Mostly only newbs go for sniping. But they eventually grow out of it. It's like a fad.For nOObs.

EDIT:P.s.-Umm...Ignore my name.No!! I said ignore it! You looked.Grrr...

its real interesting to see how this is going

You Wont See Me wrote: Ya because this thread is just sooooo long...

im refering to the votes posted so far not the responses

so far its supporting what i thought would happen

 I'm a new player I started in the spring but what does that have to do with it. It realy depends on the coure,gun,and aponents. If I play a big course I tend to snipe but in a smaller one fast movement seams to work better. I consiter may self to be a sniper becues of may hunting backround a have alot of experance in the outdoors. 

sniping=p*ssy

its much more fun to get up in their grill and make them eat paint

one question for those of you who are new players that belive in sniping....  after reading some of the posts by senior players do you think it will change the way you look at sniping or will you still try it as a more serious thing using extreem camo ,stealth, acurate shots or will you just quit now knowing it wont turn out as you think?

extreem camo  ex: ghillie, conceald post    drape cloth   in other words the types of camo and stealth a sniper would use 

ford man wrote:  I'm a new player ... I consiter may self to be a sniper...

nOOb

You can't say that sniping is something you believe, because its a tactic. Something that you do to try and win. I think that its the most useless thing that there is. I tried it and got killed. You can't really do it because their aren't paintball snipers. Giving a military sniper a pistol and a scope on that and how do they snipe they can't. But them being uselless doesn't mean that they don't exist. Because people still try to do it so I consider them snipers. I just think of it as useless.

to the non belivers look at this and read the summary i think you may come away with a little different perspective

http://www.rustyspaintballgear.com/catalog/details.asp?ID_Wep=1 - http://www.rustyspaintballgear.com/catalog/details.asp?ID_We p=1

just the fact that everyone says there is no sniper and that you cannot make one  im just trying to get peoples minds open to styles they are not real open too

i dont care about sniping but when one of my team mates trys to snipe snd dosent get a kill and just sat at a yousles bunker thinking that somone will pass him and hell get theem i think without putting himself in harmes way sniping is like hiding then waiting for somone to hit where is the fun in that and it is not that tactical unless you call hide and go seek a tactic

The problem with pb snipers is that you have too keep it safe and to do that the velocity of the ball when it comes out of the barrel it can't be traveling at more than 300 fps. For them to make a pb gun that could effectivly snipe wouldn't it have to be shooting hot at close range so that it could still have good velocity at longer ranges. Though you can get pb rounds for real guns that I hear has good accuracy that woud make that possible to snipe, but i think that stuff is only distrubutd to the military. And unlike pball I hear that most people wear full body armor. But as for regular p-ball I don't think that it'll happen

Most of you don't know what a military sniper is or does, and you don't know what the training entails.

Snipers aren't just sitting up on a hill or in a tower several hundred yards away waiting to reach out and touch someone. A trained sniper can get close enough to a target to touch it with his hand, and a Ruger Mk II with a silencer at arms length will do the job more certainly and more quietly than an M82 at 500 yards.

fhcpaintball wrote: i dont care about sniping but when one of my team mates trys to snipe snd dosent get a kill and just sat at a yousles bunker thinking that somone will pass him and hell get theem i think without putting himself in harmes way sniping is like hiding then waiting for somone to hit where is the fun in that and it is not that tactical unless you call hide and go seek a tactic

thats just plain camping   a real sniper would not be sitting around in one area its his job to get in range of the target he is going for to make the shot just sitting at ur base bunker is not sniping no matter how you try to defend it but if you are moving towards you target and he dosent no where you are and u get that shot at him from your absolute farthest acurate distance and he dosent no what hit him     thats a sniper

ok effectice range of the flatline   for me i hit things really acuratley at 150 ft beyond that takes a bit of luck to hit exactly where im pointing  with a normal gun id say reall acurate at 80-100 feet

i use a flatline and sit usually outside the effective range of straight barrels so that if they can see me and want to hit me theyd have to arc their gun where i can stil shoot straight and hit them

thats what i think of effective range as

Woot , LOL, knew this'unn d be coming up soon , I took an active part in the post about snipers and their supporters , and I support anybody that would fancy them selves as a sniper , but very few can pull it off !! (I agree with you there SR crew chief , not everybody has been thru sniper sKool ) (I will PM you with something , just my thoughts , not trying to change your mind , just give you a different perception )

I will admit it , in the first year I played ,l I thot I was a sniper , and I had a PGP !! (that was 20 years ago , guys ). The effective range wasnt that good , and the rate of Fire ,, SUCKED.. but I had a paintball gun  , and I was in the game,, I hid , waited (used a few tactics ) , and had a FRIGGING BLAST PLAYING !! (Yeah , I got out a lot , but I had fun !!).

I got a marker thats 10 X better now , and I make some decent shots too , but by the definition, that dont make me a sniper . By the definition of the tactics , so courteously and fully supplied by Srcrewchief , nobody will ever be a sniper in paintball , no arguement there . There's times I go Balls (?) out and storm the opposing team , and times I sit back and pick my shots , last night , my wife and I schooled a WIPER , Now, there's a DIRTY word !! you can wipe 1 to 3 shots ?, how about 20 or so ?

I digress a bit , but to make a point ,,, this game , for MOST players is to have fun , play by the rules , and have fun (did I say that already ?) Srcrewchief , and others , I think would agree , what makes this game as fun as it is , is the sportsmanship , honor and integrity displayed by the majority of players . Now,, if you want to call yourself a sniper , take note of Srcrewchief's posts on the subject and improve your game accordingly , he seems to be the authority in debunking the fantasy of sniping , but he's got some Damned good pointers on tactics (He-He , sorry there Srcrew,,,,, just made you the sniper Guru ).

Sooner or later everybody will learn , and grow into a player that plays his own game in paintball , that fits his equipment , style of play , and environment . I would not DARE to say that any of the gold,or even plat members would have EVER considered themselves snipers when they started , I can only speak for myself , but if I did , I prolly wouldnt be too far off the mark .

There is a progression , in learning , that likely included some fantasy about sniping . It kinda like beating off , who's gonna admit it ?? As skills improve , (tactics , experience , equipment included ) you become something else,, Snipers dont exist in paintball , but we all gotta start somewhere....