If you are one of the few who haven't seen it, here you go...
The video was recorded during the Saturday Wild West Scenario games during Slim's Spring Stock Classic, May 16th & 17th at Adventure Games in Weare, NH. This amazing player (Nate Bunger) attached a CCI Phantom stock-class marker to a banjo, and then used a small, on-board computer to actuate the Phantom trigger when the last note from the tune "Dueling Banjos" was played. He scored TWO eliminations that morning. While I knew the vid was going to be popular, I never expected it to blow up the internet.
As of 10:00am EST on June 26, 2026 the video posted on the StockClassHQ FB page has had over...
• 5.4M views
• 80.2K likes
• 1.2K comments
• 5.1K shares
The StockClassHQ Facebook page went from over 300 followers to over 6K because of that video.
I posted that video 5 weeks ago and all of these numbers just keep going up.
While the vast majority of the people watching, liking and commenting are not even paintball players, there are quite a few who are.
Stock-class paintball has always struggled to be relevant to the rest of the paintball community. With no real industry support the only thing keeping this format alive are the efforts of those who are organizing events, the players who attend them and those who bring their SC equipment to games to commercial fields and educate others as to why SC is a fun alternative to mainstream paintball.
Given the attrition rate of those who are aging out of the sport, introducing mainstream players to stock-class play is the only way the stock-class format will survive.
If you love stock-class paintball and want to see it continue on as a format, then you've got to do whatever you can to expose those who have never experienced it just how fun, exciting and comparatively inexpensive it can be.
You don't need to do anything crazy like attaching a Phantom to a banjo and popping someone in the skull. Simply attending events, taking new videos, and sharing existing videos on different social media platforms can help keep stock-class alive.
THANK YOU NATE FOR BEING YOU, AND HELPING SHOW THE WORLD JUST HOW FUN STOCK-CLASS PAINTBALL CAN BE!
HERE IS THE LINK
The video was recorded during the Saturday Wild West Scenario games during Slim's Spring Stock Classic, May 16th & 17th at Adventure Games in Weare, NH. This amazing player (Nate Bunger) attached a CCI Phantom stock-class marker to a banjo, and then used a small, on-board computer to actuate the Phantom trigger when the last note from the tune "Dueling Banjos" was played. He scored TWO eliminations that morning. While I knew the vid was going to be popular, I never expected it to blow up the internet.
As of 10:00am EST on June 26, 2026 the video posted on the StockClassHQ FB page has had over...
• 5.4M views
• 80.2K likes
• 1.2K comments
• 5.1K shares
The StockClassHQ Facebook page went from over 300 followers to over 6K because of that video.
I posted that video 5 weeks ago and all of these numbers just keep going up.
While the vast majority of the people watching, liking and commenting are not even paintball players, there are quite a few who are.
Stock-class paintball has always struggled to be relevant to the rest of the paintball community. With no real industry support the only thing keeping this format alive are the efforts of those who are organizing events, the players who attend them and those who bring their SC equipment to games to commercial fields and educate others as to why SC is a fun alternative to mainstream paintball.
Given the attrition rate of those who are aging out of the sport, introducing mainstream players to stock-class play is the only way the stock-class format will survive.
If you love stock-class paintball and want to see it continue on as a format, then you've got to do whatever you can to expose those who have never experienced it just how fun, exciting and comparatively inexpensive it can be.
You don't need to do anything crazy like attaching a Phantom to a banjo and popping someone in the skull. Simply attending events, taking new videos, and sharing existing videos on different social media platforms can help keep stock-class alive.
THANK YOU NATE FOR BEING YOU, AND HELPING SHOW THE WORLD JUST HOW FUN STOCK-CLASS PAINTBALL CAN BE!
HERE IS THE LINK
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