One of the most hotly anticipated paintball sniper releases of 2008, the DM8 has once again seen the team from DYE raise the bar for high end paintball guns. The new addition to the DM series has included a slew of refinements to ensure their flagship rifle maintains its position as one of the lightest, fastest and most accurate paintball guns in the world.

The somewhat controversial removal of eyeplates from the design seems to have paid dividends, with the new ‘Eye-Pipe Anti-Chop sensing system’ providing some astounding results when we gave this unit a workout. This combined with the new Hyper3 regulator has allowed the design team to further reduce the size of what was already an extremely compact unit.

The updated grip frame took us a little while to get used to the unique hourglass shape but this combined with the Ultralite Sticky3 rubber proved to be one of the most comfortable we’ve ever used over the course of the day.

The adjustable roller bearing trigger design and low operating pressure of this unit also ensured a staggering consistency of aim at all distances. Other modifications include an improved fuse bolt and internal LPR.

Overall, this marker is nothing short of a dream to use - Lightweight, accurate, reliable and lightning fast. You do pay for the privelige of using the DM8 [the best deal we've found is here], but as they say - you get what you pay for.

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