Automag - becoming extinct?

[mclaggan123]

i had a minimag about 5 years ago but i wanted something that i could tinker with more so i went with a cocker. i still have a cocker but moved onto an angel 05 speed and a dark g7 fly. i also have a shocker sft. BUT i always thaught about my minimag and how i missed it, so i went and traded a cocker on this website for a micromag. i had the red and black micromag at my local field and a guy had a tacone and he just loved my micro so we traded. i then just 2 weeks ago traded my tac body for a ule body and $30. so now i have a ule'd tacone. i love my mag and will never get rid of it. i may change the rail or body but ill always have a mag from now on. if i have to get rid of all my guns but 1 the mag will stay. long live the mag. i just wish i found this website 7 years ago when i got my minimag.

[nate2k191]

they can't be going extinct unless people are trashing their mags. they just aren't really bieng produced much anymore.

people still use them, but i think more and more get put in the garage/attic/closet.

my mags are awesome paintball guns, and i still love using them.

[Lenny]

BadMovies.Org, eh? Signed up for a spam account but decided you loved us too much or what?

[Badmovies.org]

I used to play down in the Marietta, GA area when I was based there. I was usually the only automag around. One time, I did run into a family (dad and two sons) who all had mags. That was a fun day. Wish I could remember the name of the fields that I would play at in GA. It was back in 2000-2003. The store was the basement of somebody's house and there were several fields around it in the woods. One had a huge wooden fort (plywood and bracers - I think 4*4s) in the center.

You know, it could be a regional thing too: automags could be more common in some areas. I have another hobby, Warhammer (Fantasy and 40K). In some areas I have been based, most people play Fantasy, in others it is 40K that is more common. Interesting.

I'm a darn poor spammer if I joined in 2002 and haven't spammed yet. Although, I did bring 10 lbs of spam one time to a movie festival as gift (to get in you paid some money and had to donate food for the local food bank). Anyway, if you see Badmovies.org on a forum, it is 99% likely to be me - the whole reason I use it. On my own forum I am Andrew.

[DaFin]

I still use a mag. I took a 10+ year break and came back, put in fresh o-rings and took it out. Comments I got included "Antiques roadshow called and they want thier gun back!" But it still shoots better than a lot of guns on the feild, especially Ions, spyders and abused cockers.

I am on the bubble now tho, do I want to invest in building up my mags from fully up'd circa 1992 to an ULE E-mag spec ($400 ish) or buy another gun in the same price range. Or, do nothing, just play with them as they are.

Or go back to playing stock/pump on Sundays....

[tech-chan]

Mags have an extroadinary reputation around here, if you go on a field with a Mag, normaly the ref smiles at you and waves you onward to glory. All the little kids look at the mag and go woooow... Mags are not dieing out, they're just becoming almost a cult gun. And honestly, Im in that cult.
Jeremiah

[Skeeter]

Mags = Niche market



The Mag is so easy to sell against in stores for all those factors, so what's the point of stocking them? When a kid comes in and asks "do you have any automags?" the sales person says, Oh no, you don't want one of those, they are old tech, you want to go with something elesctric like this one here that will shoot 20bps if you breathe on it and costs less than an automag, and runs on CO2 ( hey sales people aren't always that honest )


Aside form picking up a few new fans, and losing a few old fans, I dont see the number of mag shooters out there increasing all that much. More likely, we will see less and less of them at the fields as the players that have/use them get older, busier, and just stop playing.


Styg

[SpecialBlend2786]

Consider this.

The Mag valve is ~ 15 years old.
The Poppet Valve(as used in markers) is ~ 50 years old.

When someone says that mags are an old technology, ask yourself which is truly the "older" platform.

haha I never actually thought about that.

[bentothejam1n]

You don't shoot one but you post on AO? That is a first.

some people here dont even play anymore

[kruger]

Today, Mags are an aquired taste. Sorta like chicken Livers. You either like them or you dont. They used to be at the top of the food chain, but, as far as a vast majority of the public is informed, they are not anymore.

You cannot buy a brand new "sexy" Mag. You can certainly build one, if you have the patience to do so, but most people in todays instant gratification world, do not. There are more choices for the player to pick from. You can buy marker "X" and it will shoot 4 quadrillion bps, got 900 user programmable parameters and will lie to your mom for you. Or, you can buy a Mag, a mechanical gun that will only get you laff'ed at by your buds, cuz its not "sexy". Personaly, I did not start out with a Mag, and to be honest, I did not even know what a Mag was when I first got into paintball. But a coupla guys that happend to play at the field that I started at did have them. I did do "research" into buying my first makrer, ended up buying a buch of crap that I did not need, nor could I see any real advantage to having, except for a very narrow set of circumstances. I got more interested and, the more that I looked, the more that I realized that the Automag was a diamond in the rough. It can be shaped to your personality and can be as individual as you are. It really is truly ahead of its time, yet that fact is missed my most of the paintballers because of big marketing dollars or scatily clad babes in pictures. Those babes are not gonna help you play the game, but they do help sell their employers goods. Paintball marketing is directed at 14 yo boys and the marketing gurus know that a bit of T&A will get their target market's attention.

As long as I have an interest in paintball, I will own a Mag. I am 46 years old, a field owner and I have not lost interest in this game yet. I have the resources to buy any marker that I choose, got a good day job. And I have learned that if I want something to last, then buy the best quality that you can afford, and the Mag is truly a bargain.

my two cents worth

[Lenny]

I'm a darn poor spammer if I joined in 2002 and haven't spammed yet. Although, I did bring 10 lbs of spam one time to a movie festival as gift (to get in you paid some money and had to donate food for the local food bank). Anyway, if you see Badmovies.org on a forum, it is 99% likely to be me - the whole reason I use it. On my own forum I am Andrew.

Yeah. Right. We all believe that one.
You're just advertising for a naughty video website. We know the truth.




/Just messin' with ya.

[kruger]

Rogue, I stand corrected.


But, the problem is that a person has to be exposed to that marker to know that it even exists. And, if you are looking for that marker, or one very similar to it, then you are already aware of what the mag is and what it reperesents. My comments dont concern "those" people. "They" are either already converted, or about to be. I was referring to the general paintball population.

[PumpMag]

Return of the Automag.

Just like Pump play is making a huge come back so is the Automag.

Notice how CCM is very popular. Tippmann released Propane technology fuel in a Pump marker. Now Sterling ads indicating their return to the paintball scene...............

Have some faith.

......every time you shoot it...........The Return of the Automag!

[StygShore]

O'rly

Funeral Durge anyone...Dead guns my arse!

http://www.anythingxtreme.com/Dead-Automag-Paintball-Guns-C3082.aspx

[Ninjeff]

I just got my first automag also. After a long absence from the sport, it was the first gun i looked at buying.

Im now having HUGE amounts of fun just LEARNING about it, working on it, and buying new bits for it.

And to think, i almost got an A5. Pshhhhh