Let's welcome all the new guys with a "Here's My Story thread"

[User]

I first got into paintball 2.5 years ago. I had bought some magazines (had a Stingray II at the time ) and had brought them to school to look at them. I found a few friends were interested also, and started playing at the local SuperSports after a purchase of a Spyder TL+.

I later found that I didn't like SuperSports so much, and went to play at Paintball Adventures Park. This field even had 2 SupAir fields (which I only recently found out!) which is pretty rare in MD from what I've seen. I got bored of the Spyder with no upgrades and recieved an Automag P/F just this past Christmas.

In February, I wanted to sell my Automag to get a new marker (at the time, preferrably an Autococker). I started having second thoughts and took a look at some of the electro markers even though I was short about $900.

I took into consideration AGD's service and dedication with their product line as I had seen before on the message boards. This was a factor which would greatly help me to purchase an Automag later. I gathered up a ton of unused stuff (including the 'Mag and Spyder) and auctioned them off on E-Bay. I found I had enough to buy an electro marker, and immediately got caught in a debate between the 'Mag and Angel.

In the end, I picked the E-Micromag. And here I am today

[rythm68]

My obsession started in 89 in my junior year of high school. I saw paintball on a tv show one time and it caught my attention. I looked around and found a field near me in orange county at the time called War Zone. I played my firsts few games (night games) with a PGP until I saved up enough to buy my first gun. It was a Razor Back pump which I bought from Ron Killborn. Then I moved on to a BE Poison semi-auto ( let me tell you a POS ). I then moved onto three different cockers after being sponsored by Budd Orr, two automags in between, a Diablo Joker STP (which I am selling), and finally onto my E-mag. Have been playing ever since. It's funny....I saw this guy around 60 years old playing the other day at SC Village and I wonder if I will be like him still playing?? Probably.

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E-mag balck teflon p/f hopper left
J&J 16/14/10" two piece tilt
Nitro Duck 3000/114
Revy 12V
Warp feed ( hopefully on its way :) )

[unseenunheard]

my story starts about 3 years ago when myself along with 5 or 6 of my friends were walking around wally-world (wal-mart) at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning and happened through the sporting goods section and saw paintball guns. a couple of my friends bought talons to play around with and later the rest of us along with others did to, we began to run around in the woods just shooting at each other, we didn't even have masks at first but that changed pretty quick after i got shot in the mouth from like 8' and later after the talons kept breaking and we would replace them a friend bought a cheap semi from wally-world. i did a little more research and bought a spyder compact upgraded it and loved it. decided i wanted more and got my minimag and have upgraded it, i now play at the local field every chance i get while my frineds don't even play anymore

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[68 Mag]

Well, a couple years ago, my local wal mart put Vulcan 5000's on sale. 2 of my friends went, and bought 10-15 of them for 5 bucks each, then started selling them for 10 apiece. I bought one, and started shooting stuff in my backyard. Eventually I got bored, and threw it in a closet. That year we went on vacation to visit one of my friends in Colorado. He had 2 Spyders, and a chrono. He asked me if I knew about paintball. I said yes, and explained about my vulcan. Well, by the time we left, I knew I was hooked. When we got back home, I saved, and saved, and bought a Stingray 2 Players kit. I loved it. I never took it to the field though, cuz 3 weeks after I bought it, I saw an an ad in the paper for 'Spyder, and everything needed to play'. i ended up with a spyder, all american barrel, and 2 co2 tanks, and the mask that came with my Ray. The very next saturday, I packed all my stuff in a big plastic cooler and headed to the field, only to find it closed. The field owner plays on Team Confused, and he had a tourney that weekend. Well, I went back a week later. I played all day, and had a blast. As I was leaving, he gave me the latest issue of APG. In it, I saw something. Something I knew I had to have. I saw a picture of a player kneeling in the grass of the staging area with a mag. I knew I had to have one. Two months before Christmas 2000, I walked into the shop and saw it. A used classic p/f, with x-chamber and 2 barrels for 400 bucks. I began to beg my parents, until my dad got sick of it and said 'Fine. Here's what we'll do. You get half the money by christmas, and it's yours.' I worked and beged, but on December 23'd, I had 75 bucks. We went to my grandmother's that day, nd for some reason that I'll prolly never understand, she gave me 125 bucks to get the gun. That very day my mom and I went and bought it. I got it home, hooked up my remote and 20oz, and started shooting. I have been playing ever since, and my team won the local three person tournament last month.

[Mega Man]

The first time I played was 3 1/2 years ago. My friend first told me about it. So of course I had to go out and try it. So he and I went out to a local feild one day and played a couple games. Then I started getting hooked. My parents got me a stingray for Christmas but luckly I had a paintball magazine by them and they returned it and got me a tippmann 98. Then about a year after I got the flatline barrel. After that I started playing like crazy! I played speedball, and big games like D-Day, and just out back in my feild. Then the day dawned upon me and the heavens sent me an Automag last Christmas. and thats about it.

[Mega Man]

The first time I played was 3 1/2 years ago. My friend first told me about it. So of course I had to go out and try it. So he and I went out to a local feild one day and played a couple games. Then I started getting hooked. My parents got me a stingray for Christmas but luckly I had a paintball magazine by them and they returned it and got me a tippmann 98. Then about a year after I got the flatline barrel. After that I started playing like crazy! I played speedball, and big games like D-Day, and just out back in my feild. Then the day dawned upon me and the heavens sent me an Automag last Christmas. and thats about it.

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Don't Be Intimidated By The Size Of My Mag...Be Intimidated By Me

[Mojojojo]

around 5 yrs ago, my older brother got into it, brought some apg's home.. i broozed thru them seeing what it looked like, not knowing a thing about p.ball, then about a week or so later my brother had his first game, where we still,play to the day....so i decided hey why not get into the game and see if i liked it...so i sold some stuff, saved my money, and bought a *drum roll please*.........a b.e. talon players kit,(comes w/ a mask, hopper, and so on and so forth) so, i played against my younger brothers, and w/ my older brother and his friends, all fun and games....til i sold the talon for about 1/2 of how much i bought it for, then i purchased a old edge semi, nice gun but very heavy, that gave me nothing but trouble but i keep playing w/ it....i played w/ it for about 3 months........then one day, i was looking thru the trib and saw a rainmaker(i only had it from oct til december..) for about 125, and i thought wow good deal,i bought it, it worked perfectly...until, it started to goo up on me, and then i messed w/ it, got it working, and bought a aci barrel for it.......very nice purchase............but i wasn't satisfied, and talked to my local shop owner about trading it in, for another gun....i looked around and found my automag i have to the day, and love playing w/........now i hold rec games up on my hill where there use to be a house....we play about 11-12 times a yr....

That is my story i hope you enjoyed it

Eric

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"Blood is foul, The Flesh dross. My Ascendance thirsts for life itself"

[frgood]

MY story begins about a year and a half ago. My son was turning ten last January (2000) and asked if we couild have his birthday party and paintball world (Orlando). My wife and I were dead set against it. We did not want our kids goin' nuts with guns. He did beg for about a month to do this. I did break down a little. My thinking was; we'll go play and the first time he gets hit he'll cry and this nonsense would be over with.
So... On the eventful day. We go to play. Our first game is what I would call a mad free for all. We did have two teams 20-30 each side. Played on their hyperball field. and paint is everywhere. I get nailed in the nuts soon after the break (note to self wear cup next time). My son plays most of the game and we make a day of it. Monday morning Ipicked up a paintball magazine. by Wednesday I had purchased my minimag. I played 2-3 times a week. When I got home (I travelled for work) Chris and I played on the weekends. We are hooked and now are trying to figure out how to get my 8 year old to play

[The Taoist]

Well, lets see, it was about 2 years ago that i saw a posting on my office door at work for a managment paintball tourny. I jumped at the chance to eliminate all of my work stress and some of the managment types that piss me off. After that, i played about 5 more times, before investing in an RT and Some good Gear. Ever since than i have been playing about 2-3 times a month, and have even talked my Girlfriend into playing with me most weekends. I enjoy the comraderie that paintball instills in my relationship with her and my other friends.

[luckypaintball]

hmmmmm'
played my first game in december of 97
i still remember it perfect
it was a woods game and they blew the wistle, i didnt know what to do so i just ran behind the first tree
i remember someone told me watch the flag, and my goggles had gotten so fogged up tis not even funny, so i saw something moving around the flag, and i just shot as fast as i could and didnt stop until i heard a yell of "HEY QUIT IT!!", turns out it was the ref...
none the less i didnt get hit once that entire day and i hit about 3 or 4 ppl

[cphilip]

Gee I wish I had a story...Well I supose I could just make one up huh? So here goes:

I was born on a Speedball field in South Carolina. My mother went into labor just after bunkering a guy. They didn't call it bunkerin back then. It was called "Oh ****'n" someone. Know why. Thats what they would say when you popped up over the hay bale and was about to smack em with a paintball up side the head. No wonder huh? Anyway what was I sayin?...Oh yea...The prize was always a young Pig or a Chicken or something back then. Now this was back in 1956. So they used real paint, oil based I think, no wipin in them thar days... yessiree there wasn't..oh yea..where was I?... and they rolled this paint into balls themselves and blew it out of a hollowed out water pipe with their mouths. Not many know of this early editon of Paintball. Most of the evidence is long lost. Or forgotten. And now for some reason Mom was real popular in High school for that talent. For some reason. I forget why. So anyways... I grew up on that thar field with homemade Paintballs flying around. Duckin and dashin to the dinner table and into the bath till I got old enough to get the Hell away from there. And make somthin of myself. Did I ever tell you kids the story of when I went off to College? ...oh well thats another thing all together. Now where was I? Oh yea...Never went back to the sport until just recently. My Kid started playing and tellin me about this thing called Painball... Or I though he said Painball... My hearing ain't so good and I don't always get it jsut right the first tiem. Mostly its my left side although my right side can be trouble if the pitch is real high and ...Sorry where was I? Oh yea...so I wasn't realy interested in this Painball thingy...you see I got this bad back and my knee's...well...anyway...So he says "no Daddy, PAINT ball!". I said to him "Son we played that back in 56!" Why I was born on a Paintball field"... I says...See thats where that phrase first got started yep! It was me. I invented all kinds of those. Like this one:"Don't let the front door hit ya where the good Lord split ya". Yep, that was mee too. And...um...well back to my story...He says "**** Daddy you are a liar for sure". I says "well Son, maybe so... maybe so". So later I buys myself a Gun and joins him out there. Just nie abouts a year ago. A mag of course. Heard they was good. Earnie said so. Earnie has the local Hardware store you see. He sells a lot of stuff. Screws, Bolts, Chicken feed, fertilizer, wheel barrows, hoes, rakes...well...all kinds of stuff. Did I ever tell you the one about the time Earnie and Luther played paintball? I gotta tell that one some day. Now what was I talkin about...

Just goes to show you that the more things change the more they stay the same huh? I invented that one too! Didn't know that did ya?

Thats my story, what yers?

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Quote: Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy
Author: Benjamin Franklin

[TheBigRaguPB4L]

a few of my friends that i worked with used to come in all the time with poison ivy from playing paintball. they asked me if i wanted to play but i just thought it seemed kinda dumb with getting all that poison ivy(wish i could smack myself). They kept asking me to play, untill i eventually just said i would. figured i'd try it, had nothing better to do. I played with a m98 and was hooked(even though this guy i shot 3 times in the back wiped and swore he didn't get shot). I went and bought a used spyder from one of the guys i played with(wish i could hurt him for selling me that pos). He got a RT. i saw how that shot and i wanted to get a mag so bad(although, somehow he got his RT shooting consistantly at about 375). i played with them for not quite 2 years in this old sump. slowly they started to lose interest but not me. Now i'm the only one from that group that still plays. very sad to see such a lack of dedication. i went to the field when they stopped and i recently joined a team. i've been through about 8 guns in my time. first was a spyder, went to a mag, a pgp, sl-68 II pump, bob long millenium(looking to sell it), bob long defiant(traded for a minimag), and my latest was just hooking up a retro mag. my last project for a gun is a z-body mag all cromed out possibly with a retro valve. haven't decided. but i have a while to go until that will ever happen so for now, i'll stick with my with my 2 mags. I have about $3000 in credit card bills from paintball, but it's most definitely worth it.

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My girlfriend said that if i bought another paintball gun, she'd leave me........ I sure am going to miss her.

[This message has been edited by TheBigRaguPB4L (edited 06-12-2001).]

[billmi]

<font face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by rythm68:
Tom.....
do you ever goto sleep?????? </font>

Tom only sleeps during the day :-)

See you on the field,
-Bill Mills

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Computer / Paintball geek
Technical Editor, World And Regional Paintball Information Guide - http://www.WARPIG.com
Producer, Paintball Television - http://www.PigTV.net

[TheBigRaguPB4L]

wouldn't it be cool to have a story about first starting paintball and you were one of the ones that kinda actually started paintball like tom?

Cphillip, i just have one word to say, WHOA.

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My girlfriend said that if i bought another paintball gun, she'd leave me........ I sure am going to miss her.

[billmi]

An Excerpt from a biography I was asked to write (and was touching up, while browsing this thread....


Bill Mills first heard about paintball through an article in Games Magazine in 1983. He knew that at his first opportunity he would play. That chance came in 1986 during his first year of college, and he was immediately hooked. The next year, he met Dawn Lindsey and shared his obsession. The two played regularly while dating, and eventually married, while Bill studied Radio and Television Broadcasting, and Dawn studied History and Anthropology.

Being employed by the Computer Services Department at California State University, Fresno, the pair were using the Internet as a medium to discuss paintball in the late 1980s. Both took part in the voting process to create the rec.sport.paintball newsgroup.

While still in college, the two formed Corinthian Media Services. They provided graphic art design, computer consulting, video production, and video training services, as well as the design of touch screen based information systems.

In 1992, a fellow university employee, Steve Mitchell began archiving paintball articles and information from to an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) server. Additional paintball photos and articles were created specifically for the server by the Mills. In 1994, Mitchel made the ftp material available via a webserver on his desktop workstation. Its web address was http://warpig.cati.csufresno.edu, and it was the first web site about the sport of paintball. As the site grew, Bill and Dawn contributed content and designed graphics. In 1995, leaving his position at the university for a job in the aerospace industry, Mitchell gave the site to Corinthian Media Services.

At the time, the web site was being accessed 7,000 times per week by users. The internet was still relatively new, with most users being at universities or technology companies. The Mills realized they were doing something special when they read an article about a major beer company which was thrilled at the 4,000 hits per week received by its nationally advertised web site.

Little did they know, WARPIG would be serving over 3 quarters of a million files each day and moving over 500 Gigabytes of raw data each month by the year 2000.

With the encouragement of Action Pursuit Games magazine editor Randy Kamiya and International Paintball Player's Association president, Jessica Sparks, Bill and Dawn began taking the web site seriously as a publication, as well as writing for traditional paintball magazines.

See you on the field,
-Bill Mills

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Computer / Paintball geek
Technical Editor, World And Regional Paintball Information Guide - http://www.WARPIG.com
Producer, Paintball Television - http://www.PigTV.net