How long have you been playing?

[Counterfeit]

This is a poll to see how long the peeple here have been playing paintball! I am curious to see who has been playing the longest here.

If you Don't like polls just ignore this one.

[TLplus84]

cool...a decent poll....congrats Counterfeit...hehe if Electrichead drones on about this one too..i'll pop him upside his head... :P

[Irongut99]

I don't think there are too many 20yr+ players out there....
They probably died of lead poisoning from the paint!!

[Auctionjunkie!]

I started in 1985. If I remember right paintball as we know it was started in 1982. If there are any 20+ then they've taken too many head shots and can't remember!
Dan
Manager, Team Wiseguys

[elTwitcho]

Ah old school paintball... all the stories of turpentine parties and "When your gun doesnt shoot bark off a pine tree, the velocity is safe" makes me glad I missed that era :) actually, it woulda been sorta neat when you think about it, but then I'd ahve to have started before I was born, and fetuses make ****ty paintball players

[TLplus84]

yep...the day when all you needed was 50 paintballs and a couple co2 cartridges..haha i'm not even old enogh to remember those days..LOl :P :)

[MuckRaker]

A gallon of Lead Paint, some sponges cut into balls and a sling shot BABY ... Now we're talking ... :eek:

[TLplus84]

LOL no man..you gotta use the Steel ball bearings for distance~! hahaha "THWACK" "YES A CONCUSSION AND MAYBE SOME LEAD POISONING~!" :P

[MuckRaker]

Welt my *** ... you can't wipe a concussion!! :eek:

[TLplus84]

and if you get REALLY vicious..you can dip those prickly balls that fall out of sweet gum trees in paint and give your opponent a "lasting impression~' hahaha i think i'm having alittle too much fun with this..LOL :P :)

[Counterfeit]

Originally posted by Auctionjunkie!
I started in 1985. If I remember right paintball as we know it was started in 1982. If there are any 20+ then they've taken too many head shots and can't remember!
Dan
Manager, Team Wiseguys

First off there is no 20+ option.
Uh paintball started in 1981. It is the year 2001. That is 20 years.

[Paintball Monkey]

this shows how long I have been playing...here is my first paintball gun...
http://www.paintballmonkey.com/Dsc00002.jpg

[MuckRaker]

And they call me an Old Fart!! :eek:

[ElectricHead]

well what is there to say?? its a classic!!

[TLplus84]

isn't that a Splatmaster?

[Andrew]

You can see it on the gun if you look closely!

[MuckRaker]

That's what it looks like to me.

[zombie master]

wernt those in that move gotcha

[TLplus84]

my friend has a couple of those..he's been playing with those since they first came out..wow he's good..i played him with my tricked out spyder...out of 5 times..i got him once...and he was playing with the Splatmaster..proves that the gun doensn't make the player..

[Paintball Monkey]

Yup it is an NSG Splatmaster. Man I love that gun, and it still works :) I also used to have a GZ1000 (rarer than the splatmaster) but I sold it a long time ago. It was basically the same action as the splatmaster but was black and had a direct feed. We also used to use the woodstock masks which were basically UVEX goggles over a plastic face shield. real ugly stuff... I actually still take my splatmaster out and play against the angels and cockers on the field, it sure is fun, and you feel naked when you just have a plastic gun (no tubes, tank, etc).

[TLplus84]

man...you know when to get scared is when you see some guy carrying a PGP or a Splatmaster with nothing but 2 co2 cartriges and a couple 10 paintball tubes....and you should ReALLY get scared when he tells you he's been playing since there were oil based paintballs...

[ElectricHead]

did they use oild based paint or was that a joke??

[Counterfeit]

Yeah the old paintalls were oil based.

[TLplus84]

yep...now we have...i donno what do we have? isn't it basically like food coloring?

[Paintball Monkey]

My favorite paintball to use back then was valifornia magnum... it was the equivalent to all-stars at the time

[TLplus84]

you see? people like paintball monkey are the ones you should be scared of....that means they got like 15 years experience....BE SCARED..

[ElectricHead]

sheeet man oil based, that would stain the **** out of you, and the new ones are water based

[TLplus84]

haha i don't care abouthe 20 year old paintballs man...i'm just scared that people that have been playing that long will kick my *** in the next game i play...

[Auctionjunkie!]

Originally posted by Paintball Monkey
My favorite paintball to use back then was valifornia magnum... it was the equivalent to all-stars at the time

Now there's a brand I've not heard of in a long time! They were possibly the best there was at the time. I don't remember having to resize them very much.
Dan
Manager, Team Wiseguys

[Paintball Monkey]

Yeah, back then paint was on the small size. you could still get .60 cal paint. The only paint I really remember from then is the california magnum, rp scherer, and nelson...

[Devil Man]

wow man oil based paintballs who would of thought