So I play scenario and big games, a lot of them. I spend my weekends crawling through tall grass, running up trails, and trading licks with some of the best teams in the country. I need a good gun. I’m fairly proficient with teching paintball guns, but I’m by no means a trained airsmith, nor do I mess with the ins and outs of solenoids, valves, and the sticky little internals. I don’t tweak springs or buy many aftermarket parts. I want a gun that rips, right out of the box, and can be fixed by replacing an o-ring or lubing a bolt.

Enter the Threshold by Dangerous Power. This sweet-looking beast is essentially an upgraded Fusion, and now that I’ve run through two games with it, I can give my unbiased opinion of this piece as a primary scenario gun.

I have to admit, I had a couple of problems with the Threshold out of the box - shooting way too hot. After getting in touch with tech support, fixing this issue was a matter of switching out one o-ring on the bolt and messing with the regulator, an easy enough fix. On the field, I ran for two straight hours with the stock barrel before switching to my trusty Freak. Honestly, the stock barrel isn’t bad at all. I noticed a slightly tighter pattern with the Freak matched to the event paint, but the stock barrel is light and accurate - just didn’t perfectly match the ProBall I was shooting. Like most electronic markers these days, the Threshold’s trigger comes fully adjustable, and with a few tweaks it can be set to rip at the slightest touch, if that’s your taste. I adjusted it marginally, got a little trigger bounce, and backed up to what was probably the out-of-the-box setting. It’s plenty fast.

At the MPP game in Charleston, players had to chronograph EVERY time they entered the field. As much as I get shot out, I went through the chrono check more than most, and any shot over 280 would earn a player a trip to the staging area chrono range (no tools allowed on the field). After setting my Threshold to 275 that morning, I never once shot hot - or lower than 270. Not bad for an out-of-the-box marker! I admit, rather than mess with those regulator pieces I put a broken-in Tornado reg on the gun, but it’s still pretty impressive.

The other things I like about the gun - simple electronics that you can’t monkey with during the game, gas efficient, and marvelously well-balanced. The Threshold set up with my Micro Max-flo balances perfectly, at least for my arm-length and build, making it a nimble gun-fighter’s marker. That said, it is a little on the loud side, and at the Wolf Creek game I had a minor problem. I had the marker in NPPL mode (semi capped at 25 bps), and it ripped a little too easily, sometimes kicking out three or four shots more than I wanted. I set it to the semi mode capped at 15 bps and voila! - problem solved. Aside from some user error (I stripped out one of the grip frame screws), the Threshold performed admirably, and I’m psyched about putting it through its paces tomorrow at Living Legends at Challenge Park.

Now that I’ve had some experience with Dangerous Power markers, I’m eager to try out one of those sweet new G3s. Hey Dangerous Power, care to hook a brother up?