[John]

Added a bunch of guns.



Team Strange Impulse




Shocktech Shocker




Dragon Timmy - originally bult for Art from Rage




My black Evolution X.




Right feed Evolution




RT #00001 - the first production RT ever made. Obviously no longer stock.





Palmer's Typhoon




Silver Evolution X Autococker




SplatMaster - the second one has never been shot and was signed by Bob Gurnsey (the man who started paintball)

[jojo750]

thats my old ironmen matrix.
bought it from micah mcglocklin back in 2004 when he left ironmen to start XSV.
first high end gun i owned...

very nice collection john.
thanks for sharing.

[John]

Yes it is! One of the many guns I have bought here on PbN!

I still have Micah's Ironmen jersey from that era too.

[Spazdoc]

Originally Posted by John

And my newest Evolution X. I need a better picture of it.

Totally jealous of this one. My favorite ano pattern, even thought I don't own a marker in that pattern. Great collection of Evos and such.

[John]

Thanks! It's called "Crazy Black Splash" and it's one of my favorites too.

[pbbliss]

Thumbs up on the RT 0001.

I had one many years ago, no idea the serial number, although i got one when they first came out so it had to be pretty low i'm thinking.

And I use that crazy black splash in our team's tshirt designs. They look great.

[John]

Haha, I'll have to see a pic of those t-shirts.

I got my first RT when they came out too. It was number 505. I still remember that.

[JMendez03]

That Ironman Matrix is so sick. and so is the shocktech shocker. Those were hands down the best looking shockers ever made.

[ophooligan]

How did you come up with the 001 RT? What's the story behind that?

[John]

Originally Posted by JMendez03

That Ironman Matrix is so sick. and so is the shocktech shocker. Those were hands down the best looking shockers ever made.

Thanks buddy. I have a prophecy for you to put together whenever you are around and have time...

Originally Posted by ophooligan

How did you come up with the 001 RT? What's the story behind that?

I played on Farside back when we all shot 'Mags in the woods. One of the key players on the team also worked at Airgun Designs as one of their master techs. He'd confiscate our guns and fine tune them from time to time. We'd get them back with parts milled off, parts changed and generally souped up.

One time I gave AGD my gun and I got back one of the top secret P5 mags. They were the first RT Mag (before the RT) but made to fit onto a regular Automag frame and body. Another time I got back a whole different gun: this RT. It was all milled down and way lighter than production RT's. He used this gun and his own personal one to show AGD what modern tournament guns should have looked and felt like, instead of the bulky and heavy stock RT's they were making. It shot amazing and I played national tournaments with it until 2001 when I finally retired it and started using an electronic gun.

[crowntheking]

dat ripper.

[John]

Originally Posted by crowntheking

dat ripper.

Took the most time and effort. It was done but it was honestly my least favorite gun and I was considering selling it off before I decided to start over and have the sight rail milled off and change out the gripframe. It went from my least favorite to my favorite pump.

Old pic:




An how it is now:

[haywoodjublomi]

Amazing collection you have, love the ironman matrix and the dragon timmy. I haven't seen one of those in ages.

[John]

Just scored a shroud for my old black Evolution.

[Scatlm]

The man has taste.

5-stars for you, sir.

[SoFlaBaller]

sooo now i know where all the nice evo's are being hoarded. Beautiful evo's sir.
and that ripper. yes

[Stan6543]

That splatmaster is sick

[roth_GBA]

You got rid of your ego8? Everytime i played with you, you always had that ego. Never thought u would get rid of it

[John]

Yeah, I had a Geo 2 for a while and then an Ego 11. I've kept a PE gun the whole time ever since that Ego.

[Vegard]

Liking the ironmen matrix, if you want it to look a tad more stock the pbc breech looks very similar to the stock im one.

[KurtPB]

Originally Posted by John

I played on Farside back when we all shot 'Mags in the woods. One of the key players on the team also worked at Airgun Designs as one of their master techs. He'd confiscate our guns and fine tune them from time to time. We'd get them back with parts milled off, parts changed and generally souped up.

One time I gave AGD my gun and I got back one of the top secret P5 mags. They were the first RT Mag (before the RT) but made to fit onto a regular Automag frame and body. Another time I got back a whole different gun: this RT. It was all milled down and way lighter than production RT's. He used this gun and his own personal one to show AGD what modern tournament guns should have looked and felt like, instead of the bulky and heavy stock RT's they were making. It shot amazing and I played national tournaments with it until 2001 when I finally retired it and started using an electronic gun.

Thread may have fallen back a bit but I just wanted to say this is some nice history to hear about. A Classic 68 was my first "real" marker(after my Victor) and I can't imagine paintball without owning one. Besides, I like what was done to the body, it's too bad no one has done any runs of a ULE RT Classic body... with ego feedneck on top of that. Angel threaded necks are getting few and far between it seems.