PaintballX3 Magazine February 2015 | Page 39

39 And then there are companies that produce mag-fed products almost exclusively. Milsig’s long anticipated M17 line of markers is finally available and they are everything most hoped they would be. The M17 line are mechanical, fully automatic, mag-fed, First Strike compatible makers that are truly impressive. Similarly, Honorcore’s TGR Series of mag-fed markers are loaded with options right out of the box. And in the past two years even companies like Dye, KEE (Empire, JT), Planet Eclipse and Valken have jumped into the magfed pool, all producing excellent products. In 2010 we began seeing CQB (close quarters combat) fields like CQB Tactical Paintball Field in Canada, where mag-fed markers and games are commonplace. Unfortunately they recently shut down after terrible ice storms devastated the field. In 2013 Oklahoma D-Day added a mag-fed only game for the first time. And in the UK the first commercial mag-fed only game ever played was sponsored by Rap4 UK and the Warfighters paintball team in 2013. The game was called Operation End War. Fields like SC Village, Hollywood Sports, Paintball Park at Camp Pendleton, Jungle Island Paintball Park and dozens of others are running mag-fed only games now. Mag-fed paintball is definitely on the rise. It’s getting bigger and bigger and probably has not come close to peaking yet. WWW.PAINTBALLX3.COM