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re: Best starter paintball guns for kids?
Posted on 3/19/14 at 11:47 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Posted on 3/19/14 at 11:47 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Gotta take em off slow
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Posted on 3/19/14 at 11:48 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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The orings on the end of the tanks get trashed pretty often.
Yeah, I remember that too, and you had to use a special type of o-ring... that didn't absorb C02 or something like that.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 12:57 am to HuntFishMan
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The more a child is exposed to a gun the safer he will be
Yep and mine shoot real firearms at appropriate targets all the time. This includes live animals. I am not anti gun any any fashion.
I just don't like the idea of encouraging a gun as a toy for my boys. Too each his own. Of course I'm referring to kids under 12 here.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:15 am to Bleeding purple
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I just don't like the idea of encouraging a gun as a toy for my boys.
It's a paintball gun, not a real gun.... Kinda like the difference in a nerf gun and a BB gun... they all come with different levels of responsibility and training.
Paintball guns can be toys that need to be treated with responsibility.... kinda like a go-cart being compared to a car....
This post was edited on 3/20/14 at 1:21 am
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:21 am to Bleeding purple
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I just don't like the idea of encouraging a gun as a toy for my boys.
I sure hope they don't play any first person shooter games...
Posted on 3/20/14 at 7:27 am to NATidefan
neighborhood kids go play in the back of my street with spyders all the time. i found out and pulled my bob long intimidator out of retirement. they dont invite me to play no more....
shite, might have to talk the wife into letting me get a luxe or see if i can find an old shocker....
shite, might have to talk the wife into letting me get a luxe or see if i can find an old shocker....
Posted on 3/20/14 at 7:40 am to NATidefan
I have a feeling you will regret buying a 10 yr old a gun to "play" with other kids....it's only a matter of time till they are shooting at each other.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 10:10 am to GeeOH
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have a feeling you will regret buying a 10 yr old a gun to "play" with other kids....it's only a matter of time till they are shooting at each other.
Kind of the idea?
Posted on 3/20/14 at 12:07 pm to Bleeding purple
I'm with you BP. I have 3 boys, 8, 5, and about to be 4. They will learn on the real thing and we will not do airsoft or paintball.
We have had Nerf guns and only shot them at targets. I used range safety words with them too.
We have had Nerf guns and only shot them at targets. I used range safety words with them too.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 12:51 pm to BoostAddict
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We started playing in the mid 80's and kinda grew up with it as the technology exploded. My first gun...
You sound like me. The first time I played was 85 and it was with converted crosman pellet pistols that looked like revolvers. Then we played with that one you've got the picture of. Eventually we bought Bushmaster pumps. By the time we played on our first field we were so far ahead of everyone else that the field owners would put everyone at the place on one team with their autocockers and stingers and stuff vs us with our Bushmasters and they very rarely beat us. We eventually got Tipman semis and by that point if there was even two of us, they'd throw us on whichever team was losing just to get them some wins.
Got to the point we'd go to big scenario weekend games and they'd give us our own color arm bands and use us to move the scenarios along for one side or the other if they got stuck on something. I remember getting through the lines in a game with about 150 people in it and taking half their rear bases by myself one time then crossing the line again and doing it to the other side.
Would just choose a line of approach where they couldn't see my armband and walk right up to whoever was guarding the base just talking my head off about 'you didn't see those guys they were right up there' walk right up to them and pop em. Raise the other teams flag and move on.
Fun stuff back then. Now it's mostly just speedball which I have absolutely no desire to play whatsoever.
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