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Da Nuke Paintball Games Paintball Field
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(815) 978-6081 |
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3485 N. German Church Road
Byron, Illinois 61010
USA
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| Date There: |
May 4th, 2008 |
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1 year |
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Other Fields
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This is the only field in the area I have played at as of this review. |
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This was the first time I have played in awhile, and Da Nuke offers a good time at a great price. The turnout was around 20 players which was plenty to have two good sized teams. The format for the games we played when I was there were all attack/defend where one team attacks a certain area and one team, you guessed it, defends it. They were definately fun games but I would have liked to play some games where both teams have a flag or both teams are going for the same flag, so you are both attacking and defending in the same game. The staff was very courteous and helpful and the play area is huge with basically every kind of bunker/obstacle you can think of. The only complaint I have is, as per field rules, when you are tagged out, you return to the main camp, wait a period of time and return to the game. I think that gives you the most time for your money, but as it is set up now, returning players often come up behind attacking players. It makes for too many shots in the back from someone returning from the dead area. A set path for returning players that brings them back into play at their starting position would be great. Other than that, no complaints at all. It is definately worth mentioning that Da Nuke offers FREE lunch, and there is no place I have ever heard of that does that. Kudos to the owners and staff, I will definately be returning this summer. |
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| Last There: |
May 4th, 2008 |
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Paintball
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3 years |
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Other Fields
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WYLDESIDE ROCFORD IL. |
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THEFIELD The field is over 40 acres of oak trees and real nice ravine that runs down the middle of the west corner.The area they call the city is in a open 8 acre tall grass field that is covered with wooded fence bunkers and 2 crow nest like forts that are up in the air. The east side of this feild has big and i mean BIG endloader tires stacked to use as cover. the rest of the fields has wooded bunkers and barrels all over it. SAFETY
The safety there is great as all or most of the players there understand and help out on issues like barrel plug and googles on in the field.
REFS
The refs there do a very good job on explaining all the safety rules and dividing the players up into 2 teams. They all so do a great job tell all the players the game that they are running and the rules that are involved with each game and sometimes alittle advice if need on some statagies before the games starts. GREAT JOBS REFS
THE OWNERS
The owners are BRAD &TINA they do a great job on makeing this fell like a family get together on open play day. This is the only field that serves you lunch at no cost to the players. Today we had hotdogs and chips. thank you
PRICE
The price to play on sunday was $25.00 and the paint they offer is good high quality paint at a affordable price.The great thing about them is that if you need a gun it is only $5.00 for the day. Its not a cheap field gun it is a name brand good gun. Today a freind of ours needed a gun and the gun worked perfectly all day.
TODAY
Today was the first time me and my son first day back out in the feild playing. There was a great turn out of 25 players.We got there at 11:00 am got the gear out and got ready.The ref did a great job getting all the players cronoed and divided in to 2 teams and out in the feild by11:45 Then we played 4 great games and then had lunch.After a half hour break we were right back at it playing.The last 2 games was there greatest game the city. WOW WHAT A GREAT TIME.
NEW PLAYERS/OLD PLAYERS
If you are new to the sport and want to have a good time PAINTBALLING.this is the place for u. If are all ready a player and want to have a great time in the woods then come to DA-NUKE.The one thing i have noticed over the years playing here is if you are new to it or old to playing everyone who plays is treated the same.MY son started playing when he was 9 he is now 12 and you can not underestamat him in the field.
THANK YOU BRAD & TINA &STAFF FOR A SUPER GREAT DAY OUT AT DA-NUKE
| Last edited on Sunday, May 4th, 2008 at 6:29 pm PST |
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| The accuracy of this review is disputed. Please see discussion on the comments page. |
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| Date There: |
May 15th, 2006 |
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Paintball
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3 years |
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Directions
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Right across the street from the byron nuke plant |
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If you have ever been near a nuke plant you know that every so often they have a drill to simulate the evacuation of the plant cause of a reactor problem. Well i was camping there and the park ranger came at 4 in the morning and told us to get out. So we slept in our car instead. Then we went paintballing. The field was more of like a backyard kind of field nothing like cpx or factory up north. |
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| Date There: |
May 14th, 2006 |
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Paintball
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1 year |
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Other Fields
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Fox River Games, Chicago Reball Center, WyldSide Paintball. |
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Even though I have been here only once, I have to say that it was pretty cool. You have to have a notarized waiver and $25 to get in ($20 if you have your own equipment.) The air all day was free. Which was awesome!
They have some benches in front of what looks like white gates, some of the guys put their stuff on that. (I put mine what I thought looked like a shack.)
The field had some concessions, Tina (the field owner) cooked us some hot dogs while I had mountain dew.
After we had everything set up and ready to go, we had to get our markers Chrono'd. It took us about 30 mins. When there are more than 2 people waiting in lines, you have to wear a mask, which tells you they are all about safety. The head ref (I don't remember his name but I called him "guy with cool hat") went over the game rules.
The Hills: The first game we played was 1 Flag capture. The flag was placed at the top of the hill, one team defends the flag while another attacks it. We played this game twice. Both teams switching objectives. This game was played in the woods.
City Game: The name can be misleading, it's not like challenge park where you play in a "town". Once again, one team defends the flag while the other team captures it. The game is a hybrid ball (combining bunkers from woodsball and elements of speed like speedball.) I "almost" captured the flag when my low endurance came back to bite me in the butt!
Speedball Course: This game is the same as you see in the tournaments. If I recall correctly, the bunkers were Extreme Rage brand. There was a problem with the pump so we were missing a bunker on one side, leaving 1 guy exposed. (usually me)
The refs set up two flags on the wooden posts (even though we played it as a deathmatch, not really caring about the flags.) The dead boxes looked like the ones in some tournaments I have seen on the web. They are Rectangular standing up with black netting all around it. Which means a stray paintball won't hit an unsuspecting person.
When I came to this field, I was a bit sceptical about the quality and what the game experience would be like. By the time I got home and washed off my battle wounds, I felt like that was well worth the $20! Thanks for the great time!!!
I gave the field an 8 out of 10 because we did have to wait a long time to chrono, and there were some leftover paintballs I didn't want to step on with my good shoes. Other than that, I will definately be returning. |
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| Date There: |
July 23rd, 2006 |
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Paintball
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3 years |
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I guess I'll make this brief. WhenI was there rules were not followed as 1 guy was over shot and left because noone did anything about it. Safety is a big problem there as people were standing in line without masks waiting to chrono. Chrono station not having netting at all. Not having food available until 4p.m. Getting there early to play and having to wait 21/2 hours to play our 1st game. This field caters to woodsballers and speedball fields are not worth waiting 2 1/2 hours for in my opinion. |
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| The accuracy of this review is disputed. Please see discussion on the comments page. |
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June 11th, 2006 |
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Paintball
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1 year |
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Other Fields
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My buddy owns a private field |
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Directions
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right next to the Nuclear Plant... and you can't miss those! |
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I played at Da Nuke today and would have to say that I had a pretty good time. We started around 11ish and played until around 5:30 (but others were still playing for a little longer). I'll divide this review up to discuss the main points:
SAFETY - Da Nuke was very good about making sure that their field was safe. There was always someone nearby when everyone was coming out of the shooting zone and they made sure that the barrels were covered and that people weren't jacking around. They didn't flip out on you if you forgot to cover the muzzle, either. They would simply ask or remind you to cover it.
REFS - I was a little disappointed with the refs. They didn't make any bad calls or anything, but it seemed like they didn't do a whole lot. In every game I was in, whether it was speedball or woodsball format, the players made their own calls on the honor system. Half of the time the refs weren't anywhere near the action to make a call anyway. It wasn't a real problem in our case, but the field could save a few bucks by cutting the amount of refs at least in half.
PRICES - I brought my own equipment and, since it was Sunday, brought my own paint. The field fee for the day was $20 and all-day air or co2 was $5, which isn't too bad. Da Nuke also had a few cases of Nel-Splat and Brass Eagle Monster Balls for sale too. From what I heard the prices weren't too bad for those either.
Overall this was a pretty fun field. They had a fairly large area of woods, 2 decent speedball fields, and a "city ball" type of field. Usually there was a speedball game and a woodsball game going on at the same time. Another great part of Da Nuke was that everyone (newbs to experienced ballers) could have fun, not be embarrassed, and afford to play at this field. |
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| Last There: |
May 7th, 2006 |
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Paintball
Experience: |
2 years |
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Other Fields
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The edge and wyldeside there not as good in my oppinion |
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Directions
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pretty much across the street from the nuclear plant |
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Let me say this is by far my favorite place to go. This place is like a home away from home. Tina makes free food for everyone when people come and treats everyone like there her best friend. This field has a ton of woods for all those woodsballers and scenario ballers out there but also has several fields dedicated to speedball. Prices are very good here you definatly dont burn holes in your pockets. This place is also very very safe while not on any of the fields your gun must have some type of barrel sock or plug on or you will get yelled at or kicked out (i know because i forget alot and brad keeps me in check) there are also many other rules that are obvious that are gone over in detail before anyone plays. This place offers gun rentals, airball, co2 and N2 filling, full equipment rentals, scenarios games and much more. The field is open to normal play on weekends and on weekdays its reserved for special partys or teams that pre arrange it. The staff is great everyone is fair and friendly and are very willing to help you with any problems. For a great experience pick da nuke!!!
~Thor~ |
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pbagent |
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Monday, September 19th, 2005 |
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N/A |
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2 years |
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Other Fields
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Fox Painball, Operation Paintball, Paintball Sam's. This is the same field that Rockford Paintball used to operate. |
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A little bit of history: until this spring, this field was operated by Rockford Paintball. To see some more reviews on this field, you might want to take a look at the reviews for Rockford Paintball.
NEW owners/operators, Brad and Tina: This weekend was the first weekend I have been out this year/since the ownership changed. I played this field quite a bit last year when it was still Rockford Paintball. The new operators, Brad and Tina, seem like very nice people. They even provided lunch at no cost - they grilled hot dogs for everybody. I do not know if there is free lunch every weekend, but it was a nice token of appreciation. They are very open to suggestions, and let the players help determine the scenarios before games. Also, if you email them, they will write back pretty quickly.
Pricing: Admission was $20, and an extra $5 for all day HPA or CO2. One downside is that there are no rental HPA tanks, only rental CO2 tanks. Since they are just starting out, I would assume rental HPA tanks will be coming sometime in the future. I believe they have Misfits for rentals, but I did not check them out. This is a BYOP field, which is nice.
Refs: The ref's were very nice, and on the spot. No complaints about the ref's at all. As I mentioned, there were no HPA tanks to rent. I had a problem with mine, and one of the ref's offered me his HPA tank for a couple of games.
Game play: This field lets you respawn after you are marked out. When Rockford Paintball operated the field, you had to wait 5 minutes before respawning. The new owners let you come back in immediately, which can throw off the game a little. Hopefully they will reinstate the 5 minute rule, or have some games with no respawn. Good rotation of scenarios, and its been my experience that the players out at this field (even when it was Rockford Paintball) are all very nice and a lot of fun to play with.
Field: This is the best woodsball field I have played on. Rolling terrain, including a ravine, a pine tree forest, many paths, very thick brush in areas and also some small clearings here and there. This field is big - I believe 40+ acres. Lots of opportunities for flanking and sneaking around. There is a city area that is being developed into the airball field, and they open it up for woodsball games, too... so you get some neat battles that break out on the airball field even in the middle of a woodsball game. Their website has a cool satellite photo of the field.
Overall: 8/10. Nice people and a GREAT woodsball field. I believe game play typically starts around 12:00 noon, but they play until 6:00pm, so you can still sleep in or go to church and get in a lot of play. Good place to play, regardless of skill level or experience. The only downsides are that it is a bit of a drive to get there (but they do start and end late) and that they have no HPA tanks to rent. | Last edited on Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 at 8:07 am PST |
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N/A |
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Paintball
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More than 5 years |
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Other Fields
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none, not like it matters |
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Da nuke is a great field. They have airball, byop, cheap entry, and cheap tourneys with high payouts, great refs, and they are well ran. Thumbs up to da nuke. Brad and Tina have done a great job, and they finally got netting up a few weekends ago, the field is really starting to take shape. Dan is fat. |
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