Paintball Magazine Paintball Magazine March 2019 Issue | Page 64

First Strike Paintball had a lot of new
products to show, many of them still in the
development stage or the “we may release
this” stage. Mark Ayers, the company’s
sales manager explained, “We do a lot of
experimental product development. If the
customers want something, we’ll develop it.
This is a good way for us to gauge interest
in something we think has potential.” One
of the “we may release this” items was a .50
caliber First Strike round. As I was chatting
with Mark I could see literally everyone that
walked into the booth picked up the .50 FS
rounds. I would call that “interest.”
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Chris and Mike form Virtue Paintball, among
others, manned their booth for the three-
day Extravaganza. As always, their booth was
busy all hours of the day. Virtue’s hot products
were the new Vio Contour II and Vio Extend
II Goggles. Valken had one of the larger
booths but nothing being shown for the first
time at this year’s Extravaganza. Bergie from
Valken did let us know they were planning
to add larger sizes to their camo lines soon.
Ninja Paintball had their brand new budget-
minded Rival Air system on hand as well as a
prototype air tank with a truck bed coating.
Exalt Paintball had some new things, among