September 2020 Issue September 2020 | Page 58

based oil as it will ruin O-rings. And this is true. Mostly. Paintball companies have been preaching that for decades in order to sell their own brands of oil. Usually it was synthetic air tools oil bought in bulk and then repacked into small bottles with fancy labels and an excessively high mark up. I know one company that was using synthetic transmission fluid for cars. True story, but I digress. Back in the day, O-rings were not as advanced as they are now. Petroleum oils actually only affect “some” O-ring material but not all. Please feel free to look that up. www.macrorubber. com has an excellent O-ring material quick reference chart. Ultra Silk is not actually a petroleum based lubricant. It just happens to have SOME petroleum in it. With only 3% petroleum content, Ultra Silk poses minimal threat to your O-rings if it poses any threat at all. Remember, this is a special lubricant designed specifically for paintball by one of the top gun techs in the entire history of the sport. I trust it, I use it, and I have been playing since 1989. Moving on… With all these Ultra Shocker extras and goodness, the standard SP case was not big enough to hold everything, so Cesare made sure to include HK Army cases with the guns so that everything fit in the case nicely. It is a “factory” gun, so it comes with all the stock extras like hex keys, parts kit etc. as well. 058 paintball.media magazine