re: Do You Play Paintball?

Well idk about goat they were a paintball field though

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my high school yearbook from 1982 has a pic of several of my classmates at a paintball event.

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You know, that's really interesting considering paintball as a game wasn't even invented until mid1981 and the first ever commercial paintball field in the world opened in March of 1982.

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Have to freeze a handful of paintballs to make things interesting

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that’s a old wives tale. The shell gets more brittle if you freeze it. The small amount of paint in each ball doesn’t actually freeze

I did 20+ years ago when it was huge

Sure

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I did back in the day but the course we used mostly was in the woods. It had a little tower. We would do capture the flag teams and then rotate. Last man standing free-for-als was fun too.

The competitive stuff with the inflatable bunkers was never fun to me.

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We had a similar setup at a guy's house who i went to high school with. There were a ton of essentially fortifications that one team would get, and the other would defend them. The team in the fort almost always won.

One time me and a buddy decided we were going to go through this cornfield around the back of the fort. It took us a while to loop around to flank. We had to crouch walk or even crawl parts of it to get by unnoticed. We finally make it around and sneak in the back, I'm sneaking up for a shot on one guy and my buddy is supposed to get the other. He fires his shitty gun way too early, it makes a loud pop and the paintball just rolls out of the end of the barrel. Guy he was shooting at, who had the best gun of any of us that could essentially shoot full auto, heard it, turns around, lights us both up.

My first time playing, a friend and I just bought some single-shot pistols and went out in a field. We had no idea what to do, so we just kinda ran around in circles, shooting at each other. I had a pair of Nike athletic shorts on (not recommended.) As I was running, left side to my friend, with my right leg forward, a paintball hit me in such a way as to catch one of my testicles between the paintball and my leg.

The pain was unbearable. As I was rolling on the ground, thrashing, I inadvertently rolled into a bed of fire ants.
I didn't even notice due to the pain in my ball sack.

But anyway, tons of fun. Plus, every time I played after that felt like a cake walk.

10/10, highly recommend.

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Try taking one in the eye from that distance. You won't do it twice.

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We used to freeze the paintballs first before playing


Never a great idea