Paintball Magazine May 2017 Paintball.Media | Page 62

of the very best teams and players in the world to
victory, doing battle predominantly against other
spool valve markers like the Luxe, Vanquish, new
Shocker and various MacDev markers inside the
net. The most recent spool valve markers now
offer greatly improved efficiency along with
a very quiet, smooth shot and splat-on-splat
accuracy from one end of a tournament field to
the other. After the success of the Eclipse spool
valve Geo markers, it was no surprise when
recently a “Tek” was announced and the GTek
was born. This line has even been beefed up
with a second Eclipse “Tek” spool valve marker,
when the more feature-packed GTek 160R was
released last year.
Whether you choose the more affordable GTek
or the higher-end 160R, you’re getting a proven
spool valve platform built on years of research
and improvement, a vertical regulator (fed by
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macroline with the GTEk or a hard air tube from
the trigger guard with the 160R), an on/off bottle
adapter, a two-piece Autococker threaded
barrel with plenty of ports, a clamping feed
neck, double trigger, plenty of adjustable firing
modes and a marker that delivers quiet, smooth
accuracy shot after shot. Both GTek models are
powered by 9volt batteries and are very simple
to break down for cleaning and maintenance,
what little of it you’ll be doing. An example of
both the GTek and the 160R have powered me
through various events throughout the 2016
season and, as with their ETek stablemate, they
simply work when the trigger is pulled then get
wiped off and put away. Both have impressed
me with their quiet shot and world class accuracy,
an d only require a wipe-down and greasing after
a day of play to ensure worry-free operation
game after game.