Modern Classics

[mikey601]

Automag
Angel led, lcd, speed 05, A1.
Pneuventures shocker
Inferno

What the hell, that aint even in the welsh dictionary let alone the english one.

Hybrid Shocker

 

[Tom Allen]

What the hell, that aint even in the welsh dictionary let alone the english one.

Hybrid Shocker

So young, so dumb.......

 

[mikey601]

So young, so dumb.......

Well go on explain then?

 

[Gadget]

Only real standout marker for me in terms of classic design is the Automag.

Cockers deserve some respect for being the most evolved design of all time - but they're not exactly an elegant bit of design are they?

There was an interesting post on Automags.org, where Tom Kaye was asked which marker he'd use other than an AGD product.

If I wasn't in the industry but know what I know now.....

I would shoot one of the earlier Angels. I know John Rice and I respect him as an engineer. They made the parts themselves and most were hand fit together ( the breaches were numbered). When your hand fitting parts someone is testing it to make sure it is right. The early cut and carved were great looking guns and the overall design was more elegant than the typical stacked tube. There was a shoot down problem but I could have fixed that.

For a mech I would want a gun I never had to mess with and didn't have to think about, so I would just shoot a Tippy with everyone else.

No other guns impress me at the gut level. The DM's came from the only gun design to be sold three times because of issues. Bob Long called me when he had gun problems. SP never designed anything and the Cockers were for tinkerers.

Things like Egos, Timmies, modern Shockers etc are all just rehashes of someone else's ideas.

 

[Sid Sidgwick]

Id have to say:

Eblade-Brought cockers into the electro age

Early Angels and LCD-Great engineering!

Ion-Changed the whole paintball market place and destroyed the hopes and dreams of people trying to sell second hand markers

Ego-Reliable, fast marker that made the engineering opposition sit up and take notice.

 

[Lovetone]

shocker sft / nxt


universally derided for being **** (in terms of production, reliability) yet stil the most "winningest" marker ever. a testament to marketing over substance

 

[Tom Allen]

Ego-Reliable, fast marker that made the engineering opposition sit up and take notice.

?????

 

[Tom Allen]

Well go on explain then?

I'll give you a clue, PVI shocker

 

[arg1271]

Classi markers have to be:

The 68 automag
The first cockers
The Angel mk1 and LCD
The Rainmaker
The Gen E Matrix
The DM6


Each of these has marked a mile stone in performance and design.

still got my lvl 7 promag
an angel IR3 (C&C)
DM3 matrix (sold the gen-e)
and my ion

 

[sponge10]

The original shocker 4x4 turbo,electronic markers/ramping wouldn't be where it is today without that all time classic