If you buy an ion paintball marker what barrel and compressed air tank or CO2 tank and hopper should you get what do you need to buy to make your ion paintball gun ready to play?

Good question. Iv had an ion for 2 1/2 years and i love it. I think this is a great choice for a low budget. When you get an ion NEW it should come with a barrel already. But you can always upgrade.

I recommend you use compressed air, co2 could hurt your gun. A good reliable compressed air tank would be a 45 cubic inch 4500 psi air system by pure energy. This is what i use. It's not the cheapest but it is hard to find a cheap compressed air tank.

Now on the hopper, any electric hopper will work. DO NOT USE A GRAVITY FED HOPPER! Your ion will shoot faster then the hopper will feed.

If you wanna take your game to the next level here are some upgrades i own/recommend:

• virtue board
• virtue laser eyes
• virtue easy on
• 14in freak barrel system
• clamping feedneck
• on/off valve
• dye rotor hopper w/ speed feed
• 360 QEV
• NDZ razor trigger

Please right me back and let me know how this helps or how your ion is!

dude if you have the new dye rotor, why the hell do you have an ion? go buy a used dm8 or something.

if you have not purchased the ion already i suggest staying away from the basic ion do to its poor design on the part of SP. now the Ion XE on the other hand does a much better job since it has a BOB feature but is a lot more expensive, on the cheaper side there is the vibe which is essentially a ion xe without eyes and there is the blackheart vibe which is eventually a ion xe with a blackheart board and eyes for much cheaper than the xe