PaintballX3 Magazine November 2013 Issue | Page 82

TOURNAMENT

Pick a paintball player at almost any level
of the game, from day-one to a decade
in, and ask them to name a company that
makes durable, reliable and affordable
paintball products and the name Tippmann is one you’ll probably hear plenty.
You probably won’t hear the name Tippmann quite as much when you ask those
same players to name a company that
makes a great, feature-packed and comfortable set of paintball goggles. At the
2013 PSP World Cup, I was handed a
product that might very well change that,
the Tippmann Intrepid goggle.

in paintball’s history, that they ushered in
the era of semi-automatic paintball guns
and fully automatic paintball guns with
products like their SMG-60 and 68 Special but even the newest players who look
down at the name on the side of their
rental marker at least know that when
they pull the trigger on their Tippmann, it
goes “bang.” Fast forward to the twenty-first century and Tippmann markers
populate the rental fleets of some of the
largest and most prestigious and successful paintball fields in the world, are available everywhere from the local paintball
store to Wal-Mart and sporting-goods
Everyone who’s been around paintball for stores and are some of the most popular
more than thirty-seven seconds (seriously, guns in the game for recreational, tactithat’s a real number look it up) knows the cal and scenario players thanks to both
name Tippmann. They may not know that reliability and the ability to upgrade them
the company is one of the most influential in a thousand different ways (also a real

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