HK TFX Loader
Text & Photography by Joshua D. Silverman
Making a loader
isn’t easy. Like so many things in life, if it were easy,
everybody’d be doing it. And if you look around the
world of paintball business and manufacturing, you’ll
notice there aren’t that many loaders. After all, it’s not like
the paintball players of the world are asking for much –
just a device that feeds biodegradable, water-soluble,
somewhat round objects that sometimes stick together
and sometimes get really brittle and sometimes crack
and sometimes swell up into paintball guns that can
often shoot twenty paintballs per second or more without
jamming and without breaking and without gobbling up
batteries and without being a large target and without
being too heavy and without looking silly and without
costing too much, in hot weather, cold weather, dry
weather or wet weather that we can still blame for losing
after a rough game.
After a couple of decades in this crazy game including
stints working at several different companies that have
produced loaders, whenever a paintball company
announces they’re throwing their hat into the loader ring,
my first thought is “good luck with that”. It’s not easy. If it
works perfectly people won’t like how it looks. If it looks
great, it’s almost impossible to make it work. It’s a difficult,
thankless portion of the game of paintball that only a
small handful of companies have ever scored big hits
with. So when I heard HK Army, sponsors of legendary
pro team Dynasty and the brand behind some impressive
jerseys, the hot new KLR goggle system and a successful
line of playing gear and casual clothing was looking to get
into the loader business, I was both impressed by their
willingness to take the chance and curious as to what they
might have in store. What they had in store was the TFX.
The HK TFX loader is a high-tech, tournament-level loader
system intended to feed even the highest-performance
markers available. Currently used by Dynasty in the
National XBall League, the TFX is proving itself capable
of holding its own against other proven designs like the
Rotor, the Spire and the Prophecy. Powered by two AA
batteries, simple to dismantle and offering a sleek, low
profile that makes a difficult target for opponents, the TFX
is attractive, user-friendly and, clearly, well thought-out.
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