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[ChanceKJ]

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[wp34]

That is really wild and looks like fun. Was that rain I saw in the middle of the video? 

 

[ChanceKJ]

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[wp34]

I wish, it was hail.

That just makes it more badass.

How quickly would an amateur get eliminated at that level?

[ChanceKJ]

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[mgb]

Now that's a great past time.
I've only been paintballing once but had a great time.
I've gotta take my son soon.

[bleargh]

I played on a team long long ago, before "semi-automatic paint guns" came out (~1986-90)

Was a totally different game back then IMHO... when you could only hold 10 or 20 shots in the gun before you had to stop and reload.  When "100 round hoppers" came out it was like "WOW... just think... you could just lay down huge swaths of paint, and you wouldn't have to be that accurate with any one given shot".

For me, that killed the fun of it... I started to see guys come out to play who just threw gobs and gobs of cash at buying more paint pellets, and it ended up becoming a game of "who could pull the trigger faster and pour more cash into their hopper" than anything else.  I quit playing shortly after that; the fun was gone for me.

[BadMouth]

When I was a teenager we used slingshots because it was cheap and put everyone on a level playing field. 
Has there ever been a slingshot only tournament?

[ChanceKJ]

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[Mr_Numbers]

Very cool, I worked with a kid at FedEx loading trucks long long ago and he was a professional paintball player, like in 02-03 timeframe.  His sponsors would fly him around and he had a few cameo's in some magazines but other than that he did it for the love of the game barely breaking even on his trips. 

Congrats on all your accomplishments! 

[ChanceKJ]

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[Dawgz Rule]

I played on a team long long ago, before "semi-automatic paint guns" came out (~1986-90)

Was a totally different game back then IMHO... when you could only hold 10 or 20 shots in the gun before you had to stop and reload.  When "100 round hoppers" came out it was like "WOW... just think... you could just lay down huge swaths of paint, and you wouldn't have to be that accurate with any one given shot".

For me, that killed the fun of it... I started to see guys come out to play who just threw gobs and gobs of cash at buying more paint pellets, and it ended up becoming a game of "who could pull the trigger faster and pour more cash into their hopper" than anything else.  I quit playing shortly after that; the fun was gone for me.

I remember those days very well.  Was in a paintball league back then when people were using the original cattle marking guns.  It was a different time back then and it was always interesting to see how guys would mod their guns.  I remember a bunch of us made some bad ass silencers out of PVC, cheese cloth and O-rings.  Made for great sniping.   Fun stuff.

[Mr_Numbers]

Thanks man!  Do you remember his name?

Regretfully not, he had long blonde dreads and was from central Florida.  FedEx made him a manager in Orlando shortly after I met him but I remember him showing us the magazine with him in it playing paintball in Vegas at the time. 

[mgb]

When I was a teenager we used slingshots because it was cheap and put everyone on a level playing field. 
Has there ever been a slingshot only tournament?

I grew up in the poor part of town. we just ran around slapping each other with paint brushes

[yotsuya]

When I was a teenager we used slingshots because it was cheap and put everyone on a level playing field. 
Has there ever been a slingshot only tournament?

I grew up in the poor part of town. we just ran around slapping each other with paint brushes

Rep for you!

[BadMouth]

When I was a teenager we used slingshots because it was cheap and put everyone on a level playing field. 
Has there ever been a slingshot only tournament?

I grew up in the poor part of town. we just ran around slapping each other with paint brushes

That's pure gold right there.

[Vigo]

At least your definition of paintball wasn't teabagging a can of Sherwin Williams.

[yotsuya]

When I was a teenager we used slingshots because it was cheap and put everyone on a level playing field. 
Has there ever been a slingshot only tournament?

I grew up in the poor part of town. we just ran around slapping each other with paint brushes

This reminds me of one of the funniest damn things I ever read. Back in the early 2000s, when the first Unreal came out, it had pretty high system requirements. Guys on alt.rec.unreal had a thread running where they were boasting about what machines they got it to run on. "I have it running on a Pentium 800 MMX with 4 GB ram", "I have it running on a Packard Bell 486." One dude finally posted "My friends and I put on old Halloween costumes and run around with squirtguns listening to Ozzy". Loved that line.

[Phreakwars]

I do the paint prep work on motorcycles at Polaris Industries and as a side job I prep chicken for Pizza Ranch on the weekends.

For fun I fish and build PC's.

Here's my personal PC:



Specs are:

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3
CPU: AMD FX-8350 Black Edition
Corsair H100i GTX Liquid Cooling
RAM: 16 Gigs of Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer BLT2KIT4G3D1869DT2TXRG & BLT2KIT4G3D1869DT2TXOB
Video Card: ZOTAC ZT-90309-10M GeForce GTX 960 4GB AMP! Edition
HDD 1: SAMSUNG 840 Pro Series 256GB SATA III SSD
HDD 2: Western Digital WD10 01FALS-00E3A0 1 Terabyte
Optical Drive: ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS - OEM
Case: DEEPCOOL KENDOMEN Red ATX Mid Tower
Power Supply: FirePower 750FTY Fatal1ty 750W
Monitor: ASUS VS278Q-P
Speakers: SONY DAV-DZ170 BRAVIA 5.1 Surround Theater System
nMEDIAPC Black Aluminum Panel PRO-LCD-B Media Center Programmable LCD
Keyboard: Corsair Vengeance K70 RGB
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
And 5 COUGAR 12CM CFG Red LED Hydraulic fans to cool the inside.

[mgb]

We went paintballing once with a youth group.
The smallest kid there came around the corner and I panicked and popped him in the neck (the only part of him not covered) actually breaking his skin because he was in close proximity.
The worst part was, he was on my team.

This is why I don't own a gun.

[Typefighter01]

Paint ball is fun until your buddy's girlfriend "accidentally" shoots you in the chest from 4 inches away on the way back to the car after all the protective gear is off.

Same thing happened to me, but it was my brothers best friend and he shot me with a CO2 powered pellet gun point blank. There was a visible scar on my chest for like 20years 

[BadMouth]

The WV Mountainfest motorcycle rally had midget paintball hunting this year.  You try to shoot little people with paintballs while they run between obstacles and taunt you.
http://www.wvmountainfest.com/?p=2607
Sounds both demeaning and entertaining as hell.

I was stuck at a different motorcycle rally and kept complaining about the lack of midget oriented entertainment.
Also, the internet has ruined all motorcycle rally things boob related.

[ChanceKJ]

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