shootemupy2k
12-04-2009, 08:27 PM
First of all, I'm new to the boards and I hope to be a long term member given the following events. Let me know what you guys think.
So heres my story…..I started playing paintball in the mid to late 90s. Mags and Cockers were still king and I seem to remember paintball being far more expensive to play then than it was now (or maybe my perception of the value of money has changed). My cousin and I even started a short lived team that played a couple of tourneys. I managed to get my hands on an older powerfeed automag and my cousin played with a nice little minimag. The team was short-lived as we were only a three man team and couldn’t adjust well to the small fields and the higher rate of fire that is common in the smaller speedball fields. Eventually we went back to our bread and butter which was woodsball and scenario games. This was just about the time when the first electropneumatics, like the shocker and angel, and HPA/nitrogen system were becoming available. The newest electro guns and rt mags were still cost prohibitive though so all we could do was sit by and watch the occasional player come through our local field with a $3000 marker setup and blast through 1000 rounds a game. The more common they became, the less fun paintball seemed to be since the game was starting to become more about how much paint one could put downfield than about team strategy. We eventually fell out of the game around 97-98 and went our separate ways.
I told you that story to tell you this one…This thanksgiving, I was over at my aunt and uncles house for dinner as we do every year, and my cousin and his new wife managed to make the trip from upstate New York to make it a party. After dinner, he and I started talking about the great times we had playing paintball. I inquired what had happened to his Minimag. Apparently he had tossed it in his closet after we stopped playing and it had been for the most part sitting there unused ever since. I told him that recently I had started to look into the sport again and see what had been happening in our old world of paintball. So I asked him what had happed to his old mag so we went upstairs and started digging through his closet. We finally found it and I was astonished at how good a condition it was in. He then proceeded to GIVE me every piece of equipment we found. Below is a list of everything that I walked away with. I’ll be posting pics of the gun on here when I can take some good ones.
• Minimag with polished body (hopper right PF)
• 14” PMI Perfect Ceramic Barrel
• ANS phase II expansion chamber w/ bottomline setup
• VL 2000 hopper
• coiled remote line
• 20 oz. C02 tank
• PMI gas through stock (broken unfortunately)
• JT Spectra Flex mask
• Smart Parts Renegade jersey, pants, and bandanna (tiger stripe)
• Smart Parts Renegade half pack with two 140 rnd pods
I have been looking up upgrades for it and unfortunately other than parts direct from AGD, I can’t seem to find a whole lot for it these days. My first mods will probably be the ULE body so I can start using cocker barrels, an HPA system, and Intelliframe. Any other suggestions would be most helpful.
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So heres my story…..I started playing paintball in the mid to late 90s. Mags and Cockers were still king and I seem to remember paintball being far more expensive to play then than it was now (or maybe my perception of the value of money has changed). My cousin and I even started a short lived team that played a couple of tourneys. I managed to get my hands on an older powerfeed automag and my cousin played with a nice little minimag. The team was short-lived as we were only a three man team and couldn’t adjust well to the small fields and the higher rate of fire that is common in the smaller speedball fields. Eventually we went back to our bread and butter which was woodsball and scenario games. This was just about the time when the first electropneumatics, like the shocker and angel, and HPA/nitrogen system were becoming available. The newest electro guns and rt mags were still cost prohibitive though so all we could do was sit by and watch the occasional player come through our local field with a $3000 marker setup and blast through 1000 rounds a game. The more common they became, the less fun paintball seemed to be since the game was starting to become more about how much paint one could put downfield than about team strategy. We eventually fell out of the game around 97-98 and went our separate ways.
I told you that story to tell you this one…This thanksgiving, I was over at my aunt and uncles house for dinner as we do every year, and my cousin and his new wife managed to make the trip from upstate New York to make it a party. After dinner, he and I started talking about the great times we had playing paintball. I inquired what had happened to his Minimag. Apparently he had tossed it in his closet after we stopped playing and it had been for the most part sitting there unused ever since. I told him that recently I had started to look into the sport again and see what had been happening in our old world of paintball. So I asked him what had happed to his old mag so we went upstairs and started digging through his closet. We finally found it and I was astonished at how good a condition it was in. He then proceeded to GIVE me every piece of equipment we found. Below is a list of everything that I walked away with. I’ll be posting pics of the gun on here when I can take some good ones.
• Minimag with polished body (hopper right PF)
• 14” PMI Perfect Ceramic Barrel
• ANS phase II expansion chamber w/ bottomline setup
• VL 2000 hopper
• coiled remote line
• 20 oz. C02 tank
• PMI gas through stock (broken unfortunately)
• JT Spectra Flex mask
• Smart Parts Renegade jersey, pants, and bandanna (tiger stripe)
• Smart Parts Renegade half pack with two 140 rnd pods
I have been looking up upgrades for it and unfortunately other than parts direct from AGD, I can’t seem to find a whole lot for it these days. My first mods will probably be the ULE body so I can start using cocker barrels, an HPA system, and Intelliframe. Any other suggestions would be most helpful.
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