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I am a believer that the fewer different barrel threads in paintball the better.

Autococker, although not a great thread in all honesty (for length of gun reasons, and unthreading reasons), has become pretty much a standard in Paintball.

Unfortunately when Budd Orr made Autococker(tm) barrels he never made a technical drawing available to everyone to specify exactly how they should be made, or how the gun's internal receiver for the barrel should be made.

This ...

And so it should!

I'm a big fan of the phrase "Stupid should hurt". I use it in everyday life and I believe in Darwinism and survival of the fittest.

Which is why I am always very mad at myself when I do stupid things.

I try not to. I really do, and I get annoyed at myself when I do, and I try to learn from my mistakes, but every now and then I do something so fundamentally stupid that I'm almost grateful for the pain as compared to how much worse ...

It's interesting to see how long people think it takes to bring out new products.

I laugh (or maybe cry?) when I see a product come out from a competitor and then we release something withing a few weeks/months and everyone states "this is their answer to XXXX" or "they are copying XXXX". Especially when such items have been in my head for years, and taken months, if not years to get out of there and into production.

Let's work it backwards...
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There's more to starting a forum from scratch than I first realized.

Working out the topics and separate forums that I want for the community wasn't too bad, but there's a lot to do in the back ground, including permissions, colours and images, that's taking me longer than I hoped.

I am putting up a few threads as I go along to test things.

Everyone is welcome to join in, but there may be a few hiccups along the road as I get everything the way I want it to ...