Further defined – : a supply chamber: as
a : a holder in or on a gun for cartridges to be fed into the gun chamber
Thus as defined anything that feeds the paint can be called a “magazine”.
As a real steel shooter I know that there are tube magazines, i.e. for a pump or semi auto shotgun, many rifles with the loading tube under the barrel examples can be found in many .22s, and lever action rifles. As well as internal and detachable magazines.
I am also a mag-fed player, and I feel that what we are looking at is more in the area of “detachable mags”. Ones that give limited ammo and requires you to detach the magazine and replace it with a loaded one.
I for one would not have any issues if someone came on the field with a pistol such as the T68 with a top mounted tube feed or even a speedball marker with a 10 round tube feeding it, since after the empty it they would have to replace it the same as I would with my TGR2 mags.
To me this would fulfill the limited ammo and mag change aspect of the game. The same goes for box mags as long as they had to change the mag and did not use pods to fill it while still on their marker. Also with box mags depending on the game rules themselves I can see using pods as long as other members of the team carried some of the pods. This would be in the same fashion as the military having other members of a squad help carry the ammo for the machine gunners.
But above all else we need to remember to play fair, play hard, have fun, and obey the rules of the field or event we are at.
We are all paintballers, regardless of what marker we use, our style of play or what we wear. We are ambassadors of the sport and it does not show us in a positive light if we cannot get along with ourselves.
I know that there will always be the rift between speedballers, woodsballers and magfed players. But I call myself a “PAINTBALLER”.
I play the sport to have fun and to try to increase our numbers, regardless of what people use to play.
So lets end this debate and sling paint!
Gramps