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Lou "Gramps" Grubb and Mike "Grizzly" Grubb, long time airsmiths and store owners in southern California, report that this is a Gramps & Grizzly-modified KBS Eliminator. The KBS Eliminator had a steel barrel (with perpetual rust issues), front post sights, and a top loader holder accepting either cigar tubes or a PVC direct feed extention. On this particular marker, the stock was hand built by Gramps, and G&G side tapped the marker for constant air, California style. This would have been around 1986. Adventure Game Supplies (Matt and David, opened in 1986 in Bellflower, CA) made the barrel, top loader, and front sight. This model has a single rod pump with an inline pump; in comparison, the KBS Eliminator AR had a double rod with a vertical pump. G&G made some of these into a pistol-style configuration called the Luger, with no stock, made from the same loader and sight components swapped onto a shorter steel barrel from Canada that originally came n the MK-1 Uzi marker. Gramps and Grizzly modified about 12 of the KBS Eliminators for constant air, and 3 or 4 for stock 12-gram play. Gramps made the stocks himself in the G&G machine shop. The grip body and stock attached with a nut and screw coming through the grip body. Later, when AirTech came out with aluminum barrels, G&G would swap the barrel to aluminum and also change out the top feed and front sight. Gramps & Grizzly's Outpost was located in Riverside, California closed it's doors on Dec. 28th 2008, ending what has become the worlds oldest paintball store. |