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With the Evolution, Jetstream and Predator Autocockers, Belsales have always targeted the very top end of the Paintball market. Not so with the Inferno. Let's see what you get for your money…

First impressions
From the first time that you pick up even the most basic site model it's obvious that you're handling a quality piece of kit. It just feels well made. Call it old-fashioned British workmanship or whatever, it's a good, solid bit of machinery. Ok, not the most exciting design ever, but this marker is an exercise in simple functionality.

Every little component of the Inferno has been finished to the kind of quality you will still rarely see in guns costing three or four times more. And they all fit together perfectly. The trigger, even though it has no trigger shoe and is not that fat, feels comfortable and almost hand-finished. In fact there is not one life-threateningly sharp edge on the whole gun – unlike some of the equivalent guns on the market, where you jeopardize your life every time you trip up. Everything on the Inferno is nice and rounded and safe.

Valve design
The operation and layout of the Inferno are basically identical to the F4 and Spyder (see either for more details), but it has some really nice extra features and designs that are well worth mentioning. The valve mechanism on the Inferno is fed direct from the bottom line unit that is supplied with all the guns. The difference between this and all the other blowbacks is that the valve assembly slides out as a complete unit and can actually be gassed up without being in the gun.

This may sound like a pretty minor thing, but when it comes to fixing a leaky valve it can be a Godsend for locating the exact source of that pesky hissing noise. Although you need an Allen key to take it out, its advantages outweigh this minor hassle. Actually, a lot of the good features of this gun revolve around the excellent valve system. Loosely based on the ground-breaking Evolution valving, the combination of good valve design and big bore valve chamber gives efficiency and cold weather performance that are not to be bettered by any other gun of this style.

Performance
Designed for running vapor CO2 or compressed air, even at only 300 psi the gun will cock consistently and shoot at decent velocity. This implies that even in the coldest climates it's not going to be a problem running the Inferno. The gun has no fancy cocking mechanism like the F4, but does have an ambidextrous, top-mounted cocking handle. This doubles as the field-strip pin, and by removing this (it just pulls out) and taking off the barrel the bolt can be taken out for cleaning.

Choose your model
There are only two main differences between the site version and the recball version of the Inferno, but they're very nice touches. Firstly, whilst we are still looking in the field-strip section, the bolt on the site version is completely enclosed and the back of the bolt chamber is plugged with an alloy plug, held in place by a screw. On the recball model this plug is removed and the standard bolt is replaced by a longer quick-strip bolt. When the gun is in the cocked position, the back of the new bolt protrudes about 1/2" from the back. If you pull the pin now you can slide the bolt straight out the back. All in all this now takes less than five seconds to strip the gun.

The other main difference is the trigger pull. On the recball model, the trigger stroke has been shortened to about half that of the standard site version. That's not to say the trigger on the site gun is long, it's just that the one on the higher model is so short. The only real reason that they haven't got all triggers like that is just for the reliability factor that site guns need to have.

Final words
Neither of these guns has a powerfeed; they use something more like a standard Bud feed, but there were no problems in testing. With other standard features including external velocity adjuster, steel hose and fittings, bottom-line, Euro grip and interchangeable barrel, and companies like Smart Parts producing aftermarket barrels and parts, the Inferno is as popular, if not more so, than all the other guns that Belsales have been linked to. The difference this time round is that everyone should be able to afford one.

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