Laser Trigger

[Wassupstranger67]

Check this out, a local paintball store is going to start production on this soon. A freestyle with a Laser Trigger, and I shoot it!!!!!!!! This thing rips!!!! They say it will be around $1000 for there version of the gun. Sorry about the pic quality I took it with my phone.

[Vex]

There's actually no "trigger" and you just use your finger(s) to break the beam for contact...am I close, or dead wrong?

[Blazestorm]

Yep, I heard about it, but it's illegal in national events... so meh...

[JimmyBeam]

heh...cant get any lighter of a pull than that

[CrimsonGhost]

Yeah, its a cool "toy" but...it is illegal in national events.
There HAS to be an ACTUAL PHYSICAL trigger.
There are a few of these mods around.
At one point I had rigged a Revi eye to a Defiant and used it as a trigger.

Cool though

[Pyroboy597]

would it defeat the point of walking the trigger? or does the laser go vertical enough to see your seconds finger as well.. looks cool tho, u could have a lot of fun with that and an electric toothbrush. i wonder if u put the metal piece from the tooth brush barely touching the laser and turned it on would if fire at like 30bps? (in reality an electric toothbrush vibrates much faster than that)

[shartley]

[Twiek]

As stated, it will not be allowed at any national tournaments, and probably not allowed on standard fields either if they know it is there. I am against these types of triggers simply for safety reasons.

If you set your standard triggers so sensitive that it goes off by simply tapping the marker (and when you set it down) your marker will be removed from fields (and with good reason). THIS trigger (loosely stated) is even worse. Anything passing in front of the laser will shoot the marker. It does not differentiate between a finger, leaf, part of your equipment when standing around, or anything else.

It is one thing when someone fools around with this type of thing on their own, for their own use, on their own property… but when a local paintball store starts making these and SELLING them, it is a step in the wrong direction for paintball IMHO. They really need to think about more than making a buck. Think about it, there is a REASON standard marker manufacturers do not already make these for public sale… and it isn’t because they “can’t”.

You hit the nail on the head.

[fire1811]

what if the eye gets dirty


all in all not safe.

[Lohman446]

It fails on a lot of levels - I would think you would get a "auto-response" trigger as well, the marker firing when you broke the beam going back and going forward if you went through it - unless theres nto enough room for your finger to travel all the way through the beam. And as stated all national rules discuss trigger requirements, which this does not meet

[Pyroboy597]

i agree that this is down right dangerous.. how many of us carry our guns around, hand on trigger? i can say that most of us do, even when we are going back to staging tables simply because we have control over when it will shoot and wont shoot. If you were to leave the gun on (assuming there is no safety button) and went to show someone something, all it would take is for u to get near the trigger guard and that thing would fire ATLEAST 1 shot. I agree 100% that people messing around with these on their own property is great, but people are going to be disapointed with their new 1000 dollar laser trigger gun when the field owners tell them to find a new gun or leave.

[Lohman446]

What could happen in a high wind situation where it was dusty? Could dust block the "eye" enough to fire, could rain, could snow? What about when your out and walking off field with your marker still "live" and a paintball - or splatter - interupts that eye, will it fire then? Too many unknowns (at least to me, maybe they have tested them) to like this idea.

[68magOwner]

i would think that it would be slower/harder to keep rythm than with a a standard trigger, not to mention its not legal either way, cool for show, but, pointless

[bound for glory]

just another step on the road to paintball ruin.

[AcemanPB]

Lighten up guys, its kind of unique and I think its a cool idea. I'm sure most of us with electros with "normal" triggers are equally as sensitive. They do have barrel condoms and safteys and I don't think a little bit of innovation is ruining paintball.