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JT Sports going belly up?

Posted by  on 22 December 2009, 1:44 am

Again, we feed off the great stuff View from the Deadbox diggs up – you guys should all subscribe to that.

There has been a few notions that Wal-Mart would not be distributing JT products anymore, and  as JT has received over half of its sales through Wal-Mart, the company suffers a hard blow. Hard enough that it might even be forced to close down. For us older guys, this is really sad bit of gossip as JT and Scott were the first really big equipment manufacturers in the sport and were big contributors in the initial growth of paintball.

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Strange Findings

Posted by  on 17 December 2009, 9:17 am

Remember G.I Milsim, the joint venture of Richmond Italia and the Gardner brothers? Yep, me too. The funny thing here is that G.I Milsim doesn’t seem to remember it. If you go to http://www.gimilsim.com/company/bios you can only find the biography – or bio – of Richmond Italia. No plural necessary, or did they forget to fix that when they REMOVED the Gardner brothers from the homepage? Funny place, the internet.

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Smart Parts situation clarified by Richmond Italia

Posted by  on 15 December 2009, 2:36 pm

On Monday’s VFTD post Baca Loco pointed his readers to a very, very interesting interview of Richmond Italia and Tom Cole (GI Milsim and Kingman, respectively) by Blast Radius Woodsball Podcast. The 1hr 15minute podcast is an extremely educational bit on a lot of the controversy surrounding the .50 cal and the rest of the most debated issues of recent months. One of the major statements that can be extracted from the interview is Richmond Italia’s clarification of the state of Smart Parts.

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ASTM revises standard proposition for ball weights!

Posted by  on 12 December 2009, 4:04 am

Based on the article and discussion on 68caliber.com, the ASTM standards for maximum ball weights for different calibers have been revised. Mike Lukas, Chairman  of the ASTM sub-committee for paintball posted a very good response explaining the decision-making process in forming the ASTM standards – the full text can be found here. I really suggest you read the whole article, as it seems that the weights that were initially posted were early inputs to the standardization process. However, the wording of the outline has now been revised to be more accurate in proportions of the weight to the ball volume.

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Skewed Logic in Millennium Field Update

Posted by  on 3 December 2009, 10:29 am

The released Sup’Airball Millennium Series field update (thanks to Finnish splaweb.net for the heads up) has some points that I find interesting.  The most important question I have relates  to this bit:

After numerous debates with players, paintball parks operators and industry leaders, the will to push forward towards a common field with the leading Series promoters around the globe and the support of the UPBF, both Millennium Series and PSP fields will see minor changes for 2010.

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Clarification on the Previous

Posted by  on 16 November 2009, 2:05 am

It seems news travels fast! Frederic Rodrigues contacted us and kindly offered a few clarifications to our recent post on .50 cal and the Millennium. We discussed information from VFTD that was originally from Frederic, and which I misread / misunderstood. Frederic pointed out that he received his information from Laurent Hamet’s public announcement on Spirit of Paint and that they are not close – they have only barely met a few times and had a few business phone calls. Regarding ProFusion, which we suspected to be Laurent Hamet’s company – we pointed the uncertainty with a (?) – , Frederic also clarified that he does not know the owner of ProFusion, but that officially ProFusion is not Laurent Hamet’s property.

We thank Frederic for the additional information!

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.50 Cal on Millennium Fields in 2010?

Posted by  on 15 November 2009, 3:06 pm

In View from the Deadbox: 50 Cal Update for Mr. Curious, Baca Loco posts up information that he has received from Frederick Rodrigues – someone close to Laurent Hamet. According to Frederick’s information, the .50 cal “revolution” has been strogly pushed to the French market by Hamet’s (?) distribution company ProFusion and the prices would be 50% cheaper than the .68 current prices. That is starting to seem like a tempting offer already. Hamet had also claimed that the Millennium Series is very likely allowing both .50 cal and .68 caliber balls on the fields for the 2010 season.

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.50 cal testing done by Paintball X3, price rumors!

Posted by  on 7 November 2009, 4:25 pm

The Scoop on .50 Caliber Paintball, A Paintball X3 Exclusive, Part II compares the performance of .50 and .68 balls at 274 and 275 average fps respectively and reach the conclusion that the performance of the different-sized balls is quite colosely matched. I do have some qualms on the test..

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A Comment on the Millennium Season Ender 2009

Posted by  on 28 October 2009, 7:58 pm

The Millennium Series has posted the following Press release as a thank you for the season 2009:

28 of October, 2009
Dear Teams, Players & Paintball Industry,

Having started the 2009 season in the worst storms during an event in our history it was nice to end in the near perfect conditions we experienced at our closing event in Antalya, Turkey.

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CK2 Review

Posted by  on 27 October 2009, 6:41 pm

As I came home to drop off some stuff before heading off to meet Janne at the airport after his lengthy return trip from Antalya, I noticed the promisingly thick padded envelope on the floor.. Cool, perfect timing – just grab and go. In the car Janne was excited to see the film, so we figured we’d go to his and Kim’s place where Kim was already recovering from his rough trip home. What better than to throw in the long-waited CK2 DVD from MWAG.

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