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[Lord Lipton]

i airsoft sometimes, i was really into airsoft a few years back, now that i wasted so much money on shit that i regret...i'm trying to sell all my stuff now.

never paintballed. but a 24 hour thing sounds so awesome.

[Silver]

paintball rules!

dont need all thatwe got drunk/high and went to the RR tracks and made forts and bought cheap PB guns and attacked them... always fun.

dont like speed ball, like more of the woods play. in high school we would go as Junior and senior classes and play. 50-75 of us. I once talked a red guy into putting his gun down "yelling at him" AND IT WORKED! i was out of balls and took his gun and shot him.... pwnt that noob!

[Geallor]

I'm not talking trash about paintball. Only that I saw it on TV different than my boss saw it. I was thinking about strategy and movement from a PC perspectived and he, like you guys, talked about adrenaline and such. I would love to play paintball. I had friends in college that were on a top team, or so I was told. The only thing was that I found out how much all that stuff cost. It might not seem so outrageous now (don't know the cost) but back then I just felt like a poor boy in a nice neighborhood. Just like the BMX faze, the RC car faze, the real car faze, the great stereo faze... ...LOL

You can get PB Markers for under $100 on ebay. They are older models but they can hold up. The $1,200 - $1,600 guns are for the pro players and then add all the Nitro tanks and such and your up to $2,000 easlily. I have around $400.00 in my guns with all the upgrades and such. The long term cost are the paintballs and air. But it is worth it.

paintball rules!

dont need all thatwe got drunk/high and went to the RR tracks and made forts and bought cheap PB guns and attacked them... always fun.

dont like speed ball, like more of the woods play. in high school we would go as Junior and senior classes and play. 50-75 of us. I once talked a red guy into putting his gun down "yelling at him" AND IT WORKED! i was out of balls and took his gun and shot him.... pwnt that noob!

I only convinced one guy to surrender once. I had owned him all day and I guess he decided it wasn't worth it. Besides if he didn't surrender he was going to get blasted at 10'.



Geallor

[Cpt. Snot Rocket]

This thread brings back some memories! I started playing in 1986! Most people had never heard of it. I lived in Ohio and the only other people we were in contact with were in California. I had the original Sheridan "paint marker gun". I remember the first "splatmaster" all plastic gun. Later I purchased the original fully-auto Tippman. It used a smaller caliber, .280 ball I think.

I may still have the premier issue of Paint Ball Games Magazine floating around here someplace. Tournaments were a rare thing at first and required much travel so we basically just tried to rally as many friends as we could and head out into the woods and various versions of capture the flag. Lot's of great stories. The neatest thing of what we did back in the day as compared to today, is that we limited everyone to a just a couple/few tubes of balls. (Huge gravity feeders were not around much yet). The limited ammo made stealth a mandatory skill, and strategy was so important.

Some of the best moments were times we would establish bases in the woods the evening before and the we'd start play at Midnight. Man your mind does some serious freaking out as you walk thru the woods in the pitch dark by yourself jst waiting for a ball to come wipping through the air at 320fps right into your goggles!!
Talk about nearly pissin' yourself.

[CommanderChoth]

The tippmann f/a used the standard .68 caliber balls...my friend had one, it sported this first "auto-hopper" you had to wind it up, it was amazing.

Silver, I played woods a lot, and I've made my fair share of little whiney kids, and grown men surrender. Supressing fire, move quick like lightning. The best is when the little fool thinks he can shoot you when you've snapped the barrel on him at 3 feet away. By most fields regulation, if you yell "take the hit" or "surrender" and they don't immediately....oh boy it's the most fun way to correct stupidity I have found in my limited years on this earth.

The best part...no lag
Well, maybe after like 14 hours or something, but...ya know.

[Cpt. Snot Rocket]

The best part...no lag
Well, maybe after like 14 hours or something, but...ya know.

No Lag....LOL.

Did some checking and the Tippman SMG-60 I had used a .620" ball. Clip fed, full/semi-auto. I could hear peoples ass-cheeks squeeze together when I opened up on them...he he he

The .280"(?) ball was used by the look-a-like Uzi that was full auto. I don't recall the manufacturer though. Wasn't accurate, but fun to shoot.