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Glad you enjoyed yourself! Thats decent coverage in a short time.

I walked the Speyside way passing through Nethy Bridge (Aviemore to Buckie) a few years ago and really loved it. I tho k i even messaged uou as i was passing through!

The A82 up the West coast is one of life's little pleasures. Would you believe me of I said it got better even further up? Maybe not as beautifully haunting as Glencoe but I truly love the West coast and Islands.

I'm supposed to be on Lewis next week for a wedding but wont make it. Not been back in Scotland for some time.

Haste ye back.

Edited by scotchyscotch - 14 July 2026 at 10:29pm

tallen702 wrote:

Well, heck, we're all visiting Edinburgh this year, apparently. I'll be there at the beginning of July. (5th-11th)

Well that's a small world. The Colin's are invading!

Well, heck, we're all visiting Edinburgh this year, apparently. I'll be there at the beginning of July. (5th-11th)

VTpaintballer wrote:

VTpaintballer wrote:

I am sure it is posted somewhere but how is this forum still alive, who took it over? I can't imagine it is still owned by Tippmann.

After a short investigation it looks like the owners of Tippmann are still hosting it, as far as I can tell.

Yep, but we're an anomaly. They don't actually run it. We just exist on their platform. The link from the home page to the forum itself is broken (it's missing the /forums.html at the end of the link). It's all owned by some private equity firm now. G.I. Sportz just ported the servers over to their own cloud plan, and things continued running with a few hiccups here or there. They then filed Chapter 15 in 2020, and Ironbridge Capital snapped up the assets under their "Kore" brand.

When the company changed hands, G.I. Sportz stopped paying the former tech support company to administrate the forum. The admin's final act was to make everyone who was on the roles and not banned a moderator. You can even go delete your strikes if you want.

The Tippmann family no longer has anything to do with the paintball side of things. They took their money from the sale to G.I. Sportz and started making real guns again (which they did prior to making paintball guns). They're doing rather well. They only make .22LR and .22WMR rifles and pistols on an AR-style platform.

I find it kind of hilarious that the "25 Years" banner is still in the top left of the forum. It's been 40 years since the paintball company was founded.

But I digress. We still exist because Ironbridge is huge and huge firms aren't watertight, so they pay all kinds of bills that keep the lights on in long-forgotten places without even realizing it.

I am sure it is posted somewhere but how is this forum still alive, who took it over? I can't imagine it is still owned by Tippmann.

Every now and again I think about this small slice of the Internet, and am amazed it's still up! Hope y'all are doing well.

Life update, the good: got a new job after 9 years. I'm an engineering manager at a company I'm genuinely interested in, the product is cool and has a positive impact on humanity.

Tough year for me & my wife, lost some family, discovered some family were with substance abuse issues, and my wife experienced an ectopic pregnancy all in 3 months.

I guess when it rains, it pours. It took a bit to get up again but we're starting to feel good again.

I got the chance to play paintball when I was visiting Ireland for work. It was a fantastic time despite the rain. Tippmann rentals and foggy goggles, it brought back so much nostalgia for the game.

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Cool. My office is in London as it happens so I could be nearby, ya never know!

In any case, let me know of you need any ideas for the wider adventure

Glad to see this place is still hanging on.

Not gonna lie I saw that lad get zapped by the pepperball by that brownshirt thing you lot have going on and my first reaction was to check if they were still using A5's like i think they did a while back. Hence me having a look here.

I'm now a senior fraud investigator for a reasonable sized insurer. Quite good work when its not crushing me. Chasing baddies and doing a fair bit of intelligence and OCG work which is entertaining enough. Basically trying to get my name out there across the industry as its becoming a small world. Working way to much to make it happen though but its what we do when we have a family I suppose.

Little one will be 3 in January and we are in the process of buying a bigger house in Manchester. Nice spot, near a nice village and some outdoor spaces and woodland around. Better for Isla than the city centre apartment we have now.

I probably mentioned most of this last time I popped in but my browser just can't handle this site to check without causing me actual anguish.

You Wont See Me wrote:

My parents were in the process of moving and found my 15+ year old A5! CO2 tank still full Dead

Gonna see if I can't get some new o-rings, lube, and a new tank for it and get it in working shape

That should do the trick!

Hey Whale, yay or nay on 1st Amendment violation?