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Because Autocockers are dead. Why else would they be selling at 75% their MSRP?

Pissed me off, that is.

The story is short and simple, which makes it even more silly. As you may already know, PaintballGuns.net will be attending the PSP’s upcoming River City Open event to photograph inside the nets. My partner Chris and I will be the ones actually photographing the event, so we thought we should find some teams that actually want their pictures taken. We started a thread in the River City Open PSP section simply saying that PaintballGuns.net will be attending the event, and that we have a pretty open schedule; so we asked for teams that will be playing the event to PM me if they’d like to be photographed for FREE (the keyword here is free).

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Paintball exploded in popularity from the nineties up until about 2004. Since then it has stabilized at about 10 million players in the United States. Why did paintball stop growing? Did paintball reach its popularity for this generation – or is there more for it to offer?

So, this post ends with a thought only – what’s paintball’s next step? It’s a general question that even I can’t answer.

Eerie, isn’t it.

I am very excited to announce that PaintballGuns.net has recently acquired Pb-Addict.com, a great paintball forum and information source since 2004. Pb-Addict’s former owner, Jordan (or Killa), has let the site go for the benefit of its growth – since he has backed away from playing the sport of paintball for the time being.

Everyone at PaintballGuns.net welcomes Pb-Addict.com’s forum members – as we will be merging the two forums very soon. I hope members from both sites are now excited for future forum and over website advancements in the near future.

If you haven’t joined our forums yet, you can register here.

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So I was thumbing through PB2X magazine and saw that there’s a “Paintball Cruise” provided by Carnival and sponsored by Kingman, Virtue, and Xhaled. The deadline was June 1st, so you missed your chance. But Ollie Lang, Matty Marshall, Nicky Cuba, Bea Youngs, and Lisa Harvey are all planning to be there. Don’t get me wrong, a cruise sounds great – But I think it will flop. I just find it hard to see how out of all things, a cruise is chosen for a paintballers vacation. Paintballers are one of the poorest athletes out there, and they’re asking for each person to cough up $500 a ticket. So I’m not too sure what the point of having a “paintball cruise” is, but whatever floats your boat. Check out PaintballCruise.com if you’d like to read more about it.

This past weekend, a Millenium Series staff member found multiple STAKO nitrogen tanks “leaking out of the body (NOT the regulator) and producing ‘bubbles’ under the surface of the bottle body” (68Caliber.com). All STAKO air tanks are now banned from all Millennium Series events. I guess most paintballers prefer that their tanks not blow bubbles… but hey.

What are STAKO bottles you might ask? STAKO bottles are nitrogen air tanks that are super light compared to others. STAKO uses carbon fiber to wrap the tank instead of aluminum, which is what determines most of the tank’s weight.

What’s STAKO have to say?
STAKO briefly responds to the situation here.

Yes, we’ve all heard that paintball is one of the fastest growing sports in the United States and Canada; but did you know that statistics are showing the sport’s growth rate has actually declined these last few years? Not by much of course, nothing to really notice, but it certainly isn’t growing as much as it was a few years ago. Why is this?

Peter Irizarry, owner of Reball, testifies to the sport’s current standing in America by saying,

Paintball doesn’t have a focal point. There isn’t one thing to look at like most other sports have.

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