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blindboy22 Saturday, March 10th, 2007 Period of Field Use: 1 year Last There: March 4th, 2007 Paintball Experience: 6 months Other Fields in the Area: Backyard, if that counts. Directions to the Field: It's fairly easy to get to. Remember on the dirt road to stay on Gant Lane. On that fork in the forest, take a left. You should then see the sign. Review: Before you begin reading, I just want to let you know that I'm not biased, as this is my first field. I think that my review is written fairly, and you don't think so you can post in the comments section in a mature and civilized fashion. That being said, let's get on with it... Safety: I'd say this field is pretty safe. The velocity is 290 fps, and they strictly enforce it. They also require a barrel condom, which is a plus. The only problem was that once or twice I had my mask off and other kids had their barrel covers off, which is a bad combination if you know paintball. The refs caught it, but they didn't seem to look around that everybody had their cover on always. Like I said before, though, the field seems very safe. Fields: They have a vast selection of fields. According to their site, they have 5 woodsball fields, 2 concept fields, 1 hyperball, and 3 airballs. I like all of their fields alot. In my opinion, the coolest field is The Compound. It is a field situated in the deep woods. It has a huge river running through the middle. It also has towers on each side of the river for some close combat and I guess what you would call "sniping", although you can't really snipe in paintball. The field selection seems to be very good compared to other fields (Hogback in particular). The trails to the fields themselves are very muddy even when it's dry, which is kind of weird. They were also very icy, which caused our group to have to take another way which was considerably longer. Hours of Operation: It's open only on Sundays and Saturdays, from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM. Weekends only doesn't matter to me, as I am in school during the week. In the summer, Pev's is also open on Wednesday. Prices: The prices are a tad higher than other fields. The prices are on the site ( http://www.agpaintballgames.com/index.html ), and I don't want to waste space posting them here. It is $18 for entry if you have your own marker. Rules: The rules are pretty standard, barrel condoms required, 290 FPS. There is also a surrender rule, where you can say surrender but you aren't required to. This is mainly to be nice to the noobs with their Ions running on straight CO2 (I actually saw this once at Pev's). I also think that splitting up the groups based on gun/skill helps prevent a bunch of team players with DM7's destroying a bunch of noobs with Tippmanns and Spyders. Services: They have techs that will work on your gun for free. The problem with it, is that they aren't factory certified. If the marker company finds that out, they can void your warranty even if the guy installed the part perfectly. I'd say go to Pev's pro shops, as they are all certified in guns. You have to ask your tech if he is certified on a certain model gun, but they will always have somebody certified for every type of gun. They also give out hot chocolate in the winter if you are cold. Another service discussed below is food. You can buy hot dogs, chips, Gatorade, regular and diet soft drinks. Not surprisingly, the food is insanely overpriced. I'd recommend to pack a bag lunch. Proshop: I haven't had any experiences as I rented, but they seemed pretty nice to me. The proshop seemed to be operated by teams that were sponsored there (sponsorship deals between teams and fields normally include a term where the team has to come and work for the field as a ref or a tech). I would definitely bring my gun to a Pev's proshop (There's one in Sterling) than let them work on it. Plus, they would void the warranty, and the proshop has manufacturer-certified techs that would be able to fix my gun and work on it the way it was meant to be done, not to trash the field guys or anything. Staff: This one guy who did the safety briefing was a real **** (I think he's the owner). I don't think he realized that after paying $50 to be at his field it would be nice if the staff wouldn't yell at us, considering we pay his salary. Other than that, the staff was very nice. Refs: I have heard people complaining about the refs feeling intimidated by players who are sponsored by Pev's, but I can tell you that this isn't the case. The ref I had was a reall y nice guy who knew alot about guns, so I asked him what marker I should get. I also thought they did a good job of keeping people from getting bonus-balled and shot when they were out. They called me out when I got a hopper hit. They quickly screamed "let him out, hopper hit!" which I thought was good, considering I was out of paint on a tippmann 98 (I was dry-firing to hold them back) and the 2 guys I was firefighting with had an EGO and an upped Ion. Players: Everybody was really nice, with the exception of a few Ion owners (you have those types at every field). Overall, everybody was fine to play with, Facilities: The facility itself wasn't very nice, it was in the garage of a house. The floor was concrete and the whole place wasn't very clean. Food: I haven't tried the food, but I'd pack a lunch as it's expensive as hell. You can buy hot dogs, chips, Gatorade, regular and diet soft drinks. Overall Ratings: Safety: 8/10 Fields: 9/10 Hours of op: 7/10 Prices: 5/10 Rules: 9/10 Services: 7/10 Proshop: 8/10 Staff: 6/10 Refs: 8/10 Players: 9/10 Facilities: 4/10 Food: 8/10 Total: 7.3 Last edited on Saturday, March 10th, 2007 at 6:06 am PST

VicodinES Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 | 3:17 pm PST The proshop is staffed by an employee of Pev's, not a sponsored player. Everyone who deals with money or guns is an employee. The guy who's filling tanks might be a player who is helping out, but everyone else is staff. Also, it is not a "full service" pro-shop. Most of the people working in there are capable and factory trained to service markers, but, they don't have time to do that. They can diagnose and fix very minor problems, but for anything that involves taking the gun apart, they can't do it. Also, they won't work on your gun if you bought it elsewhere. It's a liability issue, not a pissing contest because you purchased elsewhere.