I forgive you for your ignorance.Forgive my ignorance, but my undersatnding of a proven design 'in engineering terms'
Something that is proven beyond doubt. i.e reliable
Just because teams have won with it, does not mean it is proven. If the Phillies shot dm's I am sure they would have still won the NXL. Likewise if the Dynasty boys used borgs they would have still one the NPPL. The team members won these events not the gats that they are using.
When I see shockers going down as often as girlies at a knockin shop, that tells me that they are not proven.
If we are now going to compare the shocker with such products as a DM or a proto matrix I wish to bring up the service requirements that are in the instructions of these markers. I do believe it states in the Manual that Dm's and proto matrix's need to be serviced by a trained person after 6000 balls, let alone you ask any Dm or proto owner how many times they are required to take the gun apart to clean and lube the bolt.
Now in terms of proven, reliability it doesn’t say much for the markers themselves if every night you have to take you gun to bits to re-lubricate every part of it to avoid chopping paint. I don’t know about most other shocker owners, but the internals on my shockers are lucky to see the light of day once a month and I must shoot over 12000 balls a week. So if we do the maths that’s, close to 48000 balls a month and then, I might consider giving it a clean.
Might this satisfy your unique engineering term?