Gimpy the creators of the auto trigger you referred too was developed by a couple of player from California who played at Sat Cong Village. There names were "Gramps and Grizzly".
I bought the upgrade back in 86 when I bought my first paintball gun a 3 tube constant air PMI pump. Now referred to as the Paranah. I mentioned this in my "Paintball History" in my blog which you can read, on this very web site. Mind you I'm not blowing my own horn it's just history. Of which I am a buff of.

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I love history also .. but is it not possible that more then one of these varitions could have been concoted. Considering at the time there was no BIG DISTRIBUTER. that I knew of. I have heard the Old storys about buying the paint in boxes of 1000 and it costing something like 100 to 120 a box. Man you guys were roughing it back in the day.. I am trying to find the aformentined blog now.. Now you got me excited. also What games in Central Florida will you be attending I would Love to get together and here some War storys from BACK IN THE DAY... Thanks again Sir Rod you are always the knowledgable one.

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Ok how real old school are you? Who has seen this movie?, it is the first movie to involve paintball and come out the year I started playing in 1989. It is a typical late 80's corny movie. In the movie the paint color signified teams, remeber those days they used oil base balls and used red as one of the colors.

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As far as "Big Distributors" go.... There was Direct Connect, PMI, TASO, PMS, G+G, and NPS; not necessarily in that order.
After NPS (both) , PMI (Sumo, Parabellum, SP and a few other FL versions) tons of folks jumped in to it.

The original paintball game "Distributor" was NSG. National Survival Games (NSG) They had complete field packages ready to ship; guns, paint, eye-wear, flags, stars (for flag-hangs) registration items, armbands, rulebooks, etc. They franchised paintball and really owned it for about 3-4 years. The were sued, filed bankruptcy, moved across the road and resurfaced as GZ, then basically fell apart as the sport grew in a "tournament" direction. 12grams and 1 shot, nylon/steel markers were no longer the only avenues players could take. Necessity is the mother of invention and there was a need for volume, speed, accuracy, dependability, repairability and "cool-factor".

Yes, a "cube" of Bullseye (1500 rnd) was about 100.00 A case of Cal-Mag (2400) was about 140. Event paint was anywhere between 100 and 140 a case.

All the big teams had sponsors where cost of paint wasn't a factor...Our line was "if you don't shoot at it, you can't hit it". (SKW - Shoot Kill Win) Our paint sponsor gave us (or paid for) all that we could shoot and that's primarily how the winningest teams, won. It wasn;t a matter of ROF, it was how much paint could our opponents afford to shoot. There wasn't 1 game in 89 to 92 when each one of us went out with less than 1000 rounds on us; some had WAY more, like back players...

hmmm...sound familiar?

Maybe in a few years 12grams will be in as high of demand as 140 round tubes are now.

Greg

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Cal-Mag I hated that crap stained like crazy both clothes and lenses. If I remember right Cal-Mag had a acid base because it would etch the old UVEX lenses.

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California magnum come in the cammo boxes and several boxes in a case correct? were they not the first to have the black shell also known as stealth balls?

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Grendel. Not sure of where acid based came from but no, it was water/PEG-based with an ingredient in which made it so nasty and thick that kept it on the eyewear for so long that the heavy pigments etched their way in to the lens; vegetable oil (VO). Zap later produced a fill with talc that also made the splat stick on long enough to etch some eyewear.

Cannibal..Pretty sure RPS made a ball just prior to C-M, with a black shell called Gator.
The Mag name was "black-beauties" and correct, 200ct camo boxes, 12 to a case.
Also, before RPS and CM, Bullseye's Iodine blue was mistaken for black. It was actually in a clear shell and the paint was so deep blue, it looked black.

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black beauties i remeber now I mis the old days. Back then it was something new and not a whole lot garabage clotted up the sport.

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I remember when the hardest decision was to play with just goggles or add on a woodstalk mask....still have the cheek-scars to remind me.

Greg

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