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KAPP / Pacific Paintball double trigger hinge frame

Here is a neat KAPP / Pacific Paintball double trigger hinge frame that I purchased a couple months back from fellow Southern California Stock player Geoff Wakefield.

Geoff Wakefield's 2001/2002 Autococker with Kapp Chrome double trigger swing frame. Photo courtesy Geoff Wakefield.
Geoff Wakefield’s 2001/2002 Autococker with Kapp Chrome double trigger swing frame. Photo courtesy Geoff Wakefield.

Wakefield was living and playing in Northern California in the early 2000s when he first saw one of these Kapp Swing frames. He remembers meeting a player at Sherwood Forest, in Vallejo California, c. 2001/2002.

Left side of Kapp Double trigger swing frame.
Left side of Kapp Double trigger swing frame.

Geoff writes:
“I heard about the frame at Sherwood paintball in Vallejo. A cool older guy had one. It was the first hinge frame I remembered seeing [for the Autococker]. He gave me the number to Kapp. I had to send my gun in and they sent it back all tuned with the new frame.”

Right side of Kapp Double Trigger Swing Frame.
Right side of Kapp Double Trigger Swing Frame.

Geoff sold his original frame (and Autococker?) and purchased this example when he came across it this year.

This style swing frame predates the Kapp’s Reflex swing frame, and based on Geoff’s date of 2001/2002, it falls into the Kapp timeline right around the release of the Kapp Flame Autococker. I’ll be setting this frame up on a well used Kapp Flame Autococker I found earlier this year.

Channel for 3 way actuating arm on Kapp Swing Frame.
Channel for 3 way actuating arm on Kapp Swing Frame.

Looking over this frame we can see the KAPP logo cut into the side, the pitted in the chrome plating, and the unusually method used for acuating the Autococker switch.

Kapp Logo cut into the side of the frame.
Kapp Logo cut into the side of the frame.

This frame uses a brass cylinder cut for the Autococker actuating arms that is inserted in a spring loaded channel. This cylinder is moved back and forth by pivoting the trigger.

Top of Kapp Frame showing brass cylinder that is moved by trigger pivor.
Top of Kapp Frame showing brass cylinder that is moved by trigger pivor.

This design makes me wonder if Kapp ever designed a singer finger design that operated the same way? I also wonder how similar the trigger is to an Angel trigger?

Front view of Kapp frame with allen set screw that retains brass cylinder.
Front view of Kapp frame with allen set screw that retains brass cylinder.

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3 COMMENTS

  1. Dan,

    This is the #2 prototype for cocker hinge frame . I believe there were Three total before final design.

    Dirk(InnovativeMFG)

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