15 Minutes with Gilly: The Hornet Paintgun, built by Paul Vasquez

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In this exciting episode of 15 minutes with Gilly, Gilbert "Gilly" Martinez talks Southern California Paintball history as usual. Todays' topic? Paul Vasquez' Hornet pump.

The Hornet, produced in Long Beach / Signal Hill, California is possibly the only production pump paintgun that featured a hopper directly attached to the pump handle. As Gilly explains, "the shaking or agitating [of the pump handle] would hopefully drop balls in[to the breech]."

Gilly remembers seeing Vasquez occasionally at while playing in Lopez Canyon at Steve Busick's Southern Comfort field. Gilly also tells how Vasquez built stainless barreled hornets for some of the players he knew.

Besides the direct feed elbows connecting the feed to the pump handle the pump action on the Hornet is increaibly smooth with no wobble. This is a result of the trigger frame's rail acting as a guide for the pump handle. The top of the body also features a groove to allow the balls to roll into the breech as you pump.

The Hornet takes standard nelson breech drop internals but requires extra long pump arm screws because of the outer diameter of the pump.
The Hornet was featured in the June 1990 issue of Paintball Sports Magazine and the September 1989 issue of APG.

Paul Vasquez also had a patch for his "Hornet Paint Gun" of a tough looking Hornet. I don't have one of these patches (but would love to add one to my collection if anyone owns an extra) so I used the scans from Paintball Sports Magazine in the video.

Gilly and I recorded this video at Gilly's Fall Event West pump game, held at Poso Creek Paintball in Bakersfield, California on November 10th, 2012.
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