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.

Business Sense At It’s Finest

If you are one of the thousands of paintball enthusiast roaming around the web, you will have definitely heard of TechPB, and the success it has grown into. Starting as a small web show, hosted by Mike Phillips, on youtube dedicated to educating new players that have entered the sport. It now has grown into a popular youtube channel with a large cult following.

It is a driving force behind the paintball community, and is even investing back into it to keep the sport alive. But on to the topic at hand, Marker Bids, a new auction website created by the group over at TechPB. This site allows you to buy paintball equipment for dirt-cheap which sounds to good to be true, and you are partially right.