Is it me or is everybody buying stock markers these days?

[RusskiX]

There are major differences between a gun made to be used as pumps, and a conversion of a gun. Ive played with an autococker converted into pump and other pump pmarkers... (forgot this one good brand). The cocker is a little bit beefy and the mobility is almost limited because of its weight.

Yes, this gave me quite a chuckle too...We need Paladin to chime in here. :rofl:

[NoForts4Me]

For some reason I find this VERY funny.

"You know, these darn pneumatics we invented make this gun shoot too fast. You think we could design something to slow this thing down a bit? Ahhh, yes, let's put a pump handle on it and call it a Sniper! Brilliant!"

[Mr. BoBo]

I got into pump to save cash and up my skills. Last time I played, I used a friends Ion - first time I've used a semi in over a year. I could feel that I'd become a better player and was using much less than a hopper per game.

Ion was sweet - the best, lightest semi I've ever used but still a poor second to a phantom.

If I'm playing with advanced semi players who don't cheat, I can hold my own with a phantom. If I'm playing with people I play with a lot, we roll the fields a lot.

Now, I play pump for the following reasons:

Cost
Fun

That's it.

[peewee]

I love my phantoms, when I retired from tourney paintball all I kept was my phantom. ( had is sence 92)I have new phantoms now. I enjoy playing modified SC I use tubes & a 4 oz tank. White wolf has the best prices in my experience, nothing against the others I spread my sales across the board. But Joe usually beats everyone for marker prices. Paladin , its been a long time since I saw him post ....... Glenn you out there??? I just recieved an email about updating my pgp.

[KapitalJin]

thought I needed to bring some laughter into this place

[minimag03]

I'm getting ready to buy a Phantom to help with my aim. I don't know if I'm going to go 100% stock class though.

[JRingold]

Thats what i hear. I also have a question for anyone who would know about running a pump on nitro. all i have are nitro tanks, and i have no idea what they would do to a pump. Its probably no big deal but i would like to know if this would cause any problems. I know most people use co2 because they like 12 grams, but i severely hate 12 grams and anything that is associated with them.

I have my phantom running from a 22 cu. in. HPA tank, it uses a delrin ring mount on the handle and balances the marker perfectly.

Write up and Picture here,

[Muzikman]

thought I needed to bring some laughter into this place

Not to leave you in the dark much longer. The Autococker started it's life as a pump. The reason it is called an autococker is because Bud took his Sniper (Pump autococker) and put the pnuematics on it.

Now, before people get the wrong idea, and start to believe the ads that have been in APG and other rags, WGP did not come up with the autococker idea. As some people already mentioned his name, Glenn Palmer (Paladin) did.

[KapitalJin]

It was an inside joke man! I know why its called an autococker... I was so into this thing I made school reports out of them as well. haha...

[Muzikman]

Inside? Inside of what?

[urbansix]

"You know, these darn pneumatics we invented make this gun shoot too fast. You think we could design something to slow this thing down a bit? Ahhh, yes, let's put a pump handle on it and call it a Sniper! Brilliant!"

Best comment I got on my Sniper was - "you can convert that to a cocker pretty easily, you know?" (and he wasn't being sarcastic....)

[SAW]

Best comment I got on my Sniper was - "you can convert that to a cocker pretty easily, you know?" (and he wasn't being sarcastic....)

"How?"

I've had that conversation numerous times with my Sniper.

[NoForts4Me]

Best comment I got on my Sniper was - "you can convert that to a cocker pretty easily, you know?" (and he wasn't being sarcastic....)

I had a 40 rnd hopper on mine a few months ago, and a kid looked at the hopper, looked up at me and said "My Dad has a bigger one in the car if you want to borrow it."

[StuDawggie]

Thats what i hear. I also have a question for anyone who would know about running a pump on nitro. all i have are nitro tanks, and i have no idea what they would do to a pump. Its probably no big deal but i would like to know if this would cause any problems.

I use nitro all the time on my pump marker (because it's the only type of tank I have) and I've never had a problem doing it. Actually I think it would be better since you wouldn't have to be concerned w/ the occasional velocity spike that you sometimes get with CO2. Also for kicks, I put on a motorized hopper (since my gravity feed hopper is only a 47 ball capacity) and go out with a pimped pump. It's kidna fun to see the looks on peoples faces when they see a pump on nitro and motorized hopper.