Editing Line SI Bushmaster (section)

=== Development ===

The Bushmaster developed from early modifications to the [[Nelspot 007]], one of the first markers used in organised paintball.

Ross Alexander's businesses, Skirmish and Line SI, produced paintball equipment and conversion components during the mid-1980s.

These included replacement barrels and pump-action systems intended to improve the performance and handling of the original Nelspot.

Jerry Dobbins was involved in designing the Bushmaster pump system.[3]

VintageRex catalogues the original Line SI Bushmaster as a 1987 marker, with contemporary advertisements preserved from the September 1988 edition of ''Action Pursuit Games''.[2]

The manufacturer's 1989 instruction manual identified the Bushmaster as a tournament-oriented paintball marker and documented both standard and deluxe models.[1]