Editing Perentie Paintball (section)

=== Establishment and prototypes ===

Bruce Roberts and Darren Hayes established Perentie Paintball in early 1993. Development and assembly initially took place in a workshop in the back of Roberts's home in Seville, east of Melbourne.[1]

Their first prototype used a blowback action but did not progress beyond its initial development. A second prototype used a blow-forward system and became the basis of the Badger.[1]

Although the Badger operated on the same general blow-forward principle as the [[Automag]], the design was developed independently. According to a retrospective account by paintball writer Mike Wallis, Roberts had not examined an Automag when the Badger prototype was developed.[1]

The early Badger mechanism had three principal moving parts: the bolt, trigger and the pin in the on/off valve assembly. The earliest versions operated at full bottle pressure and did not incorporate a separate regulator. Production markers used a hydraulic cup seal around the bolt pin rather than an O-ring.[1]