I went to a language school in Monterey in January, 1986. We had these guns, and ran all kinds of scenarios using trucks and stuff. This brought back memories
I am an original owner and still have it. I played up in the Santa Cruz, CA mountains but mainly used it as an emergency side arm "close range" where my primary was the Sheridan.
These guns were hit or miss. I got one in 87. 7th grade. I shot it against some pine trees and it destroyed them lol. Bark flying everywhere. Neighbor got one and his wasn’t as loud as mine and some reason didn’t have the power mine did. Same store same co2s. Not many working parts so never understood why some performed differently. We went to a local gun store who had a group who played. Just straight up war in the woods. No capture the flag non of that. We had splatmasters and few guys had a gun called 68 magnum. Pump action gun a little longer. I cut pvp pipe and extended my splatmaster to have longer tube and barrel. Even at the end so it looked like a pistol grip shotgun with no stock. It did help with accuracy. I got hit by 68 magnums and splatmasters. Some splatmasters including mine just seemed to have more power. It hurt like hell. Some guys got the splatmaster rapid later. Then all sudden was all types of guns. Bushmaster made some badass guns at that time.
Hi, the SPALTMASTER is a great gun! It seems that your problem during your practicing was that, in order to have accuracy, you should have had enogh POWER (I've noticed in the video you didn't change the gas often, did you?). In order to get a "good and accurate shots" you should change the gas max every 10 balls. And if you practice that in cold environment (like snow), you should keep the reserve balls (and the reserve gas) close to your body in order to have them warm = better ballistics (no coagulation of the paint). This way you get quite good accuracy. I was very good in that and actually was VERY accurate in a distance of 50 meters, up to 100m. Definitely the SPALTMASTER served as a tool to practice a fair SPORT = everybody had the same pistol. Moreover when you knew trics (and there are many) - you would be better than the opponents! Maybe looks like antique nowadays, but it was a real SPORT - with same pistols & rules for the participants. Nowadays you would'nt like to use an electric saw if you practice FENCING, right? More fair and romantic ? P.S. At the end of the eighties I won 2 silver medals with our National Team (EUROCHAMPS: 1988 and 1989 in the Netherlands/Arnehem and the UK/London) + 5 National Gold Medals (in Finland). It was GREAT! Cheers. Massimo
Thank you for your input, it sounds like you had alot of fun with these in the past. I am definitely the wrong person to do a review on this type of item, but I didn't see any other videos about it and thought it would be fun to make one.
I own two of these. Parents got me Them as a kid when they went paint balling. To me it was immense! ^^ Tube loader in the top. Also the really unobvious safety catch (black square above the trigger)
You can also go to a cigar shop and get a robusto cigar tube one of the big cigar tubes that will fit the front of that and hold your paint pellets on your top hole that's how we would get extras we would just go to the cigar shop and they would give us extra tubes
You are not missing the hopper....they paintballs came in the tubes that fit it...ten per tube and it stuck out a little bit (about one balls worth stuck out). I sold these back in the early days. Lots of modding went on with these even brass linings
My brother gave me one in late 80s we played paintball all the time then. I eventually upgraded to a pump rifle and used the Splatmaster as a back up. They worked ok. The downfall was the 10 round tube/magazine would get bumped in to far and block the balls from falling into the chamber. Had to grab pocket knife and fish into access hole and shove the tube back. Could get maybe 2 ten round tube/magazines through it on one Co2 cartridge. I still have it by the way, last I tried it also still worked. I have craploads of the 10 round tube/magazine with green caps. Would have 20 or 30 pre loaded tubes stuffed into my pockets. My pump rifle also accepted the same tubes.
There not that bad I used them in the 80s when they first came out we played pretty successfully you could hit moving targets no problem its likexanything else the more you used it the better you got at it you had to learn the characteristic if your gun they were not all the same then you could shoot pretty good with it and it's all we had but it was awesome getting out there and shooting the shit out of your buddy's and those things hit hard as hell you got a big ol welt and dark red make from them
I found it much easier to use a strip of Velcro across the hopper entrance and I loaded the paintballs by hand one at a time. Sure, it slowed down the loading process. But my tube was broken (they were not durable) and I had no real choice. If I remember correctly, some paintballs were sold in the tubes which were made for the gun. So you could carry extra ammo with you. Problem was that the tubes would break if you fell on the pocket they were in. The Velcro worked best for me and I carried the paintballs in a sturdy container. Reloading in the early days was almost like reloading a musket when you take in effect you needed to keep a supply of CO2 on you. The CO2 often needed to be reloaded every 20 shots.
The nelspot was the first paintball gun before the splatmaster. then in the Same year the splatmaster was released so was the PGP made by Sheridan. Paintballs were sold in tubes of ten paintballs in the tube in the late 80s like a cigar tube. paintballs were 10cents a round and co2 was 50 cent's a cartridge. There were three calibers of paintballs in the late 80s 50 Cal. 62 Cal. 68cal Wich became the standard in the paintball industry by the 90s.
Also one of the main things you have to do is clean it regularly you can shoot two to three tubes if you're lucky if you have ruptures within the tube the paint tends to stick to the sides the CO2 tends to force with a little chill and your pain pills will keep rupturing or spinning right or left you have to use what I used to use was an old bottle brush with a little bit of water tip the gun to the ground run the bottle brush up with a little soapy water dip it in a bucket of soapy water run it up and down bucket of soapy water run it up and down otherwise the pellets will burst before they leave the barrel if not run sideways because it's coated with the ones that have bursted in the barrels it was a lot of effort like I said I still own one and I remember playing with it when nobody else had them I had this and I took it to Hawaii and I use it there with some other friends and I sold them the other two that I had when I went back to Kauai Hawaii they started a paint pellet range in Kauai Hawaii when I showed up again 10 years later they had made a life of it paint pellet was their way they even created
@@ironridgeoutdoors you are correct sir...the SplatMaster was the OG game specific gun. The Nelspot originally was made for marking cattle and the cowboys started shooting each other instead. They were very accurate in the day....68 cal paintball and I have a hunch the diameter has changed slightly over the years
Hi I actually own one before that that looks like the SplatMaster 2 I own these flatmaster which doesn't have such a large trigger guard that one looks like a later date than mine and yes it looks a lot like that I still own it
Nice. See you haven't lost the from sight. Very common. I brought 20 plus and heaps of spiar parts 15 years ago. Fyi yip .68 but tight barrel so wont run crap seconds balls from 20 years ago, most stuff now adays will be mint. The "mag" is ten round clear tube. Almost exactly like now but green cap and cut the leap thing off. Pop cap and slide in open end first. Dont go past the opening for paintballs. Will stick out just a tad. To load just tilt back a bit and load. The lead inserts can be removed to lower fps. Should be under 350 fps. Fields ran 250-290. Your side hock etc is because its running over 400fps. Goes more nuts if any paint on shell. There a b.... to tune tho. Good luck Also. If running well. Most accurate marker I've ever ever used. Would still use over any pistol now for secondary marker
Yeah and I also remember even with my tube in there my tube would run all the way to the back of the chamber and if I shoved it in far enough the ball wouldn't drop but I could draw that tube all the way out to almost an inch from the end and fill it full so as long as I leaned it back and let them drop in every time I press the rear Hammer forward and had enough cartridges of CO2 I was able to do a lot of cool aim shots in the beginning to middle of each CO2 cartridge I still have it it might need a little tune up I might need to replace some of the seals and such but now that I saw this I'm going to go dig it out look it up see if I can rebuild it and use it again but now I'm going to use it with the pepper spray pellets in order to keep the coyotes away from the ranch you some night goggles to sneak up laying on the ground and straight up pepper spray the fence the post next to them and everything around them and see if they just go ahead and stay off the perimeter for a minute just for fun of course I'll have other weapons to defend myself but pepper spray pellets I want to see if they'll transfer through my old SplatMaster
I still have my dad's, he said the same thing. His friend Mark got popped in the forehead had the biggest swollen spot ever. I've heard this story many times and how 60 seconds covered them
Elements of the 80s were great, but today's budget airsoft guns are way better than this. I wanted a Splatmaster Rapide really bad, but now that I've seen how it works, even that's pretty lame.
