The Gun Gallery
ICD Panther
Write-up 1-15-07
I like buying package deals on ebay. I purchased a Cocker
and mag one time and the owner sent me an email that he would
be late in shipping, but would make up for it by adding another
gun. I ended up getting this Panther. I have never played
with it. I aired it up and shot a few rounds, but it has never
visited a paintball field with me. I doubt I ever will take
it out.
It does reflect a nice period in time when the Automags tended
to dominate the tournament scene. Companies were scrambling
to come up with a low cost gun similar to the 'Mag. This gun
was released in about the same time period as the original
Kingman Spyders. It was smaller and light weight like the
mag, but was a blow-back design like the Illustrators and
Tippmanns of the time.
My friend Chris purchased one of these in the summer of 1994.
We got it working ok, but it just couldn't stand the pounding
we gave our guns back then, like our mags. Chris's gun soon
developed problems. He quickly upgraded to a mag like the
rest of us. The Panther had one of the best phone support
phone calls I have ever heard. Chris's gun was leaking down
the barrel. We swapped out with all new o-rings and nothing
changed. I called ICD support and they told me to fire the
gun repeatedly into the phone. They claimed they could diagnose
the problem from that. Anyway, I shipped the gun back to them
for a full refund soon after the call.
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