wow. Old Mag add in magazine.

[funkykarl]

Originally posted by Woogie12
The gun I looked at the most was the mag. I don't even know why.

That must be because of it's dead sexyness.

[cphilip]

Wow....Toms gettin his moneys worth out of that ADD! Even still!

[Python14]

Hahaha, no doubt about that. I bought my first new mag(I had had 3 used ones before that) based on an ad I saw in an issue of APG that was about 5 years old at the time(it was 2001 and the ad was from 1996). Actually, now that I think of it, it wasn't an ad, it was simply a picture of some guy using a mag. You can't even see the entire gun(just the back end and part of the frame), but it was enough to make me buy one. I already knew it was awsome gun, it was simply a matter of how cool it would be in use.

[Beemer]

Re: wow

Originally posted by Mag Master 04
its just crazy even for me being 17 and to see so many changes in the sport, i cant even imagine what the vets of the sport feel like, it just made me feel good to look back on all those old magizines and to read some of them articles and look at those pictures,





I can relate to that. Was there in 86. Scan that bad boy and post it. Scan all of it. send it to me and i will post em

[Lee]

the first mag i ever saw was live and in person. i was like" wtf?". it'll never catch on....why would anyone want a semi auto when sheridan pump guns ruled?

in retrospect: *doh*!

i remember being totally perplexed when the workings were explained to me.

-the valve comes right out?
-o-rings are all thats needed?
-it's a level what and you're sending it to where to have it turned into a level ??? for free?
-powerfeed? why would you want the feedneck to go across the body to the right side of the gun? how can you see your target like that? it's in the way!

well, i set my annihilater aside, got a vm68 and shortly thereafter wished i had gotten a mag. i soon traded the vm and a couple hundred $$ for a standard feed mag.
i sold that mag and got out of pb for about 5-6 years after a divorce. when i got back in year before last, my first purchase was a powerfeed level 7 mag which is now not the same gun i bought. not a single part remains from the original, and i love it.

even though i recently bought a b2k3, i made sure to get a gear bag that would hold that and mag.

i will always own a mag. the bushy will go if need be, but the annihilater and mag will not.

[Mag Master 04]

well who changed the title on this thread, i didnt, oh well the ad was in an old APG,

and beemer i dont have a scanner but it is in the june 1999 issue, thats old for me. haha!

[Beemer]

Originally posted by Mag Master
i cant even imagine what the vets of the sport feel like,

and beemer i dont have a scanner but it is in the june 1999 issue, thats old for me. haha!


Take it down to Kinkos

lol thats funny,I started playing a year before you were born

Ah so Grasshopper,my experience is great with many stories

[RobAGD]

Humm lets see, Late Summer 92. Local team comes back from the Amature Open. For some reason I sat in while they had a team meeting about the event. Later I get introducted to them and I see a lot of them are shooting Mags w/ 7oz tanks and loops of hose :)

As the summer when on I mooched every gun I could get my hands on to try. 68 Speacials, Pro Am's VM's, Cocker, Bushmaster, NelSpot, F1 and on it went but I never got to borrow a Mag for some reason. So Dec and Jan roll around I keep seeing more and more of the team guys getting mags. I am at the range shooting a borrowed VM and I had decided to buy that with the Smart Parts Package ( $535 ). A buddy that just picked up a mag said " Hey Shoot this " So I racked off about 10-11 shots at the loader we had hanging up at the range, I hit every one on the first shot shooting slow and aiming. He say " No No man shoot it fast" So I start ripping it and I was in love. I had 2 questions "Where ? " and "How Much ?"

Back then the guns were on an insane back order like 2000-3000 units. How much was looking like $500 - $550 or so for just the base gun. I start saving cash, I also start playing for the team (Avant Guard) because I was killing the regular walk ons. Then the day happened I got word that Smart Parts just got in a few hundred guns, I called and asked if they had any left and got the Yes we do. It was all over from there. $735 late I had my CF062xx gun, with 20oz, Gun, and SP 12" Barrel, I was king. I think I was the first person with an aftermarket barrel an a mag at that point.

First day out with it was Awsome, full 20oz tank on back bottle, 1 1/2 Cacse of Proball White and I lot of toasted walk ons later I has a S eating grin that I still get to this day

Still, have that gun, I was still playing tourny ball with it still in an almost stock set up that had not changed in years. Small BM Drop, Proline Expantion chamber as my gas thru grip and my Freddie Shultz 68 3k air system.

Am Open 1994 I just switched to a Bottle line CO2 set up :)



and in 1999 at ethe Indoor in TN



In fact I just made the first change to the gun since 94 :) I changed how I ran teh air to the valve As i run my Emags more often now they run teh line around the back and to teh valve, so swapping tanks was a bit of a pita so I just made the Gas Thru a grip and made it so swapping tanks was easier :)

-Robert

[Mag Master 04]

i dont even think i have ever seen a kinkos in indiana...but im too lazy anyways even if there was one

[Mag Master 04]

rob

thats the stories im lookin for...thats a great one, i liked that alot, i wish i would have kept my mag stock, i remember the back bottle adapter, right under the valve, holy cow, and the long long steel hose, dang

[Wrathchild]

Sweet,Rob! My first time ever playing... or even thinking about the sport was in 2001... With my grandpa and his friends at the local field... Well, I had so much fun that I went and bought a Tippmann 98 the day after I played. The Tippmann98 got old after about... 5 weeks. So, I went to the the local proshop and they had this insane looking gun hanging up, 00411 Classic RT. They had it on sale for 250$ because it has sat on the shelf for 2 years... So, I bought it on the spot... Because it looked so cool, and so simple. I didnt know that after that I would never want another paintball gun from another company...

[Python14]

My first experience with a mag?

It's 1995 and my church is going paintballing. I had just turned 11 so I was old enough to pay. I went and had a blast. At the end of the day, we agree to have a refs .vs. church game(3 on 19). One of the refs has an extra Automag with a 6+1 harness, VL 2000, some kind of barrel, and a 20 oz. tank on remote. He let me use it because he said "he liked my moves". Well, the game went as predicted, the refs take like 9 of out off the bat. I make it to my tree safely and start shooting. I could hit anything(or atleast I thought I could) and loved it. I managed to get one of the refs out before the other two catch on and get me.

After that game, I had to have an Automag. I had to have one enough that 4 years later, I buy a used one for $200. That was how I got into mags.

[50 cal]

The first time I saw a mag was at Ft Campbell Ky at the Craig Village shoot around 89 or 90. Jim Lively and Sam Cauldwell had two of the first mags around. I knew I had to have one.
I bought one at the next Masters in Nashville. I've had one ever since. When i finally scored an RT when they came out I thought I was in hog heaven. It had the sweet spot you wouldn't believe. Refs at a field near here were constantly looking my gun over cause they thought it was full auto.

[Mag Master 04]

lol

i cant even imagine what you RT boys did w out the LX, was it really bad, or way it really bad?

[athomas]

My mag was purchased in the spring of 93. There was a big backorder on mags due to the want of many. I had researched all the guns on the market because I didn't want to spend my hard earned money on hype. I wanted the best bang for the buck. I read all the articles in the magazines and liked what I saw. Everything pointed to a mag. I made some calls and of course no one had any available for months. I called AGD directly. They were backordered of course, to supply all their dealers, but they did give me a number for a place that they had just shipped a large lot. I ended up calling General Joe's in California and getting a mag immediately for a good price. I had it shipped to the East coast and in my hands for a mere $450.00US ($725.0CAN at the time). They wanted $900.00 locally and you had to wait for months. It had a 12oz backbottle antisphon tank and a crownpoint barrel (wow). I was the envy of every paintballer around my area. No one could match my firepower. By the end of the summer at least 10 people had mags because of seeing mine in action. I still have my mag and it still works amazing.