Phantom Stock Class
Phantom Stock Class – Paintball Gun Review
I have always wanted to do a paintball gun review on the Phantom Stock Class marker. And by always I mean since I first shot one back in 1990. CCI the manufacturer of the venerable Phantom is based in my home town. I actually owned Phantom Serial #000012 up until 5 years ago, when I made the mistake of selling it. Never have I regretted selling a paintball gun as much as that historic marker.
Paintball Gun Reviews – the Format
The process of reviewing a paintball gun needs to be solid. If I allow my personal bias and friendships to influence my paintball gun reviews then I do you a disservice. I will rank each of 4 things on a scale between 0 and 5. Given that here is the criteria I will base all of my reviews on:
- Initial quality – How well made is the gear? How good is the finish? How does it feel?
- Reliability – This is based on long term durability out in the field and is often hard to determine from a short paintball gun review. How I will make this determination is based on the quality of materials used, and the percentage of returns, and defects.
- Performance – Accuracy, rate of fire (if appropriate), ball breakage, upgradable (how many after market parts are available?).
- Price – How well does the price equate to the performance?
My Phantom Stock Class – Paintball Gun Review
Time to get at it. I have a huge bias towards this particular paintball gun. It was my first real purchase as an informed paintball consumer, and it was made by a local business. I even played for Phantom Force for a few years, and yes we were sponsored by CCI, shooting Phantoms. So now that we have full disclosure I should also state that I bought the Phantom because it was the best marker available at the time, and I played for Phantom Force because they shot Phantoms.
To this day CCI makes one of, if not the best Stock Class Paintball marker in the world. It is a light and durable marker that has been upgraded and enhanced over the 20 years since it was first introduced. Over the years rather than creating a semi-auto and then an electro paint hose, CCI chose to take what they did well and do it even better. The modern Phantom Stock Class marker is about as refined and perfected as it can be.
I love having the opportunity to do this paintball gun review. The Phantom is a dream and I highly recommend anyone who plays stock class to purchase one.
- 5 for Initial Quality. It comes out of the box, about as good as it gets.
- 5 for Reliability. With a Stock Class marker there is very little that can go wrong. Even given that caveat the Phantom is as durable as they come.
- 4 for Performance. This would be a 5 as the Phantom is one of the most accurate paintball markers on the planet, but I just cannot in good conscious give a stock class marker a 5 being that one of the factors I consider when doing a paintball gun review is rate of fire. Stock class is a much slower game so I knocked only 1 point off.
- 5 for Price. the particular Phantom Stock Class pictured here is about $290. But there are less fancy models for around $200 and at that price this is a steal.
Overall the Phantom Stock Class marker averages 4.75 out of 5. Right now this is the top stock class marker in the world that is not a fully custom, one of a kind. I would say that it is the best of it’s category but In the future, I hope to do paintball gun review for other stock class markers and we will only know then.
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