sniping a wonderful thing.  Let me hear some of your best snipping stores.  The technices that would suprise the novice but even get the pros.  I have some stories some funny and some not.  But first lets hear what all of you have to say. 

snipers dont exist in paintball. ok heres my story my friend who calls himself a sniper tried sneaking into a ditch and i shot him.he never got off a shot

im a sniper in real life not in the army tought but im specialysed in long range shooting so im a sniper in blood and bone!!!

But all tought i have respect for all snipers in the world theres no shuch thing as a sniper in paintball so quit the sniper nonsence caus you guys are looking to get your asses flamed!!!!!

i hope you guys get the point long range paintballer or what ever you can think of but no snipers cause ITS A DISCRASE TO THE SNIPERS ALL OVER THE WORLD!!!

la troca wrote: sniping a wonderful thing.  Let me hear some of your best snipping stores.  The technices that would suprise the novice but even get the pros.  I have some stories some funny and some not.  But first lets hear what all of you have to say.

Hmmmmm, for someone who has a 12 post count, you would think he would have known not to be asking such a question to avoid any flaming and for the spelling error....its not "snipping" its "sniping"....snipping is to slightly cut an object, like a piece of paper or your nose hairs as commented by Darur

Darur wrote: la troca wrote: Let me hear some of your best snipping stores.  The technices that would suprise the novice but even get the pros.  Well I dont own a snipping store, but I can tell you once when I had a bit too much nasal hair and tried to snip it. I had a flu so it was all stuck together.  Tried to snip it and it got all tangled.  Hurt like heck. EDIT : Sorry, no real tips on snipping.  Washing out the area prior to cutting helps I guess, maybe a little lemon juice.  You could just burn off the hair. Now if we are talking about snipping plants, thats a whole 'nother story.

I laughed so hard I actually had to get up and walk around for a minute.  I award Darur three happy-clappies   . 

Now the individual who started this post asked for a sniper story, so I will include one.  I should note at this point that while I believe paintball snipers do exist, but are just very rare, what I did in the story below does not qualify.  I wasn't a sniper in this situation because I didn't care if they figured out where I was and I had decided to hold my position as opposed to departing before receiving return fire.

The field I play at has a creek that can be crossed on a rough bridge of limbs and rocks.  It is possible to go around, but it takes a little longer.  We had a bunch of new folks at the field and I had warned them that some jerk was always staking out the bridge and shooting newbies, so when my team went out to play defense, I set up on the bridge to see if they had listened to me.  Sure enough, about 10 minutes into the game a group of people (the same ones I had warned) came to the bridge.  I let the first one get to the middle of the bridge before I put a single shot into his right side.  Someone screamed "there's a sniper guarding the bridge" and the remaining half dozen members of the other team scrambled for cover.  I probably could have shot the one that fell in the creek, but I was struggling to hard not to laugh out loud. 

At this point, they should have left someone to guard their side of the bridge and found another way around, but instead they became very persistent.  After about 5 minutes someone said "I don't see anything, I think he left.  You go on across, and we'll cover you."  I let this one get almost all the way across before I broke a single paintball on the top of his head.  The remainder of his group all scrambled for better cover; which was confusing since he was the only one who had come out of cover.

In about another 5 minutes I heard the same voice again.  He said, "We're going to light up the other side, stay low and you'll get across."  His team then proceeded to open up blindly on my side of the creek, shredding the foliage with several hundred round, none of which came anywhere near my position.  This guy practically crawled across the bridge.  He stayed so low that he soaked the front of his shirt, and I didn't have a shot until he got to my side.  As he crawled up the bank I fired twice, hitting him in the upper back sides of both his left and right hip.

Another 5 minutes or so passed, then I heard the same voice again.  It was practically the same words as the first time, "You go across and we'll cover you."  The reply was quick in coming, was very loud and was laced with profanity:  "@#^* that, how about you cross and we cover you, @#^%%&*!"  There was some further "discussion" on the other side of the creek, then the owner of the first voice came into view.  Funny thing was, while he was very willing to send others across the bridge, he didn't seem that anxious to cross it himself.  He moved to cover behind a small bush about 6 feet from the end of the bridge, but wouldn't proceed any further.  He just kept leaning out from behind the bush and scanning my side of the creek.  I decided to hold my fire until some poor sucker got the idea I had left and tried to cross the bridge, but then voice-man leaned out from behind his bush and said  "See, it's safe to cross now, go ahead, I'll cover you."  At this point I couldn't help myself and shot him twice in the goggles.  I knew I would have to move enough to expose my position, but it was worth it.  Of course, the remaining players on the other side of the creek opened up on my cover.  I just tucked in and watched the bridge.  With the way the creek ran and the cover I was using, the only place they had a prayer of shooting me from was the bridge. 

Several hundred rounds later, one of the guys on the other team finally moved to a different position on their side of the creek that gave him a visual on me and started shooting at me.  He quickly realized he couldn't hit me; the distance was to far for a straight shot and the balls he tried to lob in broke on my top cover.  Then he made the mistake of standing in the open.  I guess he assumed that since he couldn't hit me, I wouldn't be able to hit him.  I aimed center of mass and tripple-tapped the trigger of my Flatline-equipped Model 98.  I was almost immediately rewarded by the appearance of bright yellow splotches on his chest and left knee.

For about the next 10 minutes I hid behind my cover and taunted the guys on the other side of the creek to keep them shooting.  I didn't take any more shots because no one else tried to cross the bridge.  Finally, 3 or 4 guys from my team (which had successfully defended the flag from the other half of the opposing team) came through on a sweep and eliminated my opponents.

Edited Note:  For those who are curious, the taunts I used were stolen from the French castle defenders in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Condor90 wrote: Hey Mack? what i would call being sneaky and unseen is called STEALTH!

Me too.  Except in this case these guys made it way to easy.  I would have felt guilty about ambushing them at the bridge if I hadn't specifically warned them about it right before the game started.

bluemunky42 wrote: [QUOTE=x-mo-x] im a sniper in real life not in the army tought but im specialysed in long range shooting so im a sniper in blood and bone!!!

I shoot long range as well. Recreational shooting at increased distances. Just because I can hit something thats far away doesnt make me or you a sniper. There's a little more to it than that.

Reb Cpl wrote: bluemunky42 wrote: [QUOTE=x-mo-x] im a sniper in real life not in the army tought but im specialysed in long range shooting so im a sniper in blood and bone!!! I shoot long range as well. Recreational shooting at increased distances. Just because I can hit something thats far away doesnt make me or you a sniper. There's a little more to it than that.

dosent say that i only shoot far away things i was in the infantry for about 2 years enought to get to the sniper traning.

i know the tests and the passion in being a sniper 12h to crawl around in a hacked off weed field to get to a target an shoot one shot at it (making shur it counts) and all that being watched by sniper officers who are making shur your doing a good job of being undetected then if not your out of the training till next tryouts. now thats sniping!

im not a liar, i went i saw i did and i rtu'd in the midel of it caus of a injurie to my right knee!! anyways enought about that just get it that snipers in paintball could happen but it is unlikely!!!

thats all i had to say so if you dont have a hi powerd paintball gun made for very very very long range accurat shots well your just a STEALTH WORKER!!! ok get it got it goooooood!!!!!

Sry guys I didn’t know that their was no such thing as a sniper in paintball I had been to some sites that said there where.  So I assumed there where.  For one I know people aren’t going to be shooting 400ft or something like that, but for the limitations that paint balling presents compared to a sniper shooting a mile or more.  I thought you could say some of the skills match that of a sniper in some way or another and I wanted some of  yawls different techniques yawl use to get lots of people out.

jk