Tom and a few others,
Do you have any evidence of either Dynasty or SP directly developing gun cheats for the Shocker? or is it the usual bash SP / SP Teams hysteria? Your implying that SP's business practices predispose them to introducing designer gun cheats, do you have any evidence to support said claims? Seen any Black Helicopters landing at the Gardner Ranch recently? I know at the last monthly Knights Templar get together, Ryan, Skinny K etc were notably absent, and we had some lovely goats to sacrifice.
Bogeyman accusations are getting tiresome, the Shockers Dynasty shoot are Master Tech'd, they probably do get the new parts such efficiency kits or LPRs, these are NOT cheats but performance upgrades inside the rules. If it make the gun shoot more consistently or with increased air efficiency, it isn't outside the rules. It may well be that these upgrades are not yet publicly available or even cost prohibitive, but if the gun does not fire more than one ball per trigger switch activation or ramp velocity it is (sadly for you), very much legal. Hey maybe the Shockers even fall apart after one tourney, or last a fraction of the time of other guns, however this is still not the basis to make cheat accusations.
Perhaps the simple fact is a well set-up Shocker is comparable with other top end guns / gun manufacturers? Posting emotive gun crap is one thing, but cheat accusations, or running products down simply because you work for a different company or even don't like the so called "nefarious" business practices of another company (I mean do you or 99.9% of posters here even know the full inside "skinny" of the whole patent shizzle anyway or is it just heresy?).
Oh and what exactly does this mean "I had a chat with Russell (the rule book) Smith the other day (great bloke), and some ideas I could think of, just off the top of my head, he had also thought of, and was actively looking at.". What no more after market parts for guns? No more Efficiency kits? Or are you and "The rulebook" planning on banning anything SP produce?, what about Timmies, or Dm4s or even Samurai triggers on Cockers? Can you enlighten us further here?
Gun cheats are gun cheats and should be dealt with in a severe manner, and if a certain gun can be proved to be Illegal then should be banned plus possibly the player, but Internet heresy (often with ulterior motives), or baseless accusations of cheating are not acceptable. If gun doesn't go over 300+ fps or shoot more than 1 ball per pull/ switch activation, then it's legal, congrats to the player for having either the time, money and effort for setting up his gun that way or being so good he qualifies the tech support to do it for him.
There is a lot of nepotism in paintball, but get Real specific examples because without real evidence it just adds to the never ending pile of BS that gets posted on the internet.
Lots of love and kisses, although apologies if sounds a bit strong.....
Glen
P.S learn to name drop better.
