Largest Paintball Gun Collection (??) Looking for a Home

[JaysonOrvis]

I think maybe I have the largest vintage paintball gun collection -- all pre-2007 markers -- and I'm looking to find the collection a home. Maybe sell, maybe just find the right display location.

I'm Jayson Orvis, the founder of Special Ops Paintball, and I acquired Dale Price's collection sometime around 2000 (I vaguely recall) and expanded it from there. It's at least 500 markers, but likely more, all well-stored for the last twenty years. It's bumming me out that all these old, cool markers aren't somewhere they can be enjoyed.

Any suggestions?

[Cdn_Cuda]

Wow, that's an incredible collection! Hopefully someone here will be able to help you out.

[The Hobbit]

Would love to see a gallery of them, though I understand that would be a daunting and time consuming task.

also be cool to see SOP make a return.

[iamthelazerviking]

Did you you run the Retribution field on your property in Bountiful?

[Drcemento]

May want to get in touch with Dan Bacci - bacci paintball on here. He runs a paintball history Instagram and sets up a booth at events here and there showcasing a bunch of incredible old markers. also has a good youtube with in-depth interviews of some of the greats from the early days. he might be able to give some advise/ help on what to do with that pile of awesomeness.

Meanwhile I'd suggest grabbing a box of them when you get a minute and starting to at least get a photo archive started. we would all certainly enjoy seeing and commenting on them here 😁
it would also give you an idea of what you have.

[superman]

Can you print it so we can see all of the cells for the same marker on the same line? Like in landscape?

[Ecapnation]

Large yes largest not exactly..... I know I am at 437 and should I start cataloging two of my close friends collections they would likely be double my number each.

Lets see what you got!

And yeah the Excel sheet needs to be tweaked

[Painthappy]

Very cool. Will be hard to sell them all at once, but you never know I suppose. I guess if you had a number.

That being said, I'll definitely talk to you about those reblines!!! I've been working on those for far too damn long.

I ended up buying some of the last of dales items before he left the country. I would just tell him to stop putting them on ebay and just sell them directly to me as I was buying them all up anyhow.

[Chuck E Ducky]

You see he has a red one. You need that for your collection don’t you. I was just about to tag you.

[Chaos]

The only one I can think of with a larger collection than any listed here is PW Paintball. Last I knew his collection was somewhere in excess of 750. Last I talked to his he was looking to sell too. It's gonna be hard to sell a complete collection,you'd get more breaking it up

[Grendel]

So if the attached .pdf is created from an Excel or Google docs table I know you can post tables into a thread without doing the .pdf.

[JeeperCreeper]

Wow, so much brass in there

[Psycho91]

Holy shit 500+ markers talk about a gun whore

[William the Third]

You realize this is MCB, right?

[DocsMachine]

Wow, and I thought 120 or so was a lot.

Just don't ask me if they all work. Or are all assembled. Or if I can find them all.

Doc.

[El Gringo]

Damn....I want some of those

[Trbo323]

Oh man the PDF gets all messed up for me, it displays vertically so only a few columns display on each page then once the whole list is complete it starts the next few columns so nothing lines up

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