PaintballX3 Magazine May 2014 | Page 88

88 Mag-fed, mil-sim paintball is one of the fastest growing pieces of the paintball world and it’s no surprise: once a player on any level of the game tries it, just like they were the first time they tried paintball, they’re hooked! But, just like the rest of paintball, mag-fed paintball isn’t cheap as most of the markers necessary to play the game aren’t cheap thanks to the technology necessary to make them work well. There’s good news, however, as the company that pioneered the affordable semi-automatic May 2014 February 2014 paintball gun, Spyder, has stormed into magazine-fed, mil-sim paintball using the same formula and offer an impressive, affordable semi-automatic magazine fed marker that’s ideal for players looking to add a magazine-fed marker to their collection, or for newer players who want a marker capable of hopper or magazine-fed paintball, the Spyder MR5. Though at its core the MR5 is absolutely a Spyder paintball marker, with a sim-