Sniping in Paintball

Welcome to the forum, but this is in the wrong section, it should be in T&O. or new players.

With that said, thank you for your comments, unlike many people, your comments do show a great degree of experience and knowledge of play.

However, you still have a lot to learn about paintball. You can not squeeze off a paint marker round without giving away your position for a couple of reasons, 1) Paint balls are ultra sub-sonic rounds, so you can see where they came from, just like tracers. 2) Because of the close proximity of your opponents in paintball, there is no marker quiet enough for no one to hear where your shots came from. Also, in order to be an effective player, you have to stay with your team and work with them, not go off on your own.

Just remember, this is how you get better in paintball, by learning and asking questions.

1. To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.
2. To shoot snipe.
3. To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.

Thats defined in the American Heritage Dictionary

I also forgot to mention that the word snipe came from people who were able to shoot snipe(Birds). The birds were so hard to hit because they could turn 90 degrees without slowing down almost. It was so hard that they called the people who could Snipers. I learned that in New Orleans from one of the tour guides.

In response to Darur-

No buddy, thats woodsballer tactics

They have woodsball in the military? I wasn't talking about paintball, I was talking about the military. And those are basic military skills, non-exclusive to snipers.

Buddy, you just told me that was a "military principle", not a sniper thing.

It is a military principle. It's not exclusive to snipers.

Make up your mind buddy.  You told me first staying hidden is a military thing not a sniper thing, then you told me its vital to being a sniper, not you are saying its not sniping.

You didn't show any contradiction in what I just said. Staying hidden is vital to being sniper, but doesn't make you a sniper. As I stated above, being a sniper is the ability to put basic military principles together and add in being an extremely good shot with an accurate weapon. If you can't stay hidden while doing this, you won't las very long in the real world.

Thats all fine and dandy but if you search the topic we've shown it doesnt work.

And your point is-? I think that's where I was headed with that long post.

I'll try to put my opinon in less lengthy words-I don't think sniping works for the average player. That's why I wanted alternate opinons-to either back up or dismiss my opinon. Also, I put this in the New Ideas forum because I wanted to hear new ideas on how to make sniping work. That was where I was going, and I didn't know which category it would fall under, so I posted it in this one. And I believe I stated quite a few times that I'm not an expert, and that's why I'm asking other opinons. If I was trying to act like one, I wouldn't have asked.

LordJovian-Not sure what you meant by "go cry somewhere else". I don't care if someone puts on a Medal of Honor and goes around saying they're a sniper. That doesn't bother me. I think people who act like being a paintball player makes you a real soldier are not only ignorant, but probably have lived in a cave for a large portion of their life. That's not what this post is about. It's not ranting about how it irritates me that people refer to themselves as snipers, it's about whether other people think sniping is possible practically in sniping.

Get a remote contol airplane and put one of those cool radio cameras in it. Attach a cargo load of paintballs, set up like grapeshot. Then call it, the "Sniper"!

Imagine the guys on the ground, "ohh no, hears comes that little..."

A MOA is an inch per hundred yards nickodemus.

Sniping is a word that has a couple of meanings, like when hunters would shoot a bird called a snipe, which is a small and fast flying bird, they where called snipers, basicaly meaning a good shooter. In world war one they hardly had what you could call a sniper, but as guns and scopes and radios and camo got better the art evolved into what they are today: a inteligence gatherer, an observer, a demoralizer and a high precision enemy removal system.

In paintball the weapons are not near so advanced as a modern rifle, I mean I can put three bullets in a half inch group at a hundred yards with my .243 rifle any day, which is half a moa. You can not get near that good with a paintball gun at 30 yrds.

My point is you can have a sniper in paintball, in a highly organized team, but most of the time you just have a one man ambush.

Nickodemus wrote: Good rule of thumb for estimation. M-minute O-of A-angle Close, but 1 MOA @ 100 yards is 1.0472 inches. The difference gets bigger at further distance. MOA (in) = [tan(1/60) X distance to target yards] X 36 Practial problem: Some newbie zeroed my scope at 50 yards. My scope has 1/4 MOA adjustments. I shoot a group at 500 yards and decide I want to bring my point of impact up 5 inches. How do I adjust my scope? A= 4 clicks up. I decide to play at 25 yards with my rifle. My group lands 4 inches up and 3 inches left. How do I zero it for 25 yards? A= 64 clicks up, 48 clicks right.   I still say people should just call them scout players. Much more applicable.

ya i guess you got a point!!! i being in the military (well i just got back du to an injury to a knee ) i have only one thing to say

Darure SHUT UP if you dont know what your talking about sorry to be (edited)about that but the kid hase a good point about does skills!!

And yes sniper is not a good name for that skill!!! alltought its the closest thin to it it wont work!!