How did you get your start?
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Topic: How did you get your start?
Posted By: ncbbh88
Subject: How did you get your start?
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 8:32pm
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ok plain and simple how did all of you get your start in the sport of paintball? when did you get your first gun? what was it? whats one of your newb stories? ------------- http://img203.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img203&image=kerrypyle0nt.jpg"> 
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Posted By: Dragunov
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 8:36pm
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Friends birthday party, 1998..? 68 carbines were the rentals of choice, they were so...special. Got my first gun summer of 2001. Yes, it took me 3 years to convince my parents. ------------- RAMBINO IS MY BABIES DADDY 
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Posted By: Strife_17
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 8:36pm
| neighbor had a gun and since i am one of those gun crazy kids spaw4ed from the 90 i wanted one... went to walmART GOT BLAde 02 shot up back yard. then got shot with bb gun. then got suckered into bying crappy spyder wanna be off ebay. now im getting a 98 |
Posted By: Trogdor2
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 8:40pm
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I played a few times with my friends and then my parents surprised me one year with an A-5...
------------- Something unknown is doing we don't know what. That is what our knowledge amounts to. - Sir Arthur Eddington |
Posted By: Bolt3
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 8:42pm
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I played a few times with friends also... And...bought my 98. ------------- <Removed sig for violation of Clause 4 of the New Sig Rules> |
Posted By: ncbbh88
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 8:42pm
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nice
spyder compact 2in1 (in such bad shape id call it a .5 in 1) winter of 1999 had to arch it to get it 75 ft lol first game i was cleaning it in the field hit the trig shot a teammate in the nuts point blanc (he wears a cup constantly now) ------------- http://img203.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img203&image=kerrypyle0nt.jpg">
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Posted By: cdacda13
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 8:44pm
| friends b-day party in 1999. played with SL-68 II. finnally bought a 98c is 2004. u can do the math on how long it took. |
Posted By: LastShot0330
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 8:48pm
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a walmart talon my first game was aginst 3, 20yr olds with spyders and V-force goggles...and I was 7 with a welding helmet. ------------- [IMG]http://www.zmachars.com/emb%20patches/The-Used-Logo_P-752_small.jpg"> |
Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 8:54pm
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1)my uncle owns a shop
2)Summer of 2003 3)Pirahna BL (would highly reccomend never touching one) ------------- A-5 E-Grip JCS Dual Trigger DOP X-CORE 8 stage x-chamber Lapco Bigshot 14" Beadblasted Optional setup: R/T Dead on Blade trigger |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 8:54pm
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Ok first thing is first. I started out in paintball when one of my friends had just bought the A-5. I was amazed by its performance. I wanted to get into paintball right away and so I asked him wat kind of gun to get and so he said A-5 and I was like I can't spend that kind of money(yes I was short on money). So then I went to Academy (so sad) and saw all these fancy looking guns that were all electronic, but being a good friend as he is, he showed me the way to the 98 Custom. Oh yeah, he wouldn't let me buy a gun that wasn't Tippmann. So I have had my 98 Custom for about 2 years (I think). For my newb story. I had just gotten my gun and I had to test it on my friend, the one I was talking about above ^^. He had an A-5 equiped with a flatline ,e-grip, and double trigger. I felt intimidated with just a stock 98 Custom. Well we were playing in the middle of the night, and we were playing in the woods. We had just started and he was shooting as fast as he could and he was just standing firing everywhere because he didn't know where I was so, I took my gun(we were both still at the starting points) and I shot three balls And I hit him with the third. All the above is true |
Posted By: Bounty
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 9:07pm
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My friends were getting paintball guns so I decided to get one too. I
got a 98c which I still have and I got it about a year ago. heres my newb story: First game I ever played I forgot my tank and used my friends slingshot, I won too. |
Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 9:09pm
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Some members of my Scout troop were holding a Paintball
game/campout. They needed another target . . . er, player, so
they called me and asked if I wanted to try. ------------- Real Men play Tuba [IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1859/newsmall6xz.jpg"> PH33R TEH 1337 Dwarf! http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/log_off_user.asp" rel="nofollow - DONT CLICK ME!!1 |
Posted By: karnivor
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 9:10pm
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my cousin got me into it
tippmann a-5 first gun newb story, i tried to charge like a speedball warrior in the woods cuz my friend tolds me to, ouch!! ------------- http://imageshack.us"> 
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Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 9:13pm
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A couple of my friends and I were walking up the street when we were in
elementary school and some highschoolers started shooting us with
paintball guns. We got hit a couple times, but thought that the guns
were awesome. A year later I ended up getting my gun.
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Posted By: LastShot0330
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 9:17pm
^ and who says violence is bad  ------------- [IMG]http://www.zmachars.com/emb%20patches/The-Used-Logo_P-752_small.jpg"> |
Posted By: TruePaintballer
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 9:29pm
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My very first game was when I was visting my cousin in Edmonton, after that I fell in love witht he sport about 4 years ago. However I am only seriously been playing this year and my first gun was a 98C. ------------- http://www.freewebs.com/outlawspaintball/index.htm - Outlaws *Sponsors* http://www.abrika.ca - Abrika |
Posted By: Klaus
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 9:40pm
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played paintball with my cousins way back, loved it, and then played again, then bought an A-5 cause i had the cash and wanted to be different then all the 98s up here newb story... playing out with friends in the woods i was armed with a blade pump being split between 3 guys, a couple dozen bottle rockets, a dummy hand grenade that i didnt bother telling them was a dud, and a sawed off 5 iron...needless to say, i looked like a memeber of the black and blue man group afterwords...thank god i got an a-5, i had a bit of surprise the next time we got togethor |
Posted By: Kpoofs
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 9:44pm
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saw it on the bernie mac show once and it looked really fun. tried it out and my assumption was true. got my first gun about one month after that. it was a 98 custom which i still have newb story: i ended up shooting myself in the foot the first time because i wanted to know what it felt like to get hit.....it hurt a lot more than i thought it would(mainly due to the fact that the gun was 6 inches from my body) ------------- I Have a B2K and a 98c. |
Posted By: ultimatetrooper
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 9:51pm
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My friend played for a bday party and he told me it was a cool sport. My brother also played a few times. Got my tippmann 98 custom in spring of 2001. my story: First time playing at a field. I was told to move up to this big van. I ran and slid in. I dropped a pod of paint and turned around to pick it up. My whole back side was lit up with paintballs. I still have not been lit up as bad as that time. It was the most fun I have ever had. ------------- 
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Posted By: soonerdude05
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 9:52pm
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All my friends were getting guns for christmas and so I convinced my
parents to get me one. It was a Spyder Compact Deluxe which I still
have but I later got a P/C. ------------- 
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Posted By: P!NK panther
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 9:52pm
My friend had a stock 98, and i loved shooting it, so one day i decided to go paintballing at a real field (his first time too, but he had his own gun) rented a pro/carbine, played all day, went home bragged about how good it was, convinced my parents (really didnt have to cause they considered it a very intense work-out, and an extreme sport). So, i saved up my money about a month later WOAH! i'm at the local paintball shop. Bout a Piranha EXT pro 2k3, revvy, 20 oz co2, belt, pods, mask, sqeegee, season pass to the field, totalled me around 450, WOAH within the next 2 weeks im out playin at the field the feedneck just randomly falls off, i go into the shop have the guy look at it. He says, ur threads are stripped on your feedneck, so he said it has been happening alot with the same gun so he said, pick out any gun you want, picked out an A-5 gave the guy 40 bucks, and now i have an A-5. Long story short, pimped out the A-5, it has a been a good haul A-5 you have given me great expirences. But now we must move on. RIP A-5 3/21/05 (selling it)  ------------- http://www.theimagehosting.com"> 
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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 9:54pm
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RAF Upper Heyford, 1985: MWR (Morale, Welfare, Recreation) scheduled a trip to a local field. We used Splatmasters, wore shop goggles, and paintballs were approximately a quarter each. My newb story from the first game was trying to shoot someone with the safety on. First marker I owned was a Vulcan pump. I worked my way through a Talon, Tigershark, Stingray, Stingray2, F2 Illustrator and a Bruiser SOB before I discovered Tippmanns (which is all I own now). My newb story from when I started playing again after several years off was shooting someone with my barrel plug. (Hey, we didn't have those when I quit, and anyway, he called out.) Marker I wish I'd never parted with: Tippmann F/A (I don't miss the Mini-lite or the 68 Special, but I miss the F/A.) ------------- 
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Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 10:06pm
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i read an article in popular mechanics. and my friends were tlkaing baout it so i got a tippmann 98custom, mask,squegie,tank and 2000 generic paintballs called patriots (i dont suggest buying them). newb story: going through half of a game with my safety on. ------------- 
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Posted By: Project Irene
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 11:27pm
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Brass Eagle Eradicator in 01'. Ahhh, those were the days. Story: Night game, cow pasture, I take a shot to the lower stomach area and roll back out of the way behind a hay bail. I feel something wet and sticky on my leg and ass. Then I smell something. You can do the rest... |