Paintball!!!!

[Oniss]

So how many ppl here play paintball? If you do please post your current gear. Spyder xtra, evolution hopper, some B.D.U.'s, JT mask, some gloves, and a 20 ounce co2 tank... soon, ill hopefully have an autococker and a new mask and some pods.

[Shensen]

I play when I can get out. I have a purple Spyder semi-auto with 21" sniper barrel. Not sure of the rest of the gear cause I just buy whatever.

I don't get out to play as often as I'd like, but I usually make it out at least once a year. We have a real nice place to play here on like 100 acres with several fields - lots of fun.

[warsloth]

german flectar tanker coveralls in that pic, but I also use the regular German BDU's. I just like the patern in my area.
The gun shown is a $50 spider, I dont need a fancy gun. But I also have a Tippman Prolite custom that cost quite a bit at the time (the older version of the pro-carbine) and I have a couple barrels: a rifled sniper barrel (wth is rifling for?? gas flow or something) and a JJ ceramic.

A good spider barrel is the freak. my brother uses it and when I put it on my crap gun it gives it much greater accuracy, which also extends your effective range.

I also carry at least one of the following: K-bar, khukri machete, spade. long story there.

I may play this weekend, if I can make some arrangement to avoid sweetest day garbage (ITS NOT A FREAKING HOLIDAY, YOU ALREADY GET VALENTINE'S!!!)

My mask is a modified extreem vision 180, which has been sold and renamed to the gladiator by a different manufacturer.

My other relics include a pump made by Pihrana, way back. They sold the design to the makers of the PGP, who compacted it and produced a pistol version. I also own the PGP. I have been playing forever, and I have tons of stories, but I will spare you all.

[Oniss]

Heh, im actually interested in some of your stories as you seem very sneaky and proffesional lol.

[Oeree]

I have a tippman 98... Had it for 6 years. Still works like new too. I have some camo... i'll need some new though.

[X'an Shin]

(wth is rifling for?? gas flow or something)

The idea is to give the ball a constant spin. Without it, your gun is throwing a knuckleball everytime the ball leaves the barrel. So it's straight, but not very accurate past a certain point, where the ball will randomly deviate.

With rifling, the ball will spin the same way out of the gun. It can be hard to get used to, but once you've got your barrel "dialed in," you can account for the curveball (every ball curves the same way) and get off some great shots at range.

I always play on forested terrain or on speedball courses, so I don't typically have much use for long barrels, myself.

My other relics include a pump made by Pihrana, way back.

Aw hell naw! We used to play with those exclusively "back in the day!" Zannon, Dooo, and I (and others not represented here) used to go play a bunch in college.

I'll post pics of my gear here soon. It's an Automag Mark 7 (and old but VERY clean and trusty design). Nothing fancy. Just reliable.

It's the way I carry it that will have me winning this here internet thread (And for those of you who know me, NO SPOILERS). I've got the pics, now I just have to convince the wife to pull them off the camera.[/quote]

[Sai'nu]

I used to a lot. Old, at least to me, pump action Talons by Eagle were the weapons of choice for me and my brother out here on the dinky little farm near the thickly vegitated woods.

Well, after we decided that since the paintballs would nearly never go straight with such small force propelling them... we at least tried to go for sneaky!

This, of course is very illegal to do; but the information is not. I'm surprised at how well it worked in fact.

First, you take a piece of PvC pipe you can fit over your barrel... tight enough that you can simply slide it on tight and remove it the same way.

Second, you drill a bunch of holes in the middle section of the PvC pipe. Make sure this is not a larger area than what slides over this section next.

Thirdly, you put a large enough hole through the top of a Cake Icing containger (I like Duncan Hines the best) lid and the bottom of the container to slide over the section of PvC pipe you've drilled holes into.

I'd call this the last step: Stuff as much of that pink insulation (you usually find under a trailer or house or in the walls/garage) in the container and close the lid making sure the container is slide snuggly over the holey area.

Your Ready to Rock!

While not as effective as a real silencer on a real weapon; the principles of this seemed to work just as well with paintball. Surprisingly, this did make it a tiny bit harder to decide where to shoot back at if my brother was sniping me from somewhere.

[X'an Shin]

Okay, here it is, my fun little case mod I did a few years back.

"I'm looking for a man, who goes by the name..."




"HEY IT'S HIM, HE'S THE MARIACHI!!!!"



The intimidation factor alone when you walk on a field with this is priceless.

[Oniss]

Okay, here it is, my fun little case mod I did a few years back.

"I'm looking for a man, who goes by the name..."




"HEY IT'S HIM, HE'S THE MARIACHI!!!!"



The intimidation factor alone when you walk on a field with this is priceless.

That is awsome oh btw have any of you eaten a paintball? not bad until you get to the after taste

[warsloth]

Any time Im running or yelling while taking fire, I eat a little. They are mostly detergent or something like dishsoap. At least that's what I heard.

I used to love the Automag, but I was always spending money on other stuff so I didn't buy high dollar guns. I have had a gun and some equipment stolen before too, which sucks.

I have scored kills agains semi-autos and such using the pihrana pump and the PGP. The one time I got to use, and score a kill with the PGP the guy (who was using a spider) was pretty pissed.

I have played paintball without a gun. This experience has made me exceptional at president and flag cap.

Once when playing at a farm, I jumped a cliff into the Scioto river, because I was the "downed Pilot"

I have been shot everywhere but in the face. (/target whar /lowblow)

I have defended an outhouse as a game objective. Waded waist deep in a creek in January, just to get a good stealthy flank.

My friend drop kicked his $200 gun and split it in half (unrepairable)

I beat my friend's (best man in my wedding) brother with a log, after sneaking up on him (first game I ever played)

Ill post an actual story later. I busted my knee on my CO2 tank yesterday while jumping a gully. Still hurts like crazy.

[X'an Shin]

Yeah, the paintballs are some kind of "bio-degradable anti-freeze" with a kind of non-toxic paint in them. I've had tons of that crap fly in my mouth, as the masks we used to use were just simple BMX face shields (not the full-face masks required by today's fields).

I've even seen some pros I used to get to play with go with no face shield what-so-ever and take one on the LIP. That was one ugly lip.

I think the worst paintball I ever took was when I was in a pillbox made out of chipboard. The walls weren't quite tight enough together, and a ball hit between two boards, sending splinters and paint straight into my neck. I had a rash and was picking out slivers for like 6 months I think.



But my best paintball story involves Zannon. When we were all rolling as a tightly knit crew back in college, we played on our favorite field (Fox River Games) which had just been flooded by the Fox River a couple of weeks earlier, so it was VERY muddy in places we weren't used to being muddy.

So Zannon's out ahead on point, and he takes cover behind a bunker along the left tapeline, where there's a crowd of people watching us play. The rest of the team moves up ahead of him, and I'm bringing up the rear.

I see Zannon yelling something at me (It sounds like "Hey dude, grab my MMoMMmnn"), and he's pointing out at the mudfield between us. I see his ranger fishing camo hat lying there in the mud, so even though we're taking fire, I run up (as best as I can in the mud), and slide into second behind a bunker as I simultaneously grab the hat and perfectly frisbee toss it to him.

He catches it, puts it on his head, and says "No, god-damn it, MY SHOE," and proceeds to angrily walk out into the mudfield between us, and start yanking his shoe out of the mud. The only way he could find it was that a shoelace was poking up out of the mud. The best part was that the other team was desperately trying to hit him but just couldn't. It was like watching some Bizarro world version of Patton out there or something.

I laughed while giving him cover-fire, and the audience was roaring with laughter. He dumped the mud, water, and WORM out of his shoe, put it back on, and we continued kicking ass.

[Oniss]

Wow lol the best story i can get is this: I was playing on either a saturday or sunday. while i was playing a speedball game(i decided to try it out) i move up and get shot in the mask, thigh, elbow(the funny bone area), and the side. After claiming to not see all of it happen b/c his mask was foggy, my friend shoots me in the back within 5 foot range.

[Oeree]

I actually have a circular scar on my elbow from getting shot up close, and I didn't have a long sleeve shirt on (stupid me). That really sucked.