This week's Big Bucks EBay find...
Be the life of every paintball party with your very own Paintball Fill Station Trailer 24' 18 CFM 5000 PSI
Only - US $59,995.00
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Mar 31, 2010
Be the life of every paintball party with your very own Paintball Fill Station Trailer 24' 18 CFM 5000 PSI
Mar 29, 2010
Mo money, mo money...
Nothing gets the questions coming faster than displaying a $39 electronic hopper next to a $149 one.
"What makes that one so much more expensive?"
"Which one's better?"
"Which one should I use?"
"But wouldn't the other one make my gun faster?"
"Do you take credit cards?"
"Sure do...!"
Mar 27, 2010
Saturday Paintball Reruns...
From December 17, 2006
Who would have guessed...
I've been picked as Time Magazines "Person of the Year". How cool is that?
Mar 26, 2010
Speak up...
Hey! It's "Open Mike Friday!" Drop a NON PAINTBALL comment on anything that might be on your mind. Keep it G or PG rated and work place friendly. I have a sharp censor pencil so don't expect anything else to get through.
Tippmann Stuff
Mar 25, 2010
Paintball eye in the sky...
A while back I did a series of posts that showed paintball fields from a
Google Earth perspective. Here's one. Can you figure out where it is?
Mar 24, 2010
Give it a shot...
Can you guess what it is about this very popular EBay offering that frosts my behind?
Mar 23, 2010
Mar 22, 2010
It's not all about paintball...
Mar 21, 2010
Mar 20, 2010
Saturday Paintball Reruns...
From October 25, 2006
The game…
Paintball is a game of skill. It's also a game of honesty and integrity.
When you are "hit" you call yourself out.
Imagine if ball players were responsible for calling their own balls and strikes or football players were left to determine on their own if they stepped out of bounds. How about race car drivers counting their own laps? Paintball is one of the very few games that place nearly all the responsibility for the game's direction and order on the player.
Sure there are referees on the paintball field, but usually no more than 1 or 2 who are mainly concerned for the safety of a dozen or more players. When you are all alone in a bunker and spot that quarter size splotch of paint on your leg it's real tempting to just reach down and wipe it off. Or when hit on the back; did it bounce or break? And if it broke is it a quarter size hit? Awww, who cares. Keep playing. It's "just a game".
Fortunately most players, because it really is "just a game", will call themselves out or ask a referee for a paintcheck. They don't consider the walk back to the safe zone as a walk of shame. Instead they show off their hits and consider them front line "badges of honor". Little white or pink or blue reminders that it is just a game.
Play safe. Play fun. Play fair.
Mar 19, 2010
This is my rifle. This is my (paintball) gun...
New from Tiberius Arms - New T9 Elite First Strike Ready Rifle (no link).
We (field owners) use to make an effort to get folks to call paintball guns "markers." I'm kinda over that now but I have to tell you - my knickers will never stop wadding up when I hear a marker referred to as a rifle.
Anyone know how the rest of the title goes?
What's this button...?
Just ask first.
Mar 18, 2010
Sticky stuff...
Yes. Very cool. But I can't see the inspection date. No date. No fill.
What's that you say? Just pull back the tape?
Sure. I have nothing better to do than to stand here picking this sticky crap off your tank.
Mar 17, 2010
What does your paintball gear say about you?
Life (and Basic Training) is a series of building blocks. Get the blocks lined up right and there's no telling how high you might get to stack them. Pay no attention to how you stack them or intentionally leave a few out or disregard the importance of certain blocks and you speak volumes about how dependable and trustworthy and reliable a person you can be expected to become.
Sure. A gun plug will suffice since there is no safety. The air line forms a perfectly useful trigger guard. And there's no air source on the gun so there probably isn't one last shot stored in the regulator. Care to wonder how many other basics this player will choose to ignore, leave out or disregard during the day? Read more...
Mar 16, 2010
Trading paint(balls)...
RICHMOND (3/12/10) -- Trading paint will take on a whole new meaning March 30th, when Richmond International Raceway, the Kasey Kahne Foundation and SplatBrothers® Paintball team up to stage the "Racing Battle," featuring Kasey Kahne, at the SplatBrothers PaintBall Park near Richmond, Virginia. This once in a lifetime opportunity will allow fans to play paintball alongside Kasey Kahne to raise money for charity.
Read more...Humble opinions...
On Twitter: "Realism? Join the damn Army. Play paintball for fun."
Can I get an AMEN!
Mar 15, 2010
PERIODS! PLEASE...
"This auction is for a used but like new condition pcs,tippman paintball marker i bought it a year ago thought i would play with friends but everyone sold theres i have only shot this gun a couple dozen times its in mint condition comes with 2 tanks and mask it shoots really hard i shot a friend of mine from around 30 feet it scared his leg very nice gun have any questions please ask"
Scared? Or scarred? Both are pretty scary!
Stop it. Just, stop it...
Listen up, Rambos. Except for tournament practice I don't allow a rate of fire over 3 balls per second on my field and any tournament sponsor that has a brain in his head caps his tournament games under 13. So STOP CALLING LOOKING FOR A HOPPER THAT FEEDS 25 BALLS PER SECOND!
Thank you.
Mar 14, 2010
Sunday Paintball Funnies...
Maybe Hello Kitty Will bring more girls into the sport!
Mar 13, 2010
Saturday Paintball Reruns...
From December 20, 2005
Freaks of nature...
To be fair, it was not found in our field paint but rather in a box of "backyard" paint that I sell the economy minded player.
It's actually two paintballs that were found stuck together. The bottom one is fairly intact and round while the top one is flattened and shaped into a perfect little hat! (The black marker features were added by one of our artistic field workers.)
Not necessarily something that made me mean and grumpy. In fact, I almost smiled when I saw it! Read more...
Mar 12, 2010
Keeping it hydrated...
Start thinking about summer. How about replacing one of your 140 tubes with this. See more here. Read more...
Speak up...
Hey! It's "Open Mike Friday!" Drop a NON PAINTBALL comment on anything that might be on your mind. Keep it G or PG rated and work place friendly. I have a sharp censor pencil so don't expect anything else to get through.
Mar 11, 2010
Trouble...
I can tell even before they reach the check in counter.
They swagger in from the parking lot, usually in a pack of three or four. No gun plugs. "Bad to the Bone" t-shirts. Glaring at the NO SMOKING sign while tossing butts off into the grass. When they come into the shop they look right through you. They sneer at the waiver forms, grumble about having to listen to a safety brief and claim they know all the "real" safety rules.
You might as well be speaking Greek when you remind them to chrono their guns. They act like you pissed in their Wheaties when told, for the second time, not to dry fire in the safe zone. They are four in a group of eight walkons and insist on staying together when the other four players are new players half their age. For them game rules are for sissies. They don't want to play capture the flag. They want to play something they call Death Match.
They slap each other on the back when they come off the field and brag about how they lit up the last player before he could surrender. Usually one or more of them will have a hit somewhere on them that they will swear was from an earlier game. You might as well be talking to the birds when you ask them to check the cussing.
Sometimes they slip by me. Usually it's because I'm fixing a gun or chatting with a group. Usually I catch (sense) them as they are signing in. I slap them with a quick attitude adjustment and maybe another toward the middle of the day as reinforcement just to keep things tolerable. Sometimes I don't find out about them until the ref comes to me at the end of his rope or worse, when a Mom or Dad has something to say.
They can turn a good day into a grind. They are not typical and fortunately they don't stick around for long. Nothing but trouble.
Mar 10, 2010
Let's make a deal...
I understand trying to save money and trying to get the best deal but don't call to tell me what field X or Y charges and then ask for my prices. First, I know what field X and Y charges and I know what services they provide. And second, my prices are set. I know the value of my service and I charge accordingly. Play here or play there. Don't play one against the other.
Mar 9, 2010
That's how we roll...
"The best field I have ever played at had a three shot rule. The rule was that if you broke more than three shots on another player you were out as well. The rule worked very well, the refs enforced it, and over shooting was rarely ever an issue. This same field rabidly enforced the safety rules and would send a player home in a heartbeat if they violated them. I wish all fields were like this."
I don't think the author has been to T-Square but it's been our rule since 1995. Read more...
Mar 8, 2010
Welcome
Say hey to The Paintblogs newest follower - Team Theta. Thanks for the follow. Tell your friends! Only 181 more to go.
Read more...Thinking inside a smaller box...
I'm trying so hard not to hate this guy. He's a damn genius. I remember sitting and talking with him one time in a hotel lounge, trying to comprehend some of his engineering thoughts and thinking, "This guy is from another dimension in time." It's not so much that his ideas are unique or revolutionary so much as they are spot on. Timing, some say, is everything.
Look for this thing to hit the market sometime this summer - in both 3K and 4.5 K versions. No rice announced yet but I'm going to guess somewhere around $1200. What do you think?
Find the CO2 tank...
"Instead of doing the standard hydraulic setup that many people have done, Dany decided to minimize his use of wires and keep his bicycle at a reasonable weight, sacrificing the pump and batteries. He removed a CO2 tank off a paintball gun and used hard lines to run an air kit to the front, adding a 4-inch cylinder and a hidden compressor in the rear of the bike." More here...
Read more...
Mar 7, 2010
Mar 6, 2010
Saturday Paintball Reruns...
From November 11, 2008
The way it goes.
At the water cooler or school locker:
(wannabee) "Yeah, I'm on a paintball team."
(admiring friends) "OOOOH. That's so cool.
(wannabee) "Oh yeah. Me and the team will be heading out to Huntington Beach next year."
(admiring friends) "AAAAAH. You're so cool.
(wannabee) "And I'll probably be voted team captain by then."
(admiring friends) WHOOOO. "We feel cooler just standing next to you."
On the practice field:
(wannabee) "Where the heck is Jim?"
(team mate 1) "He has detention/has to work overtime."
(team mate 2) "Hey, does anyone know how to fix this POS (enter favorite marker name here)."
(wannabee) "Are we even going to have enough to practice?"
(team mate 1) "We should vote on team captain today and call it quits."
(team mate 3) "I'm not playing if he's (glaring at wannabee) going to be captain."
(team mate 2) "My Mom/Wife needs to know if we are going to that 3 man tourney next week."
(team mate 1) "No way, man. That would be our first game. They would kick our butts up there."
(wannabee) "Ok, look. Let's get some kinda practice in. Who brought the paint?"
(team mate 3) "Not me."
(team mate 2) "I though it was your turn."
(team mate 1) "No way. I don't have any money."
(wannabee) "This sucks."
(team mate 2) "Let's go to my house and play the new Hastings game I just got."
(team mate 3) "Yeah, your Mom/Wife is home right? She's HOT!"
(team mate 2) "STFU" Read more...
Mar 5, 2010
Speak up...
Hey! It's "Open Mike Friday!" Drop a NON PAINTBALL comment on anything that might be on your mind. Keep it G or PG rated and work place friendly. I have a sharp censor pencil so don't expect anything else to get through.
Mar 4, 2010
Best guess...
No one wanted to take a guess at this one. (It's $47 by the way.) Not even for a chance to win a t-shirt. Ok, so it wasn't the coolest paintball t-shirt out there. But it was free!!
Don't want to play? Be that way. I'm going to keep tossing them out there anyway.
Mar 3, 2010
Life. It's not just about paintball...
In an effort to bring you not only the most important paintball information but also important life lessons I offer you this: "How to fold a t-shirt in 2 seconds."
Mar 2, 2010
I have it on good authority...
"Coffee with whipped cream." Be still my heart!
Do you sell nitrous...?
Selling some things at a field/pro-shop tend to be counter productive. For instance:
Why would I want to sell fill stations? I sell fills.
Why would I sell backyard paintballs? I own a field.
Why would I sell chronos? I want you to come here and play safely.
Why would I sell tournament clothing? It scares the noobies.
Why would I sell 15 ball per second markers? Ditto!
Mar 1, 2010
Does it magnify?
New from Allen Paintball Products - a 50 round hopper designed to look like a scope. I ordered one. I'm a sucker for cheap new odds and ends. Now if I can just find someone who wants a 50 round hopper!
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