Anyone tried paintballing?

I used to play every chance that i could, and I live in the middle of nowhere with trees all around, the perfect place to play. It was my birthday a few years back and i had a paintball party, two of my cousins, my brother, and my brothers friend were playing. I was stuck behind a tree with cousin #1 and my brothers friend, my brother and cousin #2 were in a jungle gym thing, we were under heavy fire i didnt know if we were going to make it out alive. <--(hehe)

Cousin #1 said that we could confuse them by two of us shooting on both sides of the tree (it was like 12p.m. btw) and my bros friend would run to the big oak tree to make some cover fire so that me and cousin #1 could split and try to come at different angles to take the flag.
Bros friend came from the right and cousin #1 came from the left, cousin #2 shot bros friend in the face (had to stop the game to laugh our asses off) cousin #1 managed to get to the flag, my job was to be the decoy and stay alive so that cousin #1 could get back.

I swear i hear the paintball go right by my ear as i was running to get some cover, paint was splatering everywhere, i could hear cousin #2 shouting to bro "HE'S OVER THERE!!", i knew i was spotted i had to make a desperate run to get better cover, i finally got the balls to run back to the tree that we were at in the beginning, cousin #1 hadn't been spotted so i had to make sure that he wasn't or else it would be 2 vs. 1.

Bro comes down off of the jungle gym and decides to play "man hunt" with us, i knew that i had the advantage so i had to make my move, as i heared him walk by (still at the tree) i just waited for him to turn around (they made a rule that you cant shot someone in the back) and as he made his way back he was only 3 feet (1 meter) away and i shot him in the stomach.

Now its 2 on 1 in my favor, cousin #1 had been spotted so i had to act fast. As i was making a run to help cousin #1, cousin #2 had switched from him to me, i had to dive behind a really big tree so that i could plan out my attack. #2 switched from me back to #1, i knew that if #1 got hit that i was screwed so i decided that i would try to snipe him out of the jungle gym. I didnt think that he knew where i was so i peeked around the corner seeing that he was still firing heavly on #1.

As i was lying there i was remembering the good ol BF1942 days (BF2 wasnt out yet of course) and with my spider (paintball gun) i took my mark. Considering how big of an army freak that he was i was surprised that he was standing over his cover, so i held my breath and took the shot. Hit him right in the shoulder and the game was over!! I jumped up and yelled "WE WON!!" and at that time i felt my heart in my throat, #1 had been shot and i was the only one left, if #2 only knew that then they would have most likely won...

:sniper:

i felt really good after that
 
Kamikazie said:
I used to play every chance that i could, and I live in the middle of nowhere with trees all around, the perfect place to play. It was my birthday a few years back and i had a paintball party, two of my cousins, my brother, and my brothers friend were playing. I was stuck behind a tree with cousin #1 and my brothers friend, my brother and cousin #2 were in a jungle gym thing, we were under heavy fire i didnt know if we were going to make it out alive. <--(hehe)

Cousin #1 said that we could confuse them by two of us shooting on both sides of the tree (it was like 12p.m. btw) and my bros friend would run to the big oak tree to make some cover fire so that me and cousin #1 could split and try to come at different angles to take the flag.
Bros friend came from the right and cousin #1 came from the left, cousin #2 shot bros friend in the face (had to stop the game to laugh our asses off) cousin #1 managed to get to the flag, my job was to be the decoy and stay alive so that cousin #1 could get back.

I swear i hear the paintball go right by my ear as i was running to get some cover, paint was splatering everywhere, i could hear cousin #2 shouting to bro "HE'S OVER THERE!!", i knew i was spotted i had to make a desperate run to get better cover, i finally got the balls to run back to the tree that we were at in the beginning, cousin #1 hadn't been spotted so i had to make sure that he wasn't or else it would be 2 vs. 1.

Bro comes down off of the jungle gym and decides to play "man hunt" with us, i knew that i had the advantage so i had to make my move, as i heared him walk by (still at the tree) i just waited for him to turn around (they made a rule that you cant shot someone in the back) and as he made his way back he was only 3 feet (1 meter) away and i shot him in the stomach.

Now its 2 on 1 in my favor, cousin #1 had been spotted so i had to act fast. As i was making a run to help cousin #1, cousin #2 had switched from him to me, i had to dive behind a really big tree so that i could plan out my attack. #2 switched from me back to #1, i knew that if #1 got hit that i was screwed so i decided that i would try to snipe him out of the jungle gym. I didnt think that he knew where i was so i peeked around the corner seeing that he was still firing heavly on #1.

As i was lying there i was remembering the good ol BF1942 days (BF2 wasnt out yet of course) and with my spider (paintball gun) i took my mark. Considering how big of an army freak that he was i was surprised that he was standing over his cover, so i held my breath and took the shot. Hit him right in the shoulder and the game was over!! I jumped up and yelled "WE WON!!" and at that time i felt my heart in my throat, #1 had been shot and i was the only one left, if #2 only knew that then they would have most likely won...

:sniper:

i felt really good after that
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*pant**pant* I need to take a shower after reading this :p
 
Yes, I went in the last week of school as a school trip. It was suitably awesome.
 
Unfocused said:
*pant**pant* I need to take a shower after reading this :p
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sorry, really got into it...if you couldnt tell it was the best paintball experience that i have ever had
 
The_Great_Walter said:
I tried it once and didn't like it much. Mostly I just hid behind one of those things that serve as cover all the time, and every thirty seconds or so, I would turn and shoot blindly at the enemy. I didn't dare charge forward, because I saw people shot, orange ink splattered against their head, yelling in pain, and that didn't exactly entice me to leaving myself vunerable to attacks.
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You gutless coward it don't hurt as long as you don't get hit in the face without a mask or in the nutsack. Very rarley have I heard about bag shots but those are pretty deadly. Solution is to stuff something in your pants or wear a jock. Everyone wears a mask where I played so you don't have to worry about face shots.
 
SHIPPI said:
Breathing is a lot easier in the high quality masks. Plus, they don't steam up easy and they are so much more comfortable. If anyone plans to play quite a bit, get a good mask. Even if you're only playing a couple times a year and renting everything else it's worth it imo :)
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Or wipe down the lense with dishsoap. Works well and you only have to do it like every 3-4 rounds.
 
Yeah, I tried once. Besides the facts that I played completely blind and that the guns sucked, it was a thrilling and wonderful experience.
 
Man the UK sounds like it has kinda shitty paintball environments. Fields and barns thats kinda lame. Where I live in B.C. Canada theres nothing but thick forests and ferns and underbrush and stuff. Welcome to the jungle is what it's like realistically.
 
colson said:
Or wipe down the lense with dishsoap. Works well and you only have to do it like every 3-4 rounds.
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Yeah I've heard that works too.. I use thermal lenses in mine. They've never let me down yet :)

Doesn't anyone here play speedball/tournament paintball?
 
colson said:
You gutless coward it don't hurt as long as you don't get hit in the face without a mask or in the nutsack. Very rarley have I heard about bag shots but those are pretty deadly. Solution is to stuff something in your pants or wear a jock. Everyone wears a mask where I played so you don't have to worry about face shots.
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yeah, he got shot above the helmet, on the unprotected head(not face), and he said the pain is comparable to banging your head against a tree, so I wasn't about to take my chances.
 
colson said:
Man the UK sounds like it has kinda shitty paintball environments. Fields and barns thats kinda lame. Where I live in B.C. Canada theres nothing but thick forests and ferns and underbrush and stuff. Welcome to the jungle is what it's like realistically.
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It all depends. Wales has loads of enviroments like that, but there's just not enough interest from the public to open up there.

There's one park (the one I went to on my birthday) that is based in a forest. With upturned Jeeps, high trees, an lots of grass it's fun :)
 
The_Great_Walter said:
yeah, he got shot above the helmet, on the unprotected head(not face), and he said the pain is comparable to banging your head against a tree, so I wasn't about to take my chances.
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I've been shot in unprotected areas many times such as on the head and in the hands. Stupidly I never thought to wear gloves. But really it doesn't hurt at all. It's like a quick sting and then you feel nothing. If the guy said it was compared to smashing his head on a tree then he is a real pussy.
 
We wear full head masks over here, the only place on your head you can really be shot, is the lower bit of your neck.
 
Neck and finger shots are the worst. I've been shot just below the jaw a few times.. people say to wear a neck protector, but it's always been above where a neck protector would go.

And whenever I get shot on the hand, it always seems to be on my two unprotected trigger fingers. Ouch
 
Ooh, thread revival!

I went today, and we played an epic series of 20 vs. 20 in woodland and field terrain. Good fun, but on one of the matches, someone shot a wasps nest (!) and they attacked us while we were crouched in the stream. I was stung twice in the leg in the confusion, but I began to crawl up the bank. Someone shot me three times in the leg, all of them bouncing of me. I pulled myself up, but he fired again. I was in so much pain that I let go of the tree, rolled down the bank and lay there in the stream. However, by some kind of freakish "luck" I wasn't dead yet. He shot me again, 3 times in the torso.

The round before that, we were defending a tower. My friend popped up, but somehow shot me point blank in the back of the head. I was concussed for like 3 minutes. However, despite my unlucky day, I killed 8 people in the final game (wielding 2 guns :E , because if you die in the game, you can hand your gun over to another member of your team), enough to pull the series to a 100-100 draw.

Covered in bruises now though.
 
Paintballing = AWESOME. It can't be denied. Painful, none-the-less.

-Angry Lawyer
 
I went for my first time about 2 weeks ago at a friends farm. He has a little forest that he set up to be an amazing paintball arena. Him and a couple of his friends also went and let me borrow a gun, clothes, face mask, CO2, and all the paintballs I needed. We had a blast.

I was pretty good at it but I discovered by playing that I need to do some cardio exercise. At some points after a lot of running and dodging I still had plenty of energy to do it again but I was breathing so hard I couldn't even really hear anything that was going on thanks to my mask. Anyway, our guns were short range and fast firing which meant it was a lot of running around, leaping into the tall grass and being hunkered down behind a tall board while guys are trying to pelt you.

Most fun I had in a very long time. I just wish I had the money to really get into it myself.
 
If I had the money to actually buy good equipment, I'd probably pwn. In the meanwhile I'll just cower behind a corner until I get the opportunity to backstab an unnoticing enemy.
 
I would love paintballing. It's like CS! But in real life! I love stragetic games....damn I'm ****ing insane, maybe I shoulda been American. *thinks* I take back my comment....
 
I haven't played for ages :( i'm trying to get it arranged now
 
How does airsofting work? Assuming you're using regular BB ammunition, how does the game register hits?
 
jondy said:
How does airsofting work? Assuming you're using regular BB ammunition, how does the game register hits?
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Yeah I was wondering this too. Probably you just go out if you feel a hit, and everyone has to be honest.
 
Quite often when you get hit, it hurts and you go 'AAAAARGH!'

That's how everyone knows you're dead. :E
 
I'd love to go paintballing again. Its rather awesome. Someone threw a flashbang next to my head and deafened me, though, which lasted a few days.

-Angry Lawyer
 
Ah, I remember airsofting. Pushing a giant blue barrel along a pitch-black corridor acting as a mobile riot shield for scary men who looked like Pi Mu Rho in full, riot gear, nailing someone with my AK as we assaulted the bunker and charging/screaming down a concrete tunnel towards an enemy barricade with five other people through the haze of a smoke grenade, flashbang ringing in my ears. Then everybody got shot and I just flattened against the wall and stayed there. :D
 
I used to own a paintball gun, and played a few times. It's fun, especially playing in a wooded area. I am planing on buying a JT paintball gun that shoots 9 rounds a second, ahs Semi auto, 3 round burst, and 6 round burst firing modes.
 
i used to play paintball and its good fun. however, recently my brother his friends and i have got into airsoft. 5 on 5 with people shooting realistic automatic weapons at each other in our own field in the woods is much more fun.
 
I have a gun but I've only played once with my brother and friends on my 74 acre ranch. Bad things happened to me, though; everyone turned on me eventually. I think they may have been plotting something all along.

Anyway, there was some funny stuff. Me and one of the friends I was with were looking out from a barn, but my brother and another friend were coming at us with our gocart to do a drive by. We started to run for cover behind some hay bails, but my bro was driving and he hit a tree, so before they could get a hold of themselves, we charged em'.

Later on, me & friend were sneaking down a trail where another pair of guys were looking through binoculars. Once they were in sight, my friend suddenly whirled around and started shooting me in the chest. They others saw and were kind of like "Hey! Shoot Danny!" So I uh... ran like hell, shooting over my shoulder, I got nailed by a powerful gun in the calf, so I slid under a bunch of thorn bushes...

*Pain*

... after I got out, I ran through a dried up river bed up to a shed near my house where I changed my jacket and pulled countless thorns out of my pants. Can't remember from there. I probably got pwned.
 
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