Paintball Magazine, June 2020 June 2020 | Page 42

With the Inception Fang trigger and FLE body kit installed on our test Eclipse EMek, all that was left was to thread on the Autocockerthreaded Stella barrel, cram a hopper into the adjustable, clamping low-rise feed neck and screw in a compressed air bottle. Before we did, however, we were so impressed with how light the completed, fully Inception-upgraded EMek felt in the hand, that we just had to weigh it. Impressively, the Inception EMek rang the scale up for a feather-light one pound, twelve ounces ready for a hopper, bottle and paintballs. That’s ridiculous. It’s one of the lightest paintball guns we’ve seen. Once we were done weighing our Inception EMek for a third time to be sure we weren’t imagining the numbers, it was time to run some paint through our English-American creation. Testing was completed with an Immortal Air 68 bottle with an 850psi output pressure and a Bunkerkings CTRL loader. For the ultimate lightweight EMek, a player could very well thread on a smaller bottle like a 45cubic inch tank, the lightest hopper around, the Speed now made by HK, and a carbon fiber barrel and they’d have a game-ready mechanical paint slinger that might weigh four pounds! Then there’s how it shot. We ran some pretty solid paintballs through this Inception EMek, including Valken Grafitti and Empire Marbalizer, with impressive results. Over a radar 022 paintball.media magazine