Has anyone ever heard of this company

[Trbo323]

https://mercuryrise.com/pages/about

Someone posted one of their markers on my local craigslist and I have never heard of them so I went and found their web page.

The two things on their about us page that really caught my eye was

1) 20 years of experience in paintball and this is the first time I've ever heard of them

2) "the markers our factory manufactures for well-known brands occupy 65% of US paintball marker market shares"

Anyone else?

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[fullofpaint]

If it wasn't for the Cali address I'd assume it was just one of the Taiwan factories like Air Challenger.

[Trbo323]

Watch that video. It's mislabeled they are extruding the bodies. Kind of a lot of machinery that seems to do nothing but move the aluminum around until the end

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[Trbo323]

Another interesting thing

This is from the refunds portion of their web page

"Unfortunately, we cannot accept returns on sale items or gift cards."

And if you look at... Well anything for sale on their site, it looks like everything is a "sale" price

Also, if they have 20 years in paintball.... Why are there no reviews?

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[Cdn_Cuda]

20 years experience in paintball means 5 guys have been playing for 4 years, so not much to it other than a lame marketing claim. After all, MCB is home to obscure paintball knowledge on the internet.

Also looking at what they make, the must produce all the cheap low-end Spyder knock-offs. At least it has a clamping feedneck! But otherwise same old thing I would assume.

[Toestr]

The only thing I could find on them from the link you provided was a field in California tagged them on Instagram and are using their .68 Venom marker as a rental. Strangely I couldn't find a link to their product lineup from the link you provided, only through Google. In fact Google takes me to a whole different home page.

https://mercuryrise.com/

The .68 Venom reminds me of a later Piranha, especially the grip frame - so maybe they manufactured for KEE? The .50 cal Venom and hopper is being rebranded by Valken. I know Valken also had Mokal doing some of their manufacturing as well.

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[The Inflicted]

2) "the markers our factory manufactures for well-known brands occupy 65% of US paintball marker market shares"

Clever wording. "...our factory..." just means Mercury has contracted with the same big OEM that GI/NPS/PMI uses.

The .50 Venoms are very obviously rebranded Valken Cobras.
The .68 Spyder clones they're selling remind me of reworked Piranha GTis.

[DocsMachine]

The address is a strip mall, not a factory.

Doc.

[Ecapnation]

Just another random overseas company cranking out STBB's for whoever pays them enough for a run.

[shadow191]

I just saw one this past weekend here in GA. A kid (maybe 10 or 11) had one and I had no idea what a Venom was. Wonder how he or his father found the brand.

Also, it was one of the loudest guns I’ve ever heard. Sounded like a Spyder dry firing even though he was shooting paint. Much louder than all the rental Tippmanns and an actual Spyder.

[Ecapnation]

Amazon and eBay sell them

[XEMON]

The .68 Venom reminds me of a later Piranha, especially the grip frame - so maybe they manufactured for KEE? The .50 cal Venom and hopper is being rebranded by Valken. I know Valken also had Mokal doing some of their manufacturing as well.

I've seen th venom on the field a few times, I always thought they were spiders ... Not independent manufacturer ...

[Trbo323]

The address is a strip mall, not a factory.

Doc.

Well there's that

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[The Inflicted]

Also, it was one of the loudest guns I’ve ever heard. Sounded like a Spyder dry firing even though he was shooting paint. Much louder than all the rental Tippmanns and an actual Spyder.

I noticed the same thing about a D3FY Conquest I saw a kid using last year. Maybe they're sprung unusually heavily.

[Hp_lovecraft]

For what its worth:

The president of this import company, "Ying-Jung Tseng", gets the guns through an export company in china, "Starjet Technology".... which is owned by..... Qian Wei.
Qian Wei probobly does make 65% of the paintball guns. They are a massive chinese manafacturing conglomerate.

Other big manafacturers are: Ho Feng (spyders, etc), Jia Dyi (ram action, mil sim, etc), Dah Yuan (lots of oem, rebadged stuff)

So I doubt there is actually -any- employees of "Mercury Rise" in this country. I'd assume it is just a drop-shipper. You "order" from this website, and it gets dropped shipped from China. The address in California is just to make the corporation legal.

[Brokeass_baller]

Damn you're good.