
ASIN: B000XQM0RM
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Ultra fast rate of fire - 17 bps in semi auto and rebound modes, and 10 bps in 3 shot burst or full | | • | Extremely lightweight - weighs in at just 2.2 lbs. | | • | Break-beam Vision eyes - shoot up to 17 shots per second without ever chopping paint | | • | Interchangeable Body Kits - Instantly change the color of the Ion's body with numerous different com | | • | Adjustable trigger - shorten the trigger pull without ever taking the Ion apart. Full adjustable for |
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Product Description
Add a body kit for $10 with with your IonSmart Parts Ion Features:Warranty: This marker is under manufacturers warranty for 90 days. Smart Parts provides excellent customer support for their guns, they DO NOT accept any returns for refund. If you have any problem with your Smart Parts marker you must work directly with their customer service at (724) 539-2660 Monday through Friday, 9am to 6pm EST. This includes any problems that are encountered out of the box. We will only accept Smart Parts markers that are new and unopened for return. * 9 volt battery operation - easy to find and replace 9 volt batteries. No more expensive battery packs. One 9 volt battery is included. Does not come with charger. * Easy disassembly - One 1/8" Allen wrench (included) is all you need to disassemble the Ion * Vertical feed tube O-rings - fit a wide variety of hoppers without having to buy a new feedneck * Durable ball detents - last 10 times as long as current ball detents -Gas efficient - get between 1000 to 1400 shots from a 68ci 4500psi fill * Impulse barrel and feedneck threads. * Includes barrel cover and parts kit
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| Customer Reviews:
A decent marker September 11, 2008
The Smart Parts Ion has quickly become a staple of the paintball world, bringing electropneumatic guns down into the price range that most people can afford.
First, the good things. The marker is quieter than most other markers and just as accurate. The velocity is adjusted by turning a nut on the bottom of the foregrip with a wrench - much easier to use than the velocity nuts you see on many entry-level markers. The standard double trigger, besides being adjustable, is also very light, meaning it's easy to get high rates of fire, even in semi-auto mode. The gun itself if ergonomic and built with speedball in mind, but there are several kits out there, like those from specialopspaintball.com, that can adapt it for woodsball play by adding stocks and such.
Don't be fooled though, the marker has some drawbacks too. My big thing is the maintenance - the gun is a chore to take apart. On my first day out with it, the screw holding the top half of the gun to the bottom half came out, taking me out for the rest of the day. In all fairness, I had taken the gun apart when I got it to inspect it and install a Special Ops body kit on it, but I'm no newbie when it comes to taking markers apart and reassembling them (been doing it since 2001). The fact that a screw came out after less than two hours of use bothered me, but it may have been a fluke. Speaking of modifying it, the stock feed neck is a boar to take off, which is a requirement if you want to get to the internals properly or install the popular q-lock feed neck. Also - and this is just personal preference - there's no manual safety on the gun. The instruction manual states that the on/off switch is the safety. The 'switch' is actually a button you have to hold in for a given amount of time, and if you don't get the timing right or just forget, that plus a hair trigger is a recipe for disaster - as a rule anyway, you should have your barrel sleeve on as soon as you're tagged out and not remove it until you're reinserted, but even then it'll leave a mess you have to clean up.
The Ion has its shortcomings, to be sure, but all in all it's a good entry level marker. If you play woodsball I would pass it up in favor of the less fancy, more rugged, and similarly priced Tippmann A-5, but if you're into speedball or you are very comfortable with maintenance you should definitely consider the Ion.
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