AGD E-Mag

[Enhander]

Copied from my Emag History lesson on X7OG.net:

The E-Mag, a beautiful marker. It was one of the orginal electronic markers. AirGun Designs Produced it.. For those of you who dont know...AGD is NOT out of business. Heard of the Tac-One?? They make it.

http://airgundesignsusa.com

The E-mag is also the only marker (to my knowledge) that can switch between fully electronic to fully mechanical (meaning the electronics dont fire at all, they are shut off and the gun operates mechanically, no solinoid, board or batteries). It also has a mode called "Hybrid" which is insane awesome. With the electronics on, you would move the selector switch from E to M. It would use the solinoid and the "RT" effect of the X-Valve to achieve electronic "bounce". This achieved very high rates of fire that were unheard of at the time. When new, it cost $1000 MSRP.

It has several variants, the X-Mag, E-Tac, SFL E-Mag, but its all the same functions, just different bodies. E-Mags dont have eyes, they dont need them. The E-Mag uses a bolt called the LVL 10, which, when tuned right, wont chop paint...at all. Some E-Mags (I believe the SFL and XMag had Eyes that worked with the LVL 10, Mag eyes are called ACE...respectivly..Anti-Chop Eyes)

Heres a properly tuned LVL 10 on an E-Mag shooting full auto:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-OwVRD2SOE

Heres a pic of mine:


In a nut shell, Smart Parts threatend to sue the AGD about the E-Mag, saying that they own the rights to any electronic board used for paintball. Something like that. So AGD stopped producing the E-Mag. Now the E-Mag is a coveted relic among Mag users, as it is the pinnacle of all AGD markers. You can still find base E-Mags for roughly $500-$750. Custom E-Mags (including the SFL and XMag) sell for much more (roughly $1000-$1500) The Tac-One is the E-Mags little brother..it offers no electronics, but can accept a mod called the "ULT" (Ultra Lite Trigger), which in effect makes the marker walkable if tuned right. Ive confused may a speedball player with my Tac-One, as if you walk it right, it can get up to 12-15bps easily, with no electronics.

Tac-Ones can still be purchased directly from AGD and are AWESOME markers. I own a Tac-One and the E-Mag. Both amazing. Not very air efficient, but that doesnt matter to me, I have an 88/4500 tank I use

[Varnel]

Nice review JJ. Still makes me upset what SP did to all PB companies. It pains me to think what paintball could be today if businesses like AGD where still running full force. As good as the E-Mag is with the stuff you can do today it would be even more insane.

[sn toter]

I haven't had to think on this recently, but if memory serves...

Actually the whole SP lawsuit thing that happened to AGD is a tribute to the class of Tom Kaye.
SP sent AGD a cease and dessist letter, they did NOT sue AGD.  My understanding is that TK and AGD decided it would be better to cease production and wait it out than screw around with a lawsuit.  They had a lot ideas for a next gen emag, but R&D would have cost too much and they didn't know what would be the end result of a battle with SP.  Why did I say that ceasing was a testament to TK's class?  AGD HAS A PATENT ON THE PAINTBALL AIR REGULATOR.  They could hypothetically have sued every paintball marker company that used an air regulator...which is pretty much all of them except Tippmann.  But they didn't.  They believe in ethics and morals and the growth of the sport - which SP has severely hampered.

[Foxxy]

Very nice review!

[Varnel]

I did not know that Toter. If it were me I would of tried to bargain with them. You use our stuff we'll use your stuff kinda deal.

[Enhander]

Yea..if that'd had happened..could you imagine the modern Emag? Aside from its clone the SLG.