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I'm back from the battlefield! Yes, i've been wounded...but im still alive! Thats a good thing right?! No, I didn't just come back from Iraq battling terrorist.
Remember I said im getting into paintball? Well I did order my gun, and it came 1 1/2 days later with regular shipping! So on the 30th Johny, his friend Chris, my new friend Bryan, and me played a 1 1/2 hour game in our combined 6 acres of woods. I painted (Hit) both Johny and Chris in the end, which was cool. Then today I finally (say finally because the weather has been misbehaving) went to the paintball field to play some speedball, from 10am - 3pm. Basically on speedball two teams start on opposite sides of a field that has bunkers scattered around. Here's a pic of what it looks like (This is actually the big field, we played in the smaller field):
Anyhoo, being in one of these game is as close to being in a real firefight as you can get. Its intense, stresses team work, you fire real projectiles, and can be painful. But its FUN! Yea, I know what your thinking, im crazy, I think pain is fun. Na, you USUALLY only feel the hit for maybe a few minutes after impact. Its just like playing a real life video game. For the first day, I think I did pretty darn good, I got a number of good hits on people. Once a shot a ball down someone's barrel, that was awesome. The paint sprayed all over his mask lol. Although, once I was hit right in the mouth portion of my mask, ate some paint. I have no need to worry though, paintballs safe to eat. But I wouldn't eat one on purpose though, they do taste kinda nasty. I've got tons of mini stories I could tell, but I don't feel up to typing them all down. What does kinda suck though, is what happened on the last game. Most of my team had been taken out, and it was 2 on 2, then my last teammate got taged, I was the only one left. Since I was behind a center bunker, I wasn't in a good situation. I knew both enemies would rush me from both sides, and thats exactly what they did. I saw one rushing from the right and started to shoot at him, but couldn't do anything about the other guy coming from the other direction... I was hit twice in the back from a gun less than 10ft away...one word, ouch. I felt those hits for a full half hour. Now I got two HUGE welts on my back LOL. They don't hurt much, they look worse than they feel. No, im not gonna show pics...that would be nasty lol. Anyway today was a fun day :)
I was pleased with the performance of my new A-5, didn't break any balls and shot well. A pic:
So there you have it! That was my day! Now I gotta go clean up my messy gun...it took a few hits.
Remember I said im getting into paintball? Well I did order my gun, and it came 1 1/2 days later with regular shipping! So on the 30th Johny, his friend Chris, my new friend Bryan, and me played a 1 1/2 hour game in our combined 6 acres of woods. I painted (Hit) both Johny and Chris in the end, which was cool. Then today I finally (say finally because the weather has been misbehaving) went to the paintball field to play some speedball, from 10am - 3pm. Basically on speedball two teams start on opposite sides of a field that has bunkers scattered around. Here's a pic of what it looks like (This is actually the big field, we played in the smaller field):
Anyhoo, being in one of these game is as close to being in a real firefight as you can get. Its intense, stresses team work, you fire real projectiles, and can be painful. But its FUN! Yea, I know what your thinking, im crazy, I think pain is fun. Na, you USUALLY only feel the hit for maybe a few minutes after impact. Its just like playing a real life video game. For the first day, I think I did pretty darn good, I got a number of good hits on people. Once a shot a ball down someone's barrel, that was awesome. The paint sprayed all over his mask lol. Although, once I was hit right in the mouth portion of my mask, ate some paint. I have no need to worry though, paintballs safe to eat. But I wouldn't eat one on purpose though, they do taste kinda nasty. I've got tons of mini stories I could tell, but I don't feel up to typing them all down. What does kinda suck though, is what happened on the last game. Most of my team had been taken out, and it was 2 on 2, then my last teammate got taged, I was the only one left. Since I was behind a center bunker, I wasn't in a good situation. I knew both enemies would rush me from both sides, and thats exactly what they did. I saw one rushing from the right and started to shoot at him, but couldn't do anything about the other guy coming from the other direction... I was hit twice in the back from a gun less than 10ft away...one word, ouch. I felt those hits for a full half hour. Now I got two HUGE welts on my back LOL. They don't hurt much, they look worse than they feel. No, im not gonna show pics...that would be nasty lol. Anyway today was a fun day :)
I was pleased with the performance of my new A-5, didn't break any balls and shot well. A pic:
So there you have it! That was my day! Now I gotta go clean up my messy gun...it took a few hits.