On the inside, the loader will look familiar to anyone with a working knowledge of the Virtue Spire line of loaders and that’s not a bad thing – the Spire is time-tested all the way up to the pro level and teams like Edmonton Impact have won great big trophies with it. The Bunkerkings CTRL paintball loader has a sleek, streamlined look and in the hands it’s very lightweight. One company that seems to have tackled it and checked off a ton of the important boxes along the way is Bunkerkings, with their new CTRL paintball loader!
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From how to feed the paintballs consistently and the mechanics of that whole thing to where the batteries go and how a user is supposed to get them in there, how the loader comes apart for cleaning but doesn’t come apart when it isn’t supposed to and a half-million other things to worry about, making a loader that can feed a thousand-dollar paintball gun consistently at ten to fifteen shots per second all day in the rain, heat, cold and while being bounced around a paintball field all day is a tall order.
With the advent of loaders like the Viewloader 2000, the Revolution and then the force feed loader, paintball guns could now shoot faster than gravity – as fast as the loader, solenoids, compressed air and programmable electronics could allow.īut would you believe that making a good, reliable high-end paintball loader isn’t exactly easy? It has to work, and it also needs to not look completely ridiculous or weigh too much or fly apart when a player spins on the break or dives into a bunker and work with all kinds of paintballs and all kinds of paintball guns in all kinds of weather. Then it was oil bottles, homemade loaders, ammo boxes, whaler loaders, sight feeders and Indian Springs loaders, then the whole agitated paintball hopper thing happened. Lightweight and Battle-Proven, the Bunkerkings CTRL loader Delivers High Performance!Įver since the first person made a stick feed tube on his paintball pistol a little bit longer than everyone else’s at the paintball field back in the 80’s, the arms race was on.