Our new paintball Army barracks
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Topic: Our new paintball Army barracks
Posted By: Baewolf
Subject: Our new paintball Army barracks
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 8:44pm
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Hey folks we just wanted to show you our new location to play
paintball, it is old Army barracks and cannon positions. The owner of
the land has given us the complete go ahead to play here, and out side
of our woods ball area that we built this is going to be our other new
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Posted By: ultmate98
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 9:01pm
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thats awesome. lucky you ------------- Warning: Exposure to the Son may prevent burning http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?image=72746bo6.gif">  Christ Krew
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Posted By: Nunekin666
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 9:02pm
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That is awesome!! One word of caution (speaking from experience) paint on cement is very slick |
Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 9:06pm
Yeah it is allot bigger area then the pictures do it justice, and there is an underground church with the pues still in it, and across from the tower about 50 feet away is the cannon position with concrete rooms facing the tower and gun port holes, etc... We are going to wait until the snow clears from the rooms and the ground dries up a bit, but probably in a month or 2 we will be good to go, and the owner of the land gave up the complete go ahead Oh and the grass around it grows to like 4 feet in the summer |
ultmate98 wrote:Posted By: mjicmike
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 9:18pm
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its awesome, but I smell legal issues that may happen in this land. Any documents/contracts stating that you guys have permission to play in his land and that he will not be held liable if anyone gets injured ? ------------- A5 Rfs Dwg triggr Ricochet R5 8"Lapco Bigsht/14"CP Classic Palmers Stab. Lapco uni-mount DOP bullet drop fwd PMI 88/4500 Woods Flatline/14"Lapco Bigsht CMI Thunder pig reg. Remote adj. stk |
Posted By: paintbusta
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 9:24pm
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i smell death but have fun ------------- 
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Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 9:27pm
From what, unless you climb over the walls and jump, there is no way to fall |
Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 9:30pm
No man people go there all the time, as you can see from the grafetti, and he has given us full permission to play there. And our courts would never let the owner be liable for someone getting hurt |
Posted By: paintbusta
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 9:40pm
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also looks close to a rural area so b careful -------------
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Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 9:43pm
No I noticed that too from the photos, the houses look close, but the closest one is actually around 300 or 400 feet away |
Posted By: Cheetos3254
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 9:45pm
Looks pretty sweet...have fun  ------------- 
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Posted By: 98God
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 10:43pm
| Uhmm sweet. I wish I had a place like that. Deffinately lucky. That is probably one of the coolest places I have ever seen to play paintball. |
Posted By: ANARCHY_SCOUT
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 10:52pm
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IM so jelous I hate you, why cant I have all that but anyways thats extremly sweet.
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Posted By: nauzerlvr
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 11:24pm
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Very cool place to play. ------------- 
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Posted By: mjicmike
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 11:50pm
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hmmm, uncontrolled environment. Hopefully someone will take responsibility and be mature enough to take on the safety issues that may arise. Good luck and be safe. ------------- A5 Rfs Dwg triggr Ricochet R5 8"Lapco Bigsht/14"CP Classic Palmers Stab. Lapco uni-mount DOP bullet drop fwd PMI 88/4500 Woods Flatline/14"Lapco Bigsht CMI Thunder pig reg. Remote adj. stk |
Posted By: xTippyx
Date Posted: 12 March 2006 at 11:53pm
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looks awesome
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Posted By: GThomas
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 1:06am
| Thats awesome, where is that located? |
Posted By: maddog312us
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 1:08am
| I Wish I had a place that cool. We play at this church. They have this thing around back that is so cool it has a tower and all kinds of tables and hiding places also som hay bales. It's fun to play in places like that. But Your place is some much cooler. |
Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 8:11am
Cape Breton, Canada They were old gunnery positions that protected the harbour and was used to store amunition, etc... |
Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 8:15am
That should be no problem at all, when we started playing and the numbers grew we setup a comittee, so to speak of the original players, and we established rules, and rules of conduct and safety, one of us is even a hand gun club president and range officer. So if you don't follow the rules, your out, plain and simple, No crazy rules or anything just, for safety and good sportsmanship |
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 8:18am
My thoughts exactly. I would suggest setting up some sort of preimeter between the houses and you, to stop bystanders from wondering onto the property and to keep the players in-bounds. I would suggest keeping 300ft between the edge of the playing field and the nearest house. Also safety waivers might be in order, you might want to get a written contract printed up so that your butt is covered in case of an accident. ------------- 
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Posted By: RavenGuard
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 8:30am
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Small town Canadians man... Thats what the shocktroops were made up of. They don't need waivers, if they fall 8 stories and break every bone in their body and manage to drag themselves home their dad would just call them wussies and tell them to suck it up :p Well, atleast that's my mom's family... As long as u have set rules and some smart people in charge, you're fine as long as someone doesn't walk onto the field and get pelted with balls. It's an awesome place, but it could get boring after a while if you don't add a bit of cover to the open field. ------------- Tippmann A-5 Polished Internals E-Grip Ape Board JCS Blade Trigger QEV 8" Bigshot + Apex Ricochet R-5 / Tac Cap Palmers Stabilizer 68/4500 Crossfire |
Posted By: ShortyBP
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 9:11am
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Very jealous that you have access to such a facility.
So much potential at this site, but even without any additions, it looks like a great place to play. Still in great condition for a presumably WW2 (or prior) Coastal installation! Don't see too many of them around anymore. Oh... and thanks for the pics! |
Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 9:34am
Yeah it turns out that the grass that grows in the open field grows to like 4 feet high, also, there is a gun bunker straight across from the tower, about 50 feet with windows, doors and gun ports facing the tower, so it will be easy to exchange fire back and forth. Also there are ways up the back side into the tower, that do not have windows. We have been thinking things like, one team in the tower, and the other team in the gunnery bunkers to start, them but like 2 or 3 people in the grass behind the tower. If you are crawling you can get like within 10 or 20 feet of the tower without being hit, depending on what way you approach. All and all we think that it is a totally awesome place to play, and we are not concerned about the boundries and liability or pedestrians. The nearist house to any of the action is 300feet away, there are trails that span around it, very, very few people ever come through there, and if they do we can see them coming from a mile away, the tower has chest high walls, and the gunnery positions are all steps, you would be more likely to trip running through the woods then you would be here. All the people who we play with are good friends of each other as well, and although we setup rules, not one person has broken any yet |
Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 9:51am
Yeah I believe it was from WW2, there is even another section that goes way down under the ground and out under the ocean, with amunition storage rooms, but we will not be using those for anything, we took the time to look the whole place over and access what was safe and what wasn't, and the under ground tunnel is not going to be used, or two of the positins that are close to the cliff ( big time drop to sharp pointy rocks) |
Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 9:56am
Cool place eh |
Posted By: snypzer0
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 10:05am
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So i take it you all like my back yard playground eh. As for issues
with the town and what not, they dont have any problemes with us
playing there. I filmed a scene down there when i was making a
movie and we torched the place in the middle o fthe night, the cops
came down and we thought we were all skrewed, but turns out the cops
were just interested and actually stayed there chillin with us till we
were finished the scene. They made shure that the fire we started was
out but still how cool can ya be, letting some 18 year olds torch
an army barricks for a movie. |
Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 12:57pm
| Our group is more used to playing in woods ball kind of games, where the distance between players is greater. Does anyone have an idea of what our fps should be set to when playing here, chances are there will be some fairly close shots fired |
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 12:59pm
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I would go for ~260-280 for QCB.
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Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 1:06pm
Thanks |
Posted By: ShortyBP
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 1:27pm
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Actually... for situations where quarters are that close... 250fps would be a better bet. 280fps should be your upper limits for safe open-range play.
The problem becomes finding a balance between open-play, and play inside the buildings. We found this challenging when trying to determine safe velocities for a attack/defend a house game. 250fps was definitely underpowered when shooting at the house from outside... or shooting at attackers on the outside from within. But once attackers got inside the house... above 250fps at such close ranges (room/room) was a bit much. You'll have to gauge just how much actual shooting will be occuring within the buildings vs. how much shooting will be occuring at/from the buildings. I'd make 280fps your top limit no matter what. But would recommend lower. I would also recommend eliminating fire modes once inside. CQB should be semi-auto only, and since you seem to have a well disciplined crew... emphasize that given such close proximities, each player should put forth maximum effort to avoid overshooting. Lastly... even thought it will be tough indoors... set an absolute minimum shooting range. Even at 250fps, a point-blank shot will be unbearable. If anything... start off on the "safer" side. Then as you get a few games under your belt... work your way up as far as tolerant levels go (velocities/distance/fire modes). But the key is... start low, and work up... not start high and work down. I think you guys'll be fine. |
Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 2:12pm
We will definitly take all that into consideration, thanks for the info, this set allot of my questions clear. |
Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 7:22pm
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looks like a miniature version of normandy....waitin for the americans to invade, eh? |
Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 8:21pm
Oh no, now they have seen our fortifications and know our plans. |
Posted By: KALIS-PIMENTA
Date Posted: 14 March 2006 at 11:09am
| If the people in town are so cool propose a paintball field there,the owner would make money for renting it, the cops could get some urban trainning there (sponsor with some CO2 & HPA machinery), the paintball field would drag more people to the town $$catching$$ and it would probably finish a drug hangout if I'm not mistaken. |
Posted By: Justice
Date Posted: 14 March 2006 at 11:15am
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paint + concrete = very slippery. Be carefull is all I have to say. Looks kool. Wish I could play there. ------------- 
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Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 14 March 2006 at 11:17am
Actually that sounds like a really good bunch of ideas, the owner had already given us permission to play amongst ourselves for free, but I am sure that you could do something just like that on a larger scale, and about the drug hangout, aparently at night there are a few local small town druggies that come around, luckely though we have never seen anything like needles or anything around |
Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 14 March 2006 at 11:20am
So you mean like paintball paint and concrete being slippery right! Thanks for the pointer, I will definitly keep that in mind, good to know, I would not have thought of that |
Posted By: ShortyBP
Date Posted: 14 March 2006 at 11:49am
If the property owner is willing to deal with liability and insurance issues... then perhaps it would be a worthwhile venture (although, add in the expense of adding safety features to the existing structures and property to the mix). But it's a lot of prep work, and a lot of initial out-of-pocket expense. |
Posted By: shmavistime
Date Posted: 14 March 2006 at 5:53pm
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Where you live? Normandy/Iwo Jima?
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Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 14 March 2006 at 7:39pm
No man a place much worse, Cape Breton, Canada. We live in the real war zones of the past, lol Actually the photos only show about 1/3 of the total structures, and about a mile away there is another one just like it but a little bit smaller |
Posted By: MP Sniper
Date Posted: 14 March 2006 at 11:13pm
| lol getting hurt my butt up there in canada they have free health care brake an arm and you get some horse pills and a cool cast |
Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 15 March 2006 at 8:42am
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh say too much and a bunch of Americans will want to move here. lol |
Posted By: KALIS-PIMENTA
Date Posted: 15 March 2006 at 12:24pm
| Yep free paintball facilities, free health care, do u have an extra bedroom? |
Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 15 March 2006 at 12:39pm
Actually that is free here too, if you have no job, or house you can get setup in a duplex or apartment, and the goverment gives you money to live off of. Pretty nuts eh.. Now if I could just convince them to supply me with paintballs and co2, I wouldn't have to work and could just play paintball all the time |
Posted By: spudcrazy
Date Posted: 15 March 2006 at 1:34pm
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Looks alot like a WW2 lookout, with the cannon turrets on the ground...We have them on the beaches on the east coast. Aournd Bethany Beach, DE there are alot of these old WW2 llokout towers. I'd be suprised if they were barracks, being that close to the gun turrets. ------------- http://www.thelloydsonline.com/paintball - SPUDCRAZY http://www.oldmanmilitia.com"> 
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Posted By: dodan44
Date Posted: 15 March 2006 at 8:27pm
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i wish i had one of those. it looks a littl close though but o well. suck it up. ------------- i pawn noobs |
Posted By: ¤ RĺpˇĐ Fˇrč ¤
Date Posted: 15 March 2006 at 10:39pm
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Looks awesome! I'd buy some pistols just to play in there. Also, if I were you and I was gonna play in there regularly, I'd probably try to clean her up a bit. Have fun ------------- 
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Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 9:49am
The pictures don't do it justice, the area is Huge ------------- Don't bring a speed ball gun to a woods ball fight |
Posted By: ShortyBP
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 9:56am
| Baewolf... can you provide a street intersection near the site? I'm interested in viewing a satellite image of the area. |
Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 10:05am
Okay it is in the area of the following streets Pitt Street, Church Street or Shore Road in Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. All these streets are close to the Barracks. Let me know how you make out with it ------------- Don't bring a speed ball gun to a woods ball fight |
Posted By: snypzer0
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 10:08am
| throw some images that you get on here. Ide like to see it too. |
Posted By: ShortyBP
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 10:16am
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I come up with bupkis.
None of the commercial sites I know of have any good resolution shots. Beh. Was worth a shot. |
Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 10:26am
I will see if I can get some more pics, or some topographical shots of the place, and will post them when I do ------------- Don't bring a speed ball gun to a woods ball fight |
Posted By: mjicmike
Date Posted: 17 March 2006 at 12:24am
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I take it you used Google earth ? ------------- A5 Rfs Dwg triggr Ricochet R5 8"Lapco Bigsht/14"CP Classic Palmers Stab. Lapco uni-mount DOP bullet drop fwd PMI 88/4500 Woods Flatline/14"Lapco Bigsht CMI Thunder pig reg. Remote adj. stk |
Posted By: MVM91
Date Posted: 17 March 2006 at 3:29pm
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Posted By: Stoz
Date Posted: 25 April 2006 at 1:46pm
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Can I come?
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Posted By: iceman1186
Date Posted: 25 April 2006 at 2:58pm
No, because you brought up a month old thread. ------------- 
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Posted By: Stoz
Date Posted: 25 April 2006 at 3:05pm
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sadface.
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Posted By: quiet riot
Date Posted: 25 April 2006 at 5:14pm
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google dont show ww2 sites ... that is a kewl place to play ... u could get gatlien gunes a mount them on the towers and and look out things like the germans ...lol ------------- 98% of paintballers act gangsta', if you are the 2% that are normal, put this in your sig. |
Posted By: Baewolf
Date Posted: 26 April 2006 at 10:07am
Yeah we are working on starting to play there now, we needed to wait until the snow in it melted and the ground dried out but it is good now and we are going to be playing there some time in the next 3 weeks. This last weekend we organised a large game at our woods ball cource that we built, there was over 30 people there, it was a really cool time. Looks like through it we will be picking up 9 new regular players. We are making some huge forts there this weekend and I will be taking pictures and posting them when it is done. We also have gotten access to a bunch of houses that were built for a movie that was filmed, and then they just left them. And we will be using them to play and building a small speed ball course next to them I will keep you posted, and will update the pictures Sunday ------------- Don't bring a speed ball gun to a woods ball fight |
Posted By: quiet riot
Date Posted: 26 April 2006 at 7:33pm
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they should start a topic on were u play ..hope u have fun ------------- 98% of paintballers act gangsta', if you are the 2% that are normal, put this in your sig. |
Posted By: CIA356
Date Posted: 27 April 2006 at 2:00pm
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looks awesome, I wish I could find a place like that around where I live
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Posted By: Johny R
Date Posted: 27 April 2006 at 8:47pm
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I live a few hours away on the mainland, perhaps we could set up a game
sometime. Got a carload of guys that would probably be interested. Johny |