Tippman SMGs are/were full auto. Needed clips tho, with a clip "catcher" off side. The semis have always worked best for me. (Palmer's Hurricane #79 owner here)
btw you can tell that's a semiauto becuase the electric hopper on the autos has a windup time and makes a LOT of noise (wwwweeeeEEEEEEEE!!!!) when you turn it on. No electric hopper = he's really doing it himself.
Well if you shoot that fast you need an electric hopper to feed the balls. An electric hopper has nothing to do with the trigger system/if the gun is auto/semi/not. I mean all high-end guns I see have electric hoppers, and they're not auto.
I haven't played in a few years, but have elec hoppers changed since then? They used to be just aggitators so the balls would keep going down the feed tube, without it, they tended to "clump" causing you to need to shake the gun to get the balls flowing again. They did not enhance speed at all, was still a gravity feed......
Yea, I forgot the brand name of my hopper, but it's an electric one that works off of a nine volt battery. But man!! That's some fast shooting. And yea, I have been on the recieving end of a super fast paintgunner. Not fun at all.
My gun is only a single trigger, so in order to shoot SUPER fast, I put my middle finger on the trigger and basically vibrate it. I lose my accuracy sense I have to hold the gun in a wierd position to do that though. That guy in the video is amazing.
My grandfather showed me one time, a little box that shoots fast for you. It looked like a music box. It would clamp into the trigger gaurd of a semi, much like modern day safety locks, but it had a lobe on a cam, and you turned a crank on one side, the cam would spin and the lobe would press and depress the trigger, firing the gun. Pops said a good gunner could fire faster and more accurate without it, but was still cool. When auto-triggers first came out, I was reminded of them just like when I saw this video. Wish I could remember what they were called......