MI AO Halloween Weekend

[Aslan]

Halo Weekend

Hey, so there may be some other fellow Mag Owners at Hells Survivor Halloween weekend? That would be great! Myself, Fiance, and a couple friends and family memebers (most are Mag owners) are probably going to be heading out that Saturday. Get one more game in while the weather is not too cold.

Hope to see some of you there.

Well, I made it out...did anyone else?

I ran into two people from AO just before the final game...I was meaning to introduce myself before they left but I got busy messing around with my equipment after the game and by the time I got everything straight they had left...oh well, next time eh!?

I think I saw one person with a Mag in the morning besides myself...but Hell Survivors has always been about 85-95% Tippmann.

Having no advanced class changed things a little bit. More people. A TON of electric hoppers. But the one thing that really annoyed me was me and my buddy noticed alot more problems with people wiping. When we used to play there general class, I didn't see it very often...lots of newbs...people just out ot have a good time. But this last time...it was rediculous. There was one kid in particular that I shot...he disappeared behind a hill for 20 seconds...popped back out...I hit him again...he popped back down...25 seconds later...he's popping back up. I know I hit his hopper...I watched it break...both times. That's just not right. It's one thing if he doesn't realize it...I've gotten hopper hits and not known it many times...but he knew it. His sweatshirt was covered in smeared paint...but there's no way he took 300 body shots...so the paint must have gotten there somehow...that's too bad that people gotta cheat like that. I finally called for a paint check and the ref went over there...but the ref took his time and by the time he got there the kid musta been wiped clean...then the kid moved somewhere else, probably to get out of the ref's direct view.

The day wasn't great from the beginning. There were long lines to register. I got there an hour early, missed the first game standing in line. They also advertised that they would have prizes including cases of paint. The website made it sound like every game there would be some "pumpkins" you could grab that you could win a prize with. But that wasn't the case...the prizes were only out during one game...in the morning session...and all I saw anyone win was a snack sized bag of potato chips. But the worst thing was...the PAINT. If a field is going to be field paint only...they should choose a paint that isn't completely garbage in cold weather. In the morning session it looked like that battle of paintball fragments. 2/3 of the balls I shot broke in the barrel or when the bolt hit them. It was INSANE. I wasn't the only guy...people were yelling for squeegees and a few people got their money back and left. Not only that, but the paint my friends and i bought...NUMEROUS flat spots and dimples! If I had to rate this paint...I'd say it was slightly better than Winchester...slightly worse tha Brass Eagle. That's not the case in the summer...that paint flies very well in the summer...but not in the winter...it's just too brittle.

So...Hell Survivor's...if you are listening...if you are going to advertise that you give away prizes...come on...snack size bags of potato chips!!??? And if you are going to make people buy your overpriced paint...make it a paint that's usuable in 45-55 degree weather!! And if you're going to sell off your old paint stock at the end of the year...how bout charging less for it and/or allowing people to BYOP so they don't have to use dimpled, oblong garbage.

Gotta go...gotta go clean my guns...they are a disaster thanks to HS!!

[Aslan]

One more thing

I finally go to use my Mag!!

I used the Raptor in the morning...I needed to test it after I did some work on it...but it was chopping paint so badly I had to switch after a few games. I got out the Mag with Level 10...worked GREAT!!

I did have a couple chrono and efficiency issues that I'll save for the Tech session and I'll save for after I clean the gun and take a look at a couple things...but other than that...WOW...Mags are awesome!! I used a different barrel every game (I have alot of barrels) and all of them shot amazingly accurate. I actually wanted to test out another barrel...but ran out of nubbins and ball detents and didn't have time between games to take the nubbbins off and switch them.

The Level 10 chopped once...even though the paint was garbage...and that was probably just a bad ball.

[Loco_AEXY]

Hey Aslan,

It beleive it was me and my fiance that you ran into at the start of the last game. (at least I only saw one other person using a mag in the afternoon beside myself and the 2 people I came with). I had the TAC One and she ahd the Purple RT Custom.

I would have to agree with you on the paint. We had 2 cases: one left over from the monster game that had been in my basement, and one we bought there. The one from the monster game w had no problems with. Not a single break/chop anything. But once we started dipping into the case we bought this weekend, things turned ugly. I was lucky and only had one barrel break, but my buddy who was using his newly assembled Karta was having so many barrel breaks in his SP All american (I am pretty sure that was the barrel) took off the tip at one point and just used the back to make it easier to clean! Amazingly the breech was spotless afterwards so no chops. Level 10 did its job!

I also noticed a bit more wiping than usual there which is dissapointing. I would almost rather go back to playing general class with my classic and CO2 and play with a bunch of people who are there just to have fun. Oh well.

But overall the weather was Great, my TAC ONE performed flawlessly, and so in the end I can't complain too much. Not going to get too many more weekends like that before the snow hits!