Brass Eagle Blade Turbo .68 Caliber

Brass Eagle Blade Turbo .68 Caliber Paintball Marker

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Walking through Wally-World the other day (an ammo run), Mr. Completely once again caved in to a gun purchase. Not only can he not pass up a good deal on a gun, he can't even pass up a good deal on anything that LOOKS like a gun, particularly if it looks handgun-ish and it has a long barrel. The fact that it's also a pump and was priced at $24.95 probably sealed the deal.

It came with everything in the picture, except the paint balls, which cost about the same as bulk .22 long rifle ammo.

The yellow-greenish thing that looks like a wind-up key is a barrel plug. With it inserted into the muzzle, if a round is fired, the plug will break up the paint ball and it will come out through two channels in the plug as a couple of small streams of lumpy paint, at least that's how it looks. Haven't tried it yet, and don't plan to, either!

The white coiled up thing is a "SqueeGee", the paintballers equivalent of a bore-snake.

The translucent hopper on the top is for holding paint balls. It's also where the sight would be, if it had sights, which it doesn't. On something like this sights are probably not much more than wishful thinking, being it's a round projectile fired through an unrifled barrel.

Moving the hopper to the side, or maybe some sort of tubular feed would allow a red dot to be mounted. I'll have to look into that.

Propulsion is provided by two CO2 cylinders that install under the clear thread-on rear cap. I'm sure the small size of the cylinders severely limit the number of shots you get. More serious paint ball markers (they don't call them guns!) have a much larger CO2 cannister.

Certainly inadequate for regular paint-balling, but for the occasional stray dog in the yard, religious pain-in-the-necks, and travelling salesmen, it should work nicely.

I wonder if you can buy .68 inch diameter hard rubber balls somewhere?

I'll keep you posted.........