Mike Casady is bringing a NEW CCI Phantom to market SOON!!!

WoodsBaller57 · 03-11-2011, 01:33 AM

Today while I was placing a telephone order for parts and talking with Mike Casady,

the originator of the Phantom and owner of CCI, he mentioned that he has been working very hard on getting a new marker ready for market. I about dropped my phone and collected myself and said, ”A NEW Marker?!?!” Mike said that he has been very busy getting parts machined and ready to bring a prototype to an upcoming Pump Event. He told me that the new Phantom is based on a design that he had prototyped back in 1996. (After we got off the phone, I did some research and found that it was called the Phantom Revolution.) Mike said that he has been wanting to get back to utilizing the design that he had developed, and his original intentions were to bringing it to market as a 25th Anniversary Edition, when his company reached its 25th year of producing Phantoms, which is about a year and a half from now. Due to what he sees as great potential for rapid growth in the Pump Market, he decided that the time is right, to bring the new marker to the market rather than waiting until later.

I wasn’t taking notes, so this is from memory of what I considered to be a fascinating conversation. Mike explained that the mechanism will require pumping, only to chamber the ball, which will make for a very smooth pump stroke. The cocking of the firing system will be done by a mechanism related to the Revolution, which from what I could find “on line” is a semi-auto, electric micro-motor rotating bolt.

He said that he is excited about the possibilities that the new marker will provide. It bringing together other ideas that he has wanted to incorporate into the marker, that he has been working on for quite a while. He said that the current Phantom will stay in production forever but the new marker would meet new areas of growing demand that the Pump Market is experiencing. I'd say his timing is pretty good!
That is some pretty exciting news!!!

WoodsBaller57

volunteer paintball · 03-11-2011, 01:37 AM

Dear sweet lord, this will be the greatest birthday present in all of existence.

if i'm not mistaken someone posted something about the revolution in an earlier thread, but it was of a picture of it or something.

pk5 · 03-11-2011, 01:37 AM

i thought the revolution was a semi?

Bigtuana · 03-11-2011, 01:50 AM

think of it as an ebladed phantom

WoodsBaller57 · 03-11-2011, 02:01 AM

It was a semi, this is going to be a marker that you pump only to chamber the ball. Everything else is done by the mechanics of the Revolution system. It is going to be very easy to cock. S-M-O-O-T-H!!!!

Cuddles · 03-11-2011, 02:04 AM

Just as I thought I was done buying markers

moving_target · 03-11-2011, 02:04 AM

My wardrobe cannot handle MCB...

this is the third time I've jizzed my pants while browsing today....

TBOPP · 03-11-2011, 02:06 AM

Now I definitely have to be at Spring Pump Event

Makeshift · 03-11-2011, 02:23 AM

May I be the first...

DEADorALIVE · 03-11-2011, 02:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WoodsBaller57

That is some pretty exciting news!!!

damn skippy!

i still have an '87 phantom, my 2nd marker. description on the new one is vague but we'll see.

03-11-2011, 01:33 AM	#1 (permalink)
WoodsBaller57 PhantomPump Poster Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Lincoln IL	A NEW Phantom Marker: THAT'S RIGHT a NEW Marker from CCI Today while I was placing a telephone order for parts and talking with Mike Casady, the originator of the Phantom and owner of CCI, he mentioned that he has been working very hard on getting a new marker ready for market. I about dropped my phone and collected myself and said, ”A NEW Marker?!?!” Mike said that he has been very busy getting parts machined and ready to bring a prototype to an upcoming Pump Event. He told me that the new Phantom is based on a design that he had prototyped back in 1996. (After we got off the phone, I did some research and found that it was called the Phantom Revolution.) Mike said that he has been wanting to get back to utilizing the design that he had developed, and his original intentions were to bringing it to market as a 25th Anniversary Edition, when his company reached its 25th year of producing Phantoms, which is about a year and a half from now. Due to what he sees as great potential for rapid growth in the Pump Market, he decided that the time is right, to bring the new marker to the market rather than waiting until later. I wasn’t taking notes, so this is from memory of what I considered to be a fascinating conversation. Mike explained that the mechanism will require pumping, only to chamber the ball, which will make for a very smooth pump stroke. The cocking of the firing system will be done by a mechanism related to the Revolution, which from what I could find “on line” is a semi-auto, electric micro-motor rotating bolt. He said that he is excited about the possibilities that the new marker will provide. It bringing together other ideas that he has wanted to incorporate into the marker, that he has been working on for quite a while. He said that the current Phantom will stay in production forever but the new marker would meet new areas of growing demand that the Pump Market is experiencing. I'd say his timing is pretty good! That is some pretty exciting news!!! WoodsBaller57 __________________ WoodsBaller57 -- Playin' Pump with my CCM'ed SuperStock AutoCocker! *Shhck-Chhua - Is The Sound That I Hear....Just Before YOU Hear SPLAT!* ......... See My Feedback http://www.mcarterbrown.com/forums/f...=Woodsballer57 Last edited by WoodsBaller57; 03-11-2011 at 02:48 AM.

03-11-2011, 01:37 AM	#2 (permalink)
volunteer paintball MCB Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Between Kentucky and Alabama/Georgia	Dear sweet lord, this will be the greatest birthday present in all of existence. if i'm not mistaken someone posted something about the revolution in an earlier thread, but it was of a picture of it or something. __________________ Lapco T8 barrel "May we never forget the ones that came before, the ones we have now, and the ones that will come after us." the 343 brothers i never met the reason we do this my feedback

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pk5 Stardust Memory Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: San Diego	i thought the revolution was a semi? __________________ Feedback http://www.mcarterbrown.com/forums/f...-feedback.html

03-11-2011, 02:01 AM	#5 (permalink)
WoodsBaller57 PhantomPump Poster Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Lincoln IL	It was a semi, this is going to be a marker that you pump only to chamber the ball. Everything else is done by the mechanics of the Revolution system. It is going to be very easy to cock. S-M-O-O-T-H!!!! __________________ WoodsBaller57 -- Playin' Pump with my CCM'ed SuperStock AutoCocker! *Shhck-Chhua - Is The Sound That I Hear....Just Before YOU Hear SPLAT!* ......... See My Feedback http://www.mcarterbrown.com/forums/f...=Woodsballer57

03-11-2011, 02:04 AM	#6 (permalink)
Cuddles The Paintball Fairy Join Date: May 2010 Location: Vancouver, BC	Just as I thought I was done buying markers __________________ MCB/Tdot/TechPB/PBN

03-11-2011, 02:06 AM	#8 (permalink)
TBOPP Rec Poster Join Date: Mar 2011	Now I definitely have to be at Spring Pump Event

03-11-2011, 02:23 AM	#9 (permalink)
Makeshift Damage Inc. Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Detroit, MI	May I be the first... __________________ It wears the blindfold if it wants to be fed