A short review and pictures of PD#1
By Brent Hoefling AKA RamboPreacher PoG#6- "A Player, Not A Pro"
Firstly, I want to thank Jeb Hoge, for allowing me to purchase this fine paintball machine from him. A second thanks to him for writing such a fine article about it, located here. His review is not something I would even attempt to add to or change. The purpose of this article is to give a little bit of information and history of this gun.
I sent an email to Palmer's Pursuit Shop in Sacramento, California asking about the gun and Glenn Palmer, the store Owner responded with the following:
Q: Do you have any History on the Nasty Typhoon Serial Number PD1?
A: "PD1 was built in April, 1992 and from what I can tell from our records you look to be the 4th owner. It was in here in 5/93 for a valve rebuild because the owner then had been doing some tinkering (where he shouldn't have) and in 6/97, Jeb Hoge sent it in for a full factory rebuild."
Q: About how many Nasty's have been made to date?
A: "Almost 100 Nasty Typhoons have been sold to date."
Glenn's other comments: "It is actually the first of it's kind as the only other two or three doubles that were built before it as semis, would be considered as prototypes. The only other one shown in out records that was built before that one is mine, which I named Domination and it was actually converted from a pump gun and was the gun that was used to show Bud Orr how he could adapt the system to his guns. I consider domination to be the prototype for the Autococker as it is laid out much the same as a cocker is now. Including the sliding trigger. Interesting tidbit: When I showed that gun to Bud (the weekend before Easter, 1990) one of the questions that he asked was why I had used a sliding trigger. My response was; "because I hadn't yet figured out how to get the system tied into a pivoting trigger properly."
[editor note: All PPS guns now use a pivoting trigger, while the Autococker still uses a sliding trigger]
When I received my first Nasty from PPS some years ago, I had a difficult time taking it to rec fields to use and play with. The main reason was not that it was a double barrel gun (goodness knows the field owners loved that, when they had FPO rules anyway). The reason was that most places just didn't know how to chroney them. I was told that I had to chroney each barrel separately (apparently they had some knowledge of a previous nelson based double barrel pump that worked that way). I refused to do it that way because the velocity would be abnormally low. If they wouldn't let me chroney correctly, I didn't use it, because I didn't want to be unsafe with it. After two or three fields telling me this, I finally had Glenn write me up a letter that explains how to chroney a PPS Double barrel. I have not had to use the letter for a couple years now, but I keep it in my Nasty gear bag whenever I take it to a field, just in case.
Thanks
RP