Yea, it's neither here or there, time will tell how people describe the design.
Yea perhaps I do get a little caught in naming or classifying parts mainly because when people ask about different parts I make (family or friends mainly) sometimes it's difficult to explain. Like for instance the T-Rex what the hell is it? Well it's a "pneumatic paintball gun firing doohickey" lol, as far as I know there is not technical pneumatic term that would really describe it. Yea it's a poppet type, 3 way air valve, normally closed, but its actually more than that.I'm not saying the break in compatibility is necessarily a bad thing, just speaking more to people getting a little too caught up in naming this and classification that and failing to see the forest for the trees.
I found this specification all over the place on various Mags which I found curious. I was surprised that it would work so far out of spec, but they do. (So far out of spec is retaliative)The rail thing is a neat idea. I can see that if you wanted, you could adjust the bias in the sear pin to be, say, slightly up or down, which is a tuning feature I've kind of wanted as well.
That's actually an illusion.directly parallel to the feed
You put that very delicately. (lol) I actually thought I would have to defend that right out of the gate, I figured it would be the very first comment. It's the primary reason I didn't release the details until I knew it was a solid design. I didn't want the "common sense view" of the design to impend the R&D and put a negative spin on the project.I've found there are... a few potential dangers to having a direct-acting (that's my name for one that is directly parallel to the feed) detent. Might depend on a few variables.
Actually the detent can not be depressed by the balls being feed into the breach as one would expect (i.e. common sense view). You have to consider the geometry involved, the breach is basically a 3/4" sphere , as are all Automags. We all know that paintballs are in the neighborhood of a .70" spherical diameter. The reason that is important is the bottom center point of the paintball (sphere) that touches the bottom of the breach is very small piece of real estate. In addition the detent is basically a ramp, low end at the ball high end leading into the "barrel portion" of the breach away from the paintball. In short the detent is actually located outside the breach perimeters. You can actually put a paintball in the breach, tilt the marker forward and it will not depress the detent. Really there is no way a ball can get on top of the detent because for all intents and purpose the detent is in the barrel.
Not sure if that makes sense(?)