Paintball History: The first vertical foregrip

[Meleager7]

here’s one to flex your paintball noodle: “ Which paintball gun was the first to offer a vertical foregrip, either purposely intended, or a neat outcome from some other design need( an ex chamber, a regulator, etc) ?

if you think about it ,that gun set the tone for the ergonomics we settled on for Paintball Guns today!

[DocsMachine]

My brain isn't currently firing on all cylinders, but save for a custom-made/custom-modded marker, I'm thinking almost certainly the original Sniper. First- or very close to it- to have a vertical ASA, in '87. It would still be a few more years before inline regulators or even expansion chambers hit the streets, but a LOT of people ran them with a plain, single, vertical 3.5 oz tank, and used same for an impromptu foregrip.

Doc.

[Toestr]

Would vertical foregrips be the most influential to paintball ergos, or would it be the bottomline ASA? If it's the ASA, I think lapco had the first.

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[Meleager7]

I think the bottomline asa is equally influential in the modern paintgun ergonomics . The Tippmann pro-am or maybe the SL68II pump might have broken ground there first....

[Brokeass_baller]

If you count Cali style stocks, then bottom line setups have existed since the Nelspot days.

[NONOBLITUS]

Splatmaster Rapide would be the first I could imagine.

[Ecapnation]

Taso made a vertical pump handle

[ReconSWS]

I'mm just go out on a limb here I know I'm going to get laughed at, but my final answer, after doing 50/50, phone a friend, and ask the audience (of 0), is D. Tippmann A5. Final Answer. Goin for a milly. Lol.

https://youtu.be/LssgdtgJxA4

[Arthur]

lol Im super timid about this thread because relative to my peers on MCB I know jack ****

To your comment though -- why the A5 and not the 98?

[ReconSWS]

Lol yeah the 98 makes more sense...

[DocsMachine]

Splatmaster Rapide would be the first I could imagine.

Rapide Comp Rifle, you mean, since the topic is a foregrip.

But nope, came out about two years after the Sniper.

Doc.

[Cunha]

The sniper had vertical air and a vertical ASA but when did the first grip get threaded into that ASA, and was it before the comp rifle?

And what was in fact the first bottomline which is probably the biggest deal.

[The Inflicted]

And what was in fact the first bottomline which is probably the biggest deal.

Are we viewing that as a separate development from "California-Style" stock-mounted tanks?