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Available in black or green, the Spyder
Hammer7 Pump is delivered in a basic
box with a handful of spares, a velocity adjustment tool, a barrel plug, nine
round First Strike-ready magazine
and a clamping vertical feed hopper
adapter. These aren’t all that’s in the
box, however, as the Hammer7 offers
an impressive list of standard features
for a basic pump paintball gun with
a retail price of $160. A lightweight
marker built from a mix of metal and
high-impact polymers, the Hammer7
offers a comfortable .45-style trigger
frame with a wrap-around grip and
inline holes at the bottom for a bottle adapter. A Picatinny sight rail runs
the length of the marker’s receiver
when the marker is set up for magazine feed, allowing the shooter to
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sight down the top of the marker for
an uninterrupted sight picture (the
vertical feed will require the shooter to
slightly tilt their marker) and the polymer pump handle rides, shotgun-style,
underneath the barrel.
Able to be powered by CO2 or compressed air, the Spyder Hammer7
pump receives air via a very classic
setup, namely a bottle adapter at the
back of the marker’s receiver. While
this may, with a small CO2 or compressed air bottle, help the marker
more accurately resemble a tactical
shotgun or rifle, it’s of little help in the
ergonomics department as it makes
sighting down the top of the marker
while wearing a paintball goggle system a bit difficult and makes for an