Alright, it's Saturday night and I've got this big and bad-*** welt with a little squeezed out blood on it on my right shoulder. If you guessed Paintball, congrats, you win..NOTHING.

I went paintballing with...6 other people today. 4 15 year olds, a 14 year old, and a 19 year old. One of thw 15 year olds and the 19 year old were cousins of the host, who was 15. They KNEW what they were doing. Like they had us crono out our guns and such..but that's good, since mine was shooting way too fast. Other than one of the 15 year olds, I knew no one there. But first let's rewind...

1:30, I show up at his house, and we hang out for an hour and no one really talks to me. Apparently they don't like me...then we go and get to the field. We all hang out for another half hour, crono-ing guns and such, and finally get to playing.

I had one of the worse guns on the field (most everyone had SERIOUSLY expensive/nice guns. I had a Tippman Custom 98) and we're playing on a custom speedball course. First game I just gave up...it was going bad. But then, game 2, 2 guys sit out to ref. The 19 year old was one of them, and he helps me out a bit (does a finger 3, 2, 1, count for me twice to tell me when to advance and reminds me to slide into cover...because I'm still a noob partly) and I get one kill. Then, I move forward, slide in, right before I get behind the tin the people pull their guns around and just randomly shoot, and they admit it was random.

I dove, I got hit on the arm, and get a bad-*** bruise. I go back and play one more game, and get killed on the break from the beginning, but oh well. Overall, it doesn't sound like much but it was a blast, and my friend is doing it again tommorrow so I'm going back again. Wish me luck!

So..post your paintball stories, any advice, comments, whatever. Talk about paintball!

Zlocista


PS: What's nice about it was everyone ended up being so friendly and treating me as an equal even though i'm 3 year younger than them/mostly a noob still...

Paintball is good fun. Last time I played we ended up fortifying a huge hill with chickenwire and rows of metal spikes, with two snipers on top of the building next to it. Seriously, you can't go wrong with paintball. Unfortunately, my gun is broken right now

Bring a real gun next time to paintball. The look on the faces of the players when they realize something is painfully wrong when they're shot is priceless.

Echo: All I've got is my Tippman...I'm thinking of getting a response trigger/lapco bigshot barrel if I ever get the money. But I'm also looking for a good other gun to buy for just..another gun to have. I'm either going to get a reeeeaaaally nice pump or a Spyder.

Hair-trigger Black Dragon.