Tactical Automag
As promised, here are a few pics of my Automag with the new Intelliframe. You can easily tell that the new grip frame is new - it lacks the well worn look of the rest of the 'gun. This 'Mag has been a workhorse. I bought it in 1994, and spent a lot of money over the next four or five years adding toys to it. These days, it's not the race gun it used to be, but it's still solid, dependable, and hits what I point it at. That works for me. Also, I think it looks much cooler than all the curvy, milled, toy-looking 'guns on the fields these days.
This started life as one of the first Level 7 Automags available. I shot CO2 from an anti-siphon 20oz. tank for years, with a TASO Expansion chamber. In the mid-90's we were a TASO sponsored team, which means we had a glut of TASO products - barrels, sightrails (I still have mine), stocks, paint, etc. It was a pretty good deal. Of course, sponsorship in those days was mot anything like the NASCAR type sponsorship you see in the speedball tourneys these days. We still wore camouflage, for crying out loud. In tournaments.
I upgraded to an Air America raptor system about the same time I got the Perfect Bore Ceramic barrel you see pictured. HPA makes a heck of a difference when shooting 'Mags. I also used to sport a 'custom' double trigger on the original polymer frame with the trigger guard removed. Double triggers in 1996 were not for walking like they are today, they were there becuase as a back man, shooting 800 rounds of paint (without ramping) in four minutes made your trigger finger tired. The doube trigger allowed you to use your middle finger to without shifting your grip on the 'gun. Facinating history lesson for the kids with their electro markers.
The configuration pictured features the same Air America Raptor on remote (not shown), new Intelliframe, Benchmark cradle mounted foward (used to mount a tac light these days), Armson OEG (occluded eye gunsight), TASO bottomline, and adjustable old school stock. Inside the 'gun are a Pro Team products power tube spacer kit (this was done in the days before power tube spacers were stock - mine came with a spring), and a hi flow on/off valve. I used to run an aftermarket bolt and Phase II regulator, but since decided they didn't add anything to performance.
Click the photos for a larger view.
This started life as one of the first Level 7 Automags available. I shot CO2 from an anti-siphon 20oz. tank for years, with a TASO Expansion chamber. In the mid-90's we were a TASO sponsored team, which means we had a glut of TASO products - barrels, sightrails (I still have mine), stocks, paint, etc. It was a pretty good deal. Of course, sponsorship in those days was mot anything like the NASCAR type sponsorship you see in the speedball tourneys these days. We still wore camouflage, for crying out loud. In tournaments.
I upgraded to an Air America raptor system about the same time I got the Perfect Bore Ceramic barrel you see pictured. HPA makes a heck of a difference when shooting 'Mags. I also used to sport a 'custom' double trigger on the original polymer frame with the trigger guard removed. Double triggers in 1996 were not for walking like they are today, they were there becuase as a back man, shooting 800 rounds of paint (without ramping) in four minutes made your trigger finger tired. The doube trigger allowed you to use your middle finger to without shifting your grip on the 'gun. Facinating history lesson for the kids with their electro markers.
The configuration pictured features the same Air America Raptor on remote (not shown), new Intelliframe, Benchmark cradle mounted foward (used to mount a tac light these days), Armson OEG (occluded eye gunsight), TASO bottomline, and adjustable old school stock. Inside the 'gun are a Pro Team products power tube spacer kit (this was done in the days before power tube spacers were stock - mine came with a spring), and a hi flow on/off valve. I used to run an aftermarket bolt and Phase II regulator, but since decided they didn't add anything to performance.
Click the photos for a larger view.
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