PaintballX3 Magazine Euro Edition, May 2014 | Page 91

91 awkward setup with anything but the smallest bottles. The inline holes at the bottom of the marker’s grip frame provides owners with a clear and simple upgrade path for remedying this situation, however, and even encourages a trip to the local paintball store for a bottle adapter, hoses and air fittings necessary to tailor a bottom-line setup to the owner’s individual liking. The magazine included with the Spyder Hammer7 pump works very well with both paintballs and First Strike rounds. Holding nine of either type of ammunition, the magazine is simple and quick to load and seats firmly into the marker’s AR-style mag-well. An AR-style magazine release is a simple button in front of the marker’s trig- ger guard and the magazine drops free when the button is pushed. Once loaded and inserted into the marker, the Hammer7’s magazine experienced no failures to feed of any kind and no paintballs or First Strike rounds were chopped or damaged during testing. The Hammer7’s pump stroke may not be on the level with high-end pump markers like a hand-tuned Sniper, those from CCM or the Phantom, but the stroke is short and positive and the marker is equipped with an auto-trigger for faster shooting if needed, but with only nine rounds at the ready in the magazine using the auto-trigger isn’t something that should happen often. WWW.PAINTBALLX3.COM