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PaintballX3’s History Preservation
Project: Our goal
is to collect, record
and present the
history of paintball in an accurate,
easy to read, series
of articles, e-books
and complete historical website. If
you would like to
be part of protecting and keeping
paintball’s history,
please email us.
Larry Alexander
Ross Alexander
Jerry Dobbins
august 2014
Our Method: The purpose of this article was to identify the most i
essence we are attempting to tell the history of the game through
weighed many tangible and intangible things. Did someone introd
portant aspect of the game (See Karen Barber)? Was something d
one contributed to the game over a long period of time and in a v
hope that you agree that each and every name on this list belongs
would not be told. This is part one of our journey to protect a
contribute to this project in any way (research, photos, etc.) pleas
Larry Alexander
The founder and owner of
AKA Low Pressure, Larry
contributed much in the way
of low pressure marker operation knowledge and he
was the engineer behind
the AKA Viking and AKA
Excalibur paintball markers.
He was also holder of many
US Patents for gas holding
chambers, regulator designs
and other paintball and non
paintball products. Sadly
Larry passed away in 2013
following a long illness.
Ross Alexander and Jerry
Dobbins - Ross Alexander
and his company Line SI
developed and manufactured the Line SI Bushmaster in ’87. The gun was the
rage in paintball for twoplus years. One of the best
pump paintball guns ever
made, numerous events
were won by teams wielding
the Bushmaster in the late
eighties. Jerry Dobbins, who
is credited with engineering the Bushmaster later
purchased Line SI and then
changed company name to
Indian Creek Designs where
he designed and produced
markers like the Promaster,
BK2, Puma, Blackcat, Thundercat and more. Jerry was
an early member of team
Navarone as well.
John Amodea
In John’s 29 years in paintball he has been a field owner, a store owner, a magazine editor for some of the
most successful magazines
Contributors: We would also like to recognize the following people that have
Elliot, Mike “Boogie” Bogolub, Tracy Jordan, Robert Sword, Will Arroyo, Bud O
Donaldson, Sean Scott, Robert Cline, Ron Wells, Greg Muller, Larry Cossio, S
continued work persevering the game’s print history. We would also like to th