Check these 'mags out!!

[Trench_Riader]

Those of you who buy into the "PC paintball" point of view are going to hate these.

http://pukindogspaintball.com/scenario/mrm-008.jpg

These guns are obviously airsoft AEGs that have been gutted and had a 'mag installed.
Now I assume the fellow who made these chose "mags due to both their perfomance and the low profile construction that permitted them to be installed easier.

Now i can certainly understand the desire to have a paintball gun that does not look like a water faucet, but what a waste of a good airsoft gun!!

"Trench Raider"
who plays airsoft as well as paintball

[FalconGuy016]

Well thats cool if you like that kind of stuff... I would like one but there is 0 point

[magnj]

thats cool, very $$ tho

[Trench_Riader]

you are not kidding. Recall that an airsoft AEG runs 250-300$ depending on the model. Add that to the cost of the 'Mag and any other parts you used to make one of these.

"Trench Raider"

[FooTemps]

interesting. It's not my boat. I bet they did a lot of work and did a good job on those mag setups though. I just hate it when people make things look like guns, it makes paintball look bad. I say just buy airsoft, it's cheaper and won't get paintball in trouble.

[Ov3rmind]

Eh, not my style. To me, it seems like all these realistic gun kits (like the ones for Spyders and Piranhas too) just make the guns heavier and bigger. Personally I don't want my setup to be unruley, and despite what people say I just have a thing against military style pb guns.

[thecavemankevin]

that top left says it has a sluggo boddy, whats the point of having a sluggo when your just going to cover it up with that junk?

[Blazingace]

I think that those are super sweet. If I was into the Scenario game thing that would be my gun straight up.

[ZAust]

sheesh. 900 bucks.

[Mega Man]

saw those guns @ D-Day, only one that actually looks like it has mag blood in it is the "tommy gun", the grip gives it away. None of the others what so ever look like mags, and the one at the top that says sluggo? I was gonna make it a point to talk to those guys about them, half me wants to say that those arent mags, just screwed up signs, but never know, I never did ask them about it..., they did have a Sydarm their though, very coo.

[SyntaxError]

I wish people wouldnt do that, its the crazy "war game" people that continue to give paintball bad press. The tourney guys in general might not be upstanding individuals whom one would want to consider a role model, but at least they don't pretend that they're killing people. Knowing several veterans personally, war isn't something that people should enjoy themselves to be involved in (not in terms of service to one's country, which is of paramount importance, but in the sense of the act of warfare), at least in my opinion, so it shouldn't be emulated like that.

[Trench_Riader]

"Syntax Error" I'm not trying to start a flame war with you, but I take issue with several points in your post. I represents the whole "PC paintball" attitude that I have grown to despise. Allow me to refute several of your points, but please don't take any of this personal.

I wish people wouldnt do that, its the crazy "war game" people that continue to give paintball bad press.

Paintball began as a wargame and at it's most basic level it still is one. Recall that a wargame simply is: "an exercise that simulates or represents armed conflict". Our hobby (I don't think it's a sport) involves teams attempting to shoot other players with airguns to acomplish a goal. To do this they use military style fire and manuver tactics. Recall also that wargames do not have to be realistic to still retain that classification. No one would argue that science fiction table top games like "VOID" or "Warhammer 40,000" are realistic simulations of combat. However they are still wargames.
I feel that anyone who claims that paintball is not a wargame and considers it "a game of tag played with markers" is in denial or has a PC motive.
Wargaming in it's various forms (table top, board games, omputer games, and skirmish games like reenacting, paintball, or airsoft) are a legitimate form of recreation and are not inherently harmful or promote violence or "warmongering" as the political left would have us believe.

but at least they don't pretend that they're killing people.

So you never played "cowboys and Indians", "Cops and robbers", or "Army" as a child? You have never played a violent video game? Such games serve as an outlet for the aggressive impulses that we all have.

Knowing several veterans personally, war isn't something that people should enjoy themselves to be involved in

I'm a veteran myself and saw action during the first gulf War back in '91. I hated having to do the job my country called upon me to do and was scared sh-tless almost the whole time. However I am intelligent enough to draw a distinction between miitary based hobbys like wargaming and actual combat. Wargames do not glorify war or make it more acceptable. And I'm not alone in these views....I know quite a few veterans of military service (some cobat vets like myself) who enjoy wargaming as a hobby.

so it shouldn't be emulated like that

Opinion noted. However would you also bar historical reenactors form doing their thing? Their hobbies are also wargames.

With all due respect I think you are falling for the myth that wargaming is only done by militia types, warmongers, and crazy vets. I don't hold this against you. I only think you are ignorant of the subject you are talking about.

"Trench Raider"
who besides playing paintball also does airsoft, plays table top miniature wargames, and has been involved in various historical reenactments (WW1, WW2, and the "Civil War) since he was 16.

[hitech]

I'm normally against anything "PC". If you can't see you are blind. If you can't hear you are deaf. What's wrong with those words anyway? However, at least away from the paintball field I refer to a paintball gun as a marker. Why? I am truely worried that paintball will be banned, again. It has happened before. We need everyone to do everything they can to promote paintball in a positive light. Even if it means doing silly things like calling a paintball gun a marker.

I fully understand your point. I've just been around long enough to remember when paintball was banned in some places in the US.

[Trench_Riader]

The problem is this: I have a real problem with dishonesty and was brought up to think that you spoke the truth...even to evil. Calling an "airgun" a "marker" in an attempt to mislead the oposition is dishonest, self-deluding, and futile.

You see, the opponents of the game (the political left) are not fooled by such misdirection. They see past the lies and see paintball guns for what they are: glorified airguns. Calling them "markers" and trying to distance the hobby from anything resembling mil/tac-sim has no effect at all.

having said this, the danger to paintball is a bit overstated. The gun grabbers are more interested in passing new restrictions on real firearms to worry much at this time about paintball and airsoft guns. This of course excludes areas were the left is firmly in control and has passed draconian firearms laws and can now move on to new targets. (NYC and New Jersey spring to mind)

"Trench Raider"

[wad04]

yeah there cool, but if you get seen with one of those in public you'll get you head blown off by a cop