PaintballX3 Magazine Special Paintball Extravaganza Edition | Page 132

132 year wrap around grips, and for the first time since ’08 we are including a Caron Fiber Barrel, but this time it takes the poplar inserts that so many players already have. Rather than have us tell you about the Alien Deception we went right to the source, Jack Rice of Alien Paintball. Jack, what can you tell us about the Deception? It is the best looking Alien gun by far, but the first really totally new Alien in 10 years. We had made 4 step up versions of the gun with the “Independent Ram” and the poppet valve. Deception started with a clean sheet of paper, keeping only the bolt concept that adds some rotational stability. From there we designed around the new valve. First came the super light Actuator instead of a rammer. Then we narrowed the bottom chamber from what everyone else in the industry does, changed to new lower profile eyes that we have ever used, got a new board, slimmed down that sides of the gun and went through 4 versions of the body to get what we think is the best looking gun a player can get. We made the Rammer a cartridge the width of a AAA battery to keep the ease of service (and the lack of needing to service) of the Independent Ram, made our rubber grips from last Special PBX Edition It does look amazing! How did you get into making paintball guns? We really started in 2003 when Scott – my son – played the whole season with our rotating door gun as a young guns Player. He played with Anthony “ant” Parsons, the original machinist for Alien guns and Eddie Tomao. Both Ant and Eddie went on to play with XSV. That pivoting head gun seemed F