Hey Everyone

Im not exactly new I was a member here many years ago as an avid player.
Ive been out of the game for sometime but I am back.
I am in the process of opening a new field in upstate NY.

hudson valley
sullivan ulster county
are you local cause we may host a free intro day to meet and greet this fall

Welcome back! I've recently returned myself and there's quite a bit to offer still!

Nice! Sounds like a great operation you've got going there!

My personal suggestion is that with woodsball fields, don't worry about symmetry. Pev's paintball down here around DC used to run a field in cooperation with AG Paintball games. AG had great woods fields that weren't "mirrored" like speedball fields are. Each side wound up having something different on each field that played to an advantage if you could recognize it. Pev's eventually broke off the partnership and built their own field where everything is equal on both sides. Plain and simple, it sucks. Go out there, and let the terrain dictate where you put the bunkers and buildings. It's a lot more fun to play on that kind of field than on a perfectly planned one.

I like to hear this.

I'm in Greene County. All of the local fields are either too small to be interesting, too expensive to spend time on, or have shut down. About the only decent field anymore is Hornet's nest which is...I think in Colombia County.

The plus is that I travel through Ulster Co. on a regular basis to visit family in Orange county so once you're up and running I think I'd like to stop in.
Are you planning on having full service facilities? selling paint and filling tanks? or a walk-on style place where you bring your gear and supplies?

If you open up and are a decent field, you'll do very well with a field, in this area. There's not a lot happening right now in terms of paintball facilities, and rec games have even become few and far between for me to make. I wish you the best of luck, and keep us posted, I'd like to drop in at some point.




Edited by Reb Cpl - 26 August 2012 at 8:48am

I think we may only offer compressed air and not the co2

Reb Cpl wrote: NYer wrote: Well the campground is 80% up and running we have a group of 20 camping this weekend coming up, I might roll out free paintball for them to try it out if they each donate 1 hour of brush clearing in the woodsfield. We will be a full service paintball facility and allow walkons to spend less if they provide gear if not we will be renting Tippman 98s with some A5 or usarmy upgrade options. I ordered bunkers today. Look into the FT12 line for rental markers. That's what they were originally designed for. Probably cheaper to obtain, and a heck of a lot easier to maintain.

Sooooo very true. If you have the cash to spend on new equipment, go the route of the FT-12. Super easy to strip, clean, and repair. No tools required.

Now, if you find yourself strapped for cash on building a rental fleet, you can always run a promotion like "half-priced entry fee for 1 year when you trade in a working '98 or pro-lite." When we started up the field over in Po-town, we gave people 150% of the normal trade-in price on rental-grade markers for about a month or two just to build up our fleet of '98's to rent out.

So I have been planning which brands we will carry and what paint to use, can anyone suggest paintball brands with regard to quality and then also suggest one regarding price?

Also I want to start marketing online are there any ridiculous huge forums for paintball players where i can reach a lot of players to let them know we exist?