Tim McMurray, of Mac 1, remembers the Master Blaster / Elevator Gun

Описание: Tim McMurray talks about his involvement in the Master Blaster / Elevator Gun in the fifth installment of this series.

In late 1985 (dates on sheridan long rifle manual is 9/85 and k1 is 4/86 so late 1985 is my best guess) Tim McMurray at McMurray and Sons (Mac 1 Air Guns) took out a three month loan for $14 thousand dollars and attempted to aquire 200 Sheridan Long K series rifles from Jeff Perlmutter at Pursuit Marketing Inc.
After waiting two months and then getting burned by Sheridan, McMurray had his check returned and no rifles, Tim was left to figure out another innovation which would get him a returned or as he told me he would have been "screwed."

Up to this point Tim has dabbled in paintball but most avoided avoided it besides doing contract work for PMI/Sheridan. Tim concentrated on what his Grandfathers company did best, pellet airguns.
But with the increased interest in Paintball in Southern California and the hounding from paintball enthusiants Tim decided a pump handle for the Sheridan pg would be a good investment for his the money.
So McMurray and Sons developed (supposedly first introduced on the east coast by the team Atlanta Blue and the west coast by Steve "Gunner" Tetz of Gunner's Place/SC Village) an idea for a superior Sheridan Pump handle that would be constructed out of Delrin.
McMurray would need to act quick so he met with Earon Carter and Stanley Russell of South Bay Arms, a machine shop run by Earon Carter and Stan Russell.

Earon had previously worked in Aerospace but beginning to concentrate more on paintball, Stanley was as Earon described, "a welder [by trade] and his equipment for welding wouldn't take up much room in the shop" so they worked out of Earon's industrial space in Hawthorne.

At this meeting or one close to when they met, Tim McMurray proposed a test to see if he could work with Earon Carter and Stan Russell and to see how bright they were. McMurray was loaded with Crosman Mark 1's (over 100 of them he had bought out from Crosman) and they were an excellent airgun with a lot of adaptability. He gave a few to Earon and Stan and they "sketched out a design on a piece of paper." Tim said, "It would have to be reverse cocking, and probably wouldn't fly," but Earon and Stan would build the design regardless and the Elevator gun was in the works.
"Stanley was a brilliant prototype machinist," said Tim, when we did this interview in September 2012.

Earon doesn't remember working with Tim on the Elevator gun so as Tim described I think after the meeting the gun was mostly in their hands. Mike Haymer who worked for Earon remembers the Master Blaster as mostly being Stan and Earon's project.
When I asked Earon if he and Stan built the Elevator Gun / Master Blaster as a team and he replied that everything they were working on at that early stage was done together.

Find Mac 1 online at http://www.mac1airgunshop.com

View the playlist of the live Master Blaster / Elevator Gun view series here:
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The complete article and last video will be completed in the next week or so (hopefully)...
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