Paintballing

[New2ATC]

nice gun.... my tippmann had a sniper barrell on it.. i traded the gun for a minibike though..

[Jeb]

atczack, I see you got the double finger trigger on your A-5. I may later get into the compressed air stuff. I bought a smaller tank (9oz) Saturday and one of the butt-plates that go on it. I got to play this weekend with the 9oz'er and the 20oz'er on the gun and the 20 is too big attached to the gun. I need to go with the hose for it.

And the full auto e-grip really burns up paint! I played with my brother and nephew this weekend. We like to hunt each other too. I'm not even sure I know what the speedball game is! Anyway I didn't tell my brother I got the gun last week. He even called me on the phone Friday night telling me about the 98 custom he almost bought! We play on my parents land so I stopped down the road, walked out in the pasture and I stashed the A-5 out. When we started playing I left as normal with my Talon then switched and hosed him down with the full auto when he found me. It was funny he was stunned. He and his son team up against me. I caught them coming down a tight trail through some trees. I jumped out and starting shooting my brother. My nephew was behind him and started trying to shoot me (he has a semi-auto). My bro was caught in the cross-fire. My nephew pelted him in the back several times shooting at me and I popped him a couple times from the front!!

I like the A-5 allot. In the near future I'm sure I'll be after the flat-line barrel system.

[NOS_350X]

I'm not even sure I know what the speedball game is!

WOW and you play paintball? Its a close fast pace game 7on7 with a 5 minute game based on points. Normaly its played on a Sup-air field (blow up bunkers) In a game you typicaly shoot about 500+ balls. Its alot faster pace and being sneaky donsent help one bit. Most the guns can shoot abut 15-22bps. You wont see any tippmans spyders or other crappy guns playing. They just cant compete. And if your thinkin "aww these guys just spray and pray" thats not the case. You want me to single shot ya i will most the guns are the most accurate guns youll ever shoot.

[atczack]

Jeb, the flatline barrel is SO awesome! I highly recomend it. You can't tell by looking at the fat barrel casing from the outside, but on the inside the barrel actually has a curve in it that put's a backspin on the paintball and make's it kinda fight gravity as it's flying through the air. On very, very, very, rare occasion's, if you are the right distance away from somebody, you can shoot somebody that is standing BEHIND a tree because the ball will shoot straight as a arrow for a very long distance and then go up or sideways or something. You can use this curve as an advantage and peg somebody behind a tree if the distance is right. The double trigger is sweet for the response button because it put's a different leverage on the response button and makes the trigger kinda 'bounce' off of your finger while your in the sweet spot. The laser dot is useless, just on there for the heck of it. I just do like everybody else and watch the stream of paintballs to aim. My gun is nowhere near finished though, I have lot's of goodie's I want to add. NOS 350X, I've never tried speedball, so I guess I shouldn't knock it. There's a speedball course in Lake City that the owner of the paintball shop keep's trying to get me to play in. I don't think I would like it, I like the wood's, but I should try it. Have you heard of 'Wayne's World'? No, not the movie, the paintball course. That's about an hour away from me on I-75 south. I have never went there to play, but I want to. They got people flying over in Gyrocopter's shooting people on the ground and people in Dune buggy's shooting people. It's crazy.

[BigGreenMachine]

I've got a Brass Eagle Raptor, all stock. I played alot this summer at Texas Paintball in Austin, they have some nice fields and I think playing the woods games and the forts was the most fun. I came home and had a few woods games with my budd, great fun and I intend to keep playing.

[Jeb]

WOW and you play paintball?

Why yes, ever since Christmas '04. What's that, just about a month now? I guess some consider the Tippmann guns crap but $1500 for a paintball gun is not even realistic in my case. I'd love to shoot one sometime, but It would just make me want one. Hey, I'm just starting out. I'll learn more about it as time goes on but the Tippmann will have to do for me. Makes me wish I'd have gotten into it 10 or 15 years ago.

Thanks for the speed ball description NOS, now I know! Sounds like fun. Do those Sup-Air barriers inflate and deflate why your playing?

atczack, Sounds like the flat-line needs to be my first upgrade! and that deal with the GyroCopters sounds cool too. Did you take a look at all that stuff on www.tippmannordnance.com ? Those would sure spice a game up too. To bad most of it's only available to military and law enforcement.

I'm with you BigGreen! The woods games are fun.

You guys ever tried those paint grenades?