Paintball Magazine Paintball Media Magazine, May 2019 | Page 134

Planet Eclipse Does
it Again…Again
Anyone who’s been around paintball more
than a few minutes and done any kind of
reading of various paintball magazines
probably knows I’ve been reviewing
markers from Eclipse since Egos, Directors
Cut Autocockers, Eclipse Impulses and the
like: in other words, a pretty long time. And
my reviews have, more or less, read about
the same – the gun does exactly what it’s
supposed to do. So when a new GTek
170R showed up I was excited, especially
as I spent a great deal of time with its
predecessor, the 160, with great success. I
wasn’t quite so excited to write the review,
however, because I was pretty sure how it
was going to go, and having put the 170R
through its paces I was absolutely right,
so saddle up because this is going to be
another of those Eclipse reviews where the
gun works great and you should probably
buy one.
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The Planet Eclipse paintball marker
lineup is more robust and filled-out
than ever, with something for everyone
from newer players looking for a quality
piece of inexpensive equipment through
mid-level hardcore recreational players,
mechanical competitors and even top-
level tournament professionals. Indeed,
top teams like Edmonton Impact, stacked
with talent and with a pile of trophies on
both sides of the Atlantic to their credit,
shoot Eclipse markers, as do fellow
professional champions and contenders
like San Antonio X-Factor, Baltimore
Revo, Infamous, Scottsdale Elevation,
Sacramento DMG and New York Xtreme.
Placed squarely at the higher end of “mid-
level” at $799 retail, the new GTek 170R
offers top-level performance and a long
list of standard features at a price putting
it within the reach of a much wider cross-
section of the paintball demographic.