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From:
Please click on the above links for the whole story... Below are a few selected clips and pics of Mike Wallis' articles regarding the developement of the Aussie Mag.
Published May 1996 by Mike Wallis
...As you all are no doubt aware Australia is a fairly small market for paintball equipment. In the past very little has been manufactured locally. The only items being fill stations, barrel plugs, vests and a few small gun parts.
Since the ban on the importation of semi-auto paintball guns there has developed a big demand for this type particularly for competition use. The value of those guns that arrived prior to D-day has risen in some cases to ridiculous levels.
As for the import regulations, well they suck to put it politely. You and I know that a baseball bat is more dangerous than a paintball gun. Anyway, enough of that and on with the story.
After the ban, rumours spread like wildfire about locally designed paintball guns. If they had all eventuated we'd be up to our eyeballs in the things...
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The method of operation is similar to the Auto-Mag. The major difference being that this gun has no gas regulator to adjust velocity. It relies on a restricting screw in the bolt to regulate the gas flow. The primary or maximum velocity being determined by the size of the gas chamber behind the bolt...
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Darren (left) and Bruce
Schematic of the Badger
The Original Badger Prototype
I saw that second prototype in late 1993 and wrote it up for the October edition of Paintballer. It featured only three moving parts, the bolt, trigger and the pin in the on/off valve assembly. Unlike the AutoMag, early Badgers were designed to operate at full bottle pressure and had no regulator. I remember being impressed with the rugged simplicity of that prototype with its absence of external gas lines or openings. It was a complete marker in every way and certainly looked ready for production. A few weeks later during the photo shoot, over 500 rounds were put through it by the referees at ML Skirmish with very few problems.
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Bruce with an early Rental Model
Parts in the Making
Some of the 100 Badgers at Skirmish Adventures
Bruce with my first Custom Badger
Late Model Die Cast Frame LP Badger with Regulator in Grey
The Double Barrel Viper
...As you all are no doubt aware Australia is a fairly small market for paintball equipment. In the past very little has been manufactured locally. The only items being fill stations, barrel plugs, vests and a few small gun parts.
Since the ban on the importation of semi-auto paintball guns there has developed a big demand for this type particularly for competition use. The value of those guns that arrived prior to D-day has risen in some cases to ridiculous levels.
As for the import regulations, well they suck to put it politely. You and I know that a baseball bat is more dangerous than a paintball gun. Anyway, enough of that and on with the story.
After the ban, rumours spread like wildfire about locally designed paintball guns. If they had all eventuated we'd be up to our eyeballs in the things...
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The method of operation is similar to the Auto-Mag. The major difference being that this gun has no gas regulator to adjust velocity. It relies on a restricting screw in the bolt to regulate the gas flow. The primary or maximum velocity being determined by the size of the gas chamber behind the bolt...
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Darren (left) and Bruce
Schematic of the Badger
The Original Badger Prototype
I saw that second prototype in late 1993 and wrote it up for the October edition of Paintballer. It featured only three moving parts, the bolt, trigger and the pin in the on/off valve assembly. Unlike the AutoMag, early Badgers were designed to operate at full bottle pressure and had no regulator. I remember being impressed with the rugged simplicity of that prototype with its absence of external gas lines or openings. It was a complete marker in every way and certainly looked ready for production. A few weeks later during the photo shoot, over 500 rounds were put through it by the referees at ML Skirmish with very few problems.
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Bruce with an early Rental Model
Parts in the Making
Some of the 100 Badgers at Skirmish Adventures
Bruce with my first Custom Badger
Late Model Die Cast Frame LP Badger with Regulator in Grey
The Double Barrel Viper
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