Damn son, nice mix of guns you have owned over the years. It covers a lot of paintball's history in the past decade.
Funny you remember the two fellows you bought those lime green rippers from, Mastersconi and Dave Bains indeed were the last owners of the guns before you got them. Funny thing is, Dave owned both of them at one point but Mastersconi was a trader of sorts and bought one from Dave and put it up for sale on his site. The other was sold to you for dave here on pbnation by a mutual friend, flynbyu01 many years ago. Probably cost you a chunk of change. For good reason too...
Dave's ripper, the one with all black accents, was the one that Dave used most in his KAPP Factory days. That gun, oh man.... It was the NASTIEST gun to grace this green earth. I honestly haven't shot anything better, EVER, than that ripper when it was in its prime. Terry, then one of the best intimidator techs for Bob Long, personally tuned that thing monthly and it was a BEAST.
This picture from Vegas 2003 is Dave using the one with the silver ram sleeve and trigger... I actually used the very same gun the same season at Huntington Beach 2003, some months before the vegas picture. I was proud that my center 50 run off the break made it on the nppl event DVD, the gun was shimmering in the sunlight. Regrettably, my head first dive into the 50 filled the barrel and bolt chamber with sand, and ruined the gun for the rest of the tournament. It never wuite shot the same after that. Whoops...
I wish I had my old hard drive handy, I have several pictures of those rippers in the early 2000's.
