Everett Holladay, Chief of the city’s police force recommended that residents engrave their license plate numbers in the hubcaps of their car. In 1963, the Southern California city of Monterey Park was besieged by a rash of hubcap thefts. Many steps can be taken to fight theft of paintball equipment – both in terms of making it less desirable to steal, and increasing the chances of recovery after theft.
One of the downsides to the massive growth paintball has seen over the last several years is that there is enough of a demand for paintball gear, and market for used gear, that it has become a more desirable target for thieves – even to the point that a one web site recently published tips on how to steal equipment from tournament staging areas. Home Pictures Technical Tournament Recreational Fields StoresĪnd Articles Links Resources Video Contact By the turn of the century, with the advent and increased popularity of electropneumatics, it no longer became profitable for specialized shops to produce custom autocockers, and they slowly began to disappear.Paintball - WARPIG - World And Regional Paintball Information Guide - News To this day, most high-end markers, and many entry-level as well, accept barrels with 'autococker threads'. Indeed, the autococker was so ubiquitous that its barrel threading became one of the most commonly used standards on high-end markers (akin to how sizes are often named for the first popular gun model or manufacturer to use them). Only the rivaled it in popularity until electronic markers appeared. A combination of performance, upgradeability and cosmetic options made it one of the top tournament markers of the 90's. Throughout the remainder of the 1990s, dozens of shops ranging from large notables such as Dave Youngblood Enterprises (Dye), Shocktech, Planet Eclipse, Belsales and FreeFlow down to small one man pro-shop operations made a business of servicing and customizing Autocockers with price tags of nearly $2000 for high-end models.
Second, serial numbers on paintball guns can help recover guns that have. Today, the majority of paintball guns produced are stamped or engraved with a. With a variety of options appearing for parts, Belsales in the UK became the first company to build WGP-certified aftermarket cockers, called 'Evolution' in 1993. One of the most fundamental and important upgrades was the Palmer 'Rock' low pressure regulator (LPR) to replace the troublesome stock LPR. Although heavily criticized for reliability and a number of design defects, it proved to be an easy platform to work off and aftermarket parts soon appeared shortly after its inception.
In the early 1990s the Autococker quickly rose to become one of the most popular markers used by top professional teams, used by such teams as Bob Long's original Ironmen. There is a lot of controversy as to whether the design was stolen from Glenn Palmer (who has repeatedly and publicly made and defended this claim and has given a detailed accounting of the circumstances) or was actually Bud's innovation. The pneumatics automatically re-cocked the marker after each shot, and in 1989 the Autococker was born. In order to stay competitive with the rising popularity of semiautomatic markers in the late 1980s, Orr added a pneumatic system onto the Sniper. In 1987, Orr founded Worr Game Products to sell the products he was developing, and by 1988 he was running the business full-time.
The Sniper was operated in a manner similar to pump-action shotguns in that it had to be manually recocked after each shot to load the next round. In late 1986, Bud Orr created the original Sniper pump marker by carving the works of a standard Sheridan PGP into an aluminum block that would accept a longer barrel. A 2003 WGP Prostock vertical feed Autococker with slider frame and a pump kit.
Once a common sight at professional paintball tournaments (especially in the early- to mid-1990s), its popularity has since waned with the rise in popularity of.
It is commonly believed that the design of the marker makes it inherently more accurate than its counterparts, though this is disputed (see, below). It was one of the first paintball markers to be designed specifically for the sport, and has long been known throughout the paintball community for its popularity and customizability as well as its complexity. The Autococker is a closed-bolt semiautomatic manufactured by (WGP).