PaintballX3 Magazine April 2014 Issue | Page 66

66 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 April 2014 February 2014 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