With the world of mechanical paintball
growing in both number of serious players
and available paintball guns both new and
old, Eclipse was welcomed with open arms
when the GMek hit and as an avid shooter
of one, let me tell you just because these
guys have enjoyed massive success with the
Ego, LV, ETek, Geo, GTek and CS lines that all
use microswitches and batteries to go bang,
doesn’t mean they don’t know how to make a
mechanical marker shoot with event-winning
performance. These guys were making
accessories for Automags and Autocockers
before a good number of paintball players
were born, after all! However, while the
GMek, with its metal body, can cost several
hundred dollars, the new EMek retails at an
eye-poppingly-low $219. But it’s not so much
how much the EMek marker is, as much as
how much marker you receive for that price
that has heads turning and people lining up
to buy.
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I first saw and shot the Eclipse EMek at the
aforementioned, amazing Iron City Classic
event on the mounds fields when old friend
Jonathan Call of Brimstone Smoke handed
me his and said, “you’ve got to try this!” I was
expecting a well-made marker no doubt, as
it does, after all, come out of Planet Eclipse,
but for its price I wasn’t expecting much.
But once I put it in my hands and pulled the
trigger, I knew it would be a great success
just as the GMek before it had been. As they
always do, Eclipse figured out how to create
a paintball gun that blends innovation with
performance in a way that ducks inside the
net more than the sum of its parts. And in
a format where the player must mean every
single trigger pull rather than just clicking
a microswitch and letting the marker’s
electronics do the work to keep a stream in
the air, this is critical.