At CPX's Living Legends 5 I did a two part interview with Kevin Donaldson, captain of the New York Master Blasters and owner of Action Sports Outfitters.
High winds made this footage difficult to stabilize but I did my best and tried to clean up the audio as well.

This is also the first of 4 videos on Rob "Termite" Smith and his Termite Gun.
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The first part of Kevin's interview focuses on Rob "Termite" Smith's Termite Gun and the thrown together team of the Widowmakers from the August 20th-22nd, 1988 tournament Poconos Skirmish in Jim Thorpe , PA.

Click here to read Jessica Sparks' article on the PBGA tournament from the January 1989 issue of Action Pursuit Games (large pdf, 3 mbs).

Carter Machine's Widowmakers, PBGA Tournament, August 20th-22nd, 1988 at Pocono Skirmish Paintball, Jim Thorpe, PA Photo from Earon Carter's shop Back row right to left: Dave ''Youngblood'' Dehaan, Jim ''Howdy'' McGuffog, Rob "Termite" Smith, Dave Arnold, Danny Wiesel, Jim Lively, John Platt, Earon Carter Middle row: (?) Ray McCarthy (? of the PMI Piranha's), Jerry Braun, Jessica Sparks, Sam Caldwell, Robert ''Rosie'' Rose Front row: Marty Tripes

Ad for the PBGA tournament which the Widowmakers competed in. Scanned from the August 1988 issue of APG.

In this video Kevin discuses the main variations between the different models of the Termite Gun but warns that it's hard to separate generations of Termites because each paintgun is custom made.

Kevin Donaldson's early Termite Gun. The Master Blasters received their Termites after the PBGA tournament so likely c. late 1988. Pictures courtest Kevin Donaldson and the Master Blasters' facebook page.

Although after the second generation Earon Carter machined nearly the entire gun and the Termite became more compatible with Earon's Buzzard. So these later versions are easier to separate from earlier guns.

When Santa can't get his Autococker cycling correctly and needs some replacement parts he browses http://www.baccipaintball.com and looks through the thousands of parts available (over 1200 Autococker parts inventoried!). We shot this video in Northern California the day after christmas and I had planned to use it for an after christmas sale. But of course I got side tracked with too much stuff to do so I am using it now to celebrate my birthday (February 4th)! The sale isn't on autococker parts but it is on paintguns! I am marking down all paintguns listed with 25 to 50 percent off! This sale is valid 2/4/13 only! View all the available paintball guns / paintball markers at: http://www.baccipaintball.com/guns.html And remember this is completely satirical, I'm sure Santa has his elfs make all his paintball gun parts. Why would be buy them used? He definitely shoots a Kapp Lava cocker though, I read that online somewhere. And Santa always drinks santa soda to stay warm at the North Pole. _________________________________________________________ Subscribe to Bacci Paintball on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=baccipaintball

Earon Carter of Carter Machine talks classic paintball history regarding the Annihilators, Sat Cong Village (SC Village), the Sat Cong Headhunters, Bud Orr of WGP and more with Paul Schreck and I. We visited Earon on August 10, 2012 and recorded several interviews.