Indian Creek Designs Desert Fox Initially, when I found out I was the lucky one to whom this gun was being offered for $50.00, (normal price is closer to 3 or 400) I just about wet my pants. When it arrived at my house a mere week after first emailing the person who had it for sale I really did wet them! (well, not really, but I probably should have).     You may have noted that this gun did not come with a barrel. Fortunately I already own 2 other Indian Creek Designs paintball guns, and have 3 barrels to go along with them. This made putting a barrel on the Desert Fox as simple as finding the third barrel and screwing it into the gun. The barrel I decided was going to permanently reside on this weapon is a 12 (really 13) inch brass barrel with spiral porting taking up the last 3 inches. As per usual with Indian Creek Design guns, I had to apply teflon thread tape to ensure a snug fit with the barrel and gun. Once I was sure this (heavily used) barrel was clean and Kosher, I attached a 12oz CO2 bottle directly to the rear ASA, and started a dry-firing sequence to get a feel for the trigger and general operation of the gun.     The first thing I noticed was the hefty feel of this gun! The magazine pictures don't do this gun justice, it is HEFTY! Now when I say hefty, I mean not excessively heavy or bulky, but impressive in size! It has similar body lines to the other Indian Creek guns, but it is about (guessing here) 15-20% beefier than the others. Just for fun I detached the Lone Star M-16 grip from the fox and attached a Euro Grip from one of my Alley Cats, and it just didn't look or feel right. The Euro Grip was too small for the Desert Fox's girth! The Lone Star grip however is perfectly proportioned for the Fox, and feels incredibly good in concert with the very comfortable all metal trigger. (Note: I have very large hands, and this gun fits me perfectly. This is not a "junior" gun by my judgement.) Every piece of this gun is beefier than the already strong and well built Alley Cats I've had experience with. Even the powerfeed tube is noticeably thicker and more robust.     Next thing I noticed was the noise this thing makes when dry firing. There is no way around it: the Desert Fox is L-O-U-D! CRACK! CRACK! Not the traditional "thoomp" or "plup" of the ICD blowback guns like the Puma, Bobcat, or Thunder/Alley Cats. This is due to the mechanism that makes possible the extremely high firing rate, which I will address a tad bit later in this review.     The next step in my review is probably the easiest part of owning this gun: Getting your Desert Fox set on the chronograph. Since I was only testing this gun, not playing with it, I decided I wanted a mid range velocity. There is but one adjustment on this entire gun, and that is the regulator adjustment on the back of the gun (under the tourney cap). ICD usually shows a quarter being used to adjust the Fox, but I've learned that the only tool that should be used to adjust this is a decently sized (mid to large) flat head screwdriver. Using a quarter instead of a screwdriver will only ensure that you don't get to use that particular quarter in a vending machine ever again. All that has to be done to adjust the velocity is tighten or loosen the regulator main screw. It's that easy.     Normal operating pressure for 275 FPS on CO2 gas is 425 PSI. This is made easily seen by the large pressure readout gauge on the outside of the Fox. This excellent feature is also generally the topic of discussion whenever anyone sees the Desert Fox for the first time. According to ICD the pressure must be a little bit higher for similar performance from HPA systems.     Now back to noise. Now that I have a barrel, VLbow, and VL2000 installed (and 100 rds of ProBall in the hopper) the gun becomes considerable quieter when the trigger is pulled. Once there is a paintball in the barrel muffling some of that CRACK! noise, the Fox is quite pleasant to shoot. Since it operates on the same principal as the Airgun Designs AutoMag series of paintguns, it has a "similar trajectory" of a slight downward arc in each shot that I have noticed on mags in the past. Many other experienced players and mag owners noted this similarity as well at the time of my testing.     Accuracy on the Fox (with the BOA barrel) is exceptional. Firing at any stationary target is a breeze, once you get sighted in. There is almost no recoil at all when this gun is fired. If it weren't for the soft "crack" of the gas escape, you probably wouldn't know you'd fired a paintball. This makes it very easy to stay on target when multiple shots are necessary, and makes accurate rapid fire quite attainable.     From 50 feet I was able to consistently hit (or come extremely close to) a hanging tennis ball, which presents about a three inch target area. From full field length (indoor speedball, approx. 100 feet) my groups were roughly 5 to 6 inches in diameter. I did not have a target to back this info up, but the groups were very tight. This, by the way, is all unsighted shooting with the CO2 tank directly on the rear ASA. With my bottomline setup, accuracy will only improve along with shot steadiness.     A new Desert Fox normally costs somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 to 500 dollars, and that's a lot. Considering what you get with the package it's quite a deal. For prospective Automag owners this is a definite contender.     On the topic of Automags, let us take the Fox apart. All the important parts come out in one piece, with the turn of one (large) thumb screw. This gun is VERY easy to disassemble. Take a look at the guts of this thing, and the first thing you think is "Automag!". Correct, the blow-forward design is taken from Airgun Design's famous semi-auto, only the Desert Fox has a fantastic regulator built into the works to make for an economical, no-need-to-upgrade package.     In closing, I can't imagine that the performance offered by a gun who's only weak spot is the dislike of liquid CO2 will be anything less than spectacular in rec ball and speedball situations. It is accurate, reliable, fast, and easy to handle and maintain. What more do you want? Click for My current Desert Fox setup.