Figured it was about time I posted my stuff on the new forum. I've owned a total of something like 80 guns over years, but these are just the highlights. Most of these have long been sold. I strive for minimalism, so I try to only keep the guns I need. That said, that hasn't stopped me from owning some cool guns for a short period of time.
Trilogy Competition
-Niche Clutch Slider frame with NDZ roller sear and Hogue palm swell grips
-AKA Sidewinder
-PPS Trilogy Rock
-TechT Timing Rod
-Morph Valve
-Macdev Sonic Bolt
-TJD ICS (to be removed)
-Karni Snatch Grip
-PE POPS ASA
This was the first gun I ever bought. Purchased back in 08 on PBN. It has, and will likely always be, my favorite gun. I ran it stock for many years, then completely overhauled it in 2017. I'm starting to come to terms with the fact that this gun is too finicky to really rely on though, so it's going into semi-retirement.
Tippmann Model 98 Pump. Need to finish this one.
Hard to explain the parts on this one haha
When I first started playing paintball back in 07, I became enamored with the idea of playing pump. But at the time, the only pump guns I knew about were Phantoms and CCMs. There was no way I could afford those as a broke high school kid, but I did have an old Model 98 lying around. Between 08 and 09, I converted it to pump, first by just detaching the bolt from the hammer and operating it manually, with the hammer still operating as a blowback, and later as a true closed bolt pump. I played most of 2010 with it as pictured. Sometime around 2017 or 2018 I started modding it further, but never really finished it.
Toxic Toys Tribal Twister -traded
-stock minus the ICD reg and CP barrel
Got this gun in a trade, and later traded it away. This was my first electropneumatic gun, and man I loved it. The milling and ano was pretty awesome for such an affordable gun. It shot pretty nice for what it was too.
Tippmann SL-68 II, centerfeed stock class -sold
-BOS pump handle
-anti twist mod
-custom centerfeed conversion
-CCI feedblock
This one was kind of a funny story. I got an SL68 2 in a trade, ad before it came in I asked around about how to mod it to stock class. Someone offered me a trade for a body that had been modded for centerfeed, which I accepted before the first gun came in lol. So basically I opened the box, tore it apart, shipped it back out. Once the new one came in, I cut off the sight rail and drilled it to take a phantom feedblock. I had trouble actually using it on the field though, so I got rid of it. I later realized it was mostly due to the butt plate I had on my tank.
E2 fully Eclipse'd Mini Orracle -sold
-Mini Orracle body kit, undrilled
-PE E2 frame with Samurai trigger and 1.20 board
-PE Nexus ram with QEVs
-PE Dart LPR
-PE Dart bolt
-PE valve
-Rex Dialer
-PE SL3 reg
-PE POPS ASA
-PE Shaft 3 barrel
When I worked at my local paintball store, I helped a customer convert a really nice e cocker to pump. He ended up giving me the frame and pneumatics. I told him they were worth a lot of money and that he should sell them, but he didn't want to deal with them. I initially put everything on a Psychoballistics Superbolt, but later acquired a raw mini Orracle body. Decided to build it out with as many eclipse parts as I could. It shot so freakin good. Very fast and snappy. It somehow was sweetspotting at 250 PSI, despite being a mini body with no volumizer. Ended up selling it. Helped pay my rent during summer in college.
Pump Automag -traded
-RF classic mag body
-reverse minimag valve
-polished (sorta) pot metal frame with SP wood grips
-Rainmann229 Pump kit
-Stainless twist lock feak
-32* on/off
If I remember correctly, I got this one on ebay and threw on the barrel and reverse valve. I was going to stock class mod a minimag body but the extended front end caused problems with the pump handle. I don't think I ever quite got it working right, and ultimately didn't really love it so it got traded.
DYE DM7 -traded
-CP trigger
-CP barrel
-DP RAPS ASA
One of my teammates gave me this gun missing the solenoid, eyes, ASA, most of the screws. He didn't want to deal with the hassle of tracking down all the parts. I didn't know it at the time, but the store I worked at had a master parts kit which had all of those parts, so that same day I had it up and running. I ended up trading it back to him for roughly the value of the parts I put on it.
Planet Eclipse Ego10 -sold
Got this gun with a dead solenoid. I was eventually able to track one down and got it working, but I never really got along with it. I shot great, but pointed low for me. So I sold it when something else came along.
Pneumatic Assist Trilogy Pump
-WGP Trilogy Competition SF body
-WGP Trilogy 1 1/2 hingle
-WWA pump adapter
-99 spec Silver Slice pump kit
-Tippmann GTA LPR ASA
A friend of mine built a real rat rod pneumatic assist trilogy, and it was so cool I wanted to do one myself. I came up with the idea of using a Tippmann LPR from the old ebolt kits, and use an SF trilogy to hide the LP hose under the eye cover. The only permanent modification required was to the pump kit itself, to prevent the handle from falling off the front. This sat in my local store's gun museum until they needed to liquidate the museum for more space.
Avratech AV1 Falcon & Retro7 -sold
Oh man. The falcon was a dream gun of mine ever since I saw it. While looking in the BSTs here for ICD Freestyles, I peeked in the pump section and found this. Bought it almost immediately. It was an absolute dream of a gun, despite having all the usual quirks. I managed to create a work around for the autotrigger bug, so I was able to play with it a couple times.
I got the Retro later that same year. Figured I had the Falcon, I might as well complete the set. IIRC this was number TWO, from the first batch. I messed around with all sorts of different configurations, mostly with a longer barrel and a bottomline setup. Only played with it once.
Unfortunately, there weren't any good opportunities to play pump where I lived, so after a few years I sold them both.
Team Lockout Edition Freeflow Fulcrum -sold
-98 Fulcrum body, Lockout Eddition
-Benchmark (I think?) slider frame
-WGP Ergo reg
-SMC ram
-Freeflow 3-way
-PPS Rock with Freeflow knob
-WGP stainless lower tube
-Shocktech Alien bolt
-Hybrid push button ASA
Bought the body kit on ebay, and built it up as close as I reasonably could to stock. This was right around the time Freeflow came back, maybe right before. Beautiful gun, but I just couldn't get used to the right feed. Just saw that this has been stripped down again, and the body is back up on ebay 😤
Planet Eclipse CS1, Splashid Ice -sold
Ah, what a gun. Ironically, the thing most people disliked about the CS1 is what I loved about it; the super long feel and the extra fat grips. It was the first modern gun that felt right for my super long arms and spidery hands. And the IV core always shot better than the gamma core to me. I used this gun a lot; in the woods, for xball practice, even won an NXL event with it. But after I got married and my time on the field declined, I decided to sell it. Wish I hadn't.
1997 P&P Supercocker -sold
Another body kit rescued from ebay. Funnily enough, while trying to track down a frame for it, the original buyer sold me the original frame. Why he separated them to begin with is beyond me. But anyway, using Ravi's review as a guide, I built this out as close as possible to original spec. Wonderful gun, but stupidly heavy and honestly the trigger sucked. I was originally planning on sending it to P&P to get it tuned from the original maker, but it ended up in my store's gun museum.
2001 Macev Sonic -sold
Yet another ebay find. It was more or less complete, but in pieces. I basically just put it together, filled in whatever was missing, and sold it.
System X Dragon -sold
-System X dragon body, anodized by Caustic Customs
-ACP slimline front bock
-Hybrid Half pint ram
-WGP STO 3-way (had a matching Hybrid 3 way as well)
-Macdev Sonic LPR
-Macdev reg from a Clone
-Hybrid 50/50 frame (genuinely one of the fastest hinge frames ever) with aluminium skeleton grips
-Macdev RED valve
-Macdev on/off ASA
I came up with this build during the height of the autococker renaissance. I wanted to build something really cool, using unconventional or uncommon parts. I always liked the styling of System X bodies, so I combined Macdev and Hybrid parts to make this guy. It looked really nice, but either the body or back block wasn't quite to spec (the tubes weren't spaced right) so it didn't work as well as it should have. It has since popped up for sale a few different times.
Powerlyte Hybrid -sold
-PE v1 hinge
-Inception 3way
-Madev Sonic LPR
-Macdev reg from a Droid
-Inception feedneck
-Macdev 11/16 RED valve from a Cyborg
-Inception EZ on/off
I kinda went through a Macdev phase, where I was hoarding macdev valves and whatnot. While I dragged my feet getting the Dragon anodized, I started building this. Again, I wanted something unconventional. The internal ram was really cool, and this was one of the first 11/16 bodies around (besides Merlins of course) But this time, I used Inception instead of Hybrid. Wasn't able to get a RIP frame, so I used an Eclipse hinge instead. Like the last several cockers, I was essentially building these for fun, with the intent to sell when finished.
-Chris Shanks Spine body kit (1 of 6, this was secret body #7)
-AKA Tornado valve
-AKA hammer kit
-AKA cocking rod
-AKA Lightning bolt with AKA bolt pin
-Planet Eclipse Ego 5 feedneck with sprocket
-AKA Javelin barrel, freak bored
-Belsales hollowpoint 3-way
-Belsales .44 ram
-AKA SCM III
-Chris Shanks custom volumizer
-AKA pump arm
-AKA Sidewinder
-Belsales Angry humpback frame
-Belsales trigger plate
-Belsales equalizer roller sear
-Exalt wood grips
-Planet Eclipse POPS ASA
-Belsales wire beavertail​
Along with the Avratech Falcon, this was my unicorn. I fell in love with the Chris Shanks Spine cockers when I first saw them, but was too late (and too broke) to buy one when they were available. In 2018 or 19, I found a NOS Belsales angry frame, and started thinkin about what I wanted to build from it. At the end of the day, I kept coming back to the spine. So I spent months tracking one down. I paid an absurd amount of money for it, and then built it up with the absolute best selection of pre-renaissance parts I could. I wanted it to have as much legacy prestige as possible. Took me a long time, but I finally got it anodized and built in 2022. The ano didn't quite turn out how I hoped (I wanted more purple) but it was a beautiful gun, and unbelievably light. That said, I never intended to play with it, and I don't do wall hangers. So I sold it in early 2024.
Trilogy Competition
-Niche Clutch Slider frame with NDZ roller sear and Hogue palm swell grips
-AKA Sidewinder
-PPS Trilogy Rock
-TechT Timing Rod
-Morph Valve
-Macdev Sonic Bolt
-TJD ICS (to be removed)
-Karni Snatch Grip
-PE POPS ASA
This was the first gun I ever bought. Purchased back in 08 on PBN. It has, and will likely always be, my favorite gun. I ran it stock for many years, then completely overhauled it in 2017. I'm starting to come to terms with the fact that this gun is too finicky to really rely on though, so it's going into semi-retirement.
Tippmann Model 98 Pump. Need to finish this one.
Hard to explain the parts on this one haha
When I first started playing paintball back in 07, I became enamored with the idea of playing pump. But at the time, the only pump guns I knew about were Phantoms and CCMs. There was no way I could afford those as a broke high school kid, but I did have an old Model 98 lying around. Between 08 and 09, I converted it to pump, first by just detaching the bolt from the hammer and operating it manually, with the hammer still operating as a blowback, and later as a true closed bolt pump. I played most of 2010 with it as pictured. Sometime around 2017 or 2018 I started modding it further, but never really finished it.
Toxic Toys Tribal Twister -traded
-stock minus the ICD reg and CP barrel
Got this gun in a trade, and later traded it away. This was my first electropneumatic gun, and man I loved it. The milling and ano was pretty awesome for such an affordable gun. It shot pretty nice for what it was too.
Tippmann SL-68 II, centerfeed stock class -sold
-BOS pump handle
-anti twist mod
-custom centerfeed conversion
-CCI feedblock
This one was kind of a funny story. I got an SL68 2 in a trade, ad before it came in I asked around about how to mod it to stock class. Someone offered me a trade for a body that had been modded for centerfeed, which I accepted before the first gun came in lol. So basically I opened the box, tore it apart, shipped it back out. Once the new one came in, I cut off the sight rail and drilled it to take a phantom feedblock. I had trouble actually using it on the field though, so I got rid of it. I later realized it was mostly due to the butt plate I had on my tank.
E2 fully Eclipse'd Mini Orracle -sold
-Mini Orracle body kit, undrilled
-PE E2 frame with Samurai trigger and 1.20 board
-PE Nexus ram with QEVs
-PE Dart LPR
-PE Dart bolt
-PE valve
-Rex Dialer
-PE SL3 reg
-PE POPS ASA
-PE Shaft 3 barrel
When I worked at my local paintball store, I helped a customer convert a really nice e cocker to pump. He ended up giving me the frame and pneumatics. I told him they were worth a lot of money and that he should sell them, but he didn't want to deal with them. I initially put everything on a Psychoballistics Superbolt, but later acquired a raw mini Orracle body. Decided to build it out with as many eclipse parts as I could. It shot so freakin good. Very fast and snappy. It somehow was sweetspotting at 250 PSI, despite being a mini body with no volumizer. Ended up selling it. Helped pay my rent during summer in college.
Pump Automag -traded
-RF classic mag body
-reverse minimag valve
-polished (sorta) pot metal frame with SP wood grips
-Rainmann229 Pump kit
-Stainless twist lock feak
-32* on/off
If I remember correctly, I got this one on ebay and threw on the barrel and reverse valve. I was going to stock class mod a minimag body but the extended front end caused problems with the pump handle. I don't think I ever quite got it working right, and ultimately didn't really love it so it got traded.
DYE DM7 -traded
-CP trigger
-CP barrel
-DP RAPS ASA
One of my teammates gave me this gun missing the solenoid, eyes, ASA, most of the screws. He didn't want to deal with the hassle of tracking down all the parts. I didn't know it at the time, but the store I worked at had a master parts kit which had all of those parts, so that same day I had it up and running. I ended up trading it back to him for roughly the value of the parts I put on it.
Planet Eclipse Ego10 -sold
Got this gun with a dead solenoid. I was eventually able to track one down and got it working, but I never really got along with it. I shot great, but pointed low for me. So I sold it when something else came along.
Pneumatic Assist Trilogy Pump
-WGP Trilogy Competition SF body
-WGP Trilogy 1 1/2 hingle
-WWA pump adapter
-99 spec Silver Slice pump kit
-Tippmann GTA LPR ASA
A friend of mine built a real rat rod pneumatic assist trilogy, and it was so cool I wanted to do one myself. I came up with the idea of using a Tippmann LPR from the old ebolt kits, and use an SF trilogy to hide the LP hose under the eye cover. The only permanent modification required was to the pump kit itself, to prevent the handle from falling off the front. This sat in my local store's gun museum until they needed to liquidate the museum for more space.
Avratech AV1 Falcon & Retro7 -sold
Oh man. The falcon was a dream gun of mine ever since I saw it. While looking in the BSTs here for ICD Freestyles, I peeked in the pump section and found this. Bought it almost immediately. It was an absolute dream of a gun, despite having all the usual quirks. I managed to create a work around for the autotrigger bug, so I was able to play with it a couple times.
I got the Retro later that same year. Figured I had the Falcon, I might as well complete the set. IIRC this was number TWO, from the first batch. I messed around with all sorts of different configurations, mostly with a longer barrel and a bottomline setup. Only played with it once.
Unfortunately, there weren't any good opportunities to play pump where I lived, so after a few years I sold them both.
Team Lockout Edition Freeflow Fulcrum -sold
-98 Fulcrum body, Lockout Eddition
-Benchmark (I think?) slider frame
-WGP Ergo reg
-SMC ram
-Freeflow 3-way
-PPS Rock with Freeflow knob
-WGP stainless lower tube
-Shocktech Alien bolt
-Hybrid push button ASA
Bought the body kit on ebay, and built it up as close as I reasonably could to stock. This was right around the time Freeflow came back, maybe right before. Beautiful gun, but I just couldn't get used to the right feed. Just saw that this has been stripped down again, and the body is back up on ebay 😤
Planet Eclipse CS1, Splashid Ice -sold
Ah, what a gun. Ironically, the thing most people disliked about the CS1 is what I loved about it; the super long feel and the extra fat grips. It was the first modern gun that felt right for my super long arms and spidery hands. And the IV core always shot better than the gamma core to me. I used this gun a lot; in the woods, for xball practice, even won an NXL event with it. But after I got married and my time on the field declined, I decided to sell it. Wish I hadn't.
1997 P&P Supercocker -sold
Another body kit rescued from ebay. Funnily enough, while trying to track down a frame for it, the original buyer sold me the original frame. Why he separated them to begin with is beyond me. But anyway, using Ravi's review as a guide, I built this out as close as possible to original spec. Wonderful gun, but stupidly heavy and honestly the trigger sucked. I was originally planning on sending it to P&P to get it tuned from the original maker, but it ended up in my store's gun museum.
2001 Macev Sonic -sold
Yet another ebay find. It was more or less complete, but in pieces. I basically just put it together, filled in whatever was missing, and sold it.
System X Dragon -sold
-System X dragon body, anodized by Caustic Customs
-ACP slimline front bock
-Hybrid Half pint ram
-WGP STO 3-way (had a matching Hybrid 3 way as well)
-Macdev Sonic LPR
-Macdev reg from a Clone
-Hybrid 50/50 frame (genuinely one of the fastest hinge frames ever) with aluminium skeleton grips
-Macdev RED valve
-Macdev on/off ASA
I came up with this build during the height of the autococker renaissance. I wanted to build something really cool, using unconventional or uncommon parts. I always liked the styling of System X bodies, so I combined Macdev and Hybrid parts to make this guy. It looked really nice, but either the body or back block wasn't quite to spec (the tubes weren't spaced right) so it didn't work as well as it should have. It has since popped up for sale a few different times.
Powerlyte Hybrid -sold
-PE v1 hinge
-Inception 3way
-Madev Sonic LPR
-Macdev reg from a Droid
-Inception feedneck
-Macdev 11/16 RED valve from a Cyborg
-Inception EZ on/off
I kinda went through a Macdev phase, where I was hoarding macdev valves and whatnot. While I dragged my feet getting the Dragon anodized, I started building this. Again, I wanted something unconventional. The internal ram was really cool, and this was one of the first 11/16 bodies around (besides Merlins of course) But this time, I used Inception instead of Hybrid. Wasn't able to get a RIP frame, so I used an Eclipse hinge instead. Like the last several cockers, I was essentially building these for fun, with the intent to sell when finished.
-Chris Shanks Spine body kit (1 of 6, this was secret body #7)
-AKA Tornado valve
-AKA hammer kit
-AKA cocking rod
-AKA Lightning bolt with AKA bolt pin
-Planet Eclipse Ego 5 feedneck with sprocket
-AKA Javelin barrel, freak bored
-Belsales hollowpoint 3-way
-Belsales .44 ram
-AKA SCM III
-Chris Shanks custom volumizer
-AKA pump arm
-AKA Sidewinder
-Belsales Angry humpback frame
-Belsales trigger plate
-Belsales equalizer roller sear
-Exalt wood grips
-Planet Eclipse POPS ASA
-Belsales wire beavertail​
Along with the Avratech Falcon, this was my unicorn. I fell in love with the Chris Shanks Spine cockers when I first saw them, but was too late (and too broke) to buy one when they were available. In 2018 or 19, I found a NOS Belsales angry frame, and started thinkin about what I wanted to build from it. At the end of the day, I kept coming back to the spine. So I spent months tracking one down. I paid an absurd amount of money for it, and then built it up with the absolute best selection of pre-renaissance parts I could. I wanted it to have as much legacy prestige as possible. Took me a long time, but I finally got it anodized and built in 2022. The ano didn't quite turn out how I hoped (I wanted more purple) but it was a beautiful gun, and unbelievably light. That said, I never intended to play with it, and I don't do wall hangers. So I sold it in early 2024.
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