Tech

The .50 caliber revolution is about more than making paintball more affordable and more than improving accuracy and gas efficiency – it's also about paintballs that take up less space.

Off the field, .50 caliber paint is simply less work to move around. Each 2,000 round case is about the size of a shoebox, and a pair of them can be tucked under each arm allowing a single person the ability to carry 8,000 rounds from the paint truck to a team staging area with ease.

The typical paint tube that carries 140 .68 caliber paintballs onto the field can carry 350 G.I. Milsim .50 caliber paintballs – two and a half times as many paintballs in the same amount of space.

Based on real-world firearms features, the FM50 is a powerful tool in the hands of law-enforcement and military trainers. It is also a limitlessly configurable paintgun for milsim and scenario paintball players. For field owners it's a rock-solid mechanically operated rental with looks that are sure to keep players coming back.

The FM50 is a triple-threat in more ways than one. A quick push-button lock system secures the FM50's breech in any of three feed positions or allows rapid removal for tool-free field stripping. The FM50 feeneck is attached to the marker's top accessory rail with a quick-lock latching system allowing it to be quickly swapped to the left or right side.

Paintball tradition tells us that electropneumatic paintguns can't handle CO₂, but the new generation of 50 caliber markers from G.I. Milsim is breaking out of that mold.

This old-fashioned idea has been reinforced by years of high-end electronic paintguns that couldn't cope with CO₂ – not because it was impossible, but because of their specific design limitations. CO₂ can wreak havoc on older electronic markers by starving them of necessary pressure when it chills from rapid firing, or causing seal-rupturing pressure spikes if liquid CO₂ gets into the marker.

The G.I. Milsim design team recognized that our entry level markers must be CO₂ friendly, because it is a cost effective power source for players just getting into the game. Not only did the team deliver on that goal, but their use of high-end electropneumatic technology helped make it possible.