> Home> Ordering Info> Shopping Cart> Checkout> Contact Us > FAQs> New Items> Titanium Hammers> Other Items Custom-Designed Titanium Paintball Products Titanium — the strength of steel with only 56% of the weight! Corrosion resistance and low friction result in superior components with reduced cycle times. ABOUT US Dark Horizon is a family-owned manufacturing corporation. We are also paintball enthusiasts. Like our customers, we are always looking for new products to improve our game. Not satisfied with what we found on the market, we used our engineering experience to begin development of our own parts. Months of field testing and adjustment followed, eventually culminating in the creation of Dark Horizon. What makes us different? Our advantage lies in our core manufacturing material — titanium. WHY TITANIUM? Titanium is the twenty-second element on the periodic table and the fourth most abundant metal in the earth's crust. Titanium alloys have strengths comparable to steel but with only 56% of the weight. The corrosion resistance of titanium alloys is also far superior to both aluminum and stainless steel. High strength and low weight translates into superior paintball gun components. ADVANTAGES: • Weight savings translates into better gas economy, reduced cycle (gun) kick • The improved energy conservation helps to reduce cycle times • The uncoated machined surface is hard, smooth and has low friction properties • Corrosion resistance is far superior to aluminum and even exceeds that of stainless steel • The strength of steel at about half the weight