Opening a new field
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Topic: Opening a new field
Posted By: methodicandy
Subject: Opening a new field
Date Posted: 16 January 2009 at 1:39pm
| I am currently thinking about opening a new paintball field in my area, and would love some advice. I am thinking of leasing a warehouse with about 4000 sf of playing area, with about a 1000 sf pro shop. The field would be more scenario than speedball with rooms and hallways and sandbag bunkers. I am also thinking of using tippmanns 98 rentals for my rental guns, i was thinking 20 or so. i would love to hear some new ideas and some pros and cons i might not have thought of. There is only 1 other field in this area and its not that good and the owner is a jerk. Anyways thanks for reading this, I hope you guys can help. |
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Posted By: slackerr26
Date Posted: 16 January 2009 at 2:19pm
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if its indoors, you might want to look into rental ions instead of 98's ------------- 
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Posted By: methodicandy
Date Posted: 16 January 2009 at 2:48pm
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with the ions the initial cost would be too high, and the tippmanns are just solid guns. but thank you for the suggestion |
Posted By: notom66866
Date Posted: 16 January 2009 at 4:50pm
| Rain barrels make really good cover and are pretty cheap. |
Posted By: t_hop
Date Posted: 16 January 2009 at 5:29pm
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you might want to just get some cheap land and build a
little hang out area and put your proshop in a trailer. That would allow your business to expand and grow if you get more volume and want to make more fields. But you could always see if the market's good with this before investing more money into doing that. Okay i went in a circle there. Ya stay away from ions, cause then you'd have to maintain them. You can get a couple hundred empty sandbags online and fill them yourself for dirt cheap. When my buddies and I were building a course I always used to check craigslist's free section. Sometimes people will through away old furniture and mattress, etc. We also used pallets and those were pretty sweet. ------------- "I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of bubblegum." |
Posted By: methodicandy
Date Posted: 16 January 2009 at 7:03pm
| ok thank u |
Posted By: d4rkmonkey
Date Posted: 18 January 2009 at 4:17pm
I'd recommend vibes instead. Cheaper, and I believe more reliable (but I could be wrong). Plus,they're water proof! |
slackerr26 wrote:Posted By: Yomillio
Date Posted: 18 January 2009 at 7:06pm
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Just go with Tippmanns. They'll do the job well, and as its a close quarters combat type of thing, the extra cost for a faster marker isn't really justified, especially if you're just making a field.
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Posted By: PAINT&STUFF
Date Posted: 16 February 2009 at 12:25am
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10 Gun Tippmann 98 Custom Field Package $2,144.00
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