product review
While many companies in paintball take
customer feedback and ignore it or promise to fold it into future projects, Tippmann
heard their customers and have incorporated the most-requested changes and improvements to the marker into an upgraded
model available right now, the Crossover
XVR. Available in olive green, red or titanium silver, the Crossover XVR offers the same
spool valve, anti-chop, clamping-feed, regulated performance of the standard Crossover, but adds a venting, on/off collar to
the bottom-line regulator, tool-less disassembly of the valve and bolt system for quicker,
simpler maintenance, the ability to open the
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wrap-around grips and replace the battery
without tools, an adapter allowing the use
of Autococker barrels and a standard fifteen-inch, two-piece barrel with plenty of
porting up front. Finally, the vertical foregrip has been shortened. At a retail price of
$429, the added expense of the XVR over
the standard Crossover is truly a bargain,
as we found out when we took the marker
out to play at OXCC Paintball in Maryland
at one of their recent scenario games.
While the Crossover XVR at two pounds,
seven ounces is not the lightest paintball
gun in the world, with a light motorized
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