Oldest original marker owned?

[punkncat]

I am just curious to know. What marker that you currently own is the oldest unchanged marker in your collection?
Defined as still in the configuration you bought it in.

I am a relative newcomer in the example I will give, but here goes:

I got a Classic Mag with the Splash Eclipse kit, a Winforce(?) barrel, composite frame, AGD angled "duckbill" and all. If I remember correctly I got this in the late 90's(fuzzy memory) and it is still in the same configuration. I have borrowed pieces from it , but it always comes back together as this.

It is the one marker that I will never sell. No matter what else happens to paintball or AGD for that matter I know it will always be there ready to gas and go.

[50 cal]

I still have a 2 digit Phantom I bought in about '86 or '87

[11 Bravo]

I still have my Sheridan rifle that I bought in '88 or '89. It sat in the closet for the last 14 or 15 years, I pulled it out last year and it still fires great like it use to. Still with the co2 from all those years ago.

[punkncat]

I still have my Sheridan rifle that I bought in '88 or '89. It sat in the closet for the last 14 or 15 years, I pulled it out last year and it still fires great like it use to. Still with the co2 from all those years ago.


Was the CO2 in a CA or 12gram? I am embarrasingly unfamiliar with those markers...

[etjoyride]

Oldest marker i have that is still completely functioning is an old style PGP from the early-mid 90's

[Carbon Blue]

scanning for pics :)

[11 Bravo]

Was the CO2 in a CA or 12gram? I am embarrasingly unfamiliar with those markers...


Its CA. Its a 9 or 12 oz bottle with a big on off knob on the top of it. Youve probably seen the type bottle before. The gun can also use 12 grams though. I think I used the 12 grams the first time I used it. Then I went with CA.

The Sheridan rifle is the original or the predecessor to the KP3.

[Gunga]

Still got my Splatmaster! :) Got it in '86 I think.

[SummaryJudgement]

97 autococker :)

[shives007]

Yep, my original Splatty is the only one unchanged. However, I did recently pick up a ProAm that is identical to the first gun I ever bought. I have that first ProAm, but it is highly modified since then.

Shives

[sniper1rfa]

None of the above?

I've never owned a gun i didnt modify. Ever. :headbang:

[Arstron]

Well I own 2 guns that I havnt modified, a PT Extreme and a Splatmaster. You can guess which is older. :cheers:

[hipster]

a montneal designs with liquid valve 1987-9 ish I can't remeber the exact year it was a long time ago ( and it still works great)

[AGD]

1986 bolt action Sheridan rifle with side tube.

AGD

[MechMags]

Feral Action Sports Technology F1 Illustrator... still use it in games... as well as its bigger sister a conversion as old as the F1's themselves... a Double Barrel F1 nightmare... all still shoot sweetly...

[SR_matt]

i have a 1st gen PGP (before the BBs were in the bolt, mine had 1 bb in the pump handle). from my research it is circa 1985 give or take, as far as i know it is all stock other than the feed tube plug and the cup seal.

i didnt get it until about a year ago but still its pretty old (older than me so im pretty proud its still working and sexy)

-matt

[ultralight]

splatmaster. not sure when it was produced. i bought it when i was 12 for $25. i had to save money from mowing lawns for a month. it was a discarded old rental when i picked it up, but after a good cleaning it shot great. i still use it from time to time, i actually gogged a guy with it in a speedball game last year. :D

[ShotOnSight]

Airpower vector :headbang:

[psychowarden]

A Phantom....that I got a week ago :spit_take

[Medusa]

I'm embarrassed to admit I still own my Brass Eagle Ghost Talon. I don't use it but I never found anyone else who wanted it.

[TheAngryDrunkenRussian]

Got a 68 Automag SN CF07890 PreStar.

[ne0nwalrus]

a great old and cool splatmaster.

[DaFin]

Oldest marker

A PMI-1 with a 4 digit serial number I bought from Icecream who used to make Vipers in a closet of a shop back near San Diego/La Mesa in 1991 or 2.

Then there is my mag, the serial number is in the 3,000 range.

Also have an old Bushmaster I bought from Unique in Anaheim in either 88 or 89.

[phizz]

oldest markers 5 pgps' well 4 one is crapped out. I have had them since I think 1985. Used to play at my dads auto wreckers with friends. Cleaned and oiled with nothing other then a can of WD40, and haven't changed a thing in them since then, no bad for 20 years of a supposed bad for paintball gun lubricant ;)

[Strider]

VM68 Magnum, still the same setup that I bought it in 1995. :)

[Ratzo]

Spatmaster, PGP, P68sc

[hitech]

I still have a 2 digit Phantom I bought in about '86 or '87

Yup, same here. :shooting:

[Doobie]

1987/88 Bushmaster PUMP! From Line SI (now known as ICD)
The only mod was I had to engrave the last 4 of my Social Security # on it because my Company Comander made me keep it in the Arms room!
Long live Nelson based guns!! (I just realized...I may have a thing for single tube markers) :rolleyes:

[Josh2Xtremes]

NSG Splatmaster in ORIGINAL BOX
NSG Splatmaster Rapide
Sheridan KP-3 rifle (constant air)
Sheridan P-68 pump
Tippmann SMG-68 SN 222
Tippmann 68 Special in original box
Line SI Bushmaster pump
CCI Phantom (fixed barrel)

Just a few out of my collection but the only ones that really seem to fit into this thread.

Josh

[eric_503]

Brass eagle short barrel from 1988 minor pump wear and these things were made just over an hour away from me :D

[punkncat]

1987/88 Bushmaster PUMP! From Line SI (now known as ICD)
The only mod was I had to engrave the last 4 of my Social Security # on it because my Company Comander made me keep it in the Arms room!
Long live Nelson based guns!! (I just realized...I may have a thing for single tube markers) :rolleyes:


Nice to see ya....not posting much lately.

[glickstue]

NSG Splatmaster
and a Tippmann SL 68II of '95ish vintage.

[athomas]

Rebel 90 - bought in 1990 of course. This gun was a workhorse. It was the first gun I found that you could buy stock barrels with different inside diameters.
PGP - 1991 (Modified with quickchange CO2 and quick release bolt same year) hardly used. Still mint.
PMI Tracer 1993 - brand new, never used in a game but has fired a few paintballs.

I still have all the stock parts for my 68automag as well, circa 1993. I still use it regularly but it has been upgraded to modern standards so it doesn't count.

[athomas]

Its CA. Its a 9 or 12 oz bottle with a big on off knob on the top of it.
Referred to as "California style" tank setup.

[SR_matt]

^^ or more commonly as ive seen as a "thermo valve"
-matt

[jenarelJAM]

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Well, not worthless per se...
But it would be alot better if you guys showed off all these old markers.

[gmp211]

I have an '86 Traccer that has only has a sight put on it.

[FlawleZ]

Oh darn you said that was left unchanged. Welp that exempts my collection. ;)

[vonort]

I have my original Splatmaster from 1986. :dance:

[Dulie]

I have only purchased one marker brand new, one refurb, and the rest were used. The ones that are relatively unchanged...

Spitfire pump (from what I saw on VintageRex, should be about 1986 to 1992 vintage)
PMI-1 (was modded before it got it, not sure on s/n...don't have it in front of me)
VM-68 (only tank config changed since I bought it, but always goes back to how I bought it)
Talon (yes, I have a Talon...actually, 2, but only one grey one)
Tippmann Pro-Lite (not all that old)
and I can't forget about my Splatmaster

I have a few others, but I'm not home to check on them.

[Vanced]

You guys asked for some pics.. LOL And ALL Still work well...

'85 Splatmaster
And If Tom see's this... Just for giggles This one got Dale Hilton whre his Cup should of been.. LOL...
http://members.wilkshire.net/dusty/paintball/Splatmaster-1.JPG

early Tippmann's ... SL-68II & One of a Kind Pro-Lite

http://members.wilkshire.net/dusty/paintball/Tippmann-1.JPG

And Last but not least...

my 1 of 3 rarest of the rare Automag ... Centennial MiniMag #900

OLD
http://members.wilkshire.net/dusty/paintball/Mini900-1a.JPG

NEW
http://members.wilkshire.net/dusty/paintball/Minimag-900-1.jpg

~Vanced

[Desega]

mid 90's rainmaker

[trevorjk]

1992 ICE Panther VTS

http://www.jayloo.com/files/pics/15000/100_0066_4246_rs.JPG
http://www.jayloo.com/files/pics/15000/100_0067_2361_rs.JPG

[rabidchihauhau]

Wow, I'm going to come across as a monumental a** (back me up on that Tom...) - but how can you even THINK of putting anything up here that's older than '88? (I'm being generous, it should say '85); 'oldest gun thread' shouldn't even mention anything other than - nelspot, splatmaster, pgp, kp-2, the Uzi and maybe a couple of guns from McMurray & Sons, like the Annihilator.

If its not one of those - its not 'old'; it may be classic, it may be historical, but its not OLD.

Just because a marker was made in a year that pre-dates your birth does not make it old. (It may make YOU a problem for society [youth ALWAYS is, its just one of those things; they can't help it, we have to deal with AND clean up the mess]). :)

The judges will have to decide, but I think a non-serial number PGP is pretty old, but I don't know if a pressure fit barrel extender that never worked qualifies as 'modification'.

Historical Note: If you are 23 years old or younger, you were born AFTER I picked up and fired that PGP for the first time...

Societal Note: If you are 23 years old or older, you should know better than to be wasting your time on this game...

[Lee]

Mac 1 mk 2 Anihilater bought in '89. modded for bottmline around '90

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[punkncat]

Wow, I'm going to come across as a monumental a** (back me up on that Tom...) - but how can you even THINK of putting anything up here that's older than '88? (I'm being generous, it should say '85); 'oldest gun thread' shouldn't even mention anything other than - nelspot, splatmaster, pgp, kp-2, the Uzi and maybe a couple of guns from McMurray & Sons, like the Annihilator.

If its not one of those - its not 'old'; it may be classic, it may be historical, but its not OLD.



I think I summed up what I meant in this:

I am just curious to know. What marker that you currently own is the oldest unchanged marker in your collection?


And although not all of us are elite (or old)enough to have been playing since those early days.... :rolleyes: I was interested in seeing what people were still hoarding in the closet.

I noticed that in all your posting you didn't "Answer the effin question".....knock the dust off something and show us old.

[thegrayghost]

original post thread says, "oldest gun in your collection"....for me this is my oldest...BE Tiger Shark Pump, modified pvc handle/radiator clamp...still in use today in "pump day" once a month in Ohio area, lolololo...thegrayghost...http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/8893/betigersharkkl1.th.jpg (http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?image=betigersharkkl1.jpg)

[turbo chicken]

I'm embarrassed to admit I still own my Brass Eagle Ghost Talon. I don't use it but I never found anyone else who wanted it.

ill take it!!!

[rabidchihauhau]

I think I summed up what I meant in this:


And although not all of us are elite (or old)enough to have been playing since those early days.... :rolleyes: I was interested in seeing what people were still hoarding in the closet.

I noticed that in all your posting you didn't "Answer the effin question".....knock the dust off something and show us old.

Can't - they're all either put away or gone to the great paintball field in the sky. The KP-2, Annihilator, Carter Comp, Gray Ghost, Vindicator, PGP and Bushmaster are in bags because my cats pissed on them. Anyone up for a project?

LOL

[DaFin]

Mid 80's PMI-1 s/n I080173... still shoots darts =)

[rabidchihauhau]

Besides, everyone knows I'm all talk...

[latches109]

custom stock class TASO Spartan (1992)

[paint magnet]

Nelspot 007 (March, 1986)
.68 AutoMag
PPS Typhoon

Not sure when the 'Mag or 'Phoon were made. I got the 'Mag in a trade somewhere around 2003, and just recently acquired the Typhoon.

[wjr]

-Blazer (bought it new a two months ago)
-minimag (sn. 5,280,000)
-PGP (sn. 980,000)
-PT extreme probably made in 2002 or so

None of them are particularly old but the guys at the field still call me old school. :tard:

Edit:


The KP-2, Annihilator, Carter Comp, Gray Ghost, Vindicator, PGP and Bushmaster are in bags because my cats pissed on them. Anyone up for a project?

I'm up for the challenge. You don't have to pay me either. I'll take 'em off your hands for free. Pm me for my mailing adress.

[Mongoose]

A RAZORBACK 2 , with the old 12 gram!! :headbang:

[don miguel]

2002 98 custom, very interesting thread BTW.

[Ace12GA]

Brass Eagle Mini Nightmare I picked up in 91.

[hipster]

montneal design z with liquid valve i bought it in 1988 i think

[z1p101]

Lapco Spectre with bottom line, purchased new around 91 92, and it is sitting in a closet at my Dads house with a micro ca II next to it. Got to bring it home one day.

[StygShore]

Feral Action Sports Technology F1 Illustrator... still use it in games... as well as its bigger sister a conversion as old as the F1's themselves... a Double Barrel F1 nightmare... all still shoot sweetly...


Me= misses my F-1 :( my old room mate has not played in 11 years, and still refuses to sell it back to me becasue of how well it works...



Styg