"If it moves, shoot it. If it doesn't move, shoot it anyhow."

Edwin Voskamp's Paintball

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I've gotten into Paintball. Recreational play only, though I'd love to play on a small, recreational team.

My Paintball Stomping Grounds

I play locally, as a walkon, at Paintball's Sam in Racine, Wisconsin, Fox River Games and, strangely enough, considering I live in the Northwestern Suburbs of Chicago, a great field near Beckley, West-Virginia, run by my good friend David Whelan, The Rogue Trader.

My Paintball Guns

I own two Palmer Pursuit Shop Blazers, a production performance paintmarker that out of the box is tournament ready. I'm very impressed by the gun and love it dearly. I'm a proud member of the Palmer Owners Group; POG #351.

• BZ453 however, is not an out of the box "standard" Blazer: It's all mine, made, just the way I wanted it: it is a Glossy Black Center-Feed Blazer, with a 12 inch vented and matched barrel, powder-coated black, a LAPCO bottom-feed with Male Stabilizer (Palmer's awesome regulator), a Pro-Touch trigger job and a matched 20 oz. anti-siphon CO2 tank.
  
• BZ461, I bought another one from Ryan Doyal, a gentleman to deal with, who made me an offer I couldn't refuse. It's a bit different from mine, enough that I wanted it, apart from the very thin excuse of wanting a backup gun (to a gun that never quits!); it's smoke anodized, with nickel plating on all brass parts showing on the gun and a 10.5" Nickel Plated Spiral Vented Palmer barrel. It's got the same awesome Palmer's Stabilizer, also vertical, though nickel plated with a Input microgauge and quick disconnect on the short hose to the bottom line. It also has the Pro Touch trigger job, but on a two finger trigger, that's also had some work done to it. It came with a second barrel; a 12 inch black LAPCO Autospirit barrel, machined to fit the Blazer perfectly.

There's a few things I'm still going to have done with both guns:

1. I'm going to have both engraved and gold-inlaid with my ideogram HSO.
2. Move the bottom feed line to the rightside: I use a modified Weaver grip and stance and the line interferes a bit with my left hand's wrap.
3. I also find that the 20 oz. tank on it comes up a bit high, so I'm looking into remote CO2. I'd like to modify both to have a dropped bottom line with ProConnect III.
4. For looks, I'm going to have the external on BZ453 powdercoated black, try and have the rear of the bolt powdercoated black, have the feedline hardware powdercoated black and use a black line.
5. I've found the efficiency quite good, even in chilly (45 degrees Fahrenheit) and I'm still shooting in BZ453. However, I am considering to get the HV/LP Valving, for High Volume/Low Pressure firing on BZ461 and two other barrels (8" and 12", both Nickel Plated Spiral Vented Palmer barrels) and have all three show barrels matched to the gun. I'm then going to decide the barrel length debate for myself and compare the HP/LV valving against the stock.
   The 8" barrel should make it awesome for speedball as well and be a great light gun on remote, without a stock, or perhaps a Gas-Through Stock stock.
6. If the HV/LP valving is benificial, I'm going to see what Palmer has to say about the AKALMP, Inc. Low-Pressure Blazer kit.

Paintball Guns Shopping List

There's a few more Palmer Pursuit Shop guns I'd like:

• Squall, a semi-automatic, spring-fed, 12gram CO2 cartridge powered semi-automatic handgun. I'd like two, for the old-style gunslinger fun.
• Super Stocker, an awesome stock-class pumper, with Palmer performance.
• Pug, a stock-class, tube-fed, 12gram CO2 cartridge powered pump handgun. I'd like two, for the old-style gunslinger fun in stock class environments.
• Shotgun, I'm thinking of talking to Palmer's about basically a sawn-off double-barrel shotgun. I'm thinking something like a double-barrel Super Stocker, powered by two 12grams, fed from two tubes, with very short barrels, to make it holsterable.