Just another fun money pit

In the paintball world a growing phenomenon known as pump play is receiving greater attention. Players are now going back to the roots of paintball by using autocockers. These autocockers are mainly converted into pump guns, as paintballers believe this type of play is more of a challenge. Unfortunately Worr Game Products (WGP) failed to maintain quality performance with their autocockers after their 2004 prostocks, and have gone out of business. Pump guns known as “snipers” are generally autocockers that have a pump kit installed instead of pneumatics. This forces the player to manually cock back the paintball gun before it is able to fire. Pump guns have less of a learning curve because there are no pneumatics involved. These pneumatics are required to be properly timed before the gun can shoot and that is why most players, who don’t play pump, have moved onto electronic poppet, spool, or blow back markers.

I have decided that getting into pump may not be such a bad idea. After spending copious amounts of money on paint every week, whether it was at Ambush, a local speedball field, or at Richmond Indoor Paintball. Two of my friends that I play with own Azodin Kaos pump guns, so I decided to deviate from the trend and invest in a WGP 04 Superstock from Paintball Gateway. Paintball Gateway who are affiliated with a company known as Check-it Products have bought the remaining surplus of WGP components. Unfortunately the gun is still on the way and should be shipped to me by Thursday. I decided to buy it in the gloss black finish, since the colour combinations with a black gun are limitless.

In the order I decided to buy a WGP single slide trigger frame just for better comfort and aesthetics (since I like the look better). I have a feeling this gun is going to turn into another money pit… but I’m adamant on trying this style of paintball before I fully invest. I’m a pretty trigger-happy player and I don’t follow the ideals of “one shot, one kill”. The train of thought I abided by is: once I hit an opponent with paint and they don’t call themselves out, I’ll keep drilling them with paint until they get the message.

The gun comes with a WGP pump kit and I don’t really see a point to upgrading to a Sanchez Machine or Chipley Custom Products (CCM) pump kit since I’m just getting into this style of play. The stock aluminum bolt will likely be sufficient since I’m not reaching high rates of fire. Therefore, with such low rates of fire, a fully delrin bolt is less of a priority. An Auto Trigger kit is also out of the question because I’m looking to save money on paint not blow through as much as I would during a speed-ball game.

While mainly concentrating on the externals of the gun, I’ve decided that if I enjoy this new toy of mine, I’m going to fully upgrade it with Custom Products (CP) parts. The Custom Products line has bulletproof reliability, a diverse colour choice, and produces some of the best products on the market. The only problem is deciding on a colour combination for my marker. I would be replacing the stock barrel, regulator, asa, and maybe the grips for the hell of it. I was pretty set on black and gold for a while, which would entail me to paint the pump rod, bolt pin, back cap, and cocking rod. But then I saw this prostock…

Caption: Polished Blue prostock with silver CP reg, silver caged Check-it asa, WGP silver single slide trigger frame, stiffi carbon fibre barrel and custom made wood grain pump handle and grips.

And then I realized that chrome and black may not be such a bad idea either, or polished blue or red. So I am left with a big problem on which colour combination I should end up with. If you have any suggestions let me know in the comments, down below. I will upload better pictures and I will keep an update on how the project goes.