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Triggertyme Paintball Field
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429 Koon Store Road
Columbia, South Carolina 29203
USA
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April 5th, 2008 |
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More than 5 years |
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** Review edited to reflect 2nd visit - safety issues a concern **
My brother and I made our way out to Trigger Tyme Saturday 4/5/2008 and we really enjoyed ourselves. We came with low expectations .. the weather was terrible, we were running late and we left laughing and having enjoyed a great day of play.
Even though it was raining (sometimes really hard) and we were late (noon) we were able to get in close to 5 hours woodsball play. There were about 20 players.
The Refs were knowledgeable and fair. We played an excellent variety of games. The number and quality of the fields had expanded significantly since our last visit 2 years ago. There was a relaxed and really friendly atmosphere.
Del, the field manager was really helpful and took an active role in ensuring even the youngest players had a good experience.
Field paint (Diablo Heat) was decent and reasonably priced as was the field fee.
HPA and Co2 fills were available and quickly dispersed.
I highly recommend Trigger Tyme.
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Return visit : 4/12/2008
I paid another review to TriggerTyme with some guys from work and a member of my extended family. We had a good time but things seemed to run a bit slow between games. There were some large church groups playing so the walkons/recballers had just one ref for about 20 of us. We got about 5 games in during our 7 hour visit.
There were three items of serious concern I noted during this visit:
- No Crono?!! - that's right TT had no working chronograph during our visit. I don't doubt that at least a couple guys were shooting hot. I sure hope I wasn't. I can only imagine what would happen if someone were to get seriously injured due to a high FPS mask hit.
- No rental barrel plugs - What? Yep, the renters (perhaps due to a large church group in attendance) had no barrel plugs. I ended up wearing my mask most of the day for fear of some kid misfiring. This was a scary situation.
- No weighing at the Co2 fill station. They filled by 'feel'. When I asked about how they could tell the CO2 fills were correct I was told that they were probably substantially overfilled and that at long as the burst disks were ok there was nothing to worry about..
This issues all left me feeling concerned. I love TT and we again had a great time on their excellent fields but the lack of attention to these matters left me feeling that safety was not a priority.
I'm going to visit TT again soon and I'll report if these were a one time anomaly or a persistent problem. If they aren't resolved I think my friends, family and I need to find a new field.
| Last edited on Saturday, April 26th, 2008 at 12:40 pm PST |
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| Date There: |
November 25th, 2007 |
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Paintball
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1 year |
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None |
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Directions
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I-20 towards Florence to 321. First right after road turns into 2 lane on Koon Store Rd. Left at big orange mail box, you have to be an idiot not to see it. |
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| Review: |
It doesn't look like much when you pull up, but looks can be decieving. The compound area had plenty of room to set up and get everything ready for play. It had a nice area for cronographing your marker and making sure everything was ready. The pro shop had anything I needed, when my marker failed in the first game, they let me use one of theirs free of charge. The employees are friendly and knowlegable and nice, as well as the players and regulars. Everyone ended up friends after the day was over. All of the games were nice and organized and an equal opportunity was given to each player. It is a great field to play for any level paintballer. Safety was enforced with the utmost importance, the fields were awesome, everything from a little town to a two story fort with a moat around it and an airstrip. 80 something acre's of woods to play on was awesome. Plenty of bunkers to use to your advantage as well as natural trees and mounds. I will definitely be back to play here more often, me and everyone I was with had a blast and are still talking about it hours later! Wonderful place to spend an exciting afternoon for a reasonable price!! |
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tdogg77 |
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 |
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October 28th, 2007 |
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Less than a month |
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Other Fields
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None - this was my first time. |
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Directions
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From I-20 take the Monticello Road exit north, pass a run-down bar on the left after about two miles, right on Koon Store Road. Looks like (and is) the driveway to a house. |
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This place is pretty run down, but in the end I had a really great time there. When I turned into the driveway I thought, 'surely this isn't it,' but it was. The field shares a driveway with someone's house. There is trash everywhere, and basically everything from the picnic tables to the pro shop is old and messed up. I wasn't expecting a country club, but clearly the owner is not putting even a minimum effort into making it look nice. The 'pro shop' is basically a semi-abandoned trailer home, and does not sell anything but paint. The only nice thing is the fill station.
I got there right at 10, when they open, but for some reason we didn't start playing until about 12:30. I felt like a jackass just sitting there for 2.5 hours. After we got started, though, we played until I was ready to quit.
All that aside, there were some great people to play with--everyone was a good sport and the games were fun. There was a lot of good cover in the woods, with natural dirt mounds, ridges and trees. There are a lot of smaller trees and brush that make you think strategically before shooting. It is a big field! Most of the buildings were usable as designed.
This was a fun place to play, and the people were really friendly. Safety was enforced. I did see some small post holes in some areas, for no apparent reason, which are pretty dangerous, but people did use barrel plugs, and kept their masks on. I will be back soon--it's right around the corner from my house. If they had 5 guys working for one full day the place could be cleaned up and looking sharp, except maybe for the 'pro shop.' All in all I recommend it. Despite its appearance it is really fun. |
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| Date There: |
July 1st, 2007 |
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Paintball
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2 years |
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Dunno, I'm from Florida. I came up just for one scenario. |
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Directions
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I was lost so many times....
The sign that says "TriggerTyme" is covered with bushes and small, so good luck. |
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This place is huge. It's 80-something acres, which is frankly kind of silly, the way they have it set up. There are two insertion points, and they are both at the very south end of the field. As a result, nearly all of the combat takes place in the southern 1/4 of the field. The only real reason to head north is to accomplish objectives or try to walk the tape line (we tried this once and it took us over 45 minutes). It's probably a good thing that most of the action takes place in the south, because the northern half of the field is fairly barren of anything. Few small bunkers, only a couple buildings and lots of large, sweeping hills.
The bunkers and towns and villages in the south are pretty cool though. The bases are fairly easily defend able if done correctly. There's even an "island". It's a fairly intricate multilevel town with a small stream going around it that acts like a moat. This area has by far the best cover on the entire field, which isn't saying much. Soft cover here is still fairly sparse compared to a place like Wayne's World or even the forest surrounding the field.
The main reason why I don't like this field is that there is absolutely no sneak attacks. There is little to no ground cover over 95% of the place, with marginally dense but small trees. There is not enough cover to conceal any attack force larger than a single small child. The majority of the trees are than 8" in diameter, and provide little cover individually, but stacked up over distance of 100 feet, they are impossible to shoot through. Almost any attacking force is easily visible far before the are within engagement range, making battles fairly tedious and predictable. Battles on this field tend to waste a lot of paint. At $70 a case for Empire Engage, which is not horrible paint in how it marks, but could use some improvement on the flight characteristics, the cost of playing more than an afternoon here runs up pretty quick..
The staff was pretty helpful. My buddy broke a fill nipple, and they were real nice about trying to help. However, they didn't have the part in the pro shop. They didn't have much of anything in there, actually. And you can only rent LP HPA tanks, cuz it's all they have. So if you have a Tippmann or other HP marker and your tank fails, you're up a creek.
I would say that the reffing was excellent, but that can't be attrubuted to TriggerTyme. Lumpis, the self proclaimed Ultimate Referee from Wayne's World brought his crew up for the officiating duties, seeing as the scenario I was there for was presented by Wayne Dollack. Anyone who's been to a Wayne's tournament will know who I'm talking about.... "YES LUMPIS!!"
I do have to say one really good thing about TriggerTyme, though. They have the best smelling Port-o-Johns I've ever been in. No joke.
All in all, I wasn't too pleased with the tournament, and I doubt I'll be retuning anytime in the foreseeable future. And it's not just the 11-12 hour drive from Miami that's stopping me either.| Last edited on Monday, July 30th, 2007 at 12:27 pm PST |
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| Last There: |
October 18th, 2004 |
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Paintball
Experience: |
More than 5 years |
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Other Fields
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Paladin Paintball (home field, now defunct), Ground Zero Lakeview sc, Wildfire Paintball, various other Rec-ball fields. |
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Directions
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Not hard to locate the area but it may be slightly hard to actualy find the field the first time you visit. If your reading this theres a map to the field on this site. |
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I have not visited this field since Itchy and Link ran it and i always had a blast there then, but my friend has been in touch with the new owners lately and they seem to be a good bunch that is always trying to improve the field from players suggestions and the reviews they receive. We are planning to go to the March 8 hour scenario "Tombstone" if we can but we are looking forward to going to the June 24 hour scenario hosted by Wayne Dollack based on the Vietnam war. This is one of the countries oldest fields even though its gone through a few owners and Trigger Tyme is not its original name and for that I personally think its worth at least giving the field a try. |
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January 15th, 2006 |
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Paintball
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More than 5 years |
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Other Fields
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palmetto hills, paintball central, paintball charleston |
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I will start with the good, the woodsball field is very nice. The refs seemed to do a fair job, and they were friendly.
Now for what I found bad about the field. first there is no sign out front at the road, so the field can be hard to find on your first visit. Also the drive way to the parking area has a lot of tree branches hanging over that will scratch your vehicle. Next the pro shop is terrible.
In cold winter play the pro shop had no heat, so the paintballs were in extremely cold conditions, also at one event they had the paint balls on the back of a trailor that was parked outside all night in low 30 degree weather. The quality of paint is also terrible, if you like to shoot good paint you will NOT enjoy this field. My team has had a lot of barrel breaks, and hopper chops every time we go there. Now for the thing that I like least about this field, if you pay for a good marker with a good rate of fire ( no more than 15 balls a second ,which is SPPL legal), do not wast your time going here. We have showed up to play their scenario events, and they limit the rate or fire to 6 to 8 balls a second, which is stupid in my opinion unless you are an eight year old. They realy try to do things to make situations favorable for the local team . |
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June 18th, 2006 |
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More than 5 years |
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none |
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This field is pretty good. They have a decent proshop, they can fill to 4500, employ plenty of refs, and have good prices. Try to go to one of thier scenario games they havea a huge field, a good turnout and catering. The guy that runs the place, I think his name is Jim, is real squared away and will help you out if you need parts or tools or whatever. I don't know what else to say, basically if you want to have a good time playing paintball and a variety of fields to play on check out triggertyme. |
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N/A |
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1 year |
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Other Fields
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Palmetto hills in Rock Hill |
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I went to trigger tyme 4 days ago to my first scenario game and this filed was awsome!! They have small villages, towers, trenches, roads, and creeks that offer nearly any kind of terrain you can want. They are very organized despite the mom and pops store looks. They are very safety minded having chrono areas fully netted and they strictly enforce google safety rules with clearly marked boundries. I played their "super 64" event and there were hundreds of people there but everyone had a handle on things. They have missions that were fun and kept you on your toes the whole day. Their web site says their feild is huge and they mean it, I got lost my first time in the morning so it is best to look at a map and have a printed one handy for big games. Nearly all of the refs knew exactly what was going and were not just sitting around... no they would help you with marker trouble or show you where to go if you needed something. I give this place a 2 thumbs up and I am most deffinately planning on going back for more games. |
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N/A |
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Paintball
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More than 5 years |
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There are no Scenario fields in the are that compare. |
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I have been playing scenario ball at Triggertyme for about 6 years. Its a great scenario field. The team I play for MVTed there in June. Of this year. Its great! 88 acers of some of the best woods you will find. Bunker, towns, bases, no mans land, & the tower with a downed airplane. You have to go out & try it if your a scenario player.
They do have speedball for you guys that like the Airball fields.
They have a great staff in the store & on the field. good prices & good players. |
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N/A |
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4 years |
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Other Fields
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Pee Dee Paintball, Ballbusters Paintball, Duck n Dive Paintball, Paintball USA, private fields, woods junk yards anywhere I can |
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ok I'm gonna try to keep this sort, It's pretty neat, ok their woods ball feild is really cool it's big they have mini towers and forks to play in and their air ball feild is ok small but works and the people seemed nice and helpful their prices wasn't to bad better then most i will be going back to play there. |
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