Paintballs, What's Going On?

Over the past few months you have probably noticed that many stores and online paintball stores have been changing their paintball line up. How come? Well, over the summer a lot of mergers happened and so the brands we have been using are going away.

How and why has this happened? Well it started with Archon. They started to work with American Paintball Supply. Archon was supplying the Zap, Chronic, Proball, Ink'd, Spank and others. American Paintball Supply was mainly using their own line developed and produced by Procaps. This was the Origin line like Classic, Signature, Basic Training. American was also supplying Black Lotus and Bushido from overseas.

When American joined forces with Archon, they took their line of Origon to Archon. Then soon after the big news came. Procaps, from Canada that produces the Draxxus line of Blaze, Gold, Silver, Bronze, Rec Sport, Triumph, Midnight and Frostbite bought out or merged with Archon. As you can imagine, they no longer had a need to compete with themselves. In addition, they partnered with American Paintball Supply to continue distributing. American needed to have the Origin line produced again and now they had to return to Procaps.

Naturally Procaps needed to consolodate their line and so here is the fallout. American Paintball Supply dropped the importation of Bushido and Black Lotus. They returned their line to Procaps. So, we will continue to see at least Basic Training and possibly Origin Classic. Most others from the Origin line have been dropped.

Archon paint like Spank and Chronic have been dropped. These are no longer available. Of course surviving are all of the Draxxus line. Procaps will continue to produce the Draxxus line and the others may survive, or be dropped, depending on their popularity.