From July 31, 2008
It's too hot to play paintball. Too hot to fish. It has even been too hot to write. Almost. I recently jumped into a subject that I'm sort of emotionally connected to. You can see it here (scroll down for my comments) if you're interested. It turned out to be a rather tame debate. Maybe it's too hot every where for any kind of heated discord.
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From May 31, 2008
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Yet another...
Just what the paintball world needs. Another "rifled barrel". Will we ever learn? There is nothing, NOTHING, a barrel can do to make a paintball go further (except the Flatline) or make it more accurate (especially the Flatline). Barrel manufacturers - STOP, STOP, STOP messing with the noobies' heads!
From March 28, 2008
At first I thought this might be a camera trick or a bit of Photshop magic. But, nope. It's the real deal. Gotta hate that.
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From February 19, 2008
Here's another oddity from VintageRex.. The Nova was based on technology used to build those t-shirt shooters you see at arena events. It kind of lost its charm when word got out that it had a tendency of blowing apart at the rear end.
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From January 10, 2008
About ten years ago, one cold, quiet night, I got bored. This was the result. Under the bondo (yes, the stuff you use to patch car fenders) and paint and hoses and adaptors is a Brass Eagle Stingray. Field strip knobs (to replace the pins), rear cocking, bottom line set up with expansion chamber, ported barrel, trigger adjust (ahead of its time!), polished and ported! When I think back to those early field owner days, when I had 75 Stingray rentals, I shudder and shake my head. I've often considered entering this one in an ugly gun contest.From February 22, 2009
From November 7, 2007
MOM. WOW.
You might think feed necks (the piece that sticks up from the top of a paintball gun that holds the hopper) would be a standard size or at least feed tubes (the part that sticks down from the bottom of the hopper and connects to the feed neck) would be a standard size but of course they are not. Hoppers will either fit loose, fit just right but become loose over time or they will not fit at all.
"Clamping" feed necks help. They adjust to fit. But even clamping feed necks vary in how large they open and how small they clamp.
From November 5, 2006
From January 6, 2007
Big balls...
Big paintballs that is. What were you thinking?
Both of the round, spherical (not the quarter), colorful items in the picture above started out life as a 68 caliber paintball. The one on the right is fresh out of the box. The one on the left has been outside, on the ground and collecting moisture for three days.
Pull the trigger on the ball on the right and it will rocket down the barrel as it is supposed to. The one on the left will not. In fact, it won't even pass through the hopper feed neck.
It's too big!
Duh!
Even someone with just a minimum understanding of the "round-peg-in-a-square-hole" concept, or in this case the "large-round-object-through-a-small-hole concept, should be able to figure this one out.
Yet every weekend someone (both youngsters and adults) will scoop big balls off the ground, put them in their hopper and then wonder why their gun fires but no balls come out.
I use to go up to them and clear the gun, remove the offending big balls from the hopper, and then explain why it's not a good idea to try and recycle paintballs.
Here lately I clear the gun, explaining why it's not a good idea to recycle paintballs from the ground and then hand the gun back saying, "If the gun stops working because of big balls again you are on your own."
In most cases they figure it out and I'll see them hunkered down behind a bunker clearing the remaining big balls from the hopper. Sometimes they remain clueless and spend the rest of the day dry firing and wondering why everyone else is using way more paint than they are.
I've promised myself I would show more patience this year. After all, I can't expect players to know ALL of the intricacies of paintball.
I'm going to try very, very, very hard to keep that promise.
From December 17, 2006
Who would have guessed...
I've been picked as Time Magazines "Person of the Year". How cool is that?
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From December 12, 2008
I have one of those fields that still offer 100 round bags of paintballs. At many fields you're only choice is a bag of 500 since that's how they come from the manufacturer. Once a week here at T-Square one of us sits and uses a 100 round cup to dip into the 500 round bags and pour 100 paintballs into a baggie. Over and over and over again. It's a bit monotonous but it's a chance to sit back, maybe watch some TV, and just enjoy the day.From December 13, 2008
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