Spyder Paintball Guns | Spyder MR1, VS1, VS2 and VS3
“Kingman (or Spyder) has been known be the dominant beginner and intermediate paintball gun manufacturer of today. Guns ranging from $90 to $330, Kingman Spyder provides a perfect solution for somebody who wants a reliable tournament marker or something for the woods. – Kyle, PaintballGuns.net”
| Spyder MR1
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Spyder MR1 Sniper
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| Our Price: $89.00
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Our Price: $129.99
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| Spyder Sonix
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Spyder Victor
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| Our Price: $64.95
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Our Price: $59.95
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| Spyder Xtra
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Spyder VS1
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| Our Price: $74.00
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Our Price: $139.95
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| Spyder VS2
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Spyder VS3
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| Our Price: $179.95
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Our Price: $239.95
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Used Spyder Paintball Guns
Summary Review of the Kingman Spyder
Spyder paintball guns are cheap, reliable and easy to maintain. They have a beautiful and unique slick look, which makes it more popular among its users. While there are many different kinds of Kingman Spyders in the market, they all tend to break down and encounter some problems.
Problems and Solutions with Spyders
Here are some common problems with the right solutions. You may face these problems while buying Spyder paintball guns.
Usually it is seen that the bolts of Spyder paintball guns are locked up. It happens when the paintball has broken and the shell of the paintball has wrapped around the bolt. This keeps the bolt to slide freely inside the body of the gun. The solution to this is to put the cocking handle on the edge of the table or counter with the barrel pointed down and hit the rear of the Spyder with the palm of the hand. This will generally break the paintball shell loose. Now, clean the gun to get down the bolts outside.
Sometimes the grip of the gun gets loose or the grip comes unscrewed from the manufacturer. In this case, simply unscrew the two screws that hold the CA adapter onto the bottom of the grip. You need to use a small flathead screwdriver to tight the screw up.
If the triggers of Spyder Paintball guns are pulled, then they become static and not able to function. This is caused due to unreleased sear of the trigger. The pin in the trigger assembly that the sear rests on develops a flat spot. The pins need to be knocked out and either turned to the other side or replaced. Sometimes this problem can be caused by the sear spring, but more often, it is the pin. Hence, take a small flathead screwdriver to tighten the screw up and it is certain that you will to operate the gun again.
While operating Spyder guns, there may be a chance of ball breakage. It takes place due to high velocity, missing of ball detention, improper positioning of power feed plug, and shape of ball. The solution to these problems is stated below.
Simply chronograph your gun and turn down the velocity. Make sure the power feed plug is vertical. An improperly aligned feed can catch balls, as they feed into breech, causing the bolt to smash balls as it comes forward. Cock your gun, stick your pinky in the body of the Spyder, here the barrel usually screws into, and feed a little rubber nubbin that is your ball detent. This nubbin is kept in order to catch the ball and hold it in place until the air shoots it out. You should be able to push a paintball into your barrel and blow it out. If the paintball falls through your barrel or does not blow out, try using a different kind of paintball.
Types of Spyder paintball guns
There are many levels of the Spyder. These are usually divided up into the groups of guns that have mechanical triggers and electronic triggers. But let’s not forget the pump action Spyder Hammer. These guns are manufactured by Kingman International. We won’t go into heavy duty history here of the evolution of the Spyder.
The Spyder has become one of the most copied body types on the paintball market. This is the reason behind the vast amount of upgrades and available modifications available to a new Spyder owner. This also applies to those who are owners of Spyder clones. Most of these markers do use the same parts and many times the parts are interchangeable.
The Kingman Spyder semi-automatics are a stacked tube design. They are also a open bolt blow back type. The blow back part means that part of the gas expelled during firing is used to re-cock the bolt and make it ready to fire again. The basic difference between an open bolt gun and a closed bolt gun is the starting position of the bolt before firing. The open bolt starts with the bolt in the rear position behind the feed tube and a closed bolt starts forward of the feed tube. Several sources claim that closed bolt guns are more accurate than open bolt guns. We say if the physics involved apply to real world guns in their action then it also applies to paintball guns. Typically a closed bolt “bolt action” rifle is much more accurate than it rapid firing counter part of the same caliber.
Lets get on with the mods. The Kingman Spyder is a durable reliable marker right out of the package from the factory, however it has some issues that you can address to make it perform much better.
ISSUES FOR THE SPYDER
Long trigger pull.
Sloppy side-to-side trigger action.
So so stock barrel.
Models without a drop forward generally have CO2 liquid -vs- CO2 air problems.
Occasional aggressive battery consumption.
Kingman Diagrams:
These are exploded views of all of the below models. Please print the correct one before beginning a mod so that you have appropriate reference during the mod.
Modifications that address all of these issues and more
Spyder Paintball Gun
Let us introduce “Spiker”. Spiker is probably one of the fastest shooting CO2 powered Kingman Spyder’s in the free world. It is also the test platform for most of our mods.
We have modified this gun in so many ways it does not resemble stock in appearance or in function. This marker is capable of 10-15+ balls per second without chopping a ball.
Specs:
- Trigger pull is 1mm
- Venturi removed from bolt. AKA Lightening bolt.
- Drilled out front expansion chamber for larger volume. Improving liquid CO2 battles.
- Drilled oversized passage ways in all areas of the air system
- 16″ Thunder pig barrel with massive scavenger ports which is fitted with a suppressor when needed.
- Trigger return spring removed
- High performance light tension trigger switch about 1/3 of stock tension.
- Removed sight rail
- All in line filters removed to provide open air flow.
Next in line:
These will to make the gun more consistent.
- HPA with all low pressure components.
- No Chop bolt
- IR eye system
- AKA Madman valve