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[Fooj]

I just played my first paintball game at a local field with a poor man's rental gun. I died (A lot). It was fun. Anyone else play?

[Realmfighter]

I got shot in the mouth once.

The paint tastes horrible.

[Fooj]

The paint tastes horrible.

I can affirm this. 

[LegoLord]

The paint tastes horrible.

I can affirm this. 

Likewise. 
And getting shot in the arm from five feet away hurts.  I was about to surrender since he caught me by surprise and I my quick chain of logic was that it would hurt and I couldn't stop it otherwise.  Next time that happens, I will step closer and shoot the guy.  Cause hey, if it's below the elbow, I'm not out, am I?

Pain normally doesn't bother me that much while playing, though.  I can really get into to it sometimes.  The place nearby is good, but I haven't been there lately because of the local weather.

[Fooj]

I'm thinking about airsofting instead of paintballing because the ammo is cheaper. The ammo is about 10$ to 12$ for a bag of 4000 high quality rounds. I've been told you can get an airsoft gun capable of 150+ feet for as little as 120$ to 150$. I was pointed towards the newer CYMA models.

Conversely, my cousin works at the local paintball field and can get me a slight discount and plenty of one on one drills.

[Itnetlolor]

Paintball is a fun and painful sport.

I recall an incident my first game (one of the later rounds) where I was just running across field and trying to reach a safe ground. I tumbled into a ditch and hid there for a short time trying to plan my next move.

One of my team's opponents jumped in to dodge fire and do the same thing. He asked if I was already shot/killed (since I was hunkering down rather low, as if shot). My first reaction was to auto-shot him to oblivion. I got 3 shots in before he responded with a few shots; but only after he got shot. Despite my temporary quit due to pain, I still won that skirmish.

BTW, try getting shot in the ear. It takes a q-tip or a few head washes to clean it out.

I say natural environments are the best to play in. So much natural terrain to hide in and to keep from shots; and some thin foliage that you'd be lucky if your shooter was a bad shot. Fair and balanced, for what it's worth. And paint in the ammo is water-soluble enough to not harm the environment.

[Sir Pseudonymous]

I used to play, haven't since my junior year of high school though. When the weather was good, I'd play every weekend. Got sick, couldn't play for a while, and fell out of the habit of going, never started again. Thought about it, but I'd need to fix up my gun and replace my mask, both of which have just been sitting around for the past four years.

Lot of stories from that, and a lot of good memories. Didn't hurt too much, I always wore a heavy camo jacket and pants which absorbed most of the impact. Gun shot about as straight as a smoothbore, low velocity air rifle with a heavy, spherical, rubber projectile can, too. First game I played with it I took out something like eight of the other team (don't remember how many were on each team, probably a dozen or so) on a speedball field, crawled up the sidelines and took a bunker where I had a clean shot on the remaining couple of players and shot them in the back. Best fucking game I ever played, before or after.

I also got pinned down on a woodsball course at the same place once, missed my target because I wasn't sure if he was out, since he was walking upright without his gun ready, some other guy saw me aiming and yelled, fucker dove under cover an instant after my shots burst in the goddamn branches a couple of feet from his face. Well, I wound up huddled behind a log with three guys shooting at me, when suddenly shots start hitting next to me from behind. Thinking fast, I leap up and run back through the bushes I came from, and shoot the two people who were shooting at me. Then I see the two fucktards are on my team, pause in shock, and get shot in the back by the three who had me pinned down. Spent the walk off the field cursing at those two, shared a laugh about the whole thing with the three who were shooting at me before the next game.

Like I said, good fucking memories.


Yeah, playing in the woods is much better, lots of cover, generally larger than a speedball course, so things get spread out more. As many times as I played the course at the nearby field I never did see all of it, though that was more because I knew exactly where to go to have cover and high ground, a hole in some thorn filled bushes near an uprooted tree, I could press forward, or hide by the roots and wait for the lines to pass by me from the other side (had to run like hell to get there first, enemy lines would pass by on paths to either side, if I played it smart I could take them out since they'd be on the wrong side of cover). The cheap jacket I bought to play paintball in had some hunting camo pattern on it, probably added a small margin to my success rate in the woods.

BTW, try getting shot in the ear. It takes a q-tip or a few head washes to clean it out.

I got hit in the ear a few times, shit always left my head ringing, but my mask didn't really let the paint get in. About as bad as getting hit in the faceplate, being stuck on an active course blind isn't exactly fun, and it's not so easy to clean off your mask while you're wearing it, even though the ear is more painful.

[Itnetlolor]

I remember one round with my brothers on my team against some other guys one of my brothers knew. Well, my oldest brother seemed to forget that when you battle in the woods, you try to camouflage, not stick out like a sore thumb. Unfortunately for him, he was wearing light colors probably a white sweater and light jeans or something. He quickly turned into a canvas for an abstract painter, regardless his skills.

That was a rather funny moment. He couldn't live it down the rest of the day; especially considering my older brother and I were wearing clothes that do make us blend in easier with the environment.