Phantom First Strike builds

[nnolt89]

Hey all,

I am looking for images of phantoms that are converted to accept first strike rounds (single shot).

I want to build one and I am trying to get ideas/inspiration.

im interested in building one with a wood stock.

also any advice on where to buy parts. I’m thinking either sourcing parts from MCB or phantom online.

thanks

-Nate

[AnarchicArctic]

Yeah single shot!

I made mine from an asp cocker threaded breech so it can accept rifled barrels. I used a 10/32 shoulder bolt as my handle in the tpc set screw hole, on top of a little piece of oring to protect the threads and hold the tpc like the set screw used to do. Modified the breech with a dremel. The rear notch is really helpful when loading. I made a wooden stock from some oak board, not too difficult with a little shop savvy.

[fil]

Do you have a write up on how you did the bolt and barrel?

[JeepDVLZ45]

the only pic of this one. Sold it a while ago….it had a 6” barrel with a Dishka Tip when it sold

[JeepDVLZ45]

You can also muzzle load FSR in a phantom.

 I’ve done it plenty of times.   Someone shoots one at me and it doesn’t break?

Grab the round, muzzle load, use your squeegee to push it down the barrel and “return to sender”….no modifications necessary

[netsurferdude2]

My baby:

haveblue cocker threaded body. Hammerhead rifled 20" barrel

[NONOBLITUS]

This is so glorious in so many ways.

[Super Nova]

That shows some real attention to detail, beautiful.

[Lt. head-shot]

Not a wood stocked one, but this is one of my favorite builds.

Bolt Action "S-5 Heavy Blaster" Phantom inspired by a gun from SW: The Phantom Menace

[Impactfour]

Did I have a fever dream or did you sell that at a shockingly low price a while back?

[Lt. head-shot]

Impactfour - depends on what you mean by shockingly low, but yes I sold it a while back.

[Impactfour]

Low enough I was frustrated with myself for not pulling the trigger and making an offer when it was briefly available. That's such a cool build and it's inspiration from the phantom menace was one of my favorite movie props as a kid.

[XEMON]

Here is the one I made a few years back, with finger cocking (no bolt handle on this guy):

[The Inflicted]

From a purely functional standpoint I'd make a case for not modifying the gun at all and loading the rounds by unscrewing the barrel between shots. This goes even faster if you've got a J&J barrel with its AMCE threads.

[nnolt89]

I believe if you cut a stock class body to allow a FS round to be loaded. You could later screw the feed tube back on and use it as a regular SC marker.

[netsurferdude2]

Nnolt is right there. You would barely notice the difference.

[The Inflicted]

I never modified a Phantom in this way, but I did try playing with an Empire Trracer with the feed removed, which has a first-strike shaped breech. My experience was that it was still much faster to unscrew the barrel and thumb the round in than worry about getting the orientation right in the breech, and then have to fix it when they rotate off axis.

For about 2 years around 2010 a Phantom with a J&J barrel was my go-to for scenarios- I would chrono for First Strikes and keep the standard feed full of APX paint, which was close in diameter. I'd keep an FS loaded in the breech, but for follow-up shots it was no trouble to re-chamber a regular ball, or 10. That J&J barrel unthreads way faster than the Trracer's cocker barrel.

[nnolt89]

I like inflicted’s idea though. Then I could switch back and forth.

If I have a non- Phantom barrel, doesn’t the pump no longer fit ?

For instance if I had a hammerhead barrel, I would need a new pump to accommodate the larger barrel diameter

[Lt. head-shot]

If you go with the option for an autococker threaded body in order to use rifled/other barrels, then yes you will need to use an undercocking kit as cocker barrels are 1" and phantom barrels are 7/8"

[Chuck E Ducky]

Best bet would be to cut an ASP body because it will take cocker thread barrels. Cocker threaded rifled barrels are easy to come by.

But this one is mine.

[nnolt89]

[nnolt89]

ok, I found a open class right side feed Phantom body. And I found a rifled Armson phantom barrel plus a dna paintball tommy gun pump. (By found I mean extra parts in basement).

I used the Dremel to cut body to make it accept FS.

then I swapped internal parts from one of my phantoms.

Now I have a single shot FS phantom. It works great.

[Lt. head-shot]

Double check the rifling on the Armson barrel, I believe they twist the opposite way from first strikes. But I dig it with the Tommy gun pump!

[nnolt89]

I did a terrible job with Dremel but it works.

[Chuck E Ducky]

You could always clean up the Dremel marks with a black sharpie. You would be surprised how much it hides. I use it on my Old Ultralight tips that the Ano has been nibbled away from many years of service.

[Hooptie]

Hello, I’d like to gather your advice on how to make dremel cuts in the tube body? I’m pondering a first strike round opening similar to your phantom builds. And the cuts look clean on your builds.

Did you use a dremel by hand? Or did you use a dremel on a mount with an X-Y table?

Thank you.