Aslan
02-06-2006, 12:55 AM
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Being located in the North...and not really having any affordable indoor options in the general area...December through February is really my "paintball offseason".
Anybody else in the Northern regions waiting around for the weather to warm up...the fields to open back up...etc...?
I didn't really miss it until this month. I usually need a couple months to take a break from it anyways. If it's a year where I play often, like last year, I really start to get burnt out by the end of the season.
Actually...that's probably not accurate...if I had the money, time, and a place to play in the winter...I'd probably play all the time. I think the reason I got burnt out this last season was in the time between playing, I was doing a ton of work on my guns...I did alot of upgrades/repairs and also I often lent my guns to friends to use so I cleaned alot of guns...and when I clean them...I pretty much take every part out...clean it...oil it...I take it pretty seriously.
Not to mention, the last game I played...it was a pretty bad outing :( The field paint (FPO @#%!) they made us use was end of the season crud. I ended up hitting two guys on my own team because the paint curved about 35 degrees shortly after leaving your barrell. Certain guns my friend was using wouldn't even shoot it...it would just break. The general consensus was that the particular brand of paint did not like the cool temperatures we were playing in..far too brittle. The blowbacks were having trouble...probably because of the bolt hitting the ball or the jerkyness of the system...I don't know. The blow forwards seemd to work much better...my friend used my old Pro-Lite and I used my Mag and we had very little breaking after the gun switch. The accuracy was still horrible though.
I got like 2-3 kills the whole day...and in the last game...my mask fogged up so bad that all I could do was hide behind a tree and hope the rest of my team won. Well, that didn't happen...and I got beaned from what felt like 4 feet away 3 times in the chest. The guy kept shooting me because my mask was fogged so bad I couldn't find my barrell plug to put in the barrel to surrender.
Needless to say...I have new thermal lenses now.
One other point worth mentioning is that one kid in particular showed up and apparently has no remorse whatsoever about wiping. I had this kid pinned down in a bunker...every time he popped up...I nailed him with 1-3 shots. Each time...he disappeared into the bunker...came out 20 seconds later and started firing again. This kept going on and the refs were too far away for me to call for a paint check. Finally, I just went to a different position because it was a waste of paint. I saw the kid after the game and he was wearing a gray sweatshirt that was covered in wiped paint. It wasn't too hard to figure out that he was wiping...smeared paint all over everything. And the thing that really made me mad was he was talking trash about how great he is that he hasn't been "called out" yet. Little jerk. :mad:
Sorry about the long, pointless story...just bored and waiting for March... :cry: :( :cry:
Being located in the North...and not really having any affordable indoor options in the general area...December through February is really my "paintball offseason".
Anybody else in the Northern regions waiting around for the weather to warm up...the fields to open back up...etc...?
I didn't really miss it until this month. I usually need a couple months to take a break from it anyways. If it's a year where I play often, like last year, I really start to get burnt out by the end of the season.
Actually...that's probably not accurate...if I had the money, time, and a place to play in the winter...I'd probably play all the time. I think the reason I got burnt out this last season was in the time between playing, I was doing a ton of work on my guns...I did alot of upgrades/repairs and also I often lent my guns to friends to use so I cleaned alot of guns...and when I clean them...I pretty much take every part out...clean it...oil it...I take it pretty seriously.
Not to mention, the last game I played...it was a pretty bad outing :( The field paint (FPO @#%!) they made us use was end of the season crud. I ended up hitting two guys on my own team because the paint curved about 35 degrees shortly after leaving your barrell. Certain guns my friend was using wouldn't even shoot it...it would just break. The general consensus was that the particular brand of paint did not like the cool temperatures we were playing in..far too brittle. The blowbacks were having trouble...probably because of the bolt hitting the ball or the jerkyness of the system...I don't know. The blow forwards seemd to work much better...my friend used my old Pro-Lite and I used my Mag and we had very little breaking after the gun switch. The accuracy was still horrible though.
I got like 2-3 kills the whole day...and in the last game...my mask fogged up so bad that all I could do was hide behind a tree and hope the rest of my team won. Well, that didn't happen...and I got beaned from what felt like 4 feet away 3 times in the chest. The guy kept shooting me because my mask was fogged so bad I couldn't find my barrell plug to put in the barrel to surrender.
Needless to say...I have new thermal lenses now.
One other point worth mentioning is that one kid in particular showed up and apparently has no remorse whatsoever about wiping. I had this kid pinned down in a bunker...every time he popped up...I nailed him with 1-3 shots. Each time...he disappeared into the bunker...came out 20 seconds later and started firing again. This kept going on and the refs were too far away for me to call for a paint check. Finally, I just went to a different position because it was a waste of paint. I saw the kid after the game and he was wearing a gray sweatshirt that was covered in wiped paint. It wasn't too hard to figure out that he was wiping...smeared paint all over everything. And the thing that really made me mad was he was talking trash about how great he is that he hasn't been "called out" yet. Little jerk. :mad:
Sorry about the long, pointless story...just bored and waiting for March... :cry: :( :cry: