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he went for it. He showed up at his
first event with a popup tent and some
hoppers with 140 round loaders glued
to the front of them to extend the capacity. The idea was such a hit he put
everything he owned on the line and
fine-tuned the design and ordered a
“container” of hoppers that he had
made overseas. The rest is history.
Ninja SL Carbon Fiber Tank: Ninja
Paintball has been in the game along
time and their SL (Super Light) Carbon
Fiber Tank is something special. Available in three sizes and five colors these
are some of the best tanks you’ll ever
see.
Tippmann TPIX Pistol: The Tippmann
TPIX is certainly not the first paintball
pistol ever made but it might be the
best. This true military style pistol is
lightweight (carbon fiber design) and
uses an efficient spool valve system.
The TiPX also features an under-barrel
paintballs companies like Kingman/
Picatinny rail, external velocity adjustSpyder, GOG and Milsig have released
er, clear ammo windows so you can see
.50 caliber markers. JT Paintball has
also released a line of .50 caliber Splat- if it’s loaded, removable barrel with X7
threads, and the ability to add a remaster markers that require no C02/
HPA for firing and shoot with less veloc- mote line.
ity than other markers.
Dye DAM: Excellent magfed paintball
gun and the first to offer full auto, First
Strike capability.
Almost Made It
There are so many great products release on a yearly basis, choosing which
ones are the “most influential” is very
subjective. To that end here are some
products that we considered in the end
decided were just shy pf making the
cut.
Pinokio Hopper: Pinokio is the poster child of how the paintball industry
matured and grew to where it is today.
A paintball player named Evan Estrate
had an idea to make a larger hopper,
one that could hold 400 rounds and
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