Sterling Paintball Marker

This FAQ is intended to be a collection of knowledge and wisdom accumulated from REC.SPORTS.PAINTBALL and from personal encounters with the items and users of the items listed above. No guarantees come with this FAQ. The author and contributors will not be held liable in the advent of misuse of the information herein contained. All suggestions and comments represent the opinions of the author and contributors unless otherwise stated. Any listed prices will be accompanied by the store(if available), area, and date most recently observed.

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Table of Contents

• General Information
• Common Problems
• Modifications considered required by contributors
• Current prices of items
• Opinions

General Information

Sterling Stocker
Back bottle ASA. 2-piece wood grip. High polished black anodized finish. 11" removable aluminum barrel. Horizontal 20 ball feed.

Sterling Stock Gun Body
Available in all six STP colors and will interchange with the body of any other Sterling pump.

Sterling STP
Available in six high polished anodized metallic colors. Stain- less Steel internals (mirror polished and matched). 2-piece wood grip. 13" micro honed removable aluminum barrel. Bottom line. Stainless steel braided hose. Each valve individually set for optimum performance.

Sterling STP Turbo
Same as Sterling STP except: 11" brass lined removable barrel. Wrap around wood battle grip. Spring and service kits.

Sterling Sovereign
Sterlings new semi-auto. Ram Bolt system. Blow back hammer. Stainless Steel internals. High polished black anodized external. 11" aluminum barrel. 2-piece wood grip. ASA back bottle. Numbered and limited. Custom color anodizing and other options available.

Sterling Rocker
Sterling pump to semi conversion kit. Designed to work with a number of guns.

Common Problems

Common Modifications

Prices

                         Retail   Wholesale

   G&H Sterling Ltd.      $215    $205

   G&H Sterling Ltd.      $215    $205

   G&H Sterling Ltd. 	  $99     $90

   G&H Sterling Ltd.      $280    $260

   I & I                          $285

   SP (SmartParts)                $230 (Yes, $55 difference)

   SP (w SP barrel)               $285

   G&H Sterling Ltd.      $350    $315

   G&H Sterling Ltd.      $425    $390

   G&H Sterling Ltd.      $199

   SP                             $9.95

   SP                             $9.95

Opinions

Sterling Stocker
{Any comments?}

Sterling Stock Gun Body
{Any comments?}

Sterling STP/STP Turbo
Excellent pump gun. Of all those I've shot this is the most consistent, most accurate, smoothest pump of them all. Very few broken balls (even on really high humidity days). If I remember right (been a while) the velocity adjuster was easy to access and once it was set it stayed pretty constant.
- - JTS

My sterling STP (from SP) came with the spring and service kits. Also, the stock barrel is very sweet. No noticeable accuracy difference between it and a longer std SP barrel. The forest green and the dark blue are both dark and pretty. 2 of the 3 we bought had to have the pump handle sanded a tad as it was tight on the barrel.
- - Mike Harris (harrism@aquila.rtp.dg.com)

Sterling Sovereign
Yeah right. I called on this and production has been pushed WAY back until late summer, if at all. They claim they're European buyers were all kinda pissed about the whole thing and so they decided to introduce the Rocker instead.
- - JTS

I did see a prototype of the Sterling Semi about a year and a half ago. It didn't seem all that great and had tons of regulation problems, but it was a prototype. At least the prototype used exactly the same technology to turn the Sterling into a semi. Besides for the green anodizing it looked a lot like a typhoon. As for a self regulating regulator I'm not sure.
- - Ed "Catfish" Gibbs (gibbs@nevada.edu)

Sterling Rocker
{Any comments?}

General
Rumor (thanks to Andrew H. Lory : lory@dg-rtp.dg.com) has it that the Rocker (and the Sovereign?) will be making their debut sometime in Augus