Marker Collecting and Selling Habits...

[zondo]

Longest owned marker: Pro/Am from '94ish

I haven't rid myself of any marker because I also try to play with what I have. I can see how gun-whoring is easy to get into, but I think that's just my impatience. With the lifestyle that my job creates, play comes in the feast-or-famine motif, so owning something that can sit for a while then get oil and be ready to rock is important. I have a sniper, a mech mag, and an Emag so I'm ready for what comes, play taste changes, or to give out as loaners.

[jade_monkey07]

longest owned is my tac-one 4 years
Shortest was an rt classic, about 2 days before i shipped it to tuna
i really like my tac, and plan on pnue'ing it soon with the "cheater" hopefully making it a sleeper with internal lpr. Iv gone through about 4 different mags myself. and built about 8 for friends. One i do regret selling was my G-mag. but i got cash and picked up my fav electro in the world for half the price. Dp threshold, I havnt quite had that one for a year yet.

[insixdays777]

Longest - tippmann prolite. 10yrs?
Shortest- Dye DM9 - 5 days- nice marker but I just hated it, very over priced IMO.

[kevdupuis]

Longest owned would be my model 98 at 10 years, my first semi which I still own.
Shortest 3 years, a Mokal Focus and I gave it away to a young girl who was playing her first game of paintball (she still has it). Other than that I still have every marker I've bought in 11 years of playing.

[GRimm]

My longest owned marker is a JT Tac-5 Recon which I got for my birthday about 4 years ago. The thing chops like no other (I was using a shake and shoot though...) and it has a double finger trigger not for walking, but because the trigger pull is so heavy that you need both fingers to fire it.

Since I have yet to sell a marker the shortest I have owned a marker would be my phantom. I picked it up earlier this year right before Living Legends 2.

I just bought an xmag though so that means bye bye to my a5, tac-5 recon, trracer, and an ion that I bought and never used. That will bring me down to just my phantom, xmag and my emag (soon to be a 2k9 e-micro).

[Gadget]

Longest is my 'mag which I got in 1993 and will be playing with at a scenario day in two weeks time, so 16 years and counting (for the valve and body - barrels and grip frame have changed). I can't imagine any circumstances that would make me want to sell it.

Shortest (that I bought to use, rather than to sell on) was a DC1 Eclipse Cocker. Lovely marker but just not my bag - had it for a month or two.

[Dirge]

Longest owned is a blue Splatmaster. I got it 1990 or so. Shortest was a Spyder Victor. Gave it away in under 24 hours.

[hipster]

montneal design z bought new in 91 I think can't really remember that lang ago (I shoot it at least once a year)

[maniacmechanic]

I still have the 98 fishgill I started with ( it's in parts getting ready for the mill 1 day )
I usually keep stuff for a while , play with it for a while , it's not that I get bored with them , I just want to build something else , My last E Bay purchase I was going to part it out right away BUT my WIFE SAID SHOOT IT FOR A WHILE YOU MAY WANT TO KEEP IT , don't you wish you had one like that ( wife )

Do you find over time your tastes in markers changed because of changes in your playing style ?
It's more like I change markers to fit my style that day

[druid]

68 Magnum - 23 years

[insixdays777]

Do you find over time your tastes in markers changed because of changes in your playing style ?

For me it is not playing style. i.e. Semi, ramp, xball ect...that I keep or sell a marker... it is all about ergonomics.

I am a tall guy, The MacDev gun length that is spread out is so comfortable. The 2009 Alien Independence has the same length to it as well. I love my Macdev and Alien markers so much. I cant shoot a gun without the length to it now. I guess that is why I hated my DM9 so much. The reg was basically directly on the front of the trigger guard. Cramped. I felt like Will Ferrel in SNL when he would use that ridiculously small super tiny cell phone.

But once again AGD did this before all others with their emag length rails. I much prefer them to the standard classic length rails.

[Will Wood]

When I still played ...

Started with a Stingray II for about a year playing in my back woods before I realized you could play at this thing called a "field." Played for a few months there renting before getting my Tippmann 98C. (Still own both)

Tippmann 98C for years.....
Bough a stock s/f mag (still have some random parts to it). Upgraded for about a year.
Sold it.
Bought an Angel.
Sold a week later.
Sold automag sometime later.
Bought an E-Mag. Went through various upgrades.
Owned for about a year and sold and it (about 4-5 years ago) and only played like paintball twice since.

I think I may have had a Timmy for a day but I can't remember.

[Newt]

ACI Griffin, about '01. Basically a Spyder with an AGD style powerfeed and some crazy propriety detent. Not too great, but I've seen way worse.

Shortest gun owned would be the Automag. Just got it this year, will never sell if I can help it.

Markers last about a week before I start modifying them. I usually have parts on order and arriving before the marker gets here. I've literally killed 98's by modding the to death.

My taste in markers and style haven't really changed. It's always been a hard preference to the mechanical gun, though Tippmann almost killed that part of me. The only thing that's really changed is a taste for the quality and a move from "milsim" as I realized two things: Paintball is not realistic weapons training, and paintball markers don't benefit from stocks and sights the same way a firearm will.

[Lee]

longest- Mac 1 MK2 Anihilator: 20 years

shortest was probably a one of many mags I bought and pieced out/resold on ebay.

[pump]

i had my mag since 92

CCI Phantom 2 months

tune/mod out of the box

no i like them all from the start