Our Company

Back Then

Our story started on the paintball field in 1987. By our late teens, playing had turned into tinkering—and tinkering became an obsession with making our equipment better.

The original WDP Angel’s trigger gave us our first opportunity. With only one adjustment screw, it left plenty of room for improvement. We developed a replacement with three-way adjustment and three interchangeable spring strengths. Air assist, a stainless hammer, and modification after modification followed. Eventually, we decided to build an Adrenaline Angel.

That approach defined the brand: rethink the details, test the changes, and keep improving until the result earns the Adrenaline name.

We introduced the first paintball marker with four-axis machining—the Adrenaline Angel LED—and continued that approach with our LCD. We then pushed the boundaries further with the Adrenaline Impulse, the first paintball marker with five-axis machining, creating a design that departed dramatically from the stock platform.

From 1999 through 2004, Adrenaline built its reputation on high-end paintball markers, distinctive machining, and custom anodizing. Professional teams carried our markers into competition, while players and collectors helped build a following that continues today.

In late 2004, we stepped away from the sport. We signed a non-compete agreement while retaining certain rights that would become available again in 2015. At the time, we were convinced our days of building paintball markers were over.

We were wrong.

The Return

Watching the ICC in the summer of 2017 brought us back to paintball. That December, we returned to competition at the Southern Classic with $175 mechanical markers. They got us back on the field—and immediately got us thinking about what we wanted to improve.

On the drive home, we decided to build a marker of our own. A few weeks later, we learned that Shocker Paintball was developing a mechanical Shocker with a pivot-style trigger. We decided to wait and see what we could do with that platform.

In March 2018, we began testing modifications to the Shocker CVO and XLS. Encouragement from longtime Adrenaline owners and the paintball community helped turn those experiments into our first marker release since the Impulse.

Nearly a year of development followed. The resulting Adrenaline Shocker CVO and XLS brought us back with extensive modifications and the same attention to detail that had shaped our original markers.

The Adrenaline Luxe generations that followed—including the TM40, IDOL, and now AIRE—gave us new opportunities to push that work further.

The AIRE Generation

The Adrenaline Luxe AIRE carries that history into our latest generation of markers. Starting with the DLX Luxe AIRE platform, we apply Adrenaline engineering across the body, feeding system, frames, triggers, foregrip, core, and barrel system.

Our VertiLock™ vertical-pull bolt tail cover adds a positive-lock mechanism and clear visual confirmation that the cover is secured. SmoothFeed™ technology combines an integrated breech and feedneck with anti-bounce geometry designed to improve feeding during low-paint situations and with non-force-feed loaders—particularly in mechanical play.

Inside the marker, our F-16™ and LockTip™ bolt systems provide different paint-handling options. The F-16 uses an aluminum tip, while LockTip secures a rear-inserted rubber tip within a closed-face design. Tungsten disulfide (WS₂) treatment on the bolt and bolt can helps reduce friction and improve smoothness.

The Fresh AIRE barrel tip, SAS inserts, one-piece aluminum foregrip, and extended electronic and mechanical triggers carry that development into the sound, handling, and feel of the complete marker. Distinctive machining and custom finishes give the engineering an unmistakable Adrenaline identity.

Some improvements are immediately visible. Others become apparent when you load, shoot, maintain, or play with the marker. Each reflects the same question that started our first Angel project: how can we make this better?

The People Behind Adrenaline

Our original team brought together a marker technician, inventors, a machinist, and a technology specialist, united by an exacting attention to detail. Members of that same core group have continued working together across the Adrenaline Angel, Impulse, Shocker, and Luxe generations.

A new marker project typically involves approximately 18 months of research and development. That means prototypes, testing, revisions, and more testing. The F-16 bolt takes its name from the sixteenth design iteration—the one that finally delivered the result we were looking for.

We build for players because we are players. We care about how a marker looks, how it feels in your hands, how it performs on the field, and how easily you can maintain it afterward.

That is what the Adrenaline name has meant since 1997. It is what we continue to build into every generation.