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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Rattler on March 26, 2011, 10:47:29 PM
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so i just went paintballing for the first time and all i've gotta say is...IT WAS AWESOME!!!! :rock :rock :rock :rock
first time i got hit was right between the eyes and couldn't see a thing but i loved every second of it.A new addiction has just taken over me.Do any of you guys have any tips for a paintball newby like myself because i am really at a loss.
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playin in the woods or ona field?
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first time i got hit with a paint ball was in the neck
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There used to be this one place where I played, it was on this large hilly forest area that had wood building scattered around, was amazing. Had to bring cleats for it or you'd get swamped. Sadly it went down with the economy, but I've been supporting it's restart. It's run by a Vietnam vet who is an amazing guy. I was a volunteer ref for them 2-3 times, got paid in free food, paintballs, and free sessions.
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so i just went paintballing for the first time and all i've gotta say is...IT WAS AWESOME!!!! :rock :rock :rock :rock
first time i got hit was right between the eyes and couldn't see a thing but i loved every second of it.A new addiction has just taken over me.Do any of you guys have any tips for a paintball newby like myself because i am really at a loss.
Stay away from Spyder's.
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Stay away from Spyder's.
:aok
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Get a tippman 98 custom..be happy with it and never change markers.
I've played ALOT I have a gun thats shoots 25 balls per second, but guess what, if the weather isnt perfect the balls swell and shrink.. if its not perfect i have a 700$ blender.
If you want to have fun, play for cheap, and have reliability. go with tippmann.
I've thought about getting back into it, I may this summer I use to be pretty good, it's kinda like tanking in AH
ive played against pros and got my arse handed in speedball haha
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Ah Paintball!
When I first started there were no semi autos. Anyone remember Nelspots, Splatmasters and Sheridan rifles?
Most of the guns were pump action.
The first true semi auto came out about the time I stopped playing, the Tippman 68 Special.
Wish I hadn't gotten too old and fat, or I'd still be playing.
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Ah Paintball!
When I first started there were no semi autos. Anyone remember Nelspots, Splatmasters and Sheridan rifles?
Most of the guns were pump action.
The first true semi auto came out about the time I stopped playing, the Tippman 68 Special.
Wish I hadn't gotten too old and fat, or I'd still be playing.
I still bust out the Tippmann 68 Carbine from time to time. Most laugh at it, until they cannot hear me shooting and they're out. :cheers: But I remember Nelspots and they were very reliable.
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Ah Paintball!
When I first started there were no semi autos. Anyone remember Nelspots, Splatmasters and Sheridan rifles?
I do! I had a Nelspot and later a Sheridan pump. Then there were the early Tippman autos that used the 5 round plastic stripper clips and the Bushmaster pumps which were lighter and smoother then the Sheridan knock offs. We didn't play the lame speedball courses back then, we had acres of woodland and played capture the flag on a platoon vs platoon level.
Great fun!
I used to build silencers out of PVC pipe and foam. Very effective.
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When I play paintball I'm really aggresive, I try to get halfway up the snake ASAP, then move up even farther. It's alot easier to shoot people that aren't looking at you.
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I've gone a few times and had a blast, but the most fun I had was the first time I went.
This was way back when paintball was still 'new' and as a result most of us had to rent our equipment. There were no automatic guns, and the vast majority of us used paintball pistols that held ten rounds and a small CO2 cartridge that was good for about 40 shots.
It was after a snowfall and was just above freezing, and we were playing capture the flag. This was in the woods in the middle of nowhere, and they even dug trenches and built a small 'town' out of plywood and even had a few tree-top towers, although those were closed because of the snow and ice. We got mud EVERYWHERE! Our play area had to be a good 4 or 5 acres, and there were about a sixty of us total, maybe even more!
I was wearing a black trench-coat with a red inner lining and walked up to three enemies that were down in a trench. They looked up at me and one said "He's already dead" and they all turned their backs to me. I looked down at myself and saw no paint. I looked at a referee who was literally ten feet away and he shrugged his shoulders at me so I popped three rounds at them... hitting them in the back (and one in the back of the head! OUCH!) The ref pointed to all three of them and said "You're OUT!"
Later on I was pinned against a tree with two guys coming right at me. Paint was splattering the tree all around me, but somehow they kept missing me. I went to shoot and the round went "PLOOP", traveling about ten feet and bouncing off the ground! My CO2 was dry! I quickly unscrewed it and was struggling to get the new one threaded on and one guy came running towards me and yelling "I've got him!" Right then HISS went the CO2 and I turned and popped a round at him, hitting him right in the left eye! (Thank god for goggles!) Then he yelled "NEVERMIND!" and I was able to get the heck out of Dodge before his partner caught up to me!
My blaze of glory happened during our first game. We were half way to the enemy base and I was out of paintballs. I guess I got a little itchy with the trigger and went through my paint a lot faster than I had anticipated! So I decided to make a run for it, taking off running and shooting blanks at the enemies. It took them about 20 seconds to realize nothing was coming out of my gun and they all charged after me. I was dancing paint balls as they splattered at my feet but somehow none managed to hit me! I made it to their base, climbed the hill, grabbed the flag, and ran back to our base just as fast as I could, winning the game!
Yeah it was a blast! The guy we rode with made the mistake of driving his dad's brand new Cadillac and we got that thing so muddy it wasn't even funny! He probably got a good butt-whipping for that one!
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Get a tippman 98 custom..be happy with it and never change markers.
I've played ALOT I have a gun thats shoots 25 balls per second, but guess what, if the weather isnt perfect the balls swell and shrink.. if its not perfect i have a 700$ blender.
If you want to have fun, play for cheap, and have reliability. go with tippmann.
I've thought about getting back into it, I may this summer I use to be pretty good, it's kinda like tanking in AH
ive played against pros and got my arse handed in speedball haha
Best advise I've ever seen you give :D
I have 2 Tipman 98 Customs (1 stock, and one with a 16" 32 Degrees barrel). I love paintball, but it has died out around these parts. :(
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GO HERE http://www.pbnation.com/ And i strongly suggest you PM me if your still interested in playing and making it a hobby/outlet/whatever, i can help you go in the direction you want and recommend the right brands and equipment. Iv been playing since i was twelve and now I'm working at the local Field. Here's my pride and joy!
(http://i55.tinypic.com/29ff9f7.jpg)
(http://i51.tinypic.com/11hdy7c.jpg)
i go all out
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Im on/was a semi-pro Scenario and woodsball team. Havnt played in about a year cause i joined the Army. but it was a blast. We'd travel around my state and go to 24-26 hour long scenario games and we'd compete in woodsball tournaments.
What questions do you have?
(http://i510.photobucket.com/albums/s346/Selino30/HBG14.jpg)
^ Me a few years ago
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(http://mediacdn.shopatron.com/media/mfg/3642/product_image/x4_cc046f419a03aa3f86aec74138981294.jpg?1277345001)
(http://mediacdn.shopatron.com/media/mfg/3642/product_image/2849406b7fb8723a52731e5850c77d7f.jpg?1271351663)
irony of it is.. each costs just about the same as a real gun LOL.
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I agree with the Tippmann advice for your first marker. Get a newer Tippmann model that's designed to work on compressed air, not the old models the fogeys around this BBS speak of. Yes those old models still work, but if the paintball places around you are anything like the ones around me, they often don't have CO2 fills ready, which will leave you having to run air on a marker designed for CO2. Which can be problematic unless you can find a very high pressure regulator for your air tank to simulate CO2 pressures.
If you decide you still like Paintball after a year or so, don't be afraid to upgrade from your Tippmann to something more advanced to be competitive and be accepted on a team. Tippmanns are a woodsball / casual marker (in general), you'll want something else if you play a lot or play competitively. But that will cost you more money, both in the marker itself and on paint, because the faster you can shoot, the more you do shoot. Even so, keep the Tippmann, don't sell it if/when you upgrade, it will work when your other markers break down.
If you happen to live out west, I understand there's a lot more interest out there in pump-class paintball. Pump for me is a lot more fun (when everyone is playing pump), because of the limited rate of fire you can do crazier moves, and oh yeah, you shoot less paint so it costs less. I have two CCI Phantom pump markers, one for me and one to lend so that I can maybe get someone else hooked on pump and start something here in the midwest. But in general people here just want to throw paint around.
My semi-auto is a very customized Autococker that I spent well north of 1K on (bought 8-9 years ago), that I never use because I don't want to break it and its too hard to keep tuned. Paintball markers are funny, when you're playing you curse yourself for not spending more (unless you're kicking bellybutton all day), when you're not playing you curse yourself for spending too much.
And oh yeah another good place for more paintball info is http://www.pbreview.com .
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I used to be a hardcore paintballer for nearly 15 yrs. I played from the mid 90's through 2006. Ended up on a collegiate club team, doing tournaments all over the mtn west and NW states. I started out in the woods, but quickly got into speedball and never went back into the woods. I find the fast pace and short games of speedball more appealing then the long games and sneaking/stalking in scenarios and woodsball. Different strokes, I'd try both styles and see which you prefer. And there is no rule that says you can't do both. On my college team there where a couple of guys who also played scenarios too, they had a setup for each style.
As fir paintball gear; it is like many things, ask 10 people and you'll get 11 opinions.
Bottom line is this, gear does not make you a good player, BUT you do need gear that can play to your potential.
If your planning on playing only woodsball or scenarios with your buddies for fun, then a $200 Tippman will probably suit you fine. If you ever want to get into real competition you will want something much better. At the very least something with compressed air, break-beam eyes and a forced loader.
FWIW over the years I have owned and used (in chronological order) a Phantom pump, a Spyder (back in '95 I think when they only made one model) a Bob Long Millenium series Autococker (w/ purple splash anodizing :rock ), a MiniMag, a SP Ion ( hated it), an ICD Bushmaster, and finally an ICD Freestyle ( green dust finish :rock ) I'd say they where all good markers in their time, except for the Ion.
My biggest paintball tip is this "DON'T BE AN #$@HOLE!!!" the thing that ticked me off more then anything when I played was the punk kids who would go vandalize with paintballs (somebody hit a bunch of cars in my neighborhood once), or play where they are not welcome, or make themselves not welcome where they used to be, by being disrespectful jerks and shooting some ranchers cattle (saw it happen), or leaving trash everywhere. It seems like paintball for some reason attracts a lot of idiotic losers, who only serve to give the sport a bad rep among those who don't understand it.
Also why I don't like PBNation at all. Last time I was there it seemed to be completely populated by pre-pubescent idiots who think they know everything, and find elementary school anatomy jokes hilarious. I used the buy/sell forum on occasion, put really couldn't stand the place.
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Get a tippman 98 custom..be happy with it and never change markers.
I've played ALOT I have a gun thats shoots 25 balls per second, but guess what, if the weather isnt perfect the balls swell and shrink.. if its not perfect i have a 700$ blender.
If you have a $700 marker that behaves that badly just because of a temp or humidity change, then it's either broken, or your not tuning it right.
I played with my Bushmaster, and Freestyle (probably had $700 and $1200 into them respectively) in everything from spring blizzards with 8" of snow in Montana, to 105° heat in St. George. With nothing more then a few tweaks to the regulators and making sure my barrel was big enough for the paint (I usually used a .693 bore 2 piece barrel no matter what paint, to big is better then to small) they performed equally well at either extreme.
Every $700 marker made in the last 10 years has had break-beam eyes AFAIK, and with eyes and a forced hopper it's pretty hard to chop paint unless your regulator or barrel is seriously messed up.
The only Tippmans I've ever used where rentals, and I was not impressed. They seemed to have terrible pressure spikes, horrible accuracy, a 50lb trigger pull, and chopped paint a lot. Of course I don't blame this all on Tippman, rental markers are probably all trashed, and that was like 17 yrs ago too.
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I played ALOT of paintball in the 80's-90's in Connecticut.Some of the best games I ever played in were the Combat Classics at West Point,New York.We were invited to join the Cadets from the Army and Air Force along with the Midshipman from Annapolis's teams.There were 100+ players per team and games were played on the training grounds.The sight and sound of all those paintball guns firing was awesome.Almost all players had pump guns but some newer semi-autos were used.I had a Line SI Bushmaster pointman pump action with a custom barrel that was super accurate.I still have the gun and would love to break it out some time.Great memories and tons of fun to be had playing Paintball if you find the right people to play with. :aok :salute
(http://i746.photobucket.com/albums/xx107/jackuca/Bushmaster.jpg)
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good lookin gun sir :D
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man the memories of Paintball, I used to play alot of pick up games in the local woods with buddies then we played alot at fields for the scenarios. My set up used to be the tippman 98 with 14" sniper barrel and a shortie as back up, had all the bells and whistles on it but the best time to play was winter in the snow we used to get evil and freeze the paintballs the night before and just wail the heck out of each other in the woods. I used to wear the camo but I found that black works alot better cause on a nice sunny day you blend in alot better in my opinion. Well good luck and have fun it can get addicting to play and cost ya some money also
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If you live anywhere near Pennsylvania, check out EMR's Castle Conquest event. One of the largest scenarios battles I have ever taken part in. Takes place twice a year in the spring and fall. I try to go every year, and helped attackers take the castle in record time 2 years ago :D
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WOW that's alot of good advice guys.Thanks for the help.Yea I'm looking at the Tippmann 98 custom because i really liked liked the woods and castle scenarios and I know I'll be doing alot of that.Some of the more legit players kept telling me to stay away from spyders as much as possible soo I'll just take their word for it and leave it at that.I don't plan on becoming hard core.Just plan on playing maybe every month or two with a group of friends at orbital paintball over here in Tampa.But i'm seeing on this tippmann that it doesn't have the double tripper should i maybe get a marker that does? does it really matter?
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Best advice I can give you is stick to the woods and scenario games. There is far more sportsmanship and fun playing with these types of games than the tourneys.
Tourneys attract ALOT of prettythangholes that think they are the best and always bend the rules. Even when the refs are around.
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I have an evil omen 2.0 the reason the balls need to be right is because it uses cam arms not eyes.
Waste of money my tippmann 98 with the E trigger was a much bette gun.
The best Time I had was playing in the moonlight with 30 people..it ended up being more about drinking copious amounts of beer than paintball but fun nonetheless.
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Latrobe, are you aware that one of the best Pro teams in history is based in Latrobe, as well as their paintball company "Smart Parts"? When I was a kid I played pro in the NPPL (we were the only Canadian team to place consistently and won 2nd in the 5 man worlds and 3rd in the 10 man Worlds). Anyhow, the All Americans were one of the best pro teams, from Latrobe Penns, and one of my teamates Roddy Mcdonald went on to manage their team for a long while, and is still involved with Smart Parts I think. Hard to believe it was 17 years ago.....my team (Personal Vendetta, Canada),which was sponsored by W'Orr Game, Bob Long, Smart parts, RP Scherer, and JT Usa, got 2nd at the World Amateur Open in 1994, it still remains one of the biggest events ever held in pro/am paintball, with over 500 5 man teams competing....paintball was HUGE during its growth spurt. I can remember there being over 100 5 man teams at events in Alberta back in the early 90's.
That picture of the Bushmaster Pump brings back a lot of memories too, the owner of that company started a team called "Navarone" that was king of everything in terms of competitive paintball back in the very early 90's until the semi-autos like the VM68 and early Tippman guns came out. Again, it seems like yesterday, but it's now 20 years since I started playing too, and13 since I stopped working and playing in the industry for a living. Crazy.
Now, I realize this might sound quite stupid, but...not so much the skills of paintball, but more the "reaction" time you get from incoming fire and being able to jerk your body from the waist up while on your knees/behind cover/fighting at a corner has served me quite well in my career post paintball. I've worked for a Private Military Company for the last 7 years until getting sidelined from getting System Lupus, and again, as silly as it sounds, the reflexes developed from the thousands of days I spent playing paintball helped my skills develop quickly while working first as a pistol instructor for SigArms Academy, then for Globe Risk and Tundra security as well (The documentary "Shadow Company" was based largely on me and my company during one of our training cycles and subsequent deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan in the business). Again, it's been my experience that paintball shooting and real shooting have dramatic differences, but the "reaction time/quick reflex" developed by playing PB can translate to a lot of other things, in particular combat shooting/staying alive-using cover.
I know there is another active AH player here on the HTC forums who playing in the NPPL way back when I just can't find it in the search engine right now. Pretty sure he was from one of the legendary Florida teams, hah.
edit: Even though I played competitively I still LOVED big games, and back when I worked in the PB biz, we were the national distributors for RP Scherer Paintballs, and we convinced them to make a short run of neon glow in the dark balls back in the early 90's. We took these to a night game at Sat Cong Village in California where 600 plus players came out for a night game. It was the most insane thing I think I've ever seen still to this day, as the semi autos like the AutoMag and Auto Cocker were newly out, and the thousands of balls flying at night glowing like lasers made the whole area look like Star Wars writ large. The military and police got dozens of calls that night from people nearby wondering WTF was happening. Good times.
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I had a Tippman 98 as well as an A-5 and they were great for the woods. :aok
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When I was playing I used the Tippman98custom with 14" Dye barrel. Also used a harness and cable. Tried some speedball, but playing against guys with Shockers, or other moneymarkers wasn't my thing. Best game I ever played was in the woods at night and snowing. LOL frozen paintballs hurt.
Training day quote." You mofo'er, You shot me in the azz!" :D
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Eh, Airsoft is more affordable, i wouldn't ever pay 1,000 for a M4 that holds like 15 paintballs, but hey thats just me
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Eh, Airsoft is more affordable, i wouldn't ever pay 1,000 for a M4 that holds like 15 paintballs, but hey thats just me
ive got a $600 M4 airsoft gun :D
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ive got a $600 M4 airsoft gun :D
:uhoh
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so i just went paintballing for the first time and all i've gotta say is...IT WAS AWESOME!!!! :rock :rock :rock :rock
I remember back when I first played paintball, years and years ago... we were all using the field guns, Nel-Spot '007' (yes, that's the real model number) paint marking pistols... My first game, I spend half an hour sneaking around the edge of the field after the inconclusive center-field fight, shoot the two defenders of the flag with paint from a tube someone had dropped, grab the flag, and head back toward our flag, when I suddenly hear "No, Bill, he's on our--" followed by the *splat* as I was shot in the chest... by my team captain, who didn't see me holding the flag out in front of me.
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:uhoh
it is amazing
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i prefer to shoot the real thing :D
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Here a cheap easy paintball grenade.
Step 1: Buy can of spray paint
Step 2: Build large fire
Step 3: Light fire
Step 4: toss paint can into fire
Step5: :bolt:
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i prefer to shoot the real thing :D
i actually have an AR-15, my dad owns a M-4. both are fun to shoot
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Here a cheap easy paintball grenade.
Step 1: Buy can of spray paint
Step 2: Build large fire
Step 3: Light fire
Step 4: toss paint can into fire
Step5: :bolt:
ive done that,not much paint comes out though lol
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I paintball almost every weekend. It doesn't matter what marker you use as long as it's comfortable for you. Spyders can be good guns as long as you maintain it properly. There actually cheaper then Tip98's in the long run because you don't have to spend money on upgrades. I've been using the same Spyder Imagine for the better part of 5 years with no problems.
The best thing for new players to do is stay aggressive. You don't know what you don't know yet, and the best way to get better is to try new things.