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Anyone here play? I played almost every day when I was in high school but it's been about 7 years since last time I played.

A buddy just gave me a old paintball gun and it has resparked my interest.

I use to play with a cci phantom pump (still have it too). Loved playing in the woods.

Anyone else play?
 
I used to play . Been 12 or 13 years since I’ve played. I used to love it. Nothing like going home with bruises from the paintballs, or paint in your hair from having one lobbed down on yer skull. I had a tippman A-5 with the “full auto” trigger upgrade. It was a lot of fun
 
When I ran a summer camp for FFA kids (high school) we bought and set up a huge woods field in a planted pine stand on the camp with 50 guns. There was nothing in the world as fun as putting 8 staff members in a "fort" on one end, and putting 70-100 kids at the other end. The game was they had to lay a hand on the fort to win. If they got hit, they had to go back and touch their base and then try again. We won if we survived 5 minutes. We had to load the markers as single shots. When time got down to thirty seconds left they got real ballsy and would try to rush us, using lines of people to hide runners. It was solidly a 10% chance we would win in the fort.
 
The base I lived on in Britain had a paintball field we used to play on a lot. It had plywood buildings and a couple old armored cars you could use as strongpoints.
Actually, our senior class trip was to play paintball there, which was awesome.
 
I used to play “scenario” 24 hour games. That was bad ass...ultimate weekend warrior stuff. The team I was on were pioneers in paintball tanks, artillery, and other special weapons, the DoomTroopers out of central Florida.

This is one of the early tank iterations, The Ogre:
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This is the Bread Box—the top thing is a rocket launcher. Fired mini Nerf footballs with a 6-paintball “warhead” glued to it (50yd+ range, accurate to within 5-10’):
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The Doom Buggy:
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Me running with field arty t Camp Blanding MOUT site near Starke, FL (with my armed escorts since I had no small arms of my own). It was freaking awesome to be called to a part of the city that had a firefight going, a sniper or otherwise holding down a squad from a second or third story window...I’d aim that bad boy at the window and paint the side of the building with a pepper shot of 10-15 balls in one shot. The refs would call the whole room dead!
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mother shot at Blanding; me peeking around a corner, about to blast a building or tank:
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Alas, the glory days of paintball ended when any idiot could walk into WalMart and buy a paintball gun. No respect of gun safety basics, no respect for basic rules of the game...no sportsmanship. The 24 hour scenario games relied heavily upon those pillars. When paintball turned into a “frost your hair some stupid color and slam a Mountain Dew” extreme sport, all those things flushed down the toilet. After having others cross some severe lines of safety violations (including spiking their guns on the field between chrono checks, dry firing guns in the camp sites, and shooting people at point blank range on the field), I sold my stuff and got out before I ended up seriously hurt or in jail for hurting someone else.

I do have some of the baddest-assed fake war stories you’ve never heard!
 
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I played some in my early twenties.
Had access to the old MOUT sight on Ft Wainwright, going against groups of soldiers and occasionally tournament types in that environment was fun.

After they decided it was also needed for active training we relocated to an abandoned trucking co. facility that was arguably better, but only ever had new players if we brought them.

Still have my A5, probably needs new seals.
 
Played every weekend for 5 or 6 years, mostly at a local woodsball field. We formed a D5 5man team and played a year of CFOA while it was still a good sized regional series. I was a private label SP Shocker collector, but mostly just played pump with an old Autococker toward the end. I haven’t played since 2012 but I still follow the professional speedball tournament scene and watch whenever it’s free. I’d love for a field to open in my area, I’m sure I’d get pulled right back into it.
 
I first went when I was in my 30's.

Shooting tons of random children with paintballs is one of the funnest things I've ever done. Not sure I want to try it against adults or anybody good at it.
 
Not sure I want to try it against adults or anybody good at it.
I’ve been on both ends of a paintball butt whipping. Showed up with a bunch of guys from church to play one day years ago and the first group we went against was some Police Department. Both sides using rental guns. We destroyed them six games in a row.

Then they left and our next opponent showed up. All wearing matching camo coveralls with The Outlaws monogrammed on the chest pocket. Best I recall we were using the rental pump guns. These guys were setup with backpack kits and I think paintball guns that functioned like they had binary triggers. I shot as many paintballs in that match as I did the first six against the PD combined. They’d hit you a half-dozen times before you could raise your arms to say you were hit.
 
I still have my Tippmann X7 with a response trigger setup. Used to love woods ball. Have not played in years, getting old sucks!
Same here, I'm an old fart but I used to play with my son, I eventually upgraded from the A5 to the X7 but haven't played in 6-7 years. Would kinda like to dust it off again.
 
20 years ago I played a lot. Was always fun. It seemed to drop off a lot with the rise of airsoft.
 
Lord, last time I played was when the tornado hit hwy 70 in Raleigh. We finished the game and were eating at Fat Daddy and someone said” Clouds meets the ground weather”. That night....

When I started playing the clip feed full auto had just came out. First game I got stitched across the chest with 5 balls from the field owner, Thor Cool (real name)! I was hooked. Played most weekends for ab 3 years and reap the field for Thor quite a few weekends...

Worse place we played was Hillsville Va... f them hills. I found a creek to lay in to ambush folks.

Good times [emoji2]


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It seemed to drop off a lot with the rise of airsoft.
I looked into AirSoft for the "realism" feel. It seems to attract the same irreverent a-holes as paintball. YouTube sometimes recommends "airsoft cheater" videos for me.

Someone long ago told me airsoft ballistics were better than paintball in terms of realism. That was quickly debunked. If that was true, it might be a little more appealing.
 
I spent several Reserve weekends doing paintball. We'd (a bunch of Seabees) form up a couple squads and go at it. But, it was at a commercial field not a .mil facility. It was funny when we'd form a squad and go against whatever locals happened to be there. Our Chief would be desperately trying to get us to use small unit tactics and take it seriously, but we'd get our asses whooped by the local middle schoolers every time.

This was right when the Seabee Combat Warfare qualification was being developed and first rolled out. I remember one old 1st Class that had been around forever lying in a ditch with pink paint on his face yelling, "but....I'm QUALIFIED!!!!" Good times.
 
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Use to play in amateur tournaments.


I had a dark angel that was a dark pink to a dark purple fade. Use to catch alot of heat because it's "girls" colors but heck would it sing

Eblade Autocoker
Shocker Turbo
Dark Angel
Automag RT
Spyder TL Plus
Started off with a Stingray lol
 
I use to play in the CFOA. Played in the 2002 World Cup (that was fun!). The guys I use to play with wanted to do all the traveling tournaments.... I’m a working stiff guys. Gave it up shortly after that.

It was a lot of fun and there were a lot of bruises. lol
 
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Use to play in amateur tournaments.


I had a dark angel that was a dark pink to a dark purple fade. Use to catch alot of heat because it's "girls" colors but heck would it sing

Eblade Autocoker
Shocker Turbo
Dark Angel
Automag RT
Spyder TL Plus
Started off with a Stingray lol


Stingray FTW!!!! Still have mines!!!
 
Use to play in amateur tournaments.


I had a dark angel that was a dark pink to a dark purple fade. Use to catch alot of heat because it's "girls" colors but heck would it sing

Eblade Autocoker
Shocker Turbo
Dark Angel
Automag RT
Spyder TL Plus
Started off with a Stingray lol

That’s pretty funny. I started off with a Spyder TL Plus as well, which sucked compared to my friend’s Tippmann/flatline barrel setup. I thought I was cool as hell when I upgraded to an Angel Speed with a blue/teal fade.

I think I tried getting back into it in college with a Smart Parts Nerve, but got slaughtered by some 12 year olds who kept turning up their air between rounds. I retired from paintball after that. :D

ETA... My first marker was actually a Brass Eagle “Talon”. It was the Hi-Point of paintball guns. I worked forever to save up for that thing.
 
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Good memories, started off with a Spyder TL, then moved to a WGP Blackmagic autococker. Had a lot of fun with it in high school, there's a local outfit here in the area with fields and a storefront but I've never looked into playing there.


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That’s pretty funny. I started off with a Spyder TL Plus as well, which sucked compared to my friend’s Tippmann/flatline barrel setup. I thought I was cool as hell when I upgraded to an Angel Speed with a blue/teal fade.

I think I tried getting back into it in college with a Smart Parts Nerve, but got slaughtered by some 12 year olds who kept turning up their air between rounds. I retired from paintball after that. :D

ETA... My first marker was actually a Brass Eagle “Talon”. It was the Hi-Point of paintball guns. I worked forever to save up for that thing.
Plastic barrel and all. I got two for Christmas one year. When I opened the gift, there were about 250 paintballs in the box of 500. Then my dad and uncle shot the rest at us kids running between the trees on Christmas morning. No safety glasses to speak of. It was the best Christmas a ten year old could have had.
 
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