What type of gun did you begin playing with or were introduced to paintball by?

[Keikan]

No im not including every possible gun in here either :)
bet over 3/4 are beagle :)

[Crisis]

You forgot the one that was "HOT" when i began playing

NSG Splatmaster.

that one got me "into" the game.. 2 games later i bought a Traccer pump gun

[Eladamri]

I had to vote for the talon because i believe that was the first paintball gun i ever saw or shot, might have been a tigershark though that was back in 91 or 92 i believe. The first gun i ever played a game with was a Vulcan and i blew out the side of the barrel when i got a ball jam and failed to notice. The first gun i got a kill with ingame was a Tigershark and the first and only gun i've purchased to date is a M98.

[Creek]

Been so long can't remender,lets see it shot like 10 rounds and you carried like 5 tubes in a holder.

[Nemessis]

Angel ;) no really i started with a measley joker and it is now my back up

[Richy_C]

compact 2000, still haveit, and i can use my mag now! it's obove 60 in ohio! no more frozen o rings yey!

[PsycHo AbE]

Mine was a Talon.

[Cango]

A rental Tippman model 98 with the worst barrel ever was the first gun i ever held/used

I quickly bought my own targa and i luv it =)

[TrOy]

Started with a Sheridan PGP rock-n-cock w/a 10 round tube feeder and 12gms! Play all day and go thru like 100 rds of paint! And that was hoseing! You could shoot 20 rounds per 12gm.. Bunkering? what is that?LOL There was a stragety back then, ya got pretty much one shot then ya gotta move! Its funny what I used to think a firefight sounded like back then to what it sounds like today!
PUMPS STILL RULE... well at least till yer shooting at me!LOL

[A damn fool]

I sqw my friends tl plus, thought it was coo, so i bought a shutter because it had a guage and a blue color to it. TH ats whee i started, and i love it sitll, and its been a year.

[SmartBall]

I almost held on to it too! It broke on me about a year ago. no wonder... i've had it for 4 years! it broke, though :( I remember the christmas i got it though... It was the first paint gun i ever actually fired (my dad got me into this sport! now i'm better than him :eek: )

I'm looking at a couple of guns now though... I've got $750 to spend on a new gun, I'm looking at either a Intimidater, or a Auto mag tux, or a Prococker by 32 degrees. Any opinions? any other guns to suggest? PM me...

[Richy_C]

get the tux! can you say sweet? add a centerflag to it an you'll have one of the coolest guns ever

[Counterfeit]

The first gun i ever used was a maverick as a rental.

The first gun I ever owned was a talon. I still have it also. Except now it has a hair trigger and is gold.

[AngryMelon]

Brass Eagle Poison - Blow back Semi-Auto, 7oz CA, 35 round hopper.

[TLplus84]

i started out with a Diablo pump and a Stingray..man that was so great...but then the Stingray got sold and the Diablo broke so i got my TL plus and now i'm getting an Image COcker

[MC Escher]

my first gun was the spyder shutter- i bought mine when they were 265 new, to give ya an idea about when i owned it.

[Intruder]

I have been interested in paintball for a while but never had the money to do anything. 5 days ago I got my first gun and it is an amazing Ras Intruder Atx. This is a more durable and powerful version of the spyder basically, but it comes with lots of extras. Rear cocking, expansion chamber, rear velocity adjuster, 12" slapstick barrel with shoots way better then my friends m98 barrel and my other friends ACI F-4 Illustrator. It also has a vertical feed. To sum it up, I Love This Gun!!!

[Intruder]

I have been interested in paintball for a while but never had the money to do anything. 5 days ago I got my first gun and it is an amazing Ras Intruder Atx. This is a more durable and powerful version of the spyder basically, but it comes with lots of extras. Rear cocking, expansion chamber, rear velocity adjuster, 12" slapstick barrel which shoots way better then my friends m98 barrel and my other friends ACI F-4 Illustrator barrel. It also has a vertical feed. To sum it up, I Love This Gun!!!

[TLplus84]

yeah i got my TL plus when it first came out...paid 210 for it..hehe now it's only 150.. :P

[gastebucher]

i got a tigershark, then a phantom, then i got a spyder shutter sold that and bought my
tippmann 98 and upgraded it it has Lapco Bigshot, Tippmann Expansion Chamber, PB 2x
Trigger, Lapco Trigger Guard, Black Dye Sticky Grips, Rocket Cock, PB Dropforward,
16 ounce fatboy, polished internals, silenced bolt, 2 trigger mods. My whole gun is black
because i play woodball and i dont like the shiny good looking guns.... I like the ugly
great performing gun that can take some abuse

[DamnRock]

What about a gotcha gun? I think I had one when I was in 3rd grade (15 years ago)...

does that count?

[Auctionjunkie!]

I started out with a modified KP-1. It had a 15 round tube that was spring fed and was bolt action. I got a Nelson 007 later to go with it. After that everything is a blur!

Dan
Manager, Team Wiseguys

[DamnRock]

spyder tl plus for $150? where?

[Richy_C]

how can an intruder be more "powerful"? in all reality, almost no gun can be more "powerful"

[Predator2]

the first gun i have ever shot was a pirahna rental. I was lucky b/c they were only a week old. My first gun i owned was and is a spyder SE w/ all the mods i feel like i need at this point.

[TLplus84]

er it's 160 at pbgear.net

[Oreo]

I got a refurb stingray for 40 bucks. now its "the loner"
LOL

[polarbear]

Originally posted by Oreo
I got a refurb stingray for 40 bucks. now its "the loner"
LOL

Same here $35 after a rebate from the store. It was a BE rebuilt one. Sold mine for about $30.

[Ungooo]

ok... the first one is a rental, don't know if anything's worse than this... Point Zero, cost only 83 dollars Canadian..after a few game, I can't take it anymore, and bought Tippmann 98, and still use it now.

Dave

[Silent Blur]

The first gun I played with was a rental tippmann prolite, and the first gun I owned was a Sheridan VM-68 which I bought for $20 at a garage sale. It was tigerstriped and in it's orginal box...What a steal!

[Cambridge Works]

My first gun was a talon. Lata bought me a piranha. Great gun. now my talon sits around. the most use it gets is when i shoot (month old co2) at my cat when she bothers me. (there are no pbs in it)

[Mission540]

My first gun was a nelspot pump action POS. I had bought a SI reciever for it w/ auto trigger (hold down the trigger and the gun will fire as fast as you can pump the gun) and was as hi-tec as you caould get (back then). It was quickly replaced when the tippman 68 special came out.

[NickR]

My first gun i ever saw was a Stingray II. It was in a display case at K-Mart. Cuple years later bunch of my buds went and i rented a piranah.

[felixthecat]

yeah the first gun I played with was a tipman pro-lite and it worked great... I mean I was on fire with that marker......but anyways I am going to get that 32 degree tipman m98 which I think would be a nice gun to get.....

[Irongut99]

Labor day week-end.3 friends and I went to Wal-Mart and picked up 2 BE blades ($20 each) and 2 talons ($30 each). At the time we thought shop goggles were all we needed for eye protection....
Well 6 months later we all have spyder type guns and are just around the corner from picking up a foursome of Matrixs'. Damm the arms race.

I sold the BE stuff on E-Bay before Christmas got $48 for the pair of blades and $66 for the pair of Talons??

[shutterboy]

my first gun was a brass eagle raptor green now i have a shutter

[A damn fool]

i played first swirth a tl plus, then i went out and bought a hhtter becasue t was similar, and since i was clueles, i ust bought the shutte,r becasue i thoguth it was cooler

[BIG JOHNSON]

I actually started with a stingray but i started to play more seriously when I got my Model 98

[TLplus84]

see? Brass Eagle is an important corporation. It introduces people to paintball, and starts them off in the right direction. BE shouldn't be bashed because their guns are crappy. BE is doing its job. Their purpose isn't to compete with Angels, but it's to help newbies get started. If you notice on this thread, most people started out with a BE gun. I know i did. I had a Stingray, and if i didnt' get that gun as a gift, i don't think i'd be into paintabll..

[Predator2]

yeah thats a good point tlplus

[Pakman]

Tippman Pro/Carbine at my local field. The thing was a piece of junk but very durable.

[simon woodstock]

i still use my spyder java 2+1 compact. you can upgrade it so much you won't even know its the same gun when youre done w/ it. some friends ask me what i did with my compact

[PBSouLjAh]

i want a brass eagle gun. and its true....BE guns are really appealing to those who cant afford even tippmanns or other lower level guns.

[ssgohan]

a little over a year ago i bought a shutter, upgraded it little by little and at the end of 6 months i had only the stock body and stiker left. after that i got a palmer blazer. i loved that gun and now it is my backup. i just got my intimidator. my shutter is now something that i keep around to lend parts to my friends, and to fool around w/. i love just messing w/ it cuz my blazer i cant touch or it will void the warranty and my timmy i dont touch cuz i havent figured everything out yet.

[DraXsuS]

http://www.pbreview.com/fpics/MajSpyder031601212326shawns_vm68.jpg


That was the first paintgun i shot

[TLplus84]

hehe VM 68...haven't seen or heard from those in a long time....Heavy mofos, but durable.

[Mad Ogre]

Splatmaster, and then the Rapide... The Rapide was so cool back then!

[FlyBoyNZ]

I have a Tippmann Pro/Carbine.

[NickR]

The question was, "What gun did you START playing with or was introduced with" not what do you have.

[Joel Timberlake]

Stingray, god I miss that gun!

[Mission540]

Mad Ogre, Splatmaster! Dam that's some old school paintball'n.

[Witt]

Stingray 2 They kick ars.

[Joel Timberlake]

Originally posted by Witt
Stingray 2 They kick ars.

Ars?! :D Way to pass censoring!

[Witt]

Stingray 2

[Joel Timberlake]

Originally posted by Witt
Stingray 2

Dude, you just said that...

[Skull]

Well the first gun i ever played with was a tippman pro carbine at my local field. The first gun i ever bought was a piranha pro.

[ScumdogPB]

i started back in the day with GOTCHA, that was some cazy stuff. dont know if it could be considered paintball or not though. it died out quick though. came back into the game last year with a decked out stingray 2 ( yeah, i said decked out stingray 2). i upset a lot of people with that gun. (stare at ceiling and begin flashback). man that was fun. i remember some guy i picked off at about 100 feet with one shot. he couldnt believe it and quit. he said something about my 50 dollar piece of crap.

[Gizmo51]

The first gun i ever shot was a Tippman 98. But that was only at trees and targets. My first gun was a piranha bottom line which me and my brother bought behind my parents back. I sold my have to my brother last year. So i could buy a spyder compact 2000. I have since tricked that out and about 2 weeks ago i bought a stock cocker. But it hasnt come through yet(which is really pissing me off)

[FunkyMonkey]

Commando 2

[XtremeGirl05]

pirhana :)

[NEO]

Stingray II

[Ez8]

you know what ever since i have started playing paintball i have always used pmi.The first gun i used was a traccer pump rental and later on i went to buy a pmi vtl(i was orignal set to by a spyder compact).i love pmi there such a great company and i live only a hour or so from there headquaters(i live in IL). right now im thinking about finding a team to join (or start one) and get a autococker or mag since i just got a job.

[Kamikaze]

I started with a kingman hammer played with it for 4 months then i bought a used cocker played 3 tournments with it then i bought a new mag. I still have all 3 guns but i use my mag the most.

[eckuro]

I first shot with a Tippmann SL-68.

[Major Woods]

You should have included some punp guns in your survey. It leaves a big void in players, mainly old timers who like myself started with the only gun that was availible at the time, Nelspot 007 bolt action pistol.

[DIRTY HARRY]

Started with a Splatmaster in '86. First gun I bought was a P.M.I.-1. It was baisically a PGP with an extended barrel and extended pump.

[iipaintballer]

I was introduced to Paintball with a PGP rental at SC Village. But got into it with a Spyder.

[dawgs712]

i also went into pball with a pgp

[scott44]

i started out with a stingray 2 used it for bout 8 months, and bought a talon for the heck of it, then i bought a compact 2000 which i tricked out, and the sold. then i bought a nova 700, which i sold not that long ago, i have a sniper 2 and a diablo pump coming in the mail, and i have an Impulse coming also.

[FLoorED]

My first paintball marker was the Sheridan Equalizer, that was about 5 years ago whenever I first started playing. The first paintball marker that introduced me to paintball was the Kingman Spyder, it was my buddies and he used to let me shoot it.

[theomacy]

the first day i played i started out with a tipmann rental. when it broke the field owner gave me a thubder cat.
the first gun i owned was the standard spyder, this was back in 96 before the mass of clones and the tl and stuff. i remember when the spyder se cam out it pissed me off because it was after i put a couple hundred into mine to get what they had stock. but after the vertical bottle adapter stripped the aluminum body of the spyder i got me a millenium body, and that made me happy :-). now i'm going electric. wish i hadn't almost a thousand into that standard spyder.

[PaintballRaver]

Umm The first gun I ever had was a Splatmaster Rapide. Mad cool in 95' I never played on a field with it, my first semi was a Tippmaan mini-lite.

[Ded]

TALON!! WHOOOO!!! who says those things weren't accurate, if everybody else you played with had them they were awesome. I only bought a compact when my friend bought a TL, then he bought a cocker and I bought his TL. Needless to say I like it better than a Talon but talon is what started it all, to think my mom thought that paintball was just a fad and I would waste 80 dollars starting out, that's when talons cost 40 dollars. I played with it for a whole year! Showed her didn't I?

[FizNid]

My first gun was a Nelspot 007... ahh the memories :) I still have that dern gun.


FizNid

[in trauma]

a 98

[MateoTheConquerer]

the first "marker" i used was a tippmann pro carbine rental it was crap but it got me into the game.........

[The Billionare]

All tippmans are crap. I used the same when I rented the first time. I thought paintball markers began and ended with the pro carb so I bought one, but now I know better.

[BigPapa]

I started out with a BE blade. Jesus please dont bring back the memories of that gun!!!

[harrysacks]

Originally posted by BigPapa
I started out with a BE blade. Jesus please dont bring back the memories of that gun!!!
ure tellin me. that gun threw a better curveball than frickin pedro martinez!

[green_goblin]

Let's see if your blowguns last on the feild!


Tomorrow's Headline: Kid inhales paintballs after being shot up the blowgun tube by a cocker

[Thor the Mighty]

i was introduced to paintball by an aci maveric at a summer camp

[Savior]

Tippman pro/carbine it was a rentall

[Halliday]

I can't remember the gun I used the first time back in the 80's. The first gun I rented when I tried it in this century was a Alley Cat. I soon bought a M98, then an Automag......

[braiden1835]

mine was a genie/rebel

[yo]

stin***...all the way. that's what we call them. i still have mine in working condition. great for days whne the whether sucks.

[I win]

I started with a Sting Ray 2 and It has suited me fine. It is the best gun to start with. Now Soon I'm moving up to a Pirahna sts g2 and I'm going to trick it out. And That is probablly the last gun I'll ever get. Cause that is all i need cause i kick @$$ at paintball Even with my Sting Ray 2.

[pito189]

First game I played with a mirage semi auto. The gun had to weigh about 5 pounds.

[P8ntballer]

TiigerShark, Rebel, Autococker.

[Magadeth]

Started with a pgp in 87 then upgraded to an sl68. Played with that for years after semi's had taken over the game, then finally broke down and bought my minimag. I wish I had kept that pgp, just for sentimental reasons.

[strongboy2005]

I was first introduced to paintball when my cousin moved to LA and he gave me his F1 Illustrator, then I got more into it and bought a stingray 2, and then after that I got my tippmann.

[SandStorm]

The first gun I ever used was a rental tippmann 68 carbine, nice guns.

[Easy Target]

I can never forget the first paintball gun I ever used 6 yrs ago, the VM-68. That thing was a tank and weighed twice as much as markers today.

[M98/Spyder]

used my friends TL in his backyard(target shooting), mom got me a talon for christmas used it once in a foot of snow with one other kids, we never hit each other, got my targa for my next game in may and got a M98 this christmas

[SIGSays]

a tricked out spyder compact given to me by my uncle. it was sweet. i sold it for alot.

[SEPHIROTH_086]

Tigershark, then after 2 games I got my Spyder (-:

[DeathSilence]

Me got a rebel and its good nothing bad i just need to get a T. barrel

[jaredu]

My first gun ever was a Talon. I sold it to get all my stuff for my Point Zero M83, which rocks now!