long live the autococker...

After eight faithful years of service, my Autococker is no more. At the last paintball outing, the cocking rod snapped - leaving me with a very sentimental paperweight. Alas, it's time to move on - it'll be hard to expect the same accuracy from any of the new electronic markers, but I was clearly outgunned in the rate-of-fire department.

So, after a few days of online research rendered useless by a 10-minute conversation with Jason at Paintball Wizard, I am now a proud owner of a Dangerous Power G3 marker. You gotta admit, it's a bit sexy:

We'll see if it shoots as well as it looks, though.