Tippmann TPX Pistol - It Is Shipping In 48 hours!

All through the process we have kept you up to date with all the latest news on the Tippmann TPX Pistol launch. Here is a letter to Tippmann's customers that was released to authorized dealers today.



Click here to watch a video review of the Tippmann TPX.

Paintball Prizes

Here is a recap of yesterday's special contest event over at www.paintballguns.MEspace. The event was a big success as there were many people online all vying to win a prize. Here is the blog post pasted here for your review.

"I hope everyone had as much fun as we did. While it was a lot of work for us, we have a special thanks for our sponsored teams and players that helped us out during the chat. Team Red Dawn Members, The L.I. Outlaws, and Team Browncoats_az. Here is a rundown of what happened. We had an hour long chat session answering questions and giving out prizes every hour. We also announced a contest on how to win a paintball gun, with two paintball guns up for grabs. Please look at the "contests" page for details. Here were the winners:

1. 5:05 PM Mongoose5 - Spyder Gun Bag $24.95
2. 5:10 PM Snipe07 - Spyder Gun Bag $24.95
3. 5:15 PM Wiseoldhippiedude - VIP Membership $29.99
4. 5:20 PM mitchbob86 - Spyder Gun Bag $24.95
5. 5:25 PM Ttownvengence - Spyder Jersey $49.98
6. 5:30 PM Sunshine - VL Evolution 3 Loader $59.95
7. 5:35 PM Connorman356 - Vip Membership $29.99
8. 5:40 PM Designaweb - Vip Membership $29.99
9. 5:45 PM Trum15 - Spyder Gun Bag $24.95
10. 5:50 PM Predator - GXG Camo Tactical Vest $49.99
11. 5:55 PM RedCommander - Tippmann Ultralite Jersey $35.95
12. 6:00 PM Darkkrider - VL Vlocity Loader $119.99

The grand total was $505.63 and shipping for a total giveaway valued at $600.00. Thank you to our supporters and thanks to those who checked us out. We understand that we had people participating from several places aroudn the world. Also, we did end up with about 40 new members over the last two days and we hope they will participate and find new friends."

Tacamo - Another Paintball Industry Casualty

Today is another sad day in paintball. The Tacamo Paintball
Guns and all parts and accessories are obsolete and discontinued. If you need parts or accessories, I encourage players to stock up now. We do not have one item left or in stock and all pages will come down before the weekend. Please do not order anything from the Red Dot Paintball site because we will only have to refund your order.

How could this happen, well it is another casualty in the paintball industry. Many of you may remember that Archon was purchased by Procaps (Draxxus). As I posted before many of the lines of paint that were produced by Archon (Zap, Spank, Chronic) have slowly been disappearing. Well, the disappearance trick was performed again as Procaps/Draxxus continues to redefine itself. The latest is they want to mainly focus on stores and fields for mainly paint and goggles. Very little else from what I am hearing. It will be interesting to see if Tippmann continues to use them as a distributor that is not stocking their items? Who knows...what we do know is that there are less and less options for paintball supplies. It seems that nearly every month another loss is encountered.