JJ Brookshire - Like most of us JJ got his start in paintball first as a rec player , then moved into the tournament scene . While still a player JJ worked at National Paintball Supply ( South ) under Rick Fairbanks and Doug Brown and then for Brass Eagle and finally back at National Paintball Supply but this time the NPS East version run by Gino Postorivo . JJ has also written for several paintball magazines , founded the organization known as SSPLAT , was chairman of the paintball subcommittee of ASTM and the one that brought William Shatner into the game of paintball .
Doug Brown - Doug is another paintball lifer that ’ s been in the game for more than 25 years . He ’ s been a partner in National Paintball Supply ( with Rick Fairbanks ), a player and now you ’ ll find him at various southeast US scenario and big games .
Earon Carter – Manufacturing some of the most unique and sought-after hand-crafted pump and stock-class paintball guns in the world , Earon Carter has been a legend of the paintball world and a west coast icon for longer than many of those playing paintball today have been alive . From the Desert Duck to the Comp and Buzzard , Carter ’ s paintball guns are some of the most unique in the history of paintball . In the mid-nineties , Carter began making paintball gun barrels in a garage with a professional player from the Ironmen named Dave Youngblood . The company this spawned has since grown to become one of the most influential in the game , Dye . The next time you shoot someone with a Dye Ultralite barrel or take the field with a DM-series marker , it goes back to Earon Carter .
Mike Cassidy - In the mid to late 1980s the Bushmaster pump gun was only reviled in popularity by the Component Concepts Phantom . And the brains behind the company and the gun is Mike Cassidy . Although Mike has been out of the game for 5-6 years , the Phantom lives large in the game ’ s history .
Left to Right : JJ Brookshire ( top ), Carter Widowmakers ( Eeron far right ), Mike Cassidy , CCI Phantom
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