PaintballX3 Magazine Special Paintball Extravaganza Edition | Page 36

36 It’s safe to say that paintball wouldn’t be where it is, or what it is, without Tippmann. A company that came from firearm manufacturing, Tippmann brought technology into paintball and revolutionized the game with the original magazine fed paintball gun, the SMG-60, in the eighties. The SMG-60 utilized stripper clips to feed paintballs and fire them in either semi-automatic or fully automatic modes and was powered by constant air- a CO2 bottle. Special PBX Edition