Autococker Pt. 2



Sandridge Tiny Tornado F5 (Version 2) built on a Freeflow Millennium body

Sandridge offered this conversion for autocockers in the late 90's. The way these markers operate is probably the most unique in paintball history, and is the only gun to do so, ever. Nearing the same time period as the PMS M3, this was the first electro-pneumatic autococker system, ever. These were also the first markers to utilize electronic eye sensors in order to prevent chopping, ever. Dual solenoids on the front block are utilized for re-cocking as well as tripping the sear which is housed in the Angel frame with another ram making the gun fully pneumatic (the first Close Loop Control System). Meaning, there is no 'pancake' style solenoid like E-Blades, RaceFrames, etc. They also had one other key component that no other marker, to this very day, has ever used. A system that uses a magnetic field (Hall Effect Sensor, or H.E.S.) in order to time and help prevent chopping even further. Using two H.E.S. sensors on the ram, the electronics are able to determine the position of the back block and recognize whether or not it was fully cocked or still traveling. There is no 'bolt delay' or 'board settings' that the user needs to adjust, this system makes this autococker self-adapting .



TL;DR- This autococker TIMES ITSELF and adapts itself to changing conditions in how paint is being fed, the amount of air going into the marker, and how fast the user is firing. Absolutely mind blowing and unique in design.





Jackal Phase II

These were machined by Jeremy Garrett of Jackal Machine, son of Terry Garrett of G3PB. G3PB at the time set the bar for customer service, but just a few years later left the Paintball scene to pursue other endeavors. The company also made other cockers (more commonly seen: RDL), but Phase IIs were mainly showpieces, many of which came as kits instead of a full marker. These are pretty cool, as you may notice that the back block spans in towards the center overlapping part of the body. It's not often that bolts are match ano'd either!





RMP Pro Series Kryptonite

Built in collaboration with a customer and Frank Watson, owner of the late RMP, around 2000-2001. RMP would eventually carry DYE and Works 'cockers, but before all of that, they hand-made three high-performance Pro Series Kryptonites. One blue, one orange, and this green one. Hand picked pneumatics, internals and milling all done in house, these were meant to compete with the bigger names in autocockers; and were competitively priced at $1,500 as well. Performance is above solid, the ano is beautifully done, and the craftsmanship is of the highest quality. It's too bad that RMP didn't make more of these. Frank had to even be coaxed into making these three alone. The paintball world definitely missed out.





BPS Twister w/ Reflex Kit

One of the last Twister bodies to leave BPS. A full mill, P-Block, Vertical Feed, Sponge Wash model that had all the right criteria for me to buy it. It has a very rare BPS reflex kit installed on it (essentially turning it into a full-auto autococker), which never gained popularity due to its high price (around $500 for just the kit itself) and tournament illegality. The kit was rapidly banned at many fields.



The Reflex Kit on an autococker finely demonstrated by Mr. Firpo:





BPS Twister

Micro mini, Clamshell, convertible, P-block, left feed!





Shocktech SFL

Generation 2





'99 BBT SFL Prototype

Before the legendary SFL autococker line even existed, BBT's legendary Danny Love built 5 pre-SFL prototypes, each one slightly milled and ano'd differently: A polished finish, flame ano, all black, Billy Ceranski's yellow striped, and this one: BBTs signature black/blue/clear fade with reverse splash commonly seen on the Westwood (though Westwoods are by no means common at all). The full body, dual wire detents of different length (which prevented the ball from rolling forwards AND backwards in the breech), and extra high smokestack feedneck all scream old school. Danny Love's autococker tuning was regarded as the best in the industry, and to own a prototype that he built from the ground up is certainly something special. Unfortunately after he built and tuned the early SFL's, he hardly touched the later generations. BBT/Shocktech decided to focus on branching out into other, newer platforms and products which included the autococker E-blade frame, rendering great mechanical slide frame tuning somewhat of a lost art.





Gary Noblett's BBT Custom Aftershock

This is one of those pieces that is so unique in history and what its accopmlished, that one can't help but feel a little 'starstruck' or 'empowered' while holding it.

This is Gary Noblett's '98 Team Aftershock BBT Custom he used to help Aftershock become one of the most prominent and dominating teams in paintball history, winning the '99 NPPL World Cup and appearing in the video PUSH (where Gary is regarded as 'the best cover fire player to have ever played the game').

Built from the ground up by BBT's Danny Love, the trigger on this is perhaps the culmination of the Shocktech philosophy, it is incredibly smooth and light. I have to say, this is probably the fastest mechanical 'cocker trigger I have ever shot. The anodizing fades from a blue to a dark purple at the back, and the match anodized stock continues the fade in full extension. The little logo does not say "Shocktech" like the rest of their autocockers, instead it says "Team Aftershock" on both sides. The .685 Boomstick is also custom milled to match the front block. This was a performance piece that emphasized performance; note the brass ram, extra high smokestack and vented milled feedneck, and dual wire detents both in front of and behind the ball (Just like the BBT SFL Prototype): A novel concept at the time.

Anyone who doubts the difference between a normal autococker and one built by a master for a teammate, this is the gun that should be spotlighted.







'The Two-Face' Evolution X

This Evo X was milled as a historic piece to show the diference between a stock cocker and evo, and is the only one Belsales ever 1/2 milled, so it needed a 1/2 ano job, too. Dubbed "The 2-Face". An early (and internally 1-of a kind) Evolution Angry frame in two-finger slider form was made for it, along with other 1-off features not found on other Evolution Xs. It's regarded as the Grandfather of the Evolution X line of autocockers. A matching half blue, half black Halo was also made to be used with it. It's creator was "DB" of Belsales. If it's an Evo or Belsales part made in the last 10 years, chances are he had a hand in its design, assembly, and fruition.

Quote: Its HALF tourney and HALF recball, you should have seen peoples confusion when DB played out of both sides of the same bunker - everyone thought there were two people in the bunker lol.

- DB's Girlfriend





Planet Eclipse Aurora

Planet Eclipse made 12 of these Aurora autocockers. The process called spectrum physical vapor deposition(?) causes a very high and narrow amount of electricity to pass through the metal to give it its prism finish. It is NOT the same as "oil slick". I have yet to confirm the rumors that of the 12 made, 5 left the factory as undrilled mechanicals. Planet Eclipse stopped doing this process because it was just too expensive for the return they expected.

But I digress..

This one is UNDRILLED

Sandridge offered this conversion for autocockers in the late 90's. The way these markers operate is probablymost unique in paintball history, and is the only gun to do so, ever. Nearing the same time period as the PMS M3, this was the first electro-pneumatic autococker system, ever. These were also the first markers to utilize electronic eye sensors in order to prevent chopping, ever. Dual solenoids on the front block are utilized for re-cocking as well as tripping the sear which is housed in the Angel frame with another ram making the gun fully pneumatic (the first Close Loop Control System). Meaning, there is no 'pancake' style solenoid like E-Blades, RaceFrames, etc. They also had one other key component that no other marker, to this very day, has ever used. A system that uses a magnetic field (Hall Effect Sensor, or H.E.S.) in order to time and help prevent chopping even further. Using two H.E.S. sensors on the ram, the electronics are able to determine the position of the back block and recognize whether or not it was fully cocked or still traveling. There is no 'bolt delay' or 'board settings' that the user needs to adjust, this system makes this autocockerTL;DR- This autococker TIMES ITSELF and adapts itself to changing conditions in how paint is being fed, the amount of air going into the marker, and how fast the user is firing. Absolutely mind blowing and unique in design.These were machined by Jeremy Garrett of Jackal Machine, son of Terry Garrett of G3PB. G3PB at the time set the bar for customer service, but just a few years later left the Paintball scene to pursue other endeavors. The company also made other cockers (more commonly seen: RDL), but Phase IIs were mainly showpieces, many of which came as kits instead of a full marker. These are pretty cool, as you may notice that the back block spans in towards the center overlapping part of the body. It's not often that bolts are match ano'd either!Built in collaboration with a customer and Frank Watson, owner of the late RMP, around 2000-2001. RMP would eventually carry DYE and Works 'cockers, but before all of that, they hand-made three high-performance Pro Series Kryptonites. One blue, one orange, and this green one. Hand picked pneumatics, internals and milling all done in house, these were meant to compete with the bigger names in autocockers; and were competitively priced at $1,500 as well. Performance is above solid, the ano is beautifully done, and the craftsmanship is of the highest quality. It's too bad that RMP didn't make more of these. Frank had to even be coaxed into making these three alone. The paintball world definitely missed out.One of the last Twister bodies to leave BPS. A full mill, P-Block, Vertical Feed, Sponge Wash model that had all the right criteria for me to buy it. It has a very rare BPS reflex kit installed on it (essentially turning it into a full-auto autococker), which never gained popularity due to its high price (around $500 for just the kit itself) and tournament illegality. The kit was rapidly banned at many fields.The Reflex Kit on an autococker finely demonstrated by Mr. Firpo:Micro mini, Clamshell, convertible, P-block, left feed!Generation 2Before the legendary SFL autococker line even existed, BBT's legendary Danny Love built 5 pre-SFL prototypes, each one slightly milled and ano'd differently: A polished finish, flame ano, all black, Billy Ceranski's yellow striped, and this one: BBTs signature black/blue/clear fade with reverse splash commonly seen on the Westwood (though Westwoods are by no means common at all). The full body, dual wire detents of different length (which prevented the ball from rolling forwards AND backwards in the breech), and extra high smokestack feedneck all scream old school. Danny Love's autococker tuning was regarded as the best in the industry, and to own a prototype that he built from the ground up is certainly something special. Unfortunately after he built and tuned the early SFL's, he hardly touched the later generations. BBT/Shocktech decided to focus on branching out into other, newer platforms and products which included the autococker E-blade frame, rendering great mechanical slide frame tuning somewhat of a lost art.This is one of those pieces that is so unique in history and what its accopmlished, that one can't help but feel a little 'starstruck' or 'empowered' while holding it.This is Gary Noblett's '98 Team Aftershock BBT Custom he used to help Aftershock become one of the most prominent and dominating teams in paintball history, winning the '99 NPPL World Cup and appearing in the video PUSH (where Gary is regarded as 'the best cover fire player to have ever played the game').Built from the ground up by BBT's Danny Love, the trigger on this is perhaps the culmination of the Shocktech philosophy, it is incredibly smooth and light. I have to say, this is probablyfastest mechanical 'cocker trigger I have ever shot. The anodizing fades from a blue to a dark purple at the back, and the match anodized stock continues the fade in full extension. The little logo does not say "Shocktech" like the rest of their autocockers, instead it says "Team Aftershock" on both sides. The .685 Boomstick is also custom milled to match the front block. This was a performance piece that emphasized performance; note the brass ram, extra high smokestack and vented milled feedneck, and dual wire detents both in front of and behind the ball (Just like the BBT SFL Prototype): A novel concept at the time.Anyone who doubts the difference between a normal autococker and one built by a master for a teammate, this is the gun that should be spotlighted.This Evo X was milled as a historic piece to show the diference between a stock cocker and evo, and is the only one Belsales ever 1/2 milled, so it needed a 1/2 ano job, too. Dubbed "The 2-Face". An early (and internally 1-of a kind) Evolution Angry frame in two-finger slider form was made for it, along with other 1-off features not found on other Evolution Xs. It's regarded as the Grandfather of the Evolution X line of autocockers. A matching half blue, half black Halo was also made to be used with it. It's creator was "DB" of Belsales. If it's an Evo or Belsales part made in the last 10 years, chances are he had a hand in its design, assembly, and fruition.Planet Eclipse made 12 of these Aurora autocockers. The process called spectrum physical vapor deposition(?) causes a very high and narrow amount of electricity to pass through the metal to give it its prism finish. It is NOT the same as "oil slick". I have yet to confirm the rumors that of the 12 made, 5 left the factory as undrilled mechanicals. Planet Eclipse stopped doing this process because it was just too expensive for the return they expected.But I digress..This one is





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