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sistency in any
weather with
practically any
paint, the new
SPEED hopper
offers a smaller,
sleeker profile
and numerous
improvements.
Represented by
company Manager Jennifer Silverman and her
husband Josh,
Pinokio brought
a postal scale to
the show to make
it clear just how
light their new
Pinokio Hoppers didn’t have to
SPEED hopper really is- an extravel far to set up at the Paintball
tremely impressive 15 ounces with
Extravaganza, as they are headtwo nine-volt batteries installed!
quartered just outside the Beltway
Also popular at the Pinokio booth
in Lorton, Virginia. The small company started by owner Evan Estrate at the 2014 Extravaganza were the
several years ago continues to sol- company’s SPEED prototypes that
had been hydro-dipped in Multicam
dier on thanks to the loyal support
and Kryptek camouflage patterns,
of players and teams who have
Pinokio 180 round pods and a probeen won over by the company’s
totype of a new Pinokio pack to
personal touch, customer service
hold those pods. Once word of how
and unique but reliable, quality
light the Pinokio SPEED really was
product. While Pinokio has been
got out, several marker manufacknown for years as the maker of a
turers were seen heading over to
large, scenario-friendly, high-capacity loader that holds 250 rounds the Pinokio booth to slap a SPEED
and can be expanded to hold an in- on top of their marker to show cuscredible 400 rounds with its includ- tomers just how light a complete,
game-ready gun/hopper/bottle
ed “Pinokio” nose, Pinokio chose
the 2014 Paintball Extravaganza to package could really be, and this
debut their newest loader, a small- served to drive additional traffic
Pinokio’s way. By the end of the Exer, lighter model called the SPEED
travaganza, Pinokio had even sold
that would be more at home on a
their display hoppers, a testament
tournament field.
to how well-received their new,
small, light SPEED was.
Using the same internal components and bend sensor that have
given the original Pinokio hopper a www.PinokioHoppers.com
reputation for reliability and conSpecial PBX Edition