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Quest For Adventure Paintball Field
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Gibbons, Alberta T6C 4A9
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| Date There: |
July 24th, 2007 |
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Paintball
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More than 5 years |
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Other Fields
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PAG is better than this sh*t hole. and it only has one field. |
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Directions
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Up your ass, around the corner... |
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i would have to say that this place BLOWS GOATS. when i was last there, the buildings looked like they were made out of sh*t by Kindergarten students. the refs were HORRIBLE, they only wore ski goggles, not your regulation paintball masks. Cattle Stall??? what the hell is that???!!! you call that a paintball place? i call it a f*cking FARM!!! you guys NEED to clean up the f*cking place... and get a real job in a better location...like a sh*t factory...THE END |
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| Date There: |
May 12th, 2007 |
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Paintball
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6 months |
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Other Fields
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ESG is the closest. Also have been to Young Guns. |
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Directions
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It is North of Edmonton. By Gibbons. |
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!!!FORGET QUEST, PLAY THE REST!!!
I have alloted 5 possible points for good and 5 possible points for bad.
Features:
Lets start with the good:
1: The fields were large and had lots of things to hide behind.
2: They have good camouflage rental shirts and jackets.
3: Good bush to open ratio of trees.
4-Can not think of any more.
5-Can not think of any more.
6-Can not think of any more.
The Bad:
1: One of the men that was giving out rental paint was in a very bad mood and a hurry to start. He rushed us through the gun velocity test so any one under had no time to adjust. My friends gun was only at 173 velocity and was not allowed to change. She had no luck hitting people that could easily hit her.
2: Run down buildings in disrepair and bad medical help, I had slipped in a building and gashed my arm it was bleeding and when I went to the ref for help he said he was too busy to show me the way to the trailer so I had to go through the bush in the field for a good 10 minutes before I found the start point. This was the field with the old car on it and the big valley on the side.
3: Horrible equipment that is in disrepair-many of the guns did not work.
4: We rented guns and about a third of our group had only enough gas to shoot 50 or so paint pellets, we had to re supply our gas after the first game.
5: Fair Play, or lack there of was a huge problem. The refs knew some guy from the other team and joined the game on their side, there were 2 refs plus we were outnumbered by 1 person already. We lost every game by a lot and had a very bad experience.
I give Quest 3 out of 10 for my review.
My suggestion is to go to Young guns or if you want something close to quest try ESG. ESG has much friendlier staff.
| Last edited on Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 at 9:40 am PST |
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jwst |
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 |
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July 24th, 2005 |
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Paintball
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4 years |
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Other Fields
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youngguns,screamin' eagle{crane lake}
Recently played at xcalibre |
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Very unorganized staff who run this place.
Staff did not look very enthused about being there the day my group showed up,when you first drive into qfa,it looks like some bush league place.
Get your paint quotes and booking quoted to you by fax or mail because it will change when you get there the day of play,thats what happened to us and the owner did not care about how we got screwed over the price difference.
We had to chrono our markers by sound and look of how fast the marker would shoot the ball onto a tree-talk about a joke!
Half the group had marker issues and it was a joke for them to get other rentals issued.
The town is ok.
Save your money and go to youngguns or xcalibre,qfa will never compete with them,heck you could have more fun in a farmers field playing woodsball rather than palying at QFA!!| Last edited on Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 at 2:59 pm PST |
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tau |
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Friday, February 9th, 2007 |
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August 26th, 2006 |
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Paintball
Experience: |
More than 5 years |
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Other Fields
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Galaxy, TAG, PAG, Young Guns |
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Found the place very disorganized when we arrived, granted there was alot of people there.
As an equipment owner I was dumbfounded when they told our group that Co2 was a thing of the past and was not available. One of our group had to rent a HPA tank for the day and for some reason his marker did not perform well
The paint was a little expensive for what it was, but I am picky about my paint.
They have some of the best fields I have played on and was impressed with the woodsball fields. We were in a large group and there was plenty of room to move.
Our group did not play all the fields, and would like to return to play the rest but only if Co2 is available. |
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| Last There: |
September 2nd, 2006 |
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Paintball
Experience: |
3 years |
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Other Fields
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PAG outdoors / indoors
Youngguns |
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It's a good field with a good owner, who hires good refs that have a level head.
I really enjoy going there when I can just for Gettysburg course. It's quite good.
It's a great place to play woodsball and it has a nice milsim feel to it.
Decent prices on rentals. Paint is a bit stiff $$$, but it is good quality paint.
Parking is a bit lacking, but not a huge deal.
All-in-all, a darn good place to play.
'Nuff said. |
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Wayno |
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Saturday, September 23rd, 2006 |
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September 4th, 2006 |
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Paintball
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4 years |
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Other Fields
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Urban Paintball (Edmonton)-Urban quite small in comparison. Urban has a lot more staff. No waiting around for paint or CO2 refills. Very attentive. |
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I've been playing here for at least four years. Longer as a renter. Purchased my first marker through them. Prices reasonable. Owner Lyle is a great guy. Though don't ever expect him to remember who you are, or your name, heh. I'm sure he has hundreds that are on a first name basis with him.
Fields include a Chevy Graveyard, a Town (quite a number of buildings), a nice speedball field, several wooded fields with varying foliage, trees, bunkers, hills, etc. This place is huge.
I love everything about QFA, except I sometimes find there to be limited staff operating the CO2 fill station, or the rental area. So you'll often have to be waiting if you're not thinking ahead.
Another thing I find is that they often discourage you from drop in when you call, but if you show up there, they'll have no problem accomodating you and/or your friends provided the other groups don't mind you tagging along.
On that note, if you show up wearing camo, factory shirts, electronic markers, etc, you're going to intimidate the beginners who are renting and you may find them reluctant to allow you to join them. So think ahead. |
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| Last There: |
June 10th, 2006 |
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Paintball
Experience: |
4 years |
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Other Fields
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Tag: had friendly staff and several various game types ie: CTF, base vs base, assault a single base, town, fight in a small area with hay bales, trenches team elimination. The only downfall was the smaller playing fields in comparison to Quest. Prices were high $40 to start
Paintball Action Games: Staff was friendly. Very small playing fields. Best prices For paint if you bring your own gun out off all the fields I have played.
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Directions
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North of Edmonton near Gibbons. |
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| Review: |
Open from 9am-4pm. Price was so so $30to play morning matches $35 to play afternoon. You got 300 balls if you rented or 500 if you had equipment. safety was ok except 3 games without a ref and the rental masks allways fog-dont they everywere? Thats easy enough to solve if you buy your own new mask though. The rental guns were tippman 98 so they were a good brand but poor contidion. Date May: My friend was complaining that I had my own gun so i just told him to stop wineing. I found out affterwards that he had to exchange his gun 3 times becasue of the following problems: 1 gun would not shoot period, 2 paintballs rolled out of barrel, 3 gun would shoot for about 3-5 quick shots and then 3-4 air shots 3-5 paint 3-4 air...etc. The next time I went June 10th I tested a differnt friends marker in the shooting range and it did the 3-5,3-4shot thing. Many people renting in our group had to exchange markers several times. The fields are amazing for woodsball several varying terrain types on each field.
Rolling Pines (R.P.): 1 team starts at the top of a long hill while the other starts at the bottom both sides have small bunkers that could support 3-4 people defending. There are many baricades in between. The top has an advantage if they can get to a slope directly infront of the lower bunker-the lower team then becomes pinned in the bunker and almost sure to lose.
The Town: For more speedballish play. It has bushes on the both sides if you take the time to sneak around.
Gettysburg: very thick bush with a few buildings deep in the woods. Too hard to see all battles took place at close range or mercy kills.
Chevy graveyard: Large field with lots of cover good percente of bush to open space, a gully on one side that is covered in dense trees is good for getting to the other side while avoiding the main fighting in the middle.
2 of 5(+1 manager) refes we had were good. The ones that were bad blew everyones cover allways by going up to them to see what team they were on.
1 of the staff who also was the owner is the infamous GROUCHY/GRUMPY OLD MAN 45-55 years. He is the manager and heres what happened. We phoned and booked and said we would be there by 8 so we could have time for us to setup our won epuipment. When we arrived he was locked inside the rental building so we simply got everyone suited up that had there own equpment. Once he came out he was already fuming about something. we had to crono our guns ourselves and the reader didnt work on my gun so the owner tried to crono it and eventually gave up after 5 tries and said forget it and stormed off. We had our teams assigned but when the owner came out with armbands he just assigned us random teams and when we protested he just ignored us. He nearly blew up when we told him we had CO2 to fill for our guns rathar than air. He said we needed to buy an air tank as soon as possible and that they were phasing out CO2. So we paid the $5 each he charged the 4 of us with our own tanks. The Man asked us if we were ready and we were but 1 guy was fiddling loading his paintballs and said no so before anyone could object the man was of at a fast stride to help 2 people that just pulled up at 5 to 9:00. It was 15 after before the man sent the two of them out to join our group saying that we should go to R.P. without him because he had to get ready for a group that was scheduled for 9:00-gee good thing some of us had played there to know which field it was not to mention that we played 3 games on the same field with no ref.
I have said enough negative stuff about him for you to get the idea.
On the games we have played there the experience always degraded once we joined another group. Starting with any game type from CTF to defend a base on R.P.The game type would imediatly change to team elimination or center flag in town where everyone takes aim at the flag and just waits for someone to blunder out after it-with respons on this made the gameplay degrade.
Summary out of 10:
Fields: 10 (except gettysburg)
Refs: 7
Safety: 8 usually (0 *old man)
Game types: 10 or 3 excellent in small groups-terrible in large
Prices: 8 or 4 alright with own gear, poor without
Hours:10
Rentalls: 5
GROUCHY OLD MAN: 1
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| Last There: |
May 20th, 2006 |
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Paintball
Experience: |
More than 5 years |
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Other Fields
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Young Guns
Evolution
Hangar 51
Paintball Adventure (in and out)
TAG |
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Directions
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go to www.paintballqfa.com it gives you a map |
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Everytime I go out there, it is usually just me and a buddy looking to join a group and have a good time. I get there and instantly I am given immediate service by the owner or one of the staff. I am looked to see that my air is full, I have all the paint I want, and my gun is going at 300fps or less. The refs will not only put us into a group... but ask the group if they mind if we join, which in my opinion, is very respectfull, because we all know a group of newbies does not always want someone carrying a 1500$ gun to light em up. Usually they say yes, and if they say no, the refs always make sure that I find a group to play with.
The fields are very nice, especially the town, which in my opinion... and many others is one of the ebst in Western Canada. The ground is a nice white sand and the fields are well mantained. There courses vary from Airball to Pines, from Town to Brush, it is almost every kind of terrian out there.
If I have a problem with my gun, I just tkae it to the ref, and he will try his hardest to fix it or let me borrow a part (or a new gun in some cases) to make sure the rest of my day goes assuredly.
I have been coming out nearly 10 times a season, since the age of eight. I can willingly say that this is by far the best field in Alberta. Try it out... You'll love it. |
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theace! |
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2006 |
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April 22nd, 2001 |
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Paintball
Experience: |
More than 5 years |
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Other Fields
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Paintball Outfitters (Lethbridge) My Main feild
Coulee runners paintball (Lethbridge)
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Directions
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In Edmonton and i was on a bachelor party |
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The field owner was down to earth and the guys he had working with him were polite and fun to have guiding us. The reason i liked it was that they had a lot of trees and not too many bushes. Personally i find bushes to make for a lame course. No hits and alot of spray. Quest had mostly trees and alot which are big enough to find cover.
Along with those tree courses they had added other bunkers like a vehicles and bunches of branches. Nice.
We played a town course which everyone really enjoyed, fun for first timers to advanced 'er noobs to 1337 ballers . Quest had a bunch other courses but we were content with the ones we played. The ground was nice too, cause it was all pretty much like beach sand.
Aside from the field he had compressed air instead of CO2 for the markers (tippmans)
Good for guys who bring their own guns that run on compressed air, plus the guys who rent don't have the inconsistency of CO2 pressure and on a cold day don't have the snow shooting out the marker.
I liked it alot and he had a deadly(awesome) homemade fill station. So easy to use that if set to 3000, anyone could use it with out supervision. Had a quik coupler like every fill station, on the ende of an air hose connected to a steel electrical Junction Box (just a rugged steel box) To activate you just push a joystick off to any direction and it fill your tank. Let go and it rights itself plus releases pressure from hose. All good.
They could have monitored us a bit more though. Reason was i think they had a lot of groups that day |
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Paintball
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3 years |
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Other Fields
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Screamin' Eagle |
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For starters,the guy who got this organized and booked for us to spend a day at QFA deserves a big THANK YOU!
Now on with the review,with our group of 14 people for a private party and prices quoted as to what costs would be for renters and marker owners a month and a half prior to game day,as we drove into quest, the place looked like something from way out in the sticks.
As the group got their gear together,8 of us including the organizer had our own markers,6 others had to rent.
First off,the prices that were quoted to the group 1 1/2 months before game day at booking time had changed.
Marker owners were qouted a $15 field fee and $100 for a case of paint,they ended up paying the same $40 fee as the renters did and 7 marker owners decided to share a half case with each other except for 1 marker owner who paid for a full case plus the $ 40 fee.
The entire group was a bit upset at the price change and you could see the emotions on their faces.
The hoppers were filled and it was time to get trigger happy.
As the first game was about to begin in some bush like scenery which didn't have much cover to hide in,the ref,some army dude stayed with the group til the game was done,game 2 started at the same location with the ref in hand.
As everybody went back to refill with ammo,the ref explained to the group about the town and what games to play,the group headed off for the town and waited for the ref to show up,ref wasn't comin so 2 guys went back to see what was goin on,they came back saying the ref told them to go ahead and play without a ref,we all looked at each like wtf,we went on and played the town many times which was very good,its the best town we've seen yet!
We stopped for lunch,although it was a bit drizzly throuhout the morning,somehow some of the guys got the fire goin to cook some lunch.
After lunch we were told to go ahead and play what ever we wanted,we were only limited to 3 fields as the others were claimed to be flooded out.
We played the town several more times and played gettysburg a few times which was an ok field.
After being tired out,most ofthe group decided to call it quits,packed our stuff up and paid our fees with most of the marker owners complaining about the price change and the organizer was overheard stating the we markers owners were quoted X dollars and the ref saying everbody pays the same price no matter what!
To date,nothing has been done to rectify the problem with the price change,the staff that day totally sucked.
The town gets a 10 out of 10.
More can be done with this place to make it look alot better as you first come in and the surroundings at the staging areas could look alot nicer too ,looks more like a garbage dump.
Again,thanks to the organizer of our group for the outing,but it doesn't look like we'll be coming back to this place again!| Last edited on Tuesday, July 26th, 2005 at 7:16 pm PST |
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