HOT GUNS!
*Updated July 31, 2008*


We've always thought BT had their heads' around what the tactical and scenario paintball player wanted, and they proved it again with their most recent gun launch, the amazing BT TM7! With looks inspired by the new H&K MP7 and featuring the Invert Mini's impressive engine inside, the TM7 is light, fast and looks amazing!



This Smart Parts SP-1 features a collapsible stock, pressure-pad tactical light, 30mm red dot scope, bipod and long, accurate and quiet Smart Parts tactical barrel! For inexpensive, high-end performance you can't beat the SP-1!


Smart Parts' SP-1 delivers upgradable, high-end, low pressure performance at a price that's within reach of anyone! While the basic model is more than enough, adding a few upgrades like a stock, bipod, 30mm red dot scope and Smart Parts barrel with BT Apex attachment make this a mean scenario machine!



Perfect for black ops in the dead of night in a thick jungle it's not, but this Dark SL8R Ego, the hot new flagship of the Planet Eclipse Ego lineup, is fast, light and sexy! If being seen in the staging area and shooting 20 balls per second is more important to you than blending in, it doesn't get much better than this!


Ideal for urban combat environments, this BT Delta has everything, from an authentic MP5 magazine and telescopic stock to an urban camo paint finish that will make anyone that sees it drool. Of course, the idea is for people not to see it, but when they do, they'll probably drool!


Find the Tippmann X7 in this shot and you win a prize! Not really, but you have to admit, it's a nice paint job! Fully decked-out with mods like a CAR stock, MP5 magazine and foregrip, this X7 is ready for action in any woodland environment, and it looks good too!


The dreaded Russian Legion may not shoot Shockers anymore, but if they did, they'd fit right in at any scenario with the olive and black model. Light(er), fast and milled like nothing else, the Russian Legion Shocker is the most unique Shocker to-date and still offers simple, relatively inexpensive high-end electronic performance. And it's olive.



Bob Long's Marq series probably wasn't conceived, designed, built or marketed with scenario paintball in mind, but thanks to people like Greg Hastings and Sonny Lopez among others, the Marq series has proven itself more than capable of handling business in the woods with consistency, accuracy and speed. And, like some others, it's olive.



It may not LOOK like a sceanrio gun, and heck it might not even BE a scenario gun, but thanks to its ridiculously light weight and the ability to hammer almost 2,000 shots downrange from a single 4,500psi fill, scenario players might want to give Bob Long's new Vice Intimidator a second look!



Tippmann has diversified yet again, this time in cooperation with the United States Army. Built by Tippmann and offered by US Army Paintball, the Alpha Black looks the part and scenario players are sure to love it.

Planet Eclipse has followed up on the massive success of their ETek affordable Ego model with the next generation ETek 2. Lighter with improved features and sharp milling, the ETek 2 will likely pick up right where the original model left off, shooting all sorts of people left in both tournaments and scenario games around the world.



BT Paintball has proven their ability to give scenario players what they want: gear that looks the part and performs well. They've done it again, this time dressing up their BT-4 chassis to look a heck of a lot like the H&K MP5 submachine gun!



Smart Parts made electronic tournament performance available to scenario players in a paramilitary-looking package with their first shot, the SP-8. Now they're making it lighter, tighter and more affordable with their amazing new scenario marker, the SP-1, certain to be a hit thanks to a great combination of looks, performance and price!



Planet Eclipse, one of the most successful gun manufacturers of recent years, released the most expensive production paintball gun ever in 2007 when the SL-74 rolled out. Available in this gorgeous olive and gold scheme, it may be expensive, but it might be the ultimate scenario weapon!

As its name implies, the CCM Series 5 Basic is, well, basic. It's a pump-action with only a few frills and no autotrigger, but it's still an impressive beast. Standard with a crips trigger pull, smooth pump stroke and inline reg, CCM's least expensive pump is still a matte black killing machine in the hands of an experience pumper!



In a subdued olive and black color scheme, Proto's new budget machine gun, the SLG, is an excellent choice for the player on a budget looking for electronic performance in a package still ideal for scenario play!


Light, small, and most importantly, ridiculously affordable, Smart Parts has done it again. Following the success of the Ion, the Vibe offers electronic semiauto performance at less than $150, and while it may not be precisely aimed at scenario players, we bet we'll see a lot of them at upcoming games!



Invert, a division of KEE Action Sports, makes the tiny and ridiculously light Mini, a revolutionary little paintball gun. In this sharp olive dust pattern, it might actually disappear in the woods!


Australian manufacturer MacDev's new Droid turned heads and impressed thousands at the World Cup with its mix of small size, light weight and impressive performance. In this dusted olive with black pattern, scenario players, too, might turn their heads!



Not too many people think of Proto in the context of scenario paintball, but after seeing this, maybe they will! Light, sleek, fast and accurate, the Proto Matrix 7 is world-class gun, and in this sexy Proto camo, it's perfect for woodsball too!


Made with scenario upgrades in-mind and based on the wildly successful A5 platform, Tippmann's new flagship, the X7, might be the most custimizable, individualizable (we think that's a word) paintball gun in the world. With everything from stocks and barrels to electronic grips and sight rails available to transform its look, the X7 carries on Tippmann's proud tradition!



Considering Proto is one of the leading companies in the tournament side of paintball, their decision to suddenly start making all of their guns available in a sexy olive and black pattern might seem like a covert attempt to court the scenario market. Considering how good Proto's guns shoot, we don't mind!



Dangerous Power's new Threshold might be a little busy where the milling is concerned, but in this black and brown color pattern, scenario players might find it, and its light weight and long list of features, very attractive!


As if Tippmann's 98 Custom wasn't hot enough, the company has released it in an attractive digital camo pattern certain to excite any tactical or scenario player in paintball! With enough green, brown, tan and black to blend into any environment, what was old is new again.


Patriotism never gets old. At least it shouldn't. FEP knows how to make patriotism look amazing wrapped around one of their new 2007 Quest paintguns, with a gorgeous dust, fade anodizing pattern, red, white and blue flag grips and the performance worthy of a pro paintball team.


Planet Eclipse graced the scenario world with a hot new paintball gun certain to become a favorite amongst tactical players with a taste for the very best when they brought the new, affordable ETek Ego to market in mid-2006. Available in a woods-friendly olive drab and black matte finish, the ETek retains all the features of the Ego at an amazingly low price.


Impressive accuracy, robust reliability, simple operation and take-down and a very, very low price make the mechanical Spyder MR-1 a great choice for tactical players on a budget or those starting down the long paintball road.


The 2006 Quest is a light and accurate gun with basic milling. Slapping on a hot anodizing pattern like this camouflage perfect for desert settings adds a level of style far beyond the basic blue, black, red or grey also available from FEP.



The Smart Parts Ion brought tournament-level performance like ramping firing modes, low pressure operation and anti-chop eyes into a price range anyone can afford, and sales have reflected paintball's gratitude. Powerlyte's sharp Ion upgrade kit adds style and performance to make a fast, accurate, attractive package.



The new Tiberius T9 is one of the most versatile paintball guns ever made. In fact, it's two, two, two guns in one! Convertible from carbine to pistol, magazine fed like their T8 pistol or hopper fed and with all the accessories to help it both look the part and shoot faces, the T9 is an amazing piece of tactical gear.



CCM knows how to make smooth, sexy and deadly pumps, and their latest, the Series 6, has been called one of the best in the world. Amazingly light, accurate and fun to shoot, any pump enthusiast needs to check one out

We wouldn't have called it a "scenario" or "tactical" paintball gun, but with all the scenario teams out there making the switch and proving very successful with the Angel 1, we have no choice but to call it a HOT scenario gun! Fast, light, high-tech and sexy, the Angel 1 is the best from WDP yet!



The Quest, from First Endeavor Paintball, is light, fast and accurate. This one takes the subtle, smooth lines and good looks a step further with a hot bronze, tiger-stripe anodizing pattern of a dust finish streaked with polished slashes. This, along with its black grip frame, regulators, snatch-grip bolt, feed neck and air adapter make for one sharp machine.


Tippmann's new Triumph line of paintball guns are marketed to the masses, and for good reason! Tippmann reliability and performance at an affordable price is never a bad thing. Vertical feed, expansion chamber, a double trigger, drop forward and ported barrel highlight the features of this hot new gun.


The Australian MacDev Cyborg enjoys a cult-like following in America, distributed from Paintball Kingdom in North Carolina. Available in numerous colors including the foliage-friendly olive and black. Dual regulators, laser anti-chop eyes and a clever on/off switch hidden inside the trigger guard make the Cyborg a hit.

One of the first high-end scenario paintguns from an early and important name in the industry, the Tac-1, from Airgun Designs. Based on the legendary Automag, once the paintgun choice of champion tournament players, the Tac-1 is mechanical, but when equipped with a Level 10 system, it will practically never chop paintballs! Light, small, fast and incredibly reliable.



There's likely nothing more rare or more gorgeous than one of these sexy camo Blazers from one of the fathers of paintball, Glenn Palmer at Palmer's Pursuit.

The Tiberius 8 changed everything about how the paintball industry looked at paintball pistols, with its integrated CO2 and paintball magazine fitting comfortably into its grip frame, like a modern automatic pistol. Reliable and fun, it's the ultimate paintball sidearm!


Kingman, practically the creator of the budget-price semiauto paintball gun, jumped into tactical paintball in a big way with their MR line, led by the MR3, featuring a tubular stock, full auto and, most importantly, anti-chop eyes that prevent ball breaks!


JT was the company that, on a corporate level, introduced paintballers to wearing something other than camo. We can forgive them for that, because they're back in the woods with us now, with camo and even a paintgun custom designed for our style of play, the JT Tac-5. Inexpensive but well equipped.

It probably isn't the first gun someone thinks of when they think of a "scenario" paintball gun, but Bad Company continues to show just how competitive the Spyder can be, especially the new Spyder RS-series, featuring anti-chop eyes, an in-line regulator and Tadao Technologies boards!


This guy clearly had a vision for exactly what he wanted in his Tippmann 98. He went for it, and obviously he got it, from a red dot sight and Apex barrel to the added capacity of a larger loader. Even the paint job doesn't look too bad, and it actually somewhat matches his goggles! Shame he couldn't find a camo watch.



There's nothing quite like the Browning "Ma Deuce" fifty caliber machine gun on the battlefield, and paintball fields are no longer an exception. Fast shooting, fun and intimidating, this replica M2 hammers at a high rate of fire and puts suppressive and effective fire right where it's needed!



The Automag lives! Thanks to new electronic upgrades like the XMod software that allows the venerable and collectible EMag to ramp and shoot as fast as anything, the reliable, redundant and hard core Airgun Designs EMag can still be the master of its domain!



This custom, WGP-inspired pump is packed full of features, from a hand-made half-block to a Sidewinder regulator, Dye Ultralite barrel and Delrin bolt. If you see this and its not on your team, you might be on your way to the reinsertion area in a heartbeat!



There's a Tippmann A5 in this picture; really. Look harder and you'll make out the outlines of a well-camouflaged A5 with Flatline barrel, Pro-Team expansion chamber with angled bottle adapter and telescopic, HK-style stock.


This is a man who takes his BT tactical gun seriously enough to have dressed it up with everything from an M4 shroud and sniper barrel to an air-through M16 magazine, M16 shoulder stock, red dot sight and motorized hopper.

Tippmann has done more for paintball than practically anyone since Bob Gurnsey, Charles Gaines and Hayes Noel. Technology, reliability and the ability to upgrade to almost no end, Tippmann has been a great innovator, but they also made perhaps the most durable pump paintguns ever, the SL68 and the bottom-line SL68 II.

Bud Orr's original Sniper pump paintgun spawned one of the greatest paintball guns of all time, the Autococker. After enjoying massive success, the Autococker spawned a resurrected Sniper model only a few years ago. Light, accurate and backed by decades of paintball history, the Sniper continues to be a pump contender today! They work better without a massive hopper hit though. Someone get that guy out.


The Automag has long been one of the most reliable and durable paintguns in the world, though it was dethroned from its perch as the most technologically advanced when electronics were introduced in the mid-nineties. Airgun Designs, not to be outdone, slapped electronics under their Automag and made the EMag, which soldiers on now with a tactical body as the Tactical EMag.


The A5 may be sandwiched between the wildly popular 98 Custom and the new flagship X7, but that doesn't make it any less the excellent paintslinger. Plenty of accessories, like barrels, mock silencers, scopes, stocks and magazine attachments keep the A5 in the hunt.


Bud Orr and WGP became one of the very first mainstream paintgun companies to throw their support behind scenario paintball when they released the VF-Tactical several years ago. It shoots far, it shoots flat and it shoots straight, like any 'Cocker, but it looks...well...tactical. And we like that.


It may be huge, it might be hefty, but it looks an awful lot like a legendary Soviet / Russian AK-47 assault rifle, likely the most widely used firearm in the world, and that makes it ultra-cool in our book! It even shoots pretty good.


New to the market but long respected in the industry, Smart Parts released their first tactical paintball gun in late 2005, the Ion-based SP-8. Looking like an XM-8 or the assault rifle from the HALO XBox game and shooting like the Ion, with anti-chop eyes, a soft, smooth double trigger, low pressure operation and multiple modes, the SP-8 is sure to be a hit!


Nothing like a Tippmann 98 Custom with upgrades to remind us that it doesn't have to be expensive to look good, shoot good and help us win.


Even though the Tippmann A5 is perfectly capable of shooting most any opponent, why worry about that when you can scare them right off the field at the first sight of your paintgun? Intimidation is alive and well, if not for the paintgun, then for the size of the arms required to lug it around!


Nobody makes paintball guns quite like CCM. With attention to detail, form and function collide in a beautiful way with Chipley paintguns like the Series 5 and hot new SS-25.