Lucky and Evolve have joined forces. Lucky and Evolve have joined forces. For all UK and European Sales click here For USA Web based sales please go to: compulsivepaintball.com bumppaintball.com November 2005 Price Reductions Prices for many items in the Evolve Paintball online store will be reduced on November 1st 2005. Christmas Holiday Evolve would like to wish all our customers a very Happy Christmas and New Year. We are closed from December 22nd through to 3rd January. You can still place orders online or email us during this period, we will process your order/enquiry when we reopen on Tuesday January 4th 2005. 9th November 2004 - New Generation Of Products Available To Pre-Order We are delighted to announce that our new X-92 bolt range, which utilises Evolve patented spool valve technology, is now available for pre-order. Stock of the DM3 and DM4 versions of this bolt are expected at the end of November, with the DM5 version available a few weeks later. The Newton Valve kit for the Angel is now also available for pre-order. Also launched and in stock now are a double-finger Shocker trigger, and a gauge for the Angel LPR. 4th August 2004 - Free T-Shirt Offer Customers will receive a free Evolve t-shirt with all orders from our online store, while stocks last. This offer has now ended as the t-shirts are now out of stock. 23rd June 2004 - New Delivery Options & Pricing We have added greater choice of delivery options for our customers. Standard delivery where shipping takes 7-14 days costs $10 for US and £4 for the UK. Customers requiring faster delivery (3-4 working days) can choose our express delivery option at an additional cost of $20 for the US and £6 for UK customers. 22nd June 2004 - New Products - Angel LRP & Shocker Coloured Bolt Guide We are pleased to announce the availability on our website of several new products, an innovative Angel LPR and Shocker bolt guide available in a range of colours. 11th June 2004 - Shocker Bolt - Price Reduction Because other companies have not had to invest tens of thousands of pounds developing a bolt system, they are able to sell their bolt systems at a reduced price. We have therefore had to reduce our selling price to compete even though this may well affect future reseach and development projects. The matter has been passed on to our lawyers and the issue of patent infringement will be resolved in due course. 10th May 2004 - Vert Frame and Matrix Bolt Set - Change in availability Vert Frame Due to ongoing intellectual property issues regarding the vert frame, it has been decided to withdraw it from our product range. Those frames already sold will be supported by Evolve but no future sales will take place. Matrix Bolt Set Due to ongoing intellectual property issues in the USA, it has been decided to withdraw the bolt from sale in that country. Those bolt sets already sold will be supported by Evolve but there will be no future Matrix Bolt sales to customers in the USA. We have therefore removed the option to order this product in US dollars. Customers outside the USA (eg Canada) who want to order this item in US Dollars should email sales@evolvepaintball.com for manual processing of your order. As a company Evolve take very seriously the rights of others to protect their intellectual property rights and would never wish to compromise another companies patent. 14th April 2004 - New Products New Evolve products for the Shocker 03 and Matrix are now available on our website. These are the Clamping No Rise and Cinnamon grease. In addition, A Ported SS Manifold and O-ring kit have also available for the Shocker 03. 18th March 2004 - Evolve Forum Launched We are pleased to announce that the Evolve Paintball forum is now open. This forum has been set up for the purpose of helping users of Evolve products, and for users to share information about their marker setups etc. Keep your eyes peeled as we will also be using the forum to announce future products and deals. Click here to go to the forum. 6th March 2004 - Website moved to new server To handle increased demand we have moved the Evolve website to a new server. Customers may therefore have had some trouble reaching the site between Friday and Sunday. Some emails sent to us during this period may also have been affected. We would like to apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused, but rest assured that orders placed via PayPal during this period are not affected by the move, and will be processed as normal after the weekend. 26th February 2004 - Shocker 03 Bolt Challenge Update Further to various posts on various forums, we have refined the details of the challenge. As well as the $10,000 prize for the shocker that fires the most paint from a full 68/4500 system during the tournament, we would like to add a further side game. The person that achieves the highest shot count using an Evolve bolt in a Shocker, will win the Marker that we use in the event. We envisage that anyone can make any number of attempts over the three days at $10.00 per go. This means that you can test different set ups in order to get the most shots out of your marker. It would be nice if a paint manufacturer supported the contest, so if any one knows anyone that knows someone, it would help all round. Each entrant must provide 4 sealed 500 ball bags, prior to shooting. The player will then shoot until his/her bottle pressure drops below 1000 Psi. Thereafter every 20th shot should be chrono’d until the ball velocity drops below 270 fps. At the end of the last day we will then have three attempts to beat the best score using a standard Shocker 03 with our bolt-kit fitted. The marker will be standard issue with absolutely no modifications. The only difference between our marker and one bought off the shelf will be our bolt set, our LPR and our know-how. We will be on site during the whole tournament, so those of you who want to, can share our know-how whatever bolt set you are using. We are happy to help all the contestants with their set-up, in order to maximise the shot count. As previously mentioned, we cannot allow any bolt system that infringes our patent. In the case of a dispute the prize monies will be suspended until the outcome of any legal proceeding are known. We must therefore reserve the right to inspect all markers that shoot in excess of 1500 shots per fill. In order so that we may assess the number of people interested in participating, please contact chris@evolvepaintball.com to register your interest. 23rd February 2004 - Delrin bolt no longer available Thanks to all our customers who tried the Delrin bolt for us. After a long review, we have decided that the longeivity issues of the delrin bolt outway the performance benefits, so we will not be manufacturing any more of these. From today the Evolve Matrix Bolt Kit will no longer include the Delrin bolt. 16th February 2004 - $10,000 Shocker 03 Bolt Challenge It has come to our attention that there has been much speculation about wild claims made by this company, regarding the number off balls per fill that can be achieved using our new Shocker 03 bolt set. Figures in excess of 2000 balls per fill have been put forward as if they formed part of some excessive press campaign, direct from Evolve. For the record, we have only ever claimed that using our bolt kit in a well-set up marker will give roughly the same amount of shots as our Matrix bolt set, that is to say 1500. If any claims have been made regarding greater number of shots, then they have been by made our customers, NOT by us, although on occasion we may recommend other people get in touch with them to find out how. Also, some manufacturers are using the percentage increase method of calculating how successful their bolt kits are, we don’t. And the reason we don’t is because it seems that each Shocker is slightly different, and will produce a different shot count ‘out of the box’. There is only ONE way to increase the efficiency with this spool valve system, and that is to shut off the gas supply when the bolt is in the firing position. We know this because we went through the same ideas that we now see being release by other manufacturers. Let us reiterate, the only way to increase the efficiency of this type of bolt system is to stop the leakage of gas when the ball has been fired. Anything else done to the bolt is purely cosmetic, no amount of space age engineering can make up for that crucial time when air is escaping down the barrel after the ball has been fired. It was this brand new method of shutting off the air that led us to patent the concept, since in our view, ALL markers using a spool valve will want to use this technology, and to that end the DM4 bolt kit will be released within the next 2 months, followed shortly after, by a new design of the standard matrix bolt. The Challenge We hope that we have convinced you that our bolt kit works because of its ability to stop the wastage of air, we now want to stop the wastage of hot air on the forums. We will be attending Super Seven event at Huntington Beach in California on the 19th to the 21st of March. We will be bringing a selection of Shocker’s set up by us, and ready to rip. We are offering $10,000 to ANYONE that turns up at that event and manages to shoot just ONE ball more that us with a standard 68/4500, using any other bolt set. Just in case you thought you can chrono at 200 fps we will have an independent witness to keep an eye on the proceedings, the event organisers will choose this witness. The exception to the rule will be anyone that copies our bolt set and thereby infringes our patent, in that case we will have no option but to vigorously defend our exclusive rights. We are going to charge $10 for each attempt, which will be donated to charity at the end of the event – charity to be decided by the event organisers. Looking forward to the challenge, and maybe raising some money for charity. 12th January 2004 - Shocker 03 Bolt Kit Now Available We are delighted to announce that our bolt for the Shocker 03 marker is now available. 23rd December 2003 - Closed for Christmas Festive greetings from all at Evolve Paintball. We are now closed for the holidays, and will be open again on Monday January 5th. 18th December 2003 - Matrix Vert Frame Price Reduced More cost-effective manufacturing means we are now able to offer the Vert Frame for the Matrix at a substantially reduced price of $75/£55. 1st December 2003 - US Shipping Changes Due to the unreliability of our cheaper carrier we have had to change the method of delivery. We will now only deliver to the US using DHL. This means that the delivery charge has to go back up to $25.00. We are sorry about this change, we gave the other carrier a good chance but it seems that once again you get what you pay for. 31st October 2003 - US Shipping Charge Reduced We are pleased to announce that the delivery charge to the US has now been reduced to just $15. 23rd September 2003 - Price Revision & Seperate Shipping Costs Thanks to improved manufacturing techniques and the fact that we have have been able to manufacture in greater numbers, we have been able to revise our prices. The pricing of the full bolt kit, vert frame and have been reduced, please see the relevant product pages for more information. Due to customer feedback you will notice that we have seperated the shipping costs from the purchase price of the items, making it even cheaper for your markers to evolve. Delivery costs $25 to the US and £10 for UK customers. 23rd September 2003 - Online ordering now available in £ for UK customers We are pleased to announce that customers in the UK can now order our products through our website. Transactions are handled by PayPal in Pounds Sterling. 28th August 2003 Today we have launched a special trade-in offer for Freeflow bolt owners who arent impressed with the performance of that bolt. Existing Freeflow owners can get the Evolve Bolt Kit for $50 off the normal price. See this page for more information. This offer is valid until September 30th 2003. 27th August 2003 Several new Evolve products for the Matrix are now available. The Evolve Breech, Evolve ASA and Evolve o-ring are in stock and ready to ship. Details can be found here. 12th August 2003 The Matrix Vert Frame now comes with both trigger types (blade & notched) and trigger mechanisms (spring & magnetic) as standard at no extra charge. 28th July 2003 We have updated the site to clarify which customers qualify for a free Delrin bolt, sorry for any confusion. We have also clarified how non-US customers can order from us. At present PayPal only supports delivery price calculations for dollar transactions, which is why our site only processes US orders automatically. In the coming weeks a fully automated system will be available to customers in all regions. For now non-US customers should email us their orders and we will contact you with payment options. Please do NOT email us your credit card details as that is insecure. 24th July 2003 We are pleased to announce that customers in the United States who wish to pay for their goods via PayPal can now purchase our range of Matrix Performance Parts through our website. If you do not have a PayPal account, you can still purchase using a credit card via their system. Customers in other parts of the world should contact us directly, as we are still developing our international web store.