Build Your Valken Blackhawk!

Valken Blackhawk Paintball Gun Upgrade Guide!

The Valken Blackhawk paintball gun has proven itself to be one of the most reliable paintball guns in the world at any price! Designed and built tough from the springs and bolts to the body and barrel, the Valken Blackhawk is a paintball gun designed to go bang every time the trigger is pulled, delivering reliable performance at a price any player can afford! Far from a basic, cheap paintball gun, the Valken Blackhawk combines a time tested, durable operating system that requires very little simple maintenance with a clean, tactical look. With just a few affordable performance upgrades available directly from Valken, the basic Blackhawk paintgun can be built to deliver impressive accuracy, consistency and capability to compete with paintball guns costing hundreds more!

A Simple, Reliable, Affordable Paintball Gun!

In its standard form, the Valken Blackhawk is an affordable, reliable, simple and rugged mechanical semi-automatic paintball gun that does its job very well! Running reliably on CO2 or compressed air and feeding from a simple, basic paintball hopper, the .68 caliber Valken Blackhawk will function well in almost any weather or climate conditions, fire as fast as the player can pull the trigger, and has proven so rugged and durable that many paintball fields have selected it as their rental paintball gun because it’s hard to break, and easy to clean and care for! However, that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement! With just a few simple, affordable Blackhawk paintball gun upgrades, the Blackhawk’s consistency, accuracy and overall performance can be significantly improved, allowing a player with a simple, affordable paintball gun to fight head-to-head against opponents with paintball gear costing hundreds more, and WIN! Valken offers a full range of affordable Valken Blackhawk upgrades that can dramatically improve its performance!

Building a competitive Valken Blackhawk paintball gun starts with the air tank used to supply it with the power it needs to fire each paintball downrange and then recock itself to fire again! While the Blackhawk CAN run reliably on CO2, any paintball gun, including the Blackhawk, will operate more reliably, consistently and accurately on paintball compressed air as compressed air is regulated and is not susceptible to freezing and pressure fluctuations in colder weather or during rapid firing. A Blackhawk running on compressed air, even from a basic, affordable Valken paintball compressed air tank like those that cost as little as around fifty dollars, will shoot more consistently over the chronograph which will contribute to improved accuracy, will work better in all weather conditions, will break and chop fewer paintballs and will require less maintenance to work at its best! Over the life of the paintball gun and tank, the performance improvements over CO2 that compressed air will provide will wind up paying for the compressed air bottle!

Further performance upgrades to the Valken Blackhawk that will yield immediate and noticeable results on the paintball field include a new paintball gun barrel. Aftermarket paintball gun barrels with A5 threads, available from a myriad of manufacturers including Valken, will thread right into the Blackhawk and will fit the paintballs being fired more consistently. This, plus the increased length provided by most aftermarket paintball gun barrels that are between 12 and 16 inches in length, will immediately lead to greater accuracy at all ranges, quieter shooting, and allow a player in the woods to stay behind cover and push their muzzle through thick brush or other types of cover to fire accurately while remaining concealed. Players on any budget will immediately see a noticeable all-around performance improvement by adding an aftermarket paintball gun barrel to their Valken Blackhawk!

Load up with a Fast Loader!
Another ideal Valken Blackhawk upgrade that will provide instant and obvious results is a motorized paintball loader. A motorized loader, like the affordable, reliable and fast Valken V-Max+ loader, is designed to help any paintball gun feed more reliably and shoot faster without breaking or chopping paintballs! Anyone who’s had to stop in the middle of a game and shake their paintball gun or open the lid of their hopper and pull a handful of paintballs out to clear a feed jam knows what we’re talking about. Using a sensor, the Valken V-Max+ loader ensures that a steady stream of paintballs is fed down from the loader, through the paintball gun’s feed neck and into the gun’s breech for firing, improving overall performance, eliminating feed jams and broken paint, and allowing the player pulling the trigger to shoot faster, for longer! The Valken V-Max+ paintball loader also works with practically any paintball gun, making it an investment that a Blackhawk owner can make now that can grow with the player as they move up or purchase another paintball gun!

Feed the Need!
No paintball gun can function at its best without high quality paintballs. The best paintballs are consistently round, fresh and packaged to ensure quality every time, like Valken Graffiti paintballs! Any player who’s paid a bargain price for cheap paintballs, only to endure poor accuracy, breaks in a paintball gun barrel, bounces on target and paint that’s a pain to clean up knows that any paintball gun will work better with quality paintballs like Valken Graffiti or Valken New World! The Valken Blackhawk paintball gun is no exception! Even the rugged, simple and reliable Blackhawk will shoot more consistently, feed more reliably and shoot more accurately at all ranges with high quality paintballs like Valken Graffiti. Looking for an instant upgrade for your Valken Blackhawk or any other paintball gun that requires literally no work on the paintgun itself? Look no further than Valken Graffiti paintballs for improved performance!

Build Blackhawk BETTER!
Reliable, simple and affordable, the Valken Blackhawk paintball gun is trustworthy and capable! With just a few basic, inexpensive upgrades like a compressed air bottle, a motorized loader, an aftermarket paintball gun barrel and high quality paintballs, a player will find their Blackhawk paintgun reborn into a giant slayer that can help them defeat opponents shooting much more expensive paintball guns for a great day at the paintball field!