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Hmm maybe I’m wrong then. I always assumed they were ok products before the Walmart trash came out
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Admittedly, I entered the sport after Brass Eagle turned itself into a Wal-Mart brand, but wasn't there an aphorism going around before that to the effect of, "regardless of the model, every Brass Eagle is a Nightmare?"
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They were cheap like Yugos too. For some, that was the only ticket into the sport they could afford.
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Brass Eagle's were like Yugos. Some were tanks that kept running and running. Albiet poorly. Others were lemons right from the factory. .
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Can confirm my [mech] rainmaker hasn’t failed me yet. It’s my main shooter and I haven’t so much as cleaned it in 5 years. Say what you will about BE, but I haven’t gotten this kind of abuse out of any other marker.
…admittedly, it’s because I don’t shoot them before selling, but you get the point.
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I'm not sure why you think that. The Nightmare/Eagle markers were incredibly unreliable. The Stingray was really their first marker ready for the mass market and the Avenger/Genesis series were as good as any other blowback marker on the market in the first half of the 2000s. It varied on your locale, but the presence of paintball markers in Walmart made a big difference in getting the sport to be present and accepted, I don't hear about many paintball birthday parties for teenagers these days.
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Originally posted by Drunkscriblerian View PostMan, Brass Eagle...that's a name that takes me back. As someone who started balling in the mid-90s, for me that name equates to soccer moms buying their boys equipment at Wal-Mart, meth-heads who wanted to commit vandalism and traumatize the neighborhood pets, and in general cheapo black plastic crap that didn't last a season and couldn't hit the broad side of a barn...assuming it even worked when you pulled the trigger.
I knew people who owned BE markers back when I first started playing, and they all hated the markers...again, generally their moms had bought them at Wal-Mart as Christmas presents. They performed worse than the rental markers we were using, and most people I knew who owned one spent more time in the staging area tinkering with it and swearing at it than they did playing with it.
I guess since people are still talking about the brand there must be more to the story, but damn...my memory of the brand is 100 percent bad.
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Man, Brass Eagle...that's a name that takes me back. As someone who started balling in the mid-90s, for me that name equates to soccer moms buying their boys equipment at Wal-Mart, meth-heads who wanted to commit vandalism and traumatize the neighborhood pets, and in general cheapo black plastic crap that didn't last a season and couldn't hit the broad side of a barn...assuming it even worked when you pulled the trigger.
I knew people who owned BE markers back when I first started playing, and they all hated the markers...again, generally their moms had bought them at Wal-Mart as Christmas presents. They performed worse than the rental markers we were using, and most people I knew who owned one spent more time in the staging area tinkering with it and swearing at it than they did playing with it.
I guess since people are still talking about the brand there must be more to the story, but damn...my memory of the brand is 100 percent bad.
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In the original post Samurai is listed as a pump marker - but it is a semi?
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