• If you wear gear that makes it impossible to break paint on you even at close range (or see any potential breaks), have the courtesy to call yourself out when hit. Otherwise we could all wrap ourselves in packing foam and bubble wrap and never have to get out.
  

• If you're going to wear a ghillie suit, use it correctly.

• Snipers (actually all paintball players) should know the effective range of their markers.

• Blind firing a butt-load of rounds at maximum effective range at where you think the enemy is, is not sniping (nor is it effective cover fire.)

• Ghillied snipers should be stationary; innocent bushes do not normally deploy on other players. Conversely, if you have to cross an open area, there is no point in crawling if you're going to be seen anyway.

• Real snipers set traps, they don't generally walk into them. (Especially not traps set by someone who is probably over twice their age and is not in nearly as good shape.)

• Bad things happen to "snipers" who use their ghillie to make themselves bullet-proof.
  

tallen702 wrote: You know what I've found? My blaze-red jersey, red mask, red (and now silver) markers, and all the shiny chrome and whatnot on them don't make me that much easier to see in the woods. I can still ambush, still stay concealed. I've also found that having a speedball mentality in woodsball means that while I tend to got shot out most rounds, I take a lot more guys with me than your typical cammo, sit and wait, player does. A lot of people don't think you can get bunkered in a castle... man are they wrong.

Actually they are a dead giveaway

But you are very right about the speedball mentality.

i started doing stuff like that a few times ago and i have had so much more fun. I also am well recognized as a good player at my field now.

barn_user wrote: I never have been one to beleive in camo, sure it might help you out, but you are not invisible in the trees. Since we don't have alot of paintball traffic down here any chance I get to play I take, and have seen quite the array of players myself. I used to wear jeans and a grey longsleeved shirt with red mechanics gloves. With a sale paintball-discounters had, my brother and I both picked jerseys, mine is the tippmann one with no numbers or lettering, and his is an evil likewise. Since we both have played quite a bit and my brother has taught me to play, we are recognized as the two best players when we play. He has a fairly old ICD bushamster 2000, 1999 or 98ish. While I support myself with my 98 custom. People just look at us and want us on their team. We now play so that we are always seperated, except a game of alamo we played.      What I'm trying to get at is that how your dressed and the gun you carry can play a big role in how people think of you sometimes.

cammo actually does help.

not really necessary of course

but wearing speedball clothing to woodsball is worse than painting a giant target on our chest

"If you wear gear that makes it impossible to break paint on you even at close range (or see any potential breaks), have the courtesy to call yourself out when hit. Otherwise we could all wrap ourselves in packing foam and bubble wrap and never have to get out. "

If you can't make them say out, make them say ouch...  Rules are that if you are in a ghillie, the paint doesn't have to break. You just have to hit them.  They were out of the game at this point.

"If you're going to wear a ghillie suit, use it correctly."

This is the #1 problem with newbies in ghillies.  Total color mismatch.

"Snipers (actually all paintball players) should know the effective range of their markers."

I've seen "Old Soldier" stand in the middle of balls flying and not get hit. That's because everybody is long-balling. You can step out of the way of those. Effective range of a round projectile shot out of a smooth bore gun at 300fps is about 75ft. That's where you have a 50% chance of hitting a person.

"Blind firing a butt-load of rounds at maximum effective range at where you think the enemy is, is not sniping (nor is it effective cover fire.)"

3 to 5 round burst will keep somebody pinned down as well as a string of hundreds. Just make some noise on their bunker.

"Ghillied snipers should be stationary; innocent bushes do not normally deploy on other players. Conversely, if you have to cross an open area, there is no point in crawling if you're going to be seen anyway."

Movement is the first thing to catch your eye. It saved our ancestry from being eaten... It doesn't matter if you're in a ghillie, woodland camo, tigerstrip, or a pink bunny suit.

"Real snipers set traps, they don't generally walk into them. (Especially not traps set by someone who is probably over twice their age and is not in nearly as good shape.)"

Again, you were playing against newbies with an attitude. Felt good, didn't it...

"Bad things happen to "snipers" who use their ghillie to make themselves bullet-proof."

While in the dead zone after the game, I hope you walked by them and had the good sense to stop and just smile...

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I wear tie-dye.

lol good story

and i never realized black was bad...

Honestly the best you can wear is grey. It blends to all terrain well enough.

Urban-coloured camoflague is perfect for most areas besides the 9th dimension.

Connmann wrote: i knew this color blind kid and he can pick out anyone in a ghillie from 100+ feet. this means that as long as i have him in my group there are no lucky shots from campers.

True story. I'm red-green colorblind and can do the same. That's why I'm never impressed by people who show up on the field with a full ghillie suit, and gun rag- they never blend in to me.

Personally I wear ACU bdu's because they look cool and they won't stick out like a sore thumb. I never expect any type of camo to fully conceal me.

lol well let them keep doing it

i have only  played a few games of pb and need targets that arent hard to get

A great post and a great response.

You love to type don't you? Good story.

I myself wear a blue/black dye jersey for woods and speed. It's done me well.

I heard blue was a good color to wear in woodsball. Seriously. Sure, you'll get noticed more, but I understand that blue does something to the mind that makes you harder to zero in on and aim at. Also, I heard it makes you underestimate the bushes and cover around the player.

Some weird tidbits from me!

__sneaky__ wrote: As to the movment gives you away thing... Its absolutly true, I've heard a group of enemy coming, so I layed down on the side of a hill in this gullie, and waited for about 5 minutes, about 4 guys came in full camo standing straight up and I could instantly pick out every one of them, for cover I had a tiny tree that was about an inch thick, and that was about it, I had jeans and a dark blue shirt on, and I shot every one of them without ever being noticed...

^ so what were you wearing?