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.

Paintballs

The paintball world has changed again. Recently, Zap was taken over by Procaps. Procaps manufactures the Draxxus line of paintballs. While there has been some plans to continue manufacturing some of the Archon/Zap line of paintballs, most will go away. So far the list is getting smaller as inventory of older paint is being sold off. On the cut list is Zap Spank. Also, Procaps does not want to compete with itself and so they will no longer be importing Black Lotus or Bushido paintballs. Supplies on our site are limited and may not be available depending on location.

The good news is that for the time being most of the Origin line is left untouched. Basic and Classic should be available for some time. It may be a good idea to stay away from Zap Proball, Chronic and Ink'd until Procaps gets their new machine tested. Stick with the Draxxus paintball line for a couple of months until the transition is completed. Draxxus in order of low end to high end is Draxxus Triumph, Draxxus Rec-Sport, Draxxus Midnight, Draxxus Bronze and Blaze (same quality), Draxxus Silver and Draxxus Gold their premier top quality paintball brand.

Paintballs

Our paintball blog topic today is paintballs. Featured to the left are DraXxus Scenario Paintballs. We just added the DraXxus line to our site. From what we see from a seller's point of view is that there are two basic type of paintball buyers. The first buys on price. They believe that a paintball is a paintball and price is king. They are looking for value and believe that you are just wasting your money paying for higher end paintballs.

The second type are those that believe every edge is important and the added consistency, accuracy or coloring is key to staying in the game. Personally, I am somewhere in the middle of the two camps. Cheap paint is unpredictable and difficult to gain consistency of your accuracy. On the other hand, I am just not totally convinced that paying an extra $30.00 for a case of paint is a good idea?

What kind of paint do you use and why? I know that sometimes some paint does not agree with the equipment you are using. For example, my Tippmann Cyclone Feeder sometimes chops paint. My advice here is change the paint, there is nothing wrong with the feeder. Find a paint brand that works well with the equipment you have.