Re:Who Made That Paintball?
by Zenst on Monday August 18, 2014 @11:38AM
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I too was very much into paintball in the UK, great times.
What kind of killed it for me was the introduction of semi-auto's and move away from pump action greats like the old Phantom, Sterling range etc.
Found it got down to not how good you were but how much paint you could afford and with that, got silly. Limited paint/ammo tourneys were ok but still, the fun was lost and greatly shifted from skill to who could afford to spray the tree above you enough so you got taken out by Marshall as covered in dripping paint sadly :(
Half the fun was me was tuning your gun and getting it sat just within legal limits and for that syphon tank with my Sterling silver was the best and would get 299, 298,299,299 crony shots, solid with very little variation of 1 or 2 FPS. That with barrel extension was really accurate and great range, but took work to get it that solid and consistent.
Now somewhat easier and in many ways paintball markers technology wise surpassed real life guns in many many ways.
What kind of killed it for me was the introduction of semi-auto's and move away from pump action greats like the old Phantom, Sterling range etc.
Found it got down to not how good you were but how much paint you could afford and with that, got silly. Limited paint/ammo tourneys were ok but still, the fun was lost and greatly shifted from skill to who could afford to spray the tree above you enough so you got taken out by Marshall as covered in dripping paint sadly :(
Half the fun was me was tuning your gun and getting it sat just within legal limits and for that syphon tank with my Sterling silver was the best and would get 299, 298,299,299 crony shots, solid with very little variation of 1 or 2 FPS. That with barrel extension was really accurate and great range, but took work to get it that solid and consistent.
Now somewhat easier and in many ways paintball markers technology wise surpassed real life guns in many many ways.
Fun times.