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Paintball Scopes

An excellent accessory to your tactical paintball gun is the addition of a paintball gun scope.  there are many different sizes and magnifications to choose from - how do you know which will fit your gun?  First you must choose how powerful you want it to be and what size.  Obviously larger paintball rifles can handle longer/bigger scopes, while you may want to use a shorter paintball gun scope (like a 1x30 Red Dot) on a paintball pistol.  Pistols hold lasers better than paintball scopes though.  Obviously, you will want a high-powered /larger scope for a sniper paintball rifle.  Check out ChoicePaintballGun.com for a great selection of different sights and paintball gun scopes.  Overall though, most scopes will fit most paintball guns.  You may also need to purchase a scope 'mount' to attach your scope to your gun.  Most standard mounts are called 'weaver style'.  Your paintball gun mount will also help you raise or offset your paintball gun scope if needed.  Depending on the scope, you may need to get 'scope rings' to mount it to your paintball gun.

Posted by Administrator on November 2, 2008 at 4:25 PM under
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  1. Erikson on June 15, 2009 at 6:40 PM said:
    Hello, I was just wondering if your exacto laser sight was visible in the day time.
  2. Dan Levesque on June 15, 2009 at 6:41 PM said:
    Yes, the exacto laser sight is visible in the daytime, but it depends on the distance. You will have a greater limitation on seeing the dot from farther away in the day.
  3. Joseph Deirsen on June 15, 2009 at 10:35 PM said:
    Will a NCstar Tactical Red Dot + Laser fit on a Tippmann A5 without a rail riser?
  4. Dan Levesque on June 15, 2009 at 10:36 PM said:
    I don't think you need a 'riser' but you do need a rail. I know the newer Platinum series Tippmann 98 comes with built in rails but I think you would have to add one to the A5.
  5. Korian Deseron on June 15, 2009 at 10:44 PM said:
    Do you carry any other red dots like the Spyder Holographic Red Dot that are in that same sort of flat style?
  6. Dan Levesque on June 15, 2009 at 10:45 PM said:
    I do; we carry one other style that's a little flatter than that one. I don't think I have it up on my site - we don't sell many of this kind. If you're interested, I'll put it up on our scopes page at www.choicepaintballguns.com.  
  7. Travis Becker on July 12, 2009 at 7:21 PM said:
    I was wondering if a paintball scope is different than a rifle scope. Today i went to the local sporting goods store and the man in the paintball/rifle section told me that a paintball gun has a forward recoil instead of a backwards one and believed that it would ruin a rifle scope pretty quickly. Is this true?
  8. Dan Levesque on July 12, 2009 at 7:22 PM said:
    I would ask the guy who sells rifles questions about rifles, not paintball guns. Paintball guns don't have enough recoil to ruin anything, let alone a scope. Perhaps the guy at the sporting goods store should try shooting one. The scopes we sell are all compatible with real guns; in fact my main supplier for scopes is NCStar - one of the larger rifle scope manufacturers. You can safely put whatever scope you want on your paintball gun and it won't get ruined. The only limitation is the fact that paintballs (compared to a real rifle shooting real bullets) is just not that accurate; not accurate enough to need a high powered scope. Because of this, hunting scopes are fun but aren't going to make a huge difference in your shot; they don't shoot far enough or straight enough to use them. That's why a good red dot scope/sight is generally good enough; anything more than a 3-9x40 scope is more than what you'll need with a paintball marker. They're still fun to mount and try to use though.
  9. Steve on August 1, 2009 at 11:52 PM said:
    Will the tactical weaver riser mount ($22.50) work on the Spider MR1 Paint marker? Which scope riser mounts that you sell will work on a spider MR1 paint ball marker?
  10. Dan Levesque on August 1, 2009 at 11:53 PM said:
    It will fit. Pretty much all the mounts we carry will fit on the rails of the MR1.
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