rapid growth. The industry has responded,
with companies as big as Dye and Tippmann
stepping up to offer equipment, and
Tippmann now offers several magazine-fed
models in their lineup to suit any player’s
budget or style of play from the TiPX pistol
loved by so many gunslingers like Akimbo
Assassin and David “Reaper” Justin, to the
TCR carbine and even magazine adapters
for the 98 line of markers, and now the TMC,
the latest magazine-fed marker to wear the
legendary Tippmann name.
As magazine-fed paintball is absolutely mil-
sim in its appearance and style of play, from
camo uniforms and loadbearing equipment
to the strategy and tactics of the game, the
Tippmann TMC is unapologetically military
in its appearance and closely resembles,
in both form and function, an AR-style
carbine similar to the M4 used by the US
military. Featuring aluminum construction,
a fully pneumatic operating system with a
functional AR-style charging handle at the
top rear of the receiver, plenty of Picatinny
sight rails for the mounting of scopes, sights,
grips and accessories, a comfortable rubber
grip, twelve-inch barrel with a muzzle brake, a
bottom-line air bottle adapter, sling mounts,
iron sights, a collapsible multi-position stock
and the ability to switch from magazine-feed
to a hopper adapter for added versatility and
wider appeal, the TMC is feature-packed
from the factory. Magazines load into the
receiver just like AR magazines and even look
like them, and they feed almost flawlessly,
though better paint will always yield better
results. Trigger pull is relatively soft and
though using an air bottle beneath the stock
can be a little awkward, a remote line can be
added allowing the stock to be the primary
means of shouldering the rifle for firing. For
two hundred dollars, the Tippmann TMC is
an awful lot of mag-fed paintball gun, and it
offers the legendary Tippmann name on the
side, long the benchmark for reliability and
customer service in the paintball industry.
Half the fun of mag-fed paintball is building
the gear used to play the game, as the mag-
fed world is primarily mil-sim in its style. The
Tippman TMC is up to this, as its rails allow
for the mounting of all sorts of equipment
to suit a player’s preferred style of play,
particular mission loadout or desired look,
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