Give me your opinion on this situation.

**udtseal** · 10-11-2001, 05:24 PM

Im sorry but I am going to have to be totally honest here and say that you should not have shot him in the foot like that from 5 feet away!! Not even from 10 feet. If you choose to bunker someone and rush them to surrender, and you get shot, then you took the risk in the first place. You must be doing something wrong. I only rush to surrender someone if I am coming in from the side or back. Never the front. For the risk of getting shot. If I even see the person turning thier gun in my direction after I yell surrender like 5 times at the top of my lungs, I usually jump to the side and fire one at them or the ref has ended the game. But getting back to your question, I do not think you should be mad about getting shot while rushing someone and personally do not think you should have shot that player in the foot at 5 feet. Just my humble opinion.

**Wes_M** · 10-11-2001, 05:27 PM

Well see I decided to shoot him in the foot because I knew it would hurt the most. His back was turned so I didn't want to shoot him in his spine or something like that. I'm not that harsh.

**Wes_M** · 10-11-2001, 05:29 PM

In my last reply, replace it would hurt the most with hurt the LEAST. Sorry for the typo. Bye.

**2000Sabre** · 10-11-2001, 05:41 PM

Sorry but I agree with udtseal. You get that close you should be yelling surrender at the top of your lungs. If he turns his gun on you then you have the right to fire. I have tried to bunker someone only to get shot first before I got close enough. Getting shot just means I need to practice this move more. I personnally would not fire from that range unless the guy refused to surrender. Think of it this way, if it was you who got shot from that range, how would you feel? Foot or not would you like it?

**PAINTBALLA01** · 10-11-2001, 05:50 PM

YOU POOPY HEAD, YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO GIVE NEWBIES A BAD IMPRESSION THEIR FIRST TIME!! ifyou give them a bloody welt the parents see it and freak out. trust me i know it happened to me! then they dont want you to play

**E-Mag man** · 10-11-2001, 05:58 PM

I agree with shooting at him, it may be a hard lesson but he'll learn not to do it next time but I would have aimed for the mask, hopper or shoe instead of the leg.

**gmag** · 10-11-2001, 06:52 PM

What's wrong with shooting someone in the foot? It's better then hittng the kid in the chest or the head from that close. Why take the risk of his mask shattering? If he was a newbie then he probably didn't have the best equipment, so why take the chance? I don't think you should be bunkering a newbie in the first place, but in the heat of battle anything goes.

**DRAGONSLAYER** · 10-11-2001, 07:24 PM

You said you shot him in the foot because he was a "newbie", and a tendency to have an itchy trigger. What if he didn't, you didn't give him a chance. I wouldn't have shot him, called him to surrender. As for getting shot while bunkering, we've all been shot bunkering. Its a chance we take.

**Wes_M** · 10-11-2001, 07:30 PM

Thats why I shot him in the foot because I knew it would'nt hurt as much compared to a spine, behind, or back of the head shot. If you were having as bad luck as I did with the bunkering of idiots that day, you would have shot the kid too. The 3rd time that day that I bunkered, I did yell surrender from about 2 feet and the guy put 3 shots on me. Didn't want to take another chance that large. Besides, the kid had a pair of fat Nikes on, it couldnt have hurt that bad. Even though he did fall over hahahahahahaha. I'll never forget that

P.S.-E-Mag Man's post didn't make much sense.

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**DRAGONSLAYER** · 10-11-2001, 07:33 PM

Sorry Dude, still should not have shot him. You should have already known it would hurt after taking that many shots earlier in the day.

**alf** · 10-11-2001, 09:22 PM

i agree

im a pretty...ummm....flatulent...no...uhhh...flamboyan t player...and the newbies get the special treatment from me...

i dont slam them in front of my friends to say how badly they played...i just yell "SURRENDER...DO IT NOOOOOOWWWW!" when im within arms reach of them...they usually jump out of their shoes...i get the biggest kick out of it...

then after the game, they are pretty happy i didnt pop em that close...

sometimes, its good to play stupid too...let em hit you, when you "pretend" you dont see them...they get a kick out of it...specially the lil kids..."i cant BELIEVE i killed you!!!!!!"...

"good shot lil dude...never EVEN saw you there!!"

they will keep comin back...THEN you can pop em close!! :)

**gmag** · 10-11-2001, 09:47 PM

Dragonslayer......

Paintball hurts. It's gonna hurt whether you're a newbie or not. Why should Wes risk his own body opposing someone with a 'nervous trigger finger'? Thats part of paintball. If you don't expect to get shot than don't play.

**Muzikman** · 10-11-2001, 10:19 PM

The field I play at (3 Rivers Paintball - Home of IAO) has a 10 foot rule during rec games. I think it is a great rule. You CAN NOT bunker someone. No matter what, you have to be 10 feet away. If you can get someone to surender at 10 then so be it..but you can not run up on someone and get them to surrender if you are with in 10 feet. Bunkering has no place in rec games. If you want to bunker people, then start a team and play tournies.

**MajorDamage** · 10-11-2001, 10:20 PM

Dude, I say that was fine. I wouldnt even yell surrender though, because that just lets them know you are coming, and I know I personally wouldnt ever surrender, so it dosnt seem to make much sence. I kno maybe newbies will, so maybe on a newbie Id yell surrender, but I don't KNOW if I would. And shoting him in the foot was fine, I mean he has a shoe on!

ENDO!