This particular Short Barrel tournament special has great looking PMI Walnut grips, a plastic / delrin pump and a speed demon bolt with a standard finish frame.
This tournament special looks to be in okay shape with some staining in the nickel (can be cleaned up with nickel cleaning).
Some dings on the finish and some rust on pump arm and speed demon bolt knurled knob. AGD factory engraving on the left side looks good. Tournament special Barrel engraving does look clear but you can see some nickel staining above it.
Engraving on these and other engraved PMI / AGD Piranhas is very light and delicate.
The Nickel finish does fog up over the years so please keep this in mind along with the fact that this is a 30 year old marker so it will have some blemishes.
The PMI Piranha Long Barrel and Short Barrel Tournament Specials were a very limited run by PMI and likely debuted after the October 1989 Masters.
The Lords of Discipline played Sudden Death in the final game at the 1989 Masters Tournament. Both teams were sponsored by PMI at the time and and the majority of players were shooting Piranha Long barrels (with Youngblood likely being the exception).
Many other teams were shooting the Piranha's at the time and playing off the Piranha Long and Short Barrels success, PMI created the very limited edition Tournament Special.
The Tournament Special model featured Airgun Designs turbo valve, cup seal and hammer setup with the AGD engraving on the side of the marker as well as "Piranha Tournament Special" on the barrel.
I've seen very few tournament specials pop up over the years and rank these as one of the rarest direct feed markers pump markers that PMI produced, along with the factory engraved AGD turbo valved patinaed black Piranha Long barrels and team engraved Piranha Long barrels.
All of the Tournament Special PMI Piranha paint guns being offered currently were custom built by the factory for the top PMI sponsored professional teams like Lords of Discipline, captained by Bill Zoll and PMI Piranhas’ Captained by Caleb Strong, one of the first NSG franchisees, first indoor gamefield operator and subsequently a minority shareholder in PMI.
These particular Tournament Special guns have been retained by Jeff for his own use (a couple used and a couple never used) as he was a member of both of these teams at different times.
These guns were hand made in very limited quantities and were “state of the art” in their day, used by the best paintball teams in the world which was integral in how the Sport Of Paintball was built.
With this offering I am excited to help pass some of these pieces on to other paintball collectors and paintball museums that are looking for truly one of a kind designs and artifacts of paintball history.
If there is any further description of condition or provenance please feel free to ask. On some of the items, listing price upon request, it is currently undecided if they will be available for sale or not. Purchase of these will require a conversation with Jeff as anything can be made available, depending on price. Someone can always make an offer but know that nothing here needs to be sold.
Please direct all inquiries and questions to BacciPaintball.
I will be coordinating questions on items and offers to the owner, Jeff Perlmutter. This will ensure order of offers, questions to be answered and added to photos for public knowledge and history.
These paintball guns and items have sat for years, if not decades unused. A few will need to be taken apart, cleaned, have the seals replaced, some parts may be non operable or missing. Others are new in box condition or have been cleaned and restored by Jeff, the owner. Please do your best to look at the photos and know what you are buying. Shipping will be via USPS, UPS or Fed Ex buyer's discretion. The shipping and insurance cost IS NOT INCLUDED. After payment is received Jeff will be shipping items. Most paintball guns are in excellent working condition but a few will be sold as is, and needing rebuilds. Anyone interested in these knows that repairs to these “analog” collector items are simple and inexpensive (common o rings etc.) If you have questions please ask them as soon as possible and make sure to ask them before you pay.
All sales are final and items are sold as is. Jeff and I have described these items to the best of our knowledge and more photos can be taken based on requests from serious buyers.
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