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Hogback Mountain Paintball Field
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20261 Hogback Mountain Rd.
Leesburg, Virginia 20175
USA
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| Date There: |
December 29th, 2007 |
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Paintball
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Less than a month |
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I purchased paintball guns this Christmas for my two teenagers. I used this site to determine which field we would visit. WE were very satisfied with our choice. The staff were absolutely the best. They were very helpful and made our experience one that we will remember. I was able to upgrade our tanks at the proshop for longer play and all day air vs co2. The prices were very reasonable and the facilities were very good. we will be back soon to play again. Thanks to Hogback Mountain's Staff for making our paintball experience one to remember!
Colonel TW Williams
US Army Retired
Army Strong |
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| The accuracy of this review is disputed. Please see discussion on the comments page. |
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| Last There: |
December 1st, 2007 |
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Paintball
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1 year |
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Other Fields
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Warplay 10 out of 10 - Most Realistic Play with Real Bunkers-Best field in Virginia.
Pevs (Leesburg, Va) 8 out of 10. Best fields are Compound and Dodge City.
Skyline Paintball (Strasburg, Va) 8.5 out of 10. A Great Town scenario field.
Gotcha Paintball (North Carolina) 8.5 out of 10. Awesome X-Ball and Hyper ball play!
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Review: Staff – Always friendly and helpful. Lil Nick is always able to get my marker working quickly and for a reasonable fee.
Fields:
Scenario Fields:
Castle: Offers a lot of fun and diverse play.
Fort: Offers and intense action whether your attacking or defending.
Speedball Fields:
Air Ball 1 & 2: Seem to be mostly used for team practice, but I think that walk-on players can join in.
Shapes and Diamond: I haven’t played these fields, but they don’t seem well maintained. More like and afterthought than a field that is actively played.
Mini Bunkers: Yes they are Mini, be ready to crawl. This field offers a fast pace action and with lots of angles. Honestly I would love to see a hyper ball field (made with giant tubes) in its place instead of mini-bunkers.
Wood fields:
Mountain, Valley and Alley are great woods ball fields that offer a variety of natural bunkers as well as man made. These fields all offer a challenging fast pace game that will not disappoint you.
Fee: $15 admin is fair for this area. $8 all day air is cheaper than the other fields I have played.
Bonus: Most of the dead zones offer filling stations Air and C02. The scuba tanks fill to 3000 sometimes a little less. Anything is better than a hike back down the mountain to the primary fill station.
Safety: They are really safety conscience. They actually shut everything down, no air and no chrono to give the safety briefing speech. Refs are good about enforcing the rules during play and in the dead zones. I never had any problems with players with hot marker, but the refs should carry hand held chrono to allow for on the spot monitoring.
Conclusion: This field is great for walk-on play and awesome scenarios. My friends and I always have fun at Hogback.
However, after visiting Warplay, all of the the local Northern Virginia fields should step up and reward their loyal customer base with premier fields with real bunkers. I hope the Hogback owners/managers really consider making the necessary upgades. Even some basic improves would be appreciated.| Last edited on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 at 1:06 pm PST |
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| Last There: |
July 22nd, 2007 |
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Paintball
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2 years |
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Other Fields
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Pevs, Leesburg, VA - More expensive, less friendly, more experienced players
Outdoor Adventures, Bowie, MD - Good Scenario Games, Walk-on is weak |
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Directions
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15S from Leesburg. Take a right onto Hogback Mountain Rd. Follow the signs. You're going to go through some horse pastures and nice places. Once you turn back onto the dirt road, you're very close. |
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| Review: |
Staff Attitude - 10/10
Hogback has the best attitude in the area. The people that check you in are nice. The refs are responsive and try hard. Pev's still needs some work in this area.
Players - 9/10
The good attitude from the staff seems to carry through to the regular players and they're usually fair and nice.
A lot of the recball players at Hogback are new to the sport. If you play hard and have good gear, you'll find yourself ahead of the curve.
Admission Prices - 10/10
Best prices in the area. I have my own gear and normally have my own paint. It's $15 admission and $5 all-day air.
Facilities - 7/10
Good number of tables at admissions and in the deadzones. You don't have to leave your gear on the ground to get stepped on. Porta-potties at the field. Not so bad for the gents, but I wouldn't want to have to sit down.
Rule Enforcement - 8/10
The refs strictly enforce mask and barrel-plug rules. They WILL sit out players who have a hard time remembering, and will eventually send them home. Cursing and unsportmanlike conduct will also get you penalties.
Food - 8/10
2 Hotdogs, Chips, and a water/soda for $5. They're making a profit and not gouging the player. Everyone wins!
Water - 1/10
On my latest trip, the only water available at the field had to be purchased for $1 a bottle. I'd brought some with me, but had expected to be able to refill at the field. When you're running a sports complex, you should have free water available.
Fields - 8/10
The fields are all at least "ok", with a few good ones. There's a significant hike up to the fields from the admissions area where the crono and refill stations are. This is mitigated some by scuba tanks in the deadzone that can refill your air up to a point (max 3000psi, often lower). If you haul up your paint and shoot air, you shouldn't have to make the hike except for at lunch.
Conclusion - 8/10
The prices and friendliness at Hogback keep me coming back for walk-on. I play paintball to have fun, and Hogback makes that easy.
If they had one more great field and free water available regularly, I would give them a 10.
I will say that I prefer the scenario games at OA Paintball in Bowie, but Hogback has them beat for walk-on hands down.
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| Date There: |
May 27th, 2007 |
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Paintball
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3 months |
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Other Fields
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Pev's |
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This is the first time i've been to this field, but it left a great first impression.
Safety/ refs 10/10
- the refs were very good. Much better than Pev's
Fields 10/10
- large veriety of fields, very nice.
Prices 8/10
-prices for tickets were good but prices for paint were a little high, i reccomend not buying paint there. Prices for food were very good, 2 hot dogs, a soda (or water) and chips for 5 dollars.
Players
-The players are about 1/4 noobs who have like only played once or twice (like me), and the rest are good players with alot of experience, and nice gear. The only down side to my trip to hogback mountain was that the refs didn't do a good gob of evening out the teams. I had a party of 2 girls 3 kids (10ish) and a couple of guys... all renting, my group of people and a couple of good paintballers, the other team had all the guys with awsome gear. We got our buts kicked |
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| The accuracy of this review is disputed. Please see discussion on the comments page. |
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| Last There: |
June 3rd, 2007 |
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Paintball
Experience: |
4 years |
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Other Fields
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Pev's - The fields are a little nicer, but the crew is terrible
Warplay - The fields are awesome, the crew is more experianced |
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Directions
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Its right off of Route 15 south of Leesburg. Take Hogback mountain road then follow the signs. |
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Safety - They do have a 20 foot rule which is good for protecting people, but bad for actually trying to maneuver around the field. They do a good job of keeping the kids safe.
Fields - Their fields have not improved since the day they opened. They haven't repaired anything or taken any time to improve the quality of their structures.
Prices - Fair
Services - I do like how they have scuba tanks in their Dead Zones for quick filling between games.
Staff - Absolutely terribly unless you are sponsored by, or work for Hogback. There are two standards. Their people are tier 1, then the paying customers are lower. One of their players CLEARLY had his DM6 set for full auto (not allowed by their rules) and their staff wouldn't even look into it. When confronted, the ref just stood their and looked oblivious. I have also seen several accounts of obvious wiping go uncalled. I feel like at times we are playing against the refs as well as their players. They are very disorganized at times. This past weekend we played at Hogback for their D-Day scenario game. It was raining which did not bother me at all. It was the standing around, waiting for them to start things up that did. After an hour long lunch, we spent another 45 minutes sitting in the Dead Zone waiting for the crew to get things together to play. All while getting poured on.
Players - Unless they are sponsored by Hogback, there aren't many real players there. Mostly rentals and A-5's. You are lucky to see an ego or someone who really knows how to play the game.
Food - Two hot dogs, chips and a soda for 5 bucks.
I will never go back to Hogback paintball |
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| Last There: |
June 3rd, 2007 |
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Paintball
Experience: |
2 years |
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Other Fields
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Pevs - has similar issues
Warplay - only place for me |
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Directions
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www.randmcnally.com |
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Attended Hogback's D-Day event and for the most part had a good time.
Staff 10/10
Layout 10/10
Field paint 4/10 $60 a case for paint that is one step up from white box is just mean.
Organization 4/10 The field brief was short for once, but when we go to our dead zone, we stood around looking pretty for another 40 minutes. After lunch we ran into the same issue. We played a total of four hours, 2 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon.
Shop 10/10 had a nice tent setup with some goodies, prices looked good.
Food 8/10 hotdogs, not much you can say.
Walkon play
Staff 10/10 never had an issue and their refs are not 12
Layout 9/10 Castle needs some work, the circle the wagons move is getting old.
Organization 8/10 only once or twice had an issue with 20-30 minutes between games. Before I get a dispute put on me, I understand it takes a minute to get tanks refilled, etc. But we pay to play, not watch the refs talk about who is better or where they will be playing next week. Air up, fill up pods and play.
Food 8/10 hotdogs, not much you can say.
Shop never been in it.
Until Warplay opened up we only played at Hogback. They tried to keep the cheating down where the other local field just looked the other way. They also have older refs who will not let the regulars push them around.
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Period of
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| Date There: |
June 2nd, 2007 |
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Paintball
Experience: |
4 years |
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Other Fields
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pevs- pricey and no better |
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Directions
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i wasnt driving, but i think we used like mapquest or something |
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SAFETY-9/10 the ref forgot to take us to chonograph before we played. so basically, my friends gun was 337 fps[we found out after he hit me and the ball bounced, actually twice.] so now i have a nice big welt. but it didnt hurt too much.
FOOD-? i just picked something up from subway.
PROSHOP-8/10 well, they didnt have a good selection, but the stuff was great for what their fields were. guns- a5's 98's and some cheap airball thing.all the other stuff was diablo or empire.
FACILITY-9/10 typical mt. stuff- porti pottis and picnic tables.
STAFF/REFS10/10- its cool, the refs are the normal cooking and cleanup staff too.
PLAYERS-8/10- well, that 4 year experience comes from playing in my friends yard a million times. i don't go to a park like ever. but this time, im with some other 11 year olds, and we got confused and went to ther wrong field. we played like 21 year olds who could show up pros. they asked me to sprin to the other side, get a flag pull, and all this stuff.IM NOT THAT GOOD, OK??!!
RULES-10/10- what you need, 20 foot rule, cuz their fps limit is high, barrel plugs on in dead zone,mask on anywhere out of the dead zone,no cursing.
EXTRA-if ur not a old teen or a really experienced player, get a private group w/ other people ur age. |
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| Last There: |
January 28th, 2007 |
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Paintball
Experience: |
4 years |
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Other Fields
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Pevs
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Directions
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The directions are really easy to follow. |
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The refs are fair. The food is good (if you are hungry.) The place is orginized and great for woodsball and airball players. The proshop has a good variaty of things. The rules are good. Their is a 20 foot rule so you dont get f***ed up.
The fields are good they have a wide choose of fields. They have a lot of resonable rules and they have many refs to keep things safe. |
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| Last There: |
November 19th, 2006 |
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Paintball
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2 years |
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Other Fields
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Ive played at pevs 1s but i didnt like it becuase in the whole day i only layed 4 games |
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Ilove this field ive played here my whole life when i was 5 i was coming here to watch my cuzn. my favortie field is alley, castle,mini bunkers, or there airball coarse.the ownwer is so nice.when my ion broke since my cuzn used to work for hogbak he let me use his shoker and that made me almost buy 1 but yah i didnt.hogback is were i met some people and they joined my team.They just recently set up a proshop but the only thing that is good enough is the A-5 the jen-z isnt that good i dont think but iono i have never tested it out. the refs are really nice and usually no how 2 fix ur gun if its acting up.the 2 rules i hate so much is the 20ft and the no bunkerin so now the games last a little longer becuase some of the newbies juust hide and u cant get them from any angel unless u bunker but u cant. yah i give this field a 10 caus its the field i grew up on i no tht sounds corny. |
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| The accuracy of this review is disputed. Please see discussion on the comments page. |
Period of
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August 19th, 2006 |
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Paintball
Experience: |
6 months |
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Other Fields
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i haven't played at the only other field nearby, pevs, but i have looked at their website and i have talked to them. they don't look like a field i would want to play at. |
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Directions
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check their website |
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i only played at this field once, but i am going to be playing there more often in the near future. The staff are nice, though some of the refs aren't very wise in the ways of tech. One of them called the foregrip on my extra spyder a regulator. It's an empty tube. If you do go, make sure to be there before 9:30 as they are pretty serious about the safety briefing in the morning, as they should be. As far as prices go, they are very reasonable.
A case of white box for 55$, well, i shouldn't call it white box. It was great quality paint.
Excellent shell, bad fill though. Unfortunately, they don't offer all day co2, as they only have an air compressor.
The fields. The fields i played as a walk-on flat out rocked. Though the one field that stood out was Castle, it is second only to speedball.
Key strengths: prices, nice refs, great fields, fair rules.
key weakness: don't expect to get any help if your marker malfuctions, the walk up the mountain to the fields is a huge pain, its rare when you can pick the field you play on, the teams almost always unbalanced.
if you live nearby, i highly recomend this field. i had a great time.
***EDIT***
ok then, to clear a few things up.
at the time i visited the field, i had a spyder pilot, not a xtra. the refs are indeed very knowledgeable, and the one ref i spoke of had never owned a spyder.| Last edited on Tuesday, January 16th, 2007 at 5:59 pm PST |
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