Who was your first?

[jrod]

Actually, what was your first?

What was your first paintball marker? The first time I ever played, I used a Crosman 3357 Spotmarker.
http://www.vintagerex.com/pics/gunpics/Crosman/3357%20Spotmarker/3357.jpg

The second time I played, I used a Nelspot 007.
http://www.vintagerex.com/pics/gunpics/Nelson%20Paint%20Company/Nel-Spot/nelspot.jpg
Yeah, I know, I'm that old.

When I finally broke down and bought my own, it was a pair of Splatmasters. My friends and I would play in the local woods.
http://www.vintagerex.com/pics/gunpics/NSG%20-%20National%20Survival%20Games/Splatmaster/splatmaster1.jpg
So, let's hear about yours.

[FreakBaller12]

good ole brass eagle talon. Then me and my dad went out and I got a spyder tl plus. I put a bottomline reg on. That was about 6-8th grade. 8th grade graduation I got an emag, what a brick that puppy was.

[BigEvil]

First time I played was either 1989 or 90 with bolt action nelspots. The game didnt even start because of rain and they shut the field down.

My real official first game was in 1991 with a sheridan short barrel piranha. My first elimination was a head shot. I was hooked.

[TwilightG]

I didn't get started until somewhere around '95 or '96... I used a buddy's Razorback II... or maybe it was the Poison (don't remember the manufacturer).

My first purchased marker was a Tippmann Prolite. I love that marker and still have it today :D

[Dark Side]

1997 with a VM-68. I picked up a Prolite shortly after that.

[Carapace]

Wish I would've kept my first gun... every subsequent gun i've let go past my first one just numbed the blow...

However, I did keep my Second gun... and been falling head over heels since :D

Pic 1 (http://img296.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pdr3494ev0.jpg)
Pic 2 (http://img296.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pdr3495ft2.jpg)


I'll be homeless under a bridge w/ my priceless marker strapped to my *** before i sell her for food :|

Back to the topic at hand though, First gun was a bone stock 05 speed, not much further off the beaten path than my second but i loved them both... Yeah, I was spoiled :|

[187]

Tippmann 98, for my 13th birthday. with a dye stainless steel 12" barrel, back when barrels were the only thing dye made.

[eXo_oUtSiDeR]

Tippmann 98, for my 13th birthday. with a dye stainless steel 12" barrel, back when barrels were the only thing dye made.

dm5 got it for cheap off a neighbor :D
second was an 04 viking before i even knew what vikings were ( got it at a garage sale) and didnt find out it's true capabilites until almost a year later lol :headbang:

WELCOME TO AO 187 ! :cheers:

[esperto96]

Back in 95 my first gun was a PMI Trracer. In 96 a PGP joined the family. The Trracer is gone and the PGP was sold to a brother in law but I missed it so much I bought it back.

[wetwrks]

Splatmaster. Followed shortly by the 3357 spotmarker.

[Dirge]

A blue Splatmaster (90ish) followed by a Blackhawk (93).

[BenoitOWN]

Viewloader genesis surge I bought on a online forum that survived 2games then broked because the last user didnt maintened it and it was all rusty inside and was a noob so didnt check.

Then I bought a Tippmann c98

[Elemental]

Brass Eagle Avenger. I think it may still be in the somewhere around here. I'll have to go digging and see if I can find it.

[Sundown]

first marker I played with was a Tippmann A5.. and first marker I bought was also an A5.

[SSP REAPER]

My first time was with a tippmann SL68II. I still remember saying " i have to pump this thing every time i want to shoot?" Now i have a phantom :headbang: , a ULE pneumag, a micromag, and 2 Tac One's. The first marker I ever bought was a tippmann model 98.

[zondo]

I couldn't tell you what the first marker it was when I first played, but suffice it to say that it was enough to get me to buy my own--I still have it. All ca. 1994-95.


Tippmann Pro/Am
Stock barrel and foregrip
Powerfeed
Smart Parts 14" splash anno'd progressive barrel


<a href=http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/pp198/robzondo/IMG_2820.jpg><img src=http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/pp198/robzondo/IMG_2820.jpg width="600" height="450"></img></a>

Be cool to find an e-trigger and replace the main grip, but it shoots darts anyway.

[kurtisqpublic]

I figured I would list them all in order....
1. Sheridan PGP
2. VM68 (This one started the arms race with my buddies)
3. Minicocker
4. Minimag
5. Custom Autocker (still own)
6. Classic RT
7. Invert Mini

[jrod]

I couldn't tell you what the first marker it was when I first played, but suffice it to say that it was enough to get me to buy my own--I still have it. All ca. 1994-95.


Tippmann Pro/Am
Stock barrel and foregrip
Powerfeed
Smart Parts 14" splash anno'd progressive barrel


<a href=http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/pp198/robzondo/IMG_2820.jpg><img src=http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/pp198/robzondo/IMG_2820.jpg width="600" height="450"></img></a>

Be cool to find an e-trigger and replace the main grip, but it shoots darts anyway.

That is a sweet marker. I'm feeling quite meloncholy, reading about all these old markers.
I'm kicking myself for abusing and losing the markers I've owned in the past.

After my splatmaster, my parents bought me a KP2. I later added the constant air option (remember that term? :) ). Unfortunately, I abused that marker and I don't remember what happened to it.

Soon after, I bought a BE King Cobra. Being the teenager that I was, I abused that also. Again, I don't remember what happened to it.

After that, I bought a Tippmann 68 Special. I got a lot of use out of that beauty. Can you imagine, true semi-auto!!!! The feedneck developed a crack and I sold it to a co-worker for next to nothing.

After that came the Tippmann C98. I still have that, and I'll never get rid of it.

Then came the A5. I loved that marker, but kind of grew out of it (remember the old A5OG - what was that moderators name? - is he still around?).

That's when I finally got my Tac-One. This is still my primary, although I did take a brief departure with a Blazer.

While using the Blazer, I let my son (10 yrs old) use the Tac One. I decided to sell the Blazer and buy the boy (he's 12 now) a Mini. So the Tac One is mine again. I think it will always be my primary.

Lastly, I'm building a ULE Automag with Xvalve and L10. That will be the backup.

[Spider-TW]

That is a sweet marker. I'm feeling quite meloncholy, reading about all these old markers.
I'm kicking myself for abusing and losing the markers I've owned in the past.

My first game was a rental nelspot without a pump handle in 89. I lost enough skin off my knuckle to go buy my own piranha long barrel. I eventually loaned that one to my future brother in law and never saw it again. :mad:

I went through the unibody phantom and F-1 illustrator (still have that one) until I got a mag in 92.

I still have pieces of that mag on three different builds, but I don't miss the phantom or the nelspot. :)

[FreakBaller12]

dm5 got it for cheap off a neighbor :D
second was an 04 viking before i even knew what vikings were ( got it at a garage sale) and didnt find out it's true capabilites until almost a year later lol :headbang:

WELCOME TO AO 187 ! :cheers:
how the F do you find a viking at a garage sale? :confused:

[afortuna]

My first few games were with the old green box loader pistol. I can't remember the name. Each tube in the box held 4 or 5 shots. You had to turn the box after the tube ran out to get the next few shots.

First marker I purchased was a Kingman Hammer. You truly can learn how to play the game better with a pump.

I moved up to the first Kingman Spyder released. I walked on to a semi-pro team with that marker. The all had Auto C ockers. They started the day laughing, but didn't end that way. I was asked how it was possible to to always take out 5 of their top guys on their best 10-man team with only using half a hopper of paint. Goes back to that pump thing.

I eventually brokedown and purchased my friends Automag from him. That was the best marker (IMO) on the market when it came out. Unfortunately, I played one game with it, sodl it, and left paintball.

[Carapace]

My first few games were with the old green box loader pistol. I can't remember the name. Each tube in the box held 4 or 5 shots. You had to turn the box after the tube ran out to get the next few shots.

First marker I purchased was a Kingman Hammer. You truly can learn how to play the game better with a pump.

I moved up to the first Kingman Spyder released. I walked on to a semi-pro team with that marker. The all had Auto C ockers. They started the day laughing, but didn't end that way. I was asked how it was possible to to always take out 5 of their top guys on their best 10-man team with only using half a hopper of paint. Goes back to that pump thing.

I eventually brokedown and purchased my friends Automag from him. That was the best marker (IMO) on the market when it came out. Unfortunately, I played one game with it, sodl it, and left paintball.


Small Deviation from topic, But my feelings are still hurt for you not selling me that 5peed :'(

God you could've wittled me outta some cash there...

[Watcher]

Sorry I can't be more nostalgic, but I played my first game in 2006 with a JT Tac 5. It was an incredile POS... So my first buy was a Tippmann 98 Custom.

1) Tippmann.
2) 32Degrees Delta .68.
3) PMI Piranha STS E-Force. Nice little electro sear tripper I got for $60 and fixed up. (no longer own).
4) PMI Trracer. Love it!
5) SP ION. Traded it without playing a game with it.
6) AGD RT classic I rescued, fixed up, and am loving!
7) AGD RT Pro I got for the ION + change. My current primary.
8) Psycho Ballistics Lightning 'Cocker.
9) On the way is a 2005 WGP Superstock.

And on the "wanted" list is an E-mag and a VSC .45 Phantom. And I always enjoy the oldies and want a Nelspot, PGP, Piranha Long-Barrel, Palmers Typhoon, Tippmann 68 Special, Tippmann F/A, Nova, a classic 'Cocker, a .68 Automag, and probably more...

[wetwrks]

My first few games were with the old green box loader pistol. I can't remember the name. Each tube in the box held 4 or 5 shots. You had to turn the box after the tube ran out to get the next few shots.

Rapide by splatmaster.

[Old School 626]

Brass eagle Jaguar - Oi!

[thegrayghost]

in 89 went with my son and nephew to our first and only game....i believe nelspot 10 shot veticle feed, rental.....then 10 years later was given, Christmas present of my first marker, BE Tiger Shark pump, still have and modified a little...went to a game a found out i was out-classed by semi's....have been playing since 1999, and have been one of the oldest players in Northern Ohio, 65 years old...

markers in order:

1. B E Tger Shark Pump, still have
2. Tippmann 68 Carbine, traded
3. Piranha STS (2) still have
4. old "shoeboxes" (2) still have
5. Classic Automag, still have
6. AKA Viking (unmilled)
7. Kingman Hammer Pump, just got it

thats the arsenal, old, but so am i, lolololol, they all work...a side note, i had a Ule/RT/UMF Automag that was just sweet for a mechanical...i hated to trade it, and see it go, but i got the Viking in trade....could not afford the best of 2 world's....have a nice Christmas and New Years to all.... :cheers:

kenny (thegrayghost)....

[Zone Drifter]

1. BE talon (broke shortly after)
2. BE Samurai (I gave it away, because it made me sick)
3. JT Excellerator 3.0 (Kept it the longest, first good gun)
4. JT Excellerator 4.0 and 3.5 (Sold after repairing them)
5. A-5 with AK-47 mods (Gave to friend who turned it into a SAW)
6. Spyder Xtra 2006 (sold)
7. RT Pro (All stock minus the barrel, chopped alot of paint before I got lvl 10)

I've also owned various other guns, like a Bushmaster PDS, Tiberius T9, 32º Pistol, 98 Autococker, Promaster, about 4 mags built and sold, and I currently have a mech cocker, my RT Pro, a black E-Mag, Classic RT and a eclipse splash mag.

Oh, and I also owned one of those JT tac-5's... I quickly sold it. :ninja:

[Chris]

My first time playing was with a Trracer (pump) and Stingray (semi).

This was back in '93, we later added an autococking kit to the Trracer, which was always problematic.

[halB]

http://www.cheshirefishing.co.uk/images/shop/guns/vulcan.jpg

The vulcan. I went and played in the woods by my house. I got 4 of them, I still have one.

BTW: I would gladly pay 10 bux to buy a samurai if anyone still has one. Now those guns were classy!

[Yudanja]

My first game ever was Christmas 1994 with my Karate group, indoor paintball place and I shot a VM68. For that christmas, Santa brought me a F2 illustrator. Played a while with that and moved to a outdoor field, everyone shot mags. I got a Crown point/power feed mag that came with a VL200 hopper and 12oz C02. I was the man with that mag, I loved it.

I bought a autococker after a break from the game. Dumped tons of money in that and played with that for a while. I recently picked up a classic RT that is giving me troubles and just bought a G3 (well in may).


So, recap.
1. F2 illustrator
2. Mag
3. cocker
4. classic RT
5. G3

[Ninjeff]

man, id love to have one of those Crossmans. So cool!

My first was a Spyder Compact.

[Smoothice]

68 special was my first

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x57/smoothice15/68special.jpg

Bought if off a guy that worked for my dad.

[chafnerjr]

My first time was with a tippmann SL68II. I still remember saying " i have to pump this thing every time i want to shoot?" Now i have a phantom :headbang: , a ULE pneumag, a micromag, and 2 Tac One's. The first marker I ever bought was a tippmann model 98.

I thought your first was a Stingray II at my Stepdad's field? Hell it was the first one I ever played on.
http://www.newpaintball.com/images/stingray2.jpg

The first one I purchased (and still have in functioning order) was a Tippmann 68 Carbine w/ an 18" Dye (pre-boomstick)

[michbich]

Spyder compact 2000 was my first. Bought it even before playing for the first time.

[Outlaw5]

First Played: Splatmaster
Second Played and played for a year: Pump 007 Nelspot
First owned marker: Brass Eagle - King Cobra....wish I still had that thing
Second Marker: Tippmann Sl-68 (back then there was no I or II yet)....still have this and all the rest.

Outlaw5 :D

[Will Wood]

Stingray II
Spyder
Tippmann 98C
Automag Classic
Various modifications to it throughout years
RT Pro
Angel
E-Mag

[GRimm]

My first gun was a jt tac 5 recon (it sucks so bad, although I did very well with it). My list of guns so far is:

1. Jt Tac-5
2. Tippmann a-5
3. PMI Trracer (havent played a game with it yet because of a valve issue i had)
4. SP Ion (bought it but i never used it in game and I want to sell it because of the next gun I bought)
5. AGD E-Mag (I love it to death, and I will continuely rub it in Watchers face untill he finally gets one :D )

Wanted list:

1. SFL E-Mag ( :rolleyes: I wish...)
2. X-Mag
3. 45 VSC Phantom
4. tippmann pistol/tiberius 8 (it depends on the final design of the tippmann pistol)
5. 68 automag/minimag

[bryceeden]

Mine was a Talon

[StygShore]

p-68 stok class pump
F-1 Illustrator

that was in 1990... somewheres about 100 guns in between now and then.

Styg

[Chrishew09]

back around 96 or 97, a marker call the "black knight" or something like that. all i remember is the name, don't know who made it. paid $120 for it with a tank and hopper, bought it during a snow storm to beat my friends that all had talon's it was a semi, i was like 16.
after that way my tippman 68 carbine which i still have.

[Konigballer]

I remember the Black Knight! Ugh.. ;)

My first gun was a Tippmann Prolite, circa 95-96, as solid and trusty as you could ever get. However, this was in the days when mags and cockers still ruled the fields, and the older guys toting them, clad in tigerstripe, were to be greatly feared... :ninja:

[Ruler_Mark]

M3 black dragun

[tbaggin]

my first were 2 guns my buddy let me use. a sweet Mini mag and a RF cocker.

That mini mag is what got me hooked on mags.

[Bagheera]

I got this in 1992;

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75/roguesniper383/IMAGE_342.jpg

Super accurate, but finicky as hell, I could never make it through a full game without something going wrong with a gun, so I got really good with pumps, until I picked up this baby in 1992 as well;

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75/roguesniper383/IMAGE_310.jpg

Which I still own, but is now seeing service as the Park-52 Mag MkII.

[rawbutter]

My first time was in '96. I was sixteen, and I went to a cheap, local field with a bunch of swim team buddies. They rented out PMI Trracer pumps, and the masks fogged like crazy, but I liked it enough to buy a Spyder SE a few years later. I knew enough to want an Automag, but at that time, the Spyder was almost $300. :wow: There was no way I could dish out the $500 I needed for an Automag.

Then, I graduated college, got a real job, and discovered that I could buy a used mag for about $100. I bought one, sold the Spyder to a friend for $50, and have never looked back.

[RavishingEddie]

1999 my friend from high school invited me. I bought a SL 68 II. Shot like crap but reliable as hell.

[NoLifeLeft]

My first was a Spyder TL+ that I bought to go play the first time. Shortly followed by my first Black Magic cocker. Many other since then. Many more to come. :headbang:

[afortuna]

I remember the Black Knight! Ugh.. ;)

My first gun was a Tippmann Prolite, circa 95-96, as solid and trusty as you could ever get. However, this was in the days when mags and cockers still ruled the fields, and the older guys toting them, clad in tigerstripe, were to be greatly feared... :ninja:

My brother and I were on a trip back to Central California from Long Beach, CA when we stopped at a field that was just south of Magic Mountain on I-5. I always carried my marker in the car (original Spyder with ceramic barrel). We saw about 7 or 8 guys all dressed in tiger camo and carrying AC's and Mags. Those were the best guns on the market at that time. I asked one of them what team they were on and was told they weren't a team.

I proceeded to take 3 of the 8 out in the ensuing game. They wiped like window cleaners. I was so mad at the field refs for letting them get away with it right in front of them. After the game was over, I advised the field owner I wouldn't be playing with cheats on his field any longer and we were leaving. One of the guys came up to me and asked if my brother (who they shot out from behind cover just as the ref said go) and I would join their team!

What a bunch of losers. The opposition they were facing that day prior to us arriving: 10 and 11 year old kids on a birthday party. I think our game was the 8 of them versus 15 or so of us (myself, brother, and kids). I can't stand cheaters.

[turbo chicken]

Talon (used for better part of a year painted then gave away)
Tigershark(kept up until this year... gettin another this weekend :D)
Stingray (sold)
Spyder (kept for several years sold to a friend... want to get it back is currently in storage :cry: )
Mag had several... sold several over and over again...
Line SI bushmaster
PGP
Sniper
Phantom

[Looper]

My first purchase and use was a mail order marker I got back in 1989 while in college. A bunch of us would play outlaw at night around the campus. They where buying the plastic splat masters but I thought that metal was a superior material so I opted for the more expensive Nel-Splat 007 with the extended barrel tip and pump handle. Still have it and looks just like the day I bought it. I can remember buying 10 round tubes of paint for 10-20 cents a ball... Ah, those where the days.

Once I left college I never really played again for about 10 years... until a co worker let me use his spyder; that spurred me to buy a Tippy A5 and then I got my AGD Tac One and have since turned into a Automag Whore... I just sold the Tippy last month.

:shooting:

[skyless]

First day of paintball i used a sling shot against several spatmasters and there was one semi think it was around 93.
When all my friends got semis i got to use a handme down splatmaster. Stop playing for a while even though i really wanted to get my own marker. First self owned marker was a tippmann a5, then i got a sydarm that i wore as a backup, i remember one day being the last one man left surrounded by 4 opponents dual wielding untill i ran out of ammo, last ball got the last guy, I win. The sydarm enabled me to find AO from there i build my first mag:
xvalve, chimera, qloader, which i parted to create my current mag: the hypermagit, 13bps hyperframe w/microswitch, alpha rail, xvalve ult, dw grip &barrel ,IT body. Building another mag now.

[The Action Figure]

Gt 2000 made by paintball inc... supposedly the first vertical powerfeed paintball gun

http://cdn-www.pbreview.com/pics/GT2000.jpg

[skife]

1st gun was an ACI F4 illistrator. & a PGP
2nd PMI piranha
3rd Tippmann 98(before there was a custom)
4th my first mag, classic mag, giant drop forward on it. later an r/t valve
5th traded the mag for a bushmaster BKO
6th sold the BKO, threw some money with it, bought a brand new '03 cocker, dust blue in color
7th cocker left, a year or so later i bought a classic timmy with clamshell
8th traded the clammy'd timmy for an E-Cocker, (i miss this gun alot.
9th sold off the e-cocker to do something, i forget what. then i bought a classic mag that i put a intelli frame on it.


also in there somewhere is a:
targa (classic spyder clone)
Black Maxx
Tigershark
a cocker wich i pieced together from people's used parts.
and a whole slew of parts.

[2BAD4U$$]

My first was a brass eagle raptor it had a custom double finger trigger( which means the person who had it b4 me cut the trigger guard off lol) with a cp 12". i think the barrel costed more then the gun. cause i bought the gun from the owner of the paintball store i worked at for like 55 dollars. hahaha then came the 99' cocker

[xero28]

I don't remember what my first was. Some pump at an indoor. It was around '92/'93, maybe a tippman? My first gun owned was a Stingray. My brother got two for his birthday, but we only had one mask. So two people took the guns and another person wore the mask and had to make it across my back yard without getting hit. I don't know why anyone agreed to it, but everyone wore the mask, and most everyone got pounded. :tard:

Since then:

Sypder compact
Tippman Pro-lite
68 AutoMag Classic, NIB in '95, which has since evolved into a Y-Framed MicroMag RT, I still have the original rail, body and trigger frame, but none of them look like they did when purchased.

[paint magnet]

Tippmann 98 Custom in 2001. I have owned over 30 markers since then, and currently have:

.68 AutoMag
CenterFire MiniMag with AutoResponse frame
ICD Promaster
Nelspot 007 w/ battle grips
A Spyder, back when they were just plain "Spyders"