Overshooting?
Greetings all.
I spent a pleasant afternoon of rec-ball today at paintball feild in Forney Texas. Aside from a few gun problems, my day was only troubled by one incident.
During the first half of my day my minimag was experiencing a large amount of ball breaks (in the barrel, not chops) due to what I assume was the low temp (about 40 deg.) and a poor size match. After having to stop to clean my barrel for about the umpteenth time I decided to swap to the Rainmaker. (oddly enough I fired about 700 rounds through it after that with out a single break...but that's a different story)
The next scenario involved the defense of a large fort made from landscaping timbers in the middle of a wooded field. Said fort was dominated by a pair of 15 foot towers giving an excellent field of fire onto the aproaches to the fort. I chose the tower overlooking a dirt path that led to one of the fort's gates and settled into overwatch positions with a fellow 'mag owner. (for the life of me I can't recall this fellow's name, but he was a hell of a nice guy and I hope to play at his side again.) To make a long story short the next 15 minutes involved one of the most intense firefights I have experienced at that field and left 6 of my 100 round pods and my empty N2 tank rolling around on the floor of the tower.
However before I ran the Rainmaker dry (and had to continue the fight with my PT) two opposing players made a break for the fort's gate. I had been under cover topping off my Revvy when they made their bid. Noticing them when they were perhaps 40 feet from the base of the tower I shouted the larm to my partner and we both engaged them. Now, I'm not the best at snap shooting fast moving targets and they were within seconds of winning the game by entering the fort. Therefore I worked the trigger as fast as I could (Forney does not allow full auto fire, so I was on semi) and simply swept over them twice as if firing a sub machinegun. They continued to run for about two seconds before they both called themselves out.
Then both complained that they had been over shot. One player shouted that he had been hit about six times. I was dubious of this at first but then noticed that he had three of my hits on him and my partner (who was using a different color) had hit him as well. The other eliminated player was in similar condition. Nothing much was said after that and the incident was not commented upon by feild staff. However after the game I aproached one of the victims and apologized. He replied that it was simply "one of those things" and was "no big deal, really". We parted on good terms and with a handshake.
It's not weighing on my mind too much, but I wanted to gather opinions. Which of the following applies?
1>I'm a scummy over shotter with poor trigger control.
2>It was an unfortunate accident that was more or less unavoidable due to the circumstances.
3>Both my targets and I were victims of today's high rate of fire guns and play style.
What do you think?
Opinions eagerly awaited.
"Trench Raider"
RMOG AO BEOG
I spent a pleasant afternoon of rec-ball today at paintball feild in Forney Texas. Aside from a few gun problems, my day was only troubled by one incident.
During the first half of my day my minimag was experiencing a large amount of ball breaks (in the barrel, not chops) due to what I assume was the low temp (about 40 deg.) and a poor size match. After having to stop to clean my barrel for about the umpteenth time I decided to swap to the Rainmaker. (oddly enough I fired about 700 rounds through it after that with out a single break...but that's a different story)
The next scenario involved the defense of a large fort made from landscaping timbers in the middle of a wooded field. Said fort was dominated by a pair of 15 foot towers giving an excellent field of fire onto the aproaches to the fort. I chose the tower overlooking a dirt path that led to one of the fort's gates and settled into overwatch positions with a fellow 'mag owner. (for the life of me I can't recall this fellow's name, but he was a hell of a nice guy and I hope to play at his side again.) To make a long story short the next 15 minutes involved one of the most intense firefights I have experienced at that field and left 6 of my 100 round pods and my empty N2 tank rolling around on the floor of the tower.
However before I ran the Rainmaker dry (and had to continue the fight with my PT) two opposing players made a break for the fort's gate. I had been under cover topping off my Revvy when they made their bid. Noticing them when they were perhaps 40 feet from the base of the tower I shouted the larm to my partner and we both engaged them. Now, I'm not the best at snap shooting fast moving targets and they were within seconds of winning the game by entering the fort. Therefore I worked the trigger as fast as I could (Forney does not allow full auto fire, so I was on semi) and simply swept over them twice as if firing a sub machinegun. They continued to run for about two seconds before they both called themselves out.
Then both complained that they had been over shot. One player shouted that he had been hit about six times. I was dubious of this at first but then noticed that he had three of my hits on him and my partner (who was using a different color) had hit him as well. The other eliminated player was in similar condition. Nothing much was said after that and the incident was not commented upon by feild staff. However after the game I aproached one of the victims and apologized. He replied that it was simply "one of those things" and was "no big deal, really". We parted on good terms and with a handshake.
It's not weighing on my mind too much, but I wanted to gather opinions. Which of the following applies?
1>I'm a scummy over shotter with poor trigger control.
2>It was an unfortunate accident that was more or less unavoidable due to the circumstances.
3>Both my targets and I were victims of today's high rate of fire guns and play style.
What do you think?
Opinions eagerly awaited.
"Trench Raider"
RMOG AO BEOG
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