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Old 04-07-2006, 08:26 PM   #14 (permalink)
jhyan
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Originally Posted by Yellow5
Yeah, the autotrigger rule is kinda funny, considering that even the 007's had it. I understand the spirit of it, but when you start excluding some of the primordial models, you have to ask when could rules like these have ever been the norm. My suspicion is that the "rules" were never very well documented because there was not much other choice than to play with guns that met the above description (or close to it). Semis, CA, and other "modern" features wouldn't have been explicitly excluded because they weren't commonly available anyway.
It seems to my, in my limited exposure to the history of the sport (took a long long break) that the whole term stock class (and therefore the rules of stock class) came from a time when playing this way had already become outside the norm. Back in '88 we didn't play stock class... we played paintball. I think it only became known as stock class when the majority were playing semi-ball.
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