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Fun and awesome pastime. I've been playing paintball since the late 1980s and
love it. I have not played much lately, and I need to add my other guns to this page.
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The above pictures are of my current gun, it's an
Autococker
which I purchased about 7 years ago in 1992 or 1993. A very accurate and
durable gun. I took it from close to stock to tricked out. I originally
had only replaced the stock barrel with a Smart Parts barrel, stock regulator
with a Rock Regulator, added a Thumper expansion chamber, and replaced
the stock bolt with an On Target True Flight bolt. Now, I've gone nuts
with it...desiring to lower the operating pressure of the gun and
increase the speed/accuracy a bit, I've completely updated the gun.
The
barrel was replaced with a 10" DYE boom-stick. This barrel will match up
better with the current paint on the market. My older barrel was a larger
bore barrel and today's paint is more often in the mid-small size bore.
Paint to barrel matching is very important when it comes to accuracy, too
much discrepancy in this can really affect your ability to hit the target
you're aiming at.
The beaver tail was added as is required these days.
A new bolt, the Lightning Bolt by
AKALMP
replaced the On Target Products True Flight Bolt I had in it before.
The older bolt had worn down and isn't near as high quality as the newer
AKALMP bolt.
The
hammer and cocking rod were replaced from stock to an ACI
hammer and KAPP cocking
rod. This necessitated replacing the back block to accommodate the shorter
cocking rod, which also lightens the hole cocking process, thus speeding
up the cycle time a bit. A LAPCO
back block was used. A SOCKTECK low pressure chamber was added to the front
internals to assist in lowering the overall operating pressure in the gun.
The Thumper by Air America (expansion
chamber) was replaced by a Palmer
Stabilizer, which also required replacing the sterling silver braided hose
that goes to the bottom line adapter. Rounding out the modifications is
the addition of a timing hole being drilled into the site rail so the timing
can be adjusted easily if needed. Which should now be less frequently
required than before.
The overall operating pressure of the gun went from
800psi to 200psi. This should dramatically increase the efficiency of my
20oz C02 tanks. Since my C02 tanks were about 6 or 7 years old, I had new
tanks done up with anti-siphon to prevent the Autococker
from going liquid. Drawing liquid into the Autococker
is not a good thing. I did not change the 3-way or the rock regulator in
the front internals because they are very solid and it would have been
unnecessary.
After battle-testing, It doesn't
even feel like the same gun in my hand, it is amazing how much smoother it operates.
The gun is a very early model, stamped
number 18250 on the body. I expect to get some more great usage out of
it. The work was done by the solid air-smiths at Paintballistix. |
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