DiRTyBuNNy
03-29-2003, 11:19 PM
I was down at (or would that be up at since I'm coming from San Diego) the PanAm-Los Angeles tournament today. It looked like Timmy, Cocker and Angelville...very small amount of mags representing (wait till Team AO SoCal is ready for one of these). I spent the day with Jeff from PaintballDaddy.com (AKA AGD-West Coast and Dittos Paintball) helping spread the gospel of the mag to the unwashed masses. It was nice watching people just gazing at the X-Mag wondering what the heck it was although there were more than a few people who had seen it in the magazines and were getting their first look at it up close. We actually went through 2 Scuba tanks just letting passers by shoot the X a few times. Jeff's X actually was over 15k shots by the time I left at about 4:30.
I did see a couple of other cool thinks. I picked a tank cover from a company called Kalibur. They were at World Cup last year and can be found at www.kaliburtech.com (the website doesn't seem to be up yet but that is the one that's listed on the info sheet that i took from the booth...I'll get a picture up in a little bit.) The cool think about their tank covers is that they're made from a PVC platisol that in their words "creates a water tight bond between the tank and the cover." You may have seen these covers before as they are the same cover that most people thought was photoshopped onto the new MaxFlo in the picture of the New Shocker. The nicest thing about them is that because they are transparent you can see the hydro date with the cover on, and these babies fit super tight so you'll never have to worry about it coming off. The butt end is a nice rubbery plastic kind of like the WDP Skinz but with out the "bumps"
Another thing that kind of annoyed me was that i went and purchased a new 14" CP barrel for my new MiniMag. The problem is that CP has gone to a new smooth milling style that I think is a hure improvement over their old barrels and they include a jewel with the bore size of the barrel instead of the old laser engraving. I asked if they had any 14"'s for mag and the guy said yes. So he pulls out the old style barrel and I asked if he any of the new style of milling for the barrel (trivial..I know..but if i'm going to spend the money I might as well get what i want) and he said that they didn't and they did not plan on starting it anytime soon because they can't even get rid of the mag barrels they have already..oh well..i bought the old style knowing most of the part that is different about the new barrels is hidden behind the minimag shroud.
I didn't actually get to watch much paintball. I was spending a lot of time in Jeff's booth talking to people explaining all the features of the X-Mag and Mags in general. It was nice and I would love to be able to setup an AO Day SoCal and hopefully have Tom come out in the future. Thanks all and i'll talk to you later.
I did see a couple of other cool thinks. I picked a tank cover from a company called Kalibur. They were at World Cup last year and can be found at www.kaliburtech.com (the website doesn't seem to be up yet but that is the one that's listed on the info sheet that i took from the booth...I'll get a picture up in a little bit.) The cool think about their tank covers is that they're made from a PVC platisol that in their words "creates a water tight bond between the tank and the cover." You may have seen these covers before as they are the same cover that most people thought was photoshopped onto the new MaxFlo in the picture of the New Shocker. The nicest thing about them is that because they are transparent you can see the hydro date with the cover on, and these babies fit super tight so you'll never have to worry about it coming off. The butt end is a nice rubbery plastic kind of like the WDP Skinz but with out the "bumps"
Another thing that kind of annoyed me was that i went and purchased a new 14" CP barrel for my new MiniMag. The problem is that CP has gone to a new smooth milling style that I think is a hure improvement over their old barrels and they include a jewel with the bore size of the barrel instead of the old laser engraving. I asked if they had any 14"'s for mag and the guy said yes. So he pulls out the old style barrel and I asked if he any of the new style of milling for the barrel (trivial..I know..but if i'm going to spend the money I might as well get what i want) and he said that they didn't and they did not plan on starting it anytime soon because they can't even get rid of the mag barrels they have already..oh well..i bought the old style knowing most of the part that is different about the new barrels is hidden behind the minimag shroud.
I didn't actually get to watch much paintball. I was spending a lot of time in Jeff's booth talking to people explaining all the features of the X-Mag and Mags in general. It was nice and I would love to be able to setup an AO Day SoCal and hopefully have Tom come out in the future. Thanks all and i'll talk to you later.