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Azodin Zenith Electronic Paintball Marker Black - A Really Good Marker
When removing the Zenith from the box, I immediately noticed a substantial difference in the weight and size of the marker as opposed to any of my other stacked tube blowbacks. Comparing the overall length alone to my Imagine ‘Spike’ and RSX, the body is 1.5″ shorter than both of these paintball markers. I suspect it has something to do with the absence of a vertical adapter fitted into the front of the bottom tube. Instead, the VA is attached to the bottom front portion of the body with a single screw. Later when taking the Azodin Zenith Electronic Paintball Marker Black completely apart, I noticed the walls of the body are super thin as opposed to these Spyder markers as well. Very nice for those of you concerned with carrying excess weight with you on the field.
The milling looks impressionable for such an inexpensive marker. It has well designed body lines and I have personal regards for the halfbacked upper tube tail portion. It’s something we’ve always wanted to see on a stacked tube blowback. The only one that has ever done that to my knowledge is Dragun on their TES markers and the ’08 Electra. The anodizing is flawless with a cross between a matt and gloss finish. It appears to be bead blasted with a semi-gloss look to it.
The feedneck? Well, it’s a feedneck. I’d have to say the exact same feedneck you’ll find on any new Spyder that has a threaded base. Impulse/Shocker/Ion threaded to be precise. It is a twist-lock design which is quite OK I suppose. Just a little tough to get your hand between the hopper and marker when tightening it if you don’t have small hands. Certainly an improvement over the antiquated junk plastic adapter we’ve seen on older STBB’s or even some still being sold today. With an abundance of aftermarket Impulse/Shocker/Ion threaded feednecks available, not much a worry for those of you that may opt to replace the stock neck.
When gassing the Zenith up, the velocity was slightly low on the big red chrono at a relative +/-250fps average with the factory setting. I increased the velocity by increasing the pressure of the regulator to attain a relative 280-290fps. The Zenith has no pressure gauge nor a spot to attach a gauge so there’s no way to really tell exactly what pressure it’s operating at. This is one of my pet peeves concerning this marker.
I suppose I’ll need to either drill and tap a gauge port in either the VA or straight into the side of the body to find exactly what pressure it operates at. That, a distant future endeavor. The gauge isn’t really a need so much a convenience while teching the marker or in this case, evaluating it. If there were at least a plugged port to add one, that would have been a great conciliation. So in retrospect, numers in this portion of the review will be minimal due to a lack of means to produce them.
While shooting the Azodin Paintball Zenith in semi, it did very well hitting the targets repetitively with sporadic strings of field paint. No broken paint so the eyes worked perfectly. It did skip a few shots but I’m sure it was due to the feeding concerns I was having with the hopper that day and that I really hadn’t taken any time fine tuning the trigger prior. I did not use any of the other modes since it was a bit too dark out to read the manual to set them. Though I really don’t care if others use them in play, I’m not really an advocate of modes. I view them as a crutch for those that lack talent. While dry firing at home the modes worked quite fine.
All in all, the correlation of my first experience utilizing the Azodin Zenith was; it had a nice light compact feel providing on target shots with minimal recoil.
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