Mostpeople does it again :(

[flyingpootang]

Monkey see, Monkey do

Kruger got it right. Being a huge Xmag fan I would know it wasn't a safety issue, but would have just verbally beaten ya up a little to make sure no else tried it. New players have no idea what makes a marker safe to dry fire thats why they gave you the boot. Overkill? yes, but the owners are trying not to get sued. Try Looking at it from the other side of the fence. I'd say give the field another shot....

[ElPanda]

their field their rules, cry harder, harsh if it was a first offense IMO but when you start your own field then you'll realise why owners are so cautious about any person treating a marker out of the ordinary even if they consider it within reason.

[pk5]

Sorry....dude...but when i am at a field, the last thing i want to worry about is some kid with a spyder or ion dry firing--- well dry or not who know...but when you hear noise, you can't tell the different...so it's better to be safe than sorry.

[drg]

I would say it also matters how many times you fired it. If you were sitting there walking the trigger and ripping off strings, then that's more likely to get you booted on first offense. Still, a warning would probably have been better.

[punkncat]

One of our local fields has a rule about dry firing, but it actually has more to do with air usage than anything else. He brings bulk tanks and for a while had a big problem with people just standing around and firing markers running the tanks down.
As a result he will warn one time, and then will charge you an additional air fee. In some cases has even asked people to leave.

[paullus99]

"No dry-firing in the parking lot or staging area" - I don't know how many times I've literally have had to scream at people to keep them from firing their markers in the staging areas.

Now, you may be a responsibly paintballer, but there are plenty of people out there who aren't. Regardless of the assembled state of the marker, it is 99.9% prohibited that you should fire a marker in an area where people do not have masks on (the other .1 % seriously discourage it).

If you need to tune your marker, do it at the chrono or behind the nets. Again, you may be a responsibly baller, but field owners can't take the chance.

[J_Kizzy]

I was once asked to leave a field for dryfiring. Then I did a backflip and everyone was like "woah." Needless to say the owner offered to give me the field.

[mostpeople]

I was once asked to leave a field for dryfiring. Then I did a backflip and everyone was like "woah." Needless to say the owner offered to give me the field.

Then you woke up and your boyfriend told you it was all a dream..

[belligerentruth]

my 2 cents

Gonna have to throw in my two cents with the dissenters. Fields can't and shouldn't be responsible for which guns can be fired under which circumstances by whom... for safety and insurance purposes it's just a safer and better idea to have a blanket policy that applies to everyone; and, a 0 tolerance policy when it comes to safety is the way to go.

I think you should have been thrown out - next time follow the rules.

[ThePixelGuru]

Getting thrown out is a little over the top, IMO.

I've had refs approach me because I didn't have a sock on my barrel-less Minimag. Once I point out that it's just a shroud, they don't have a problem with it.

[maniacmechanic]

Getting thrown out is a little over the top, IMO.

I've had refs approach me because I didn't have a sock on my barrel-less Minimag. Once I point out that it's just a shroud, they don't have a problem with it.

off topic , but , I once saw a youngster shoot himself in the cheekbone just below the eye with a barrelless spyder , barrel or not he still almost lost his eye

[Chaos_Theory!]

To the person who said they know a person who lost an eye teching a cocker w/o a barrel. How the hell is that even possible? Ive shot tons of guns and i have yet to see one that could even remotly launch a ball fast enough w/o a barrel to do any damage at all. The balls literally just pop out the breech and thats it. Even if it were a fully loaded gun w/o a barrel its noth dangerous.

[insixdays777]

To the person who said they know a person who lost an eye teching a cocker w/o a barrel. How the hell is that even possible? Ive shot tons of guns and i have yet to see one that could even remotly launch a ball fast enough w/o a barrel to do any damage at all. The balls literally just pop out the breech and thats it. Even if it were a fully loaded gun w/o a barrel its noth dangerous.

it does not take much to damage your eye. I am not sure the exact details of what happened. IIRC, he was teching a cocker in the shop and I believe it did not have a barrel. This happened in the late 90's. Guy was the head tech/manager of Georgia Paintball, under the big chicken( for you locals). He lost sight in the eye that he got hit in. I would go hang out in the shop and talk to the guy alot...this was 10 yrs ago...I wonder if he is still around...His name was John.

....sounds like we need to put cockerpunk and his paintbusting on this

[J_Kizzy]

....sounds like we need to put cockerpunk and his paintbusting on this

Yeah, or you could always just use common sense and practice safe marker handling; whichever works.

[brycelarson]

....sounds like we need to put cockerpunk and his paintbusting on this

who wants to volunteer to stand still and hold their eye open?