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awkward setup with anything but the
smallest bottles. The inline holes at
the bottom of the marker’s grip frame
provides owners with a clear and simple upgrade path for remedying this
situation, however, and even encourages a trip to the local paintball store
for a bottle adapter, hoses and air fittings necessary to tailor a bottom-line
setup to the owner’s individual liking.
The magazine included with the Spyder Hammer7 pump works very well
with both paintballs and First Strike
rounds. Holding nine of either type of
ammunition, the magazine is simple
and quick to load and seats firmly into
the marker’s AR-style mag-well. An
AR-style magazine release is a simple
button in front of the marker’s trig-
ger guard and the magazine drops
free when the button is pushed. Once
loaded and inserted into the marker,
the Hammer7’s magazine experienced
no failures to feed of any kind and no
paintballs or First Strike rounds were
chopped or damaged during testing.
The Hammer7’s pump stroke may not
be on the level with high-end pump
markers like a hand-tuned Sniper,
those from CCM or the Phantom, but
the stroke is short and positive and
the marker is equipped with an auto-trigger for faster shooting if needed, but with only nine rounds at the
ready in the magazine using the auto-trigger isn’t something that should
happen often.
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