What do you think the gun says about the player?

[FooTemps]

I think what Miscue said was the best. If it looks like it's been used and abused he probably plays a hell of a lot more than most people.

[CoFFeY[NiTrO]]

If you can afford a gun that can shoot 20 BPS or one that can shoot 7 BPS.

[MantisMag]

it's real easy to tell who the true newbies are at top gun. top gun rents out camo coveralls. they're real puffy and goofy looking. you see someone wearing those you know they're rentals and probably are VERY new.

as for the guns. i don't think you can ever really tell. all the gun tells you is what rof they MIGHT be capable of doing.

[Rrok]

The Marker Usually Doesn't Have Much To Do With The Player's Capabilities.

I think the most accurate way you gun judge a persons playing ablities without seeing them play firsthand is by the appearance of their pack. If it's ripped, dirty and really old they've probably been around for a while (Generally meaning they know what they are doing). And vice-versa.

Rrok

[Snooky]

The field i goto everyone respects my mag and my playing ability. I wear a JT olive jersey, JT pants, Cleats, flex-7 IZE green mask, Redz 4v pack, and sometimes a hat. So the newbs really gauk at me when i show up. I dont hate n00bs and i actually try to help them out. I remeber how much it sucked having a spyder and it blending paint.

[Kaiser Bob]

I notice if you walk into a pro shop with your gun, depending on what it is the reception by the guys working and hanging out there will be different. I've gone into pro shops with a prolite, a mostly stock cocker, a mostly stock mag and a shocker. Now the more high end the gun was, the more i was treated like a 'player' and not a 'customer'. Anyone else notice this?

[Predater]

i get ragged all the time

people at my field always joke about my gun(old automagrt). when i started playing with them i got ragged hard but when they saw me play i still get ragged but its all in fun now. i have a rof to compete with the best of them and i dont chop. i get tired of the newbees with angels thow that bash my mag. a 13 year old kid that gets dropped of evry sunday with a hundred dollars and his new angel that mouths my gun? that just bugs me. not so much the mouthing but the fact he has no clew whats going on but he is shooting his own angel. it is his cuz ive asked the field owner. the mouthing bugs me to

[Top Secret]

Yeah, I noticed as I went to the field supply shop, I get a bunch of "WOW" and "That's sweet" when I bring out my E-Mag Chrome/Red Warp and hopper combo. You get treated different. I kinda like it myself.

[Aranarth]

Footemps: Sounds like a class four then, no? I don't have any problems on the fields I play on. Use my trusty shutter, but its upgraded to the point that it doesn't look like one. This yields the newbs always saying 'wow, great gun' and me saying 'its not bad for a spyder'. And the vets look and see the good stuff and don't rag on it. They are the ones that have been there and seen me play enough to know that I can make up for most of the spyders deficiencies, also. Should be nice to see what kind of reaction I get when I finally pick up my mag. Then I can say 'yep, its an excellent gun'. We only have 2 mags that ever show up here, and both are mini's.
-AranarthX

[kenshinkandon]

I tend to watch out for the people with the beat up guns cause they have something that they like and it works for them so they know how to play the game well.

The field I frequent the owner plays whenever he feels like it and he uses a 97 autococker and he is GOOD. I think he is playing with Lockout this year. It doesn't matter what gun you give him he'll still kick butt. We harassed him one day to use a pump, didn't matter infact he liked so much he still plays with it just to show that, it isn't the gun it's the player.

[Dr.StockClass]

I love the sideways looks and whisperings of "look hes got a pump". Even better is walking off the field as last man standing after taking out the cocker 1 on 1. I got bored with semi "hunkerball", not to mention pump/stock play is MUCH lighter on the wallet. Anyway, thought this would be appropriate for the topic.

[mykroft]

Well, there are a few generalizations you can make without trouble.

The guy with the stock probably doesn't play much speedball, and the guy in camo probably plays a lot of bushball. The guy shooting the Shocker with a 45/88 and a 16" AA is probably a back player, ditto, the guy with the 45/45, 8" drop, Bushy and 10" barrel probably plays front. They guy with the funny looking gun has probably been playing forever, ditto the guy with the beat up PGP or P-68, and the kid with the Stingray is either new or poor.

It's really just looking at the gear and seeing what type of play it's best used for, not assuming the guy with the Spyder TL is worse or less experienced than the guy with the angel, he may just be poorer or stupidly good with the spyder.

I know a guy, damned good player, loaded, and he plays with a Spyder SE, 16" AA, ELCD and Warp. It's stupidly fast and incredibly consistent, why would he buy an Angel, which doesn't do anything for him except cost more?

I notice that experienced players tend to give my old AutoMag more respect when they see the wonky homemade ring trigger on it, despite it being pretymuch stock otherwise. I suspect it's due to the realization that anybody who has such a mod probably needs it.

[covadsucks]

You guys have all been true to the letter...aside from one thing...the tourney player who shows up to play "slag the newbies" with his latest Angel and wipes when a newbie blasts his cheating butt with a piranha rental. Let's not forget about him/her/them.