Paintball season has arrived to Northern Minnesota. It's not 'official' yet, stores are still only charging 20c/oz for CO<sup>2</sup> rather than their peak-season price of 25, but it <i>has</i> arrived.
Still a bit sloppy, something about not having a lot of frost has caused unusually spongy ground, and still a tad chilly, but that's not stopping me. I pulled my gun out of the closet, kissed it tenderly (it has missed me so) and made a few adjustments prior to taking it outside and re-calibrating. It was windy out, so I satisfied myself with 11 of 15 inside a 12" circle at 110'. I'll be a bit more anal later, much to my team-mates chagrin. And they wonder why I routinely get a very high kill to death ratio, often never outing at all.
I was going to take pictures and everything, but I couldn't find the driver disc to make my laptop look at my phone, much less copulate with it. So you'll have to satisfy yourselves with descriptions, and if you're knowledgeable, lust.
I play woods ball. If I wanted to play speedball or hyperball I'd go home and play QIII. Ok, honestly, my kit is designed around woodsball. I have a Tippmann A-5. I've added a rear velocity adjuster, expansion chamber, 14" J&J Pro Ceramic barrel and a response trigger. The response trigger is currently disabled, as I feel the extraordinary amount of CO<sup>2</sup> used outweighs the added firepower. Not that I don't mind making people wet their pants and scream in terror, but going from ~900 rounds from a 20oz tank to barely 500 is a hard bullet to bite for the budget gamer.
I'm looking to upgrade my gun with a Flatline some time this summer, provide the spare cash is around. Contrary to most opinions, I eagerly await the extra noise. A good "Boom Boom Boom" is worth more than a silent kill, if used correctly.
Who else plays paintball, and what kind of rigs do you have? Anyone else more than mildly interested in Tippmann's C-3 marker, which is powered by propane (50,000 shots <i>per tank</i>? Holy balls, I'm sold. What kind of people do you play with, and do you regularly introduce newbs to the sport?
Still a bit sloppy, something about not having a lot of frost has caused unusually spongy ground, and still a tad chilly, but that's not stopping me. I pulled my gun out of the closet, kissed it tenderly (it has missed me so) and made a few adjustments prior to taking it outside and re-calibrating. It was windy out, so I satisfied myself with 11 of 15 inside a 12" circle at 110'. I'll be a bit more anal later, much to my team-mates chagrin. And they wonder why I routinely get a very high kill to death ratio, often never outing at all.
I was going to take pictures and everything, but I couldn't find the driver disc to make my laptop look at my phone, much less copulate with it. So you'll have to satisfy yourselves with descriptions, and if you're knowledgeable, lust.
I play woods ball. If I wanted to play speedball or hyperball I'd go home and play QIII. Ok, honestly, my kit is designed around woodsball. I have a Tippmann A-5. I've added a rear velocity adjuster, expansion chamber, 14" J&J Pro Ceramic barrel and a response trigger. The response trigger is currently disabled, as I feel the extraordinary amount of CO<sup>2</sup> used outweighs the added firepower. Not that I don't mind making people wet their pants and scream in terror, but going from ~900 rounds from a 20oz tank to barely 500 is a hard bullet to bite for the budget gamer.
I'm looking to upgrade my gun with a Flatline some time this summer, provide the spare cash is around. Contrary to most opinions, I eagerly await the extra noise. A good "Boom Boom Boom" is worth more than a silent kill, if used correctly.
Who else plays paintball, and what kind of rigs do you have? Anyone else more than mildly interested in Tippmann's C-3 marker, which is powered by propane (50,000 shots <i>per tank</i>? Holy balls, I'm sold. What kind of people do you play with, and do you regularly introduce newbs to the sport?