He then called me and that's when I found out that it was not my dad's Hurricane. So I spent about a year and a half searching for it and found that it had gotten sent to EMR Paintball Museum. I tracked down the owners, who pointed me in the right direction, and she finally arrived home safe yesterday slightly worn, but 100 percent original. Two photos, ~c.1996, credit Eric Kilgore of Mech Paintball. The Mod 85 was released by Para Ordnance out of Canada and featured primer powered cartridges which retained a paintball in the tip (roughly ~50 cal?). Para Ordnance's wikipedia states, "The company's first product was a plastic paintball gun, the Model 85 "Dye Marking Tactical Machine Pistol", designed for police and military training purposes." Capable of firing in either full auto or semi auto (not both), the Mod 85 wasn't hugely popular in paintball, but at a time when your other choices were all stock fed paintguns it definitely provided something different. The name suggests it was likely released in 1985 but it may not have actually hit the market for paintball until 1986. Ads are featured in 1986 issues of frontline.Īnd as an early product, the Mod 85 did reach customers all over North America, but range, safety concerns and practicality in the game of paintball after about 1987, when direct feed constant air and safety began being a primary concern meant the Mod 85 wasn't a great fit.įinding players actually using the Mod 85 is always neat, and and in a video with Dave Bassman, of Sudden Death, GBD, Shockwave and the Conquest fields, he described his first experience playing in Malibu, California prior to taking over the field, and being annihilated by a player wielding a Mod 85 at close range. In a recent facebook post, Eric Kilgore, of Mech Paintball, shared some photos of an acquaintance who made use of a Mod 85 at a game hosted at the Prison in Mansfield Ohio in the mids 1990s. "These guys kept shooting us through a hole in the wall at knee level (in a closet), so he stuck one of these through the hole and mag dumped into the guy on the other side. That scream stayed with me for a while lol."Įric continues, "I think this was 1996. ![]() ![]() I was shooting a Bob Long Autococker and it was right when he started shipping center feed guns. I remember because I made him send me a side feed thinking it was dumb because I couldn’t aim lol. Thanks for sharing Eric and any backstory with the red paint on the guys shirt? Also, this was the set for the Russian prison scene from the movie Air Force One which came out in 97." We all had new 114 ci Paintball Mania Mini-reg systems. Photo courtesy Bonnie McDermott and her husband Cliff Zetterstrom. The Grave Diggers was formed around 1986 by Steve Pollard and his Brother Mike (both deceased now). īonnie joined the Grave Diggers in 87 and played with them until they disbanded in 1992. Together they ran Seacoast Paintball in NH.īonnie played with the Grave Digger and Cliff was the former captain of the Wild Geese of NH. He later went onto work as a prison guard. Steve ran a private investigating and repo business named Pollard Associates.
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