Paintball Magazine Paintball Media Magazine, May 2019 | Page 135

Delivered in a zippered, padded protective
case with a detailed owner’s manual, the
GTek 170R is a low-pressure spool valve
marker built around the now-proven
Gamma Core drive train. Extremely small
and lightweight with linear machine
cuts and clean anodizing, the 170R very
much resembles its big (and much more
expensive) brother, the CS2, and this is a
good thing. Standard features include a
two-piece barrel with plenty of ports with
a .689 bore and Autococker threads, a
clamping, low-rise feed neck that handled
every hopper we tried cramming into it,
an on/off bottle adapter, anti-chop eyes,
an adjustable blade double trigger, all the
electronic features a player could want,
toolless disassembly for maintenance and,
most importantly, no external hoses or
transfer pipes for moving air around the
marker. This is the GTek platform evolved
– all the features a player could dream of
at a price practically any serious paintball
player can afford.
Like every other Eclipse marker I can
remember reviewing, all I had to do to get
the GTek 170R onto the field where the
paint was flying was unzip the box, thread
the barrel together and into the marker,
add an air bottle, drop a hopper on and
turn the marker on. A quick stop at the air
station got me to 4,000psi and three shots
over the chronograph at 278, 275, 279 were
all the proof I needed that the marker was
game-ready, out of the box.
I did my play testing of the Eclipse 170R at
the always-fun Dreaded Legends scenario
game held this season at the new Black
Ops Paintball facility in Myrtle Beach,
South Carolina. This new field is a must-see
for players in the region and anyone who
might hit the Grand Strand for vacation
who happens to also play our game, as it’s
conveniently located and well put-together.
with plenty of targets on game day, it didn’t
take long after tagging up at my team’s
insertion to let the testing commence on
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