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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Rather than disagreeing with the naming convention I choose to use for my projects ... maybe you could take a closer look and recognize the medium this is presented in. Then when you recognize what this REALLY is instead of a Dragunov, try to understand the limitations of this medium.
No, it's not a Dragunov. But it will knock a man out of a paintball game just as well as any other marker I've developed.
Unfortunately, the longest barrel I can find for a paintball marker is only around 22 inches (not including suppressors and other such attachments. At one point I had a more Dragunov style "double length" handguard, but it made the barrel in this picture look really stubby by comparison.
This forced me to go back to the classic AK handguard - you know Dragunovs, so you know they have tremendously looooooong barrels which would be infeasible to use on a paintball marker and would yield no appreciable results.
So, like my SCAR/CQB project, I had to compromise by scaling down the rest of the marker to make the barrel at least -look- longer. Keep in mind that in order to be considered a successful project, this Dragunov must also be able to perform in the field.
Also working against me is the blocky shape of the Tippmann X7, which was designed to resemble a SCAR in the first place. Other platforms like AK, AR, MP5, etc, tend to come out looking "wrong" in some way or another. This had to be somewhat disguised.