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One of the Impulse's strongest selling points (to the day) is the large number of private label (PL)versions that were produced. A private label Impulse is functionally the same as a regular Impulse, however they were milled differently and also included any number of smaller performance enhancing parts or upgrades that weren't included with the stock version. These were designed to be sold by Smart Parts major teams and retailers; each one looked different, and each came with different accessories.
Most of these came with a Freak barrel (except for the 32º, AVI, some others) and most of them were milled by SP. The official PL Impulses were all milled by SP, but some custom shops out there chose to provide their own versions which were milled from stock bodies. These weren't actual private label Impulses, but for all intensive purposes I file them in that category.

Base Impulse - Stock Imp, available in a few colors and a few fades (whenever SP ran fade batches). The 2001 models had a lot of fades done from the factory, but SP stopped doing it as much coming into 2002 and later. The original price was $500 for the base model or $650 for the Vision model, but the price was dropped to $450/600 in 2004.

32º impulse - Same as the stock Impulse except more expensive. This even came with a Progressive barrel. 32degrees.com

Adrenalin Impulse - Extremely popular Impulse from buypb.com. It features fourth-axis spiral milling on the upper tube, Adrenalin frame, integrated check valve, and usually came with both a vertical regulator and gas-thru grip to function with whatever you have.

Atomix Impulse - One of the last Impulses to be designed. atomixpaintball.com

The below picture is also an Atomix Impulse. I don't know when the milling was changed, or which version came first.

AVI Impulse - Essentially a stock Vision Impulse with different milling and an All American barrel. paintballgear.com

Cash Money impulse - Mikespaintball.com

Demonic Impulse - Roughneckpaintball.com
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Detroit Thunder Impulse - Another name for the Game Face Impulse (used by Team Detroit Thunder).

Eclipse Impulse - Came with many popular Eclipse upgrades (planeteclipse.com).

Fireball Mountain Impulse - These were milled from stock bodies and anodized (both) by fbmfactory.com.

Freak Factory Impulse - retailed from SP dealers. Designed for team Freak Factory. Didn't come with many upgrades, but did have a few.

Game Face Impulse - Available in basic (black) and upgraded (red) versions. gamefacepaintball.com (also sold by paintballgear.com). First Impulse to commercially use an integrated LPR.

Gothic Impulse - Also milled and reanodized by fbmfactory.com, though this milling wasn't as extreme. These were also available with studs sticking out from the holes visible in the side of the body...but I'm not sure what the story was on that.

Hotrod Impulse - Looks to be milled from stock bodies, but unsure.

Meteor Impulse - Designed by meteorpaintball.com, retailed by paintballgear.com and Smart Parts.

Mouse Impulse - At some point Eclipse decided they didn't want to retail the Eclipse Imp any longer, so e-paintballoutlet.com bought up the remaining guns and sold them under the name "Mouse Impulse" (no Eclipse jewels, of course).

Nasty Impulse - Paintballwholesalers.com

Neurotic Sports impulse
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Predator Impulse - Milled by Tarantula manufacturing then anodized and sold by Imperial Paintball (imperialpaintball.com; out of business). These were milled from stock bodies; and also included an optional Predator frame from tarantula MFG (shown in first pic). Last picture from paintballwannab.

Python Impulse - Very unique milling on this one. It involves a separate, stainless tube for the internals, actually making this one of the heaviest Impulses out there. It uses Autococker barrel threads and also involves a special LPR vertical adapter with gauges for both input and LPR pressure. southernpb.com.

Rat Impusle (aka. 02 Rat Impulse) - Another extremely popular Impulse, available from e-paintballoutlet.com / mipaintball.com / ratpb.com. Originally sold for $650 with an LPR, but the price was increased in early 2003 (once they were selling well).

03 Rat Impulse - Redesigned Rat milling for 2003-2004.

Rat jr. - These were Rat Impulses sold after 2003 that featured the "old" milling from before 2003. These came with less upgrades and as a result took a small price break.

Shocktech Impulse - shocktechusa.com. From the looks of it they wanted to minimize the weight above any other cosmetic milling.

SIC Impulse - Milled from stock bodies by sicpaintball.com (includes fourth-axis milling on the upper tube). Available with any assortment of upgrades in any anodizing finish.

Strange Vision Impulse - The first and most popular (by sales) private label Impulse. Designed for Team Strange (teamstrange.net).

TKO Impulse - Original name for the AVI Impulse. (paintballgear.com)

Tonton Impulse - Designed for Team Tonton Flinguers of Europe (France). Originally didn't come with many upgrades, but they were added to the stock gun later on. tontonacd.com

Toxic impulse - Toxicpaintball.com

Voodoo Impulse - Retailed from SP Europe, this came with upgrades from the SP Voodoo line of parts. Visually identical to the Freak Factory Impulse.

Warped Sportz Dark Impulse - Another of the late-designed Impulses, this one from WS. warpedsportzusa.com.

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