Tearin' it up with a Mag!!!

[SkinnyHare]

Some more "recent" pics...

RT, double benchmark frame, 14" Infinity barrel


RT, Z grip, 8" Minimag barrel


RT Z grip, 8" Minimag barrel



edit: Well Mr. PhD. student, being so eager to jump on me for being stupid, unsafe, and a bad example to all unenlightened individuals everywhere... I suppose you failed to consider that maybe the MOUT house was still 20 minutes away from being cleared hot by our Observer/Controllers and it would be nearly half an hour before we radioed for them to send any Cadets through to engage us. Not only that, but the only cadre with paint in the MOUT house at the time was me, because I brought my own. The rest of the department had their paint still in boxes, sitting in that room off to the left. After being cleared hot, everyone inside the MOUT area puts their masks on and they stay on until it goes cold, or you physically exit the area by going over the dirt berms.

Please consider the fact that you are not the only one thinking about "monkey see monkey do" safety issues. I personally don't feel that this picture crosses the line. However, if a moderator disagrees and feels this picture is in bad taste, I will gladly remove the photo.

edit 2: I am well aware of field rules and procedures for public/recreational play. However, this is not a public or recreational area and the way things work here are different. This is a county owned facility for LE training and they are kind enough to occasionally loan it out to the local ROTC department.

[Loneassassin]

Wow, I'm seeing some awesome looking fields as well...

Thanks for all of your contributions to this thread.

[leloup]

Sweet photo. Photographer in mid game? That would be fun.

[georgeyew]

Wow Skinny,

Is that you in the picture? That is a scary looking mask. The sides of your face is completely exposed!! But that picture is really cool.

[Flatliner333]

That looks like an old JT wipper snapper.

[SkinnyHare]

To the last couple posts yes and yes.

I used to wear it a lot several years ago. I have never been shot in the face or the ears while wearing it. The irony is that the only time I've ever been shot in the ear... I was wearing a full JT Spectra mask. My teammate shot me from behind, about 6" away. I would have put that picture in the "worst paintball bruise thread" but I never got a photo of it.

[psychowarden]

Here are a couple from a few years ago with my X-Mag

[elgalloblanco]

I love it. Feel the POWER! Mags Rock! Bet Me!

best. quote. ever.

[hunter100]

You shouldn't post pictures of yourself being unsafe and stupid. The last thing you want is some young kid thinking its OK to take his mask off during a game because he looked at your pictures on the internet. You should take this picture down.

[chafnerjr]

[chafnerjr]

[pyrodragon]

before the game, yes that is a scuba tank hooked straight up to my x valve. do not and i mean DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME.



somehow mange to shoot the gunner of the tank from here:

[cyberave68]

You shouldn't post pictures of yourself being unsafe and stupid. The last thing you want is some young kid thinking its OK to take his mask off during a game because he looked at your pictures on the internet. You should take this picture down.

And for this you reposted the pic? now its on here twice. If you really felt the need to say something like that you could have PM'd him about it in private. You dont even know if he is actually in a safe zone or not...

[CatoRockwell]

He's probably not on the field. Look at the scuba sitting right there. Also has a barrel condom on. Probably just in the deadzone.

[SkinnyHare]

And for this you reposted the pic? now its on here twice. If you really felt the need to say something like that you could have PM'd him about it in private. You dont even know if he is actually in a safe zone or not...

In fairness to him, I hadn't yet put up the text below the pictures explaining it. He didn't realize this was part of a training exercise for 60 or so cadets and not a "game," per se. There are far more safety measures put into place than what you see at most paintball fields, even though the traditional "on the field," "off the field," "dead zone," or "safe" locations do not work the way we think of them in recreational play.

I trust the safety of my eyeballs far more in that MOUT house than I do at some established fields I've been to.

However, I was quite irritated to see that in the few posts he's made since '03, the latest is his condescending rush to jump down my throat "for being stupid" instead of just thinking about what might actually be going on in the picture for a minute. I guess he just really wanted that 60th post.