Cocker vs. Mag

[warbeak2099]

Dum dum dum!

[Jaan]

I hope to one day own a pre '98 cocker with the stock sniper barrel (long, straight, unported, black-anodized), benchmark frame, and custom pneumatics.

Of course...the barrel will only be anodized on the outside right?

Basic black is where it's at...

[SummaryJudgement]

The Bob Long Autocockers were about $850 and the Automag R/T was about $1000. That was probably closer to the pinnacle of ultimate Mag vs Cocker before electros really took off... '98-'99 if I had to guess.

Back then there was just the Shocker 4x4, Rainmaker, and Angel for mainstream electros. Heck, a Spyder compact, Illustrators, and Prolites were NICE guns to have back then.
Pulling a Mag or Cocker out of your bag back then would be be equivalent to weilding an SL66 by todays standards.

Other than that, the Besales Cocker vs the MiniMag was a common epic battle at fields.
Splash anodized, of course.

^^^
QFT!

Pneumagger just described almost all of my 97-98 experiences at any field I went to. I remember when the Jax Warriors had the pre-release RTs at the field I worked at. Cockers and mags were almost exclusively used by "pros"/tourney guys (GO APL!). Shockers were all the rave when they came out, followed by the Angels and Rainmakers. Yes, Spyders and Prolites were lusted after by some (remember the Black Widow kit?).

"Pulling a Mag or Cocker out of your bag back then would be be equivalent to weilding an SL66 by todays standards." That's a pretty accurate statement. And this was also when only the coolest guns had any kind of trick anno jobs (splash baby!).

Typhoon owners were considered gods at the fields I played at. Vm68s, Sheridan clones, and Brass Eagle guns were the most common rentals. Compressed air tanks were most commonly found in 114 ci or bigger. AirAmerica were the regulator kings (and the heaviest). Cutting trig guards to put a double finger trigger on was considered "custom". You had to take a cocker almost entirely apart to adjust hammer lug depth or lpr pressure (the hammer lug hole in the top of the cocker was considered an "upgrade"). Oh, and people who owned a Vl2000 had a "high end" loader.

AKA cockers were amazing, but the Evolutions were great too. And it was almost impossible to find AKA guns in my area (Florida), so you would see the Evos floating around the tourney guys. A friend had a P&P Supercocker that was really nice. I found most of the really good cockers were usually put together by home tinkerers. The kind of guys that would spend hours swapping out springs, adjusting lug depth, hammering cocking rod ends to change the timing using the oval hole trig plate, making their own bolts, etc.