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I'm making this thread because I'm curious if any CDer has ever played paintball, or at least been curious, or has questions about it?
I play for the heck of it out in the boonies every coupla weeks, I run a Tippmann A5 with a drop forward, Response Trigger, full Cyclone up, 14" barrel, stock, and body kit (and hopefully an HEGrip soon.)
I use to paintball a lot back when I lived in Washington. Unfortunately a lot of the good fields got closed down due to NIMBYs making complaints about environmental damage being done.
Me and some friends when we were in high school got permission to use a public park to paintball in by some police officers. The park was located in Bellevue, was pretty much a dense forest with some trails, and nobody ever used it. I remember we would get like 20 to 25 people together and play a whole bunch of games. We would have teams and usually would pretend it was the Vietnam War or World War 2. The only problem was that due to the parks size, rounds could take sometimes over an hour to play.
I use to sport an 03 autococker and then recently bought a Ion. Unfortunately I have only used the Ion 3 to 4 times. Hopefully I will get more use out of it. Its a bummer that paintball is such an expensive sport.
Played a little. There's a paintball place not far from here that has received national news coverage as they have staged "battles" and scenarios based on real historical battles....they try to re-create some of the same conditions and restrictions and objectives on teams and then folks play and see how it came out...some have gone of for 3 and 4 days.
There's some folks that are real serious about it.
Most I've noticed have never been shot at for real...
Why does having been shot at for real have anything to do with it? people re-create civil war battles and such, this is just a stepped-up version of that.
Why does having been shot at for real have anything to do with it? people re-create civil war battles and such, this is just a stepped-up version of that.
I know what it is.
It was just an observation that once one has played soldier for real some activities like paintball and hunting loses some of it's appeal.
I've played a couple times where I had groups large enough to get an entire course for ourselves. That was a lot of fun.
Then I played where it was just me and a few friends mixed in with other people. Since we don't play much we're always using the rental equipment which works fine for us...until we get mixed in with other people with superior equipment. Let me tell you those rounds didnt last very long for us...it was like we were bringing pistols up against atomatic rifles. That wasn't very fun at all.
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