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beyond.
Bud Orr
As paintball went from a
sport played with pumps to a
faster-paced game between
players carrying semi-automatic guns, a California
manufacturer defined what
it meant to play West Coast
paintball for a decade by
creating a pump paintball
gun that cocked itself, automatically, after each shot.
His pump, the Sniper, was
already an event-winner and
widely known for its accuracy and his new Sniper Autococker, later known simply
as the Autococker, retained
that legendary accuracy
while adding semi-automatic speed. Anyone in serious
West Coast paintball from
the nineties through the early twenty-first century has
shot an Autococker at some
point, and the gun remains
today the benchmark for
accuracy by which all other
paintball guns are measured.
Glenn Palmer
Since the early days of
paintball, Glenn Palmer has
been turning out extremely unique, rare paintball
guns that continue to be as
much works of art as they
are pieces of quality equipment. Palmer pioneered early semiautomatic paintball
guns. In addition, anyone
involved in paintball in the
heyday of the Autococker
either came across or used
multiple Palmer products like
the Stabilizer inline regulator
or Rock low pressure regulator. Today, Palmer manu-
factures all sorts of paintball
products, from barrels and
regulators F