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[bryceeden]

Off of PBL which stole it from PBN

Originally Posted by The Badlandz
Sometime between Sunday night and this morning the Shocktech Factory was broken into. Along with several computers, monitors, office and machining equipment, guns and other paintball related products our entire gun collection was stolen. Virtually all these guns are irreplaceable soon we will able to post a list of them, but for now we are asking anyone in the industry (local or otherwise) to please keep an eye open for these very unusual guns. Obviously if you can recover them we’ll gladly post a no questions asked reward. The collection represents quite possibly the world’s largest assembly of one of a kind paintball markers and our fear is that they will wind up in pawn shops and people’s hands that know nothing of their true value to the history of paintball. Many are original prototypes, or carry a serial number of 1. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Keep your eyes peeled. I will keep my eyes out for the SFL prototype and the Black Manny SFL.

Originally Posted by wolf13

OK guys, heres osme old photo's and info I had archived to get you thinking on the right track. More numerous old pumps, prototypes and very one off pieces. They aren't joking that they have one of the more extensive collections including a duck and a lot of famous names guns. "mundane" stuff like run of the mill shocktechs weren't an important part of that collection.

Look for stuff like sniper 1's, very unique semiauto's like bumblebee and digital camo sfl's, one offs like a semi auto sterling and early sovereigns, old high end pumps or old cockers that might be fairly low key milling/anno wise, but also are very old and non stock. there was a duck in the collection, as well as stuff like old tippmanns, semi auto neslon conversions, at least one nova, an sfl emag and a pred cocker.

I have some old pics from the 07 world cup of their display someoen took back then, should give an idea.








and heres what was at cocker day:

[Titus]

Why someone steals is beyond me, this is very sad. All that brass, someone on here will notice it if they go up for sale on ebay.

[ForeverSpyder]

Meh, low lifes I'll keep an eye on ebay. Most if not all will be incredibly easy to spot, but might come up months after this. Problem will be me remembering :P

`Fs

[Party]

Stole all of them?
Wow.
Allong with everyone else they took sounds like they had to be fairly organized.

[desertT1]

Originally Posted by Titus

Why someone steals is beyond me, this is very sad. All that brass, someone on here will notice it if they go up for sale on ebay.

Well, you are the resident ebay hound, so whatever system you have is sure to pick up on these if they end up on ebay.

It's just insane what people will do, such a shame. What type of machining equipment could have possibly been taken?

[Mayvik]

You've gotta be one dumb sumbitch to steal that stuff because there is no f'ing way you're ever going to be able to fence it without getting caught.

I wonder if they had Camille in there somewhere?

[Painthappy]

I'm buying...

Those will be hard to sell.

BTW: If you have camille, I'm looking for a wall hanger. Will purchase no questions asked

[Robertsr]

Bet a pile of that stuff goes locally to people who have no clue for pennies on the dollar...


Either that or old Ralph WhatsHisName needed to fill the holes in the collection in his vault and financed some Oceans 11 style hijinx.

[Buck]

That is so sad. I hope everything gets found and returned promptly!

[russc]

A Loo Duck, too. Ouch.