Old APG's Revisited - with scans!

[UThomas]

I was over at my dad's house a few days ago and found some old Action Pursuit Games in my room there. I have a stack of about 20 from ~1993-1996. I got a scanner at work recently so I thought you guys would find some of these old scans interesting:

Here is the cover of the Nov 1993 issue. Notice the minimag with the milled rail and the original goofy VL-2000 with the neoprene cover.



Here is another add, this is for 63 caliber eliptical paintballs shot from a spring fed magazine.



Here is an add for the original motorized View Loaders, the VL-1000 and VL-2000. They would suck now but I had one at the time and it was glorious This was part of the old Smart Parts add...



I'll post more if you guys are interested.

[cphilip]

Be carefull not to post entire articles due to copy right issues....

Cools stuff though!

[Mossman]

Haha, sweet. Keep it coming if there's more to show. Some of us youngin's were still in diapers when these crazy oval paintballs were being sold

[UThomas]

Alright, work is boring today so I'll do a few more scans.

Here is an add from the May 1993 issue for the sniper ball kit, which you fastened onto the end of a paintball and then muzzle loaded. Pretty crazy!



This is an updated color add in March 1994 for the Safety Paintballs and guns. Now they have "long" and "short" versions of their 63 calibre oblong paintballs. Big pic:



Alright, off to a meeting. I'll post a couple more interesting ones when I get back.

[FalconGuy016]

I guess those never caught on

[UThomas]

I was able to ditch my meeting and watch it on webcast.

Ok, here is another March 94 add. This is for the autotracer, a bolt on kit for your tracer pump gun to make it a semi. Can't imagine any field owners ever got a bunch of these.



Here is an add for the infamous Magic Box mod made by Smart Parts for the automag. Lots of debate at the time for this expensive bad boy.



Once upon a time J&J teamed up with Smart Parts to make this barrel:



Alright, last one for now. Back to May 93. This is the Mark 2 paintball gun, with internal paintball storage (like a BB gun).

[WARPED1]

The dart shaped sniper balls were cool. I used them in my old PMI1 before semis were abundant(out of 30 guys, like 4 had semis, .68 Specials mainly)
The Machofire never went into production I don't think, just drawings.

[Paintchucker]

Re: Old APG's Revisited - with scans!

Originally posted by UThomas


Here is an add for the original motorized View Loaders, the VL-1000 and VL-2000. They would suck now but I had one at the time and it was glorious This was part of the old Smart Parts add...



I'll post more if you guys are interested.

Actually, my old VL-2000 is faster than my old 9v Revy...

[JAM]

that stuff is awesome, i remember staring at the smart parts ads and dreaming of the hooked up automags.

those were the days. $.10 a ball was a deal.

[hitech]

Re: Old APG's Revisited - with scans!

Originally posted by UThomas
...the original goofy VL-2000 with the neoprene cover.

Actually when you replaced that "shoot me here" dome on the front those worked well. I just got rid of one about a year ago.

[adam shannon]

that vl-2000 is great. a friend of mine pulled his old one out last week and a bunch of kids were asking if he would sell it cuz they thought it was new and cool since they never saw one before. he had them going telling them it was a new halo c and could feed 50 bps.

[UThomas]

Yea, but heaven forbid if the electronics got hit (thus the neoprene covers). Or you broke a paintball inside (since it couldn't be pulled into two halves.

[BradAGD]

Those are cool but I've got older ones here. How about the premier issue of APG???

With the old VL2000, you used to be able to buy just the electronics in a kit to install on your hopper. Remember USI? They got the kits and put them on their hoppers and Dave Bell was none too happy.

I've got a couple of them here too...somewhere.

laters

[M-a-s-sDriver]

EVEN older...http://www.automags.org/forums/showt...threadid=22040

Brent Jackson,PFB.

[EsPo]

magic box add is soooo old school, it brings a tear to my eye :o