Getting into Autocockers

Ok so I've been playing paintball for about two years now and I'm looking to branch out from electropneumatics. For those of you that don't know in the early to mid 90's a man named Bud Orr came out with a mechanical paintball gun that would rival the newer "electro's" for years to come. The name of this gun was the autococker, effectively what it does differently is the bolt system. So the bolt on newer guns goes back and forward when you pull the trigger, not true for autocockers after you pull the trigger the bolt travels forward propelling the paintball out of the breach into the barrel, re-cocks automatically through a very fancy pneumatics system at the front of the gun and stays cocked until lthr process needs to be repeated. If this process sounds complicated.... It is. Autocockers are not for the faint hearted I am hesitant to take mine apart for the first time, however from what I've heard these were from the hay-day of paintball. I want to pay my respects to that. I will still have my MINI and my SYNERGY but this will definitely be my fun-gun for playing with newer or recreation players. Wish me the best of luck in my endeavour and I will report back when the mail gets here.... eventually....

--picture of the pneumatic recocking system
phtoto credit



--PB SAMURAI