Homemade field.... inexpensive "ball stopping material"

[FalconGuy016]

Originally posted by bbecker666
you could probably just use regular home window screen, all you would need to do is double layer it, it should hold up just fine and is no where near as expensive as PB screen.

Im pretty sure you could shoot through home window screen very easily. You would have to layer it many times (if a pencil hits that screen wrong it would go through)

[shartley]

Originally posted by FalconGuy016


Im pretty sure you could shoot through home window screen very easily. You would have to layer it many times (if a pencil hits that screen wrong it would go through)

[cky shane]

I would advise heavily against any material that is solid. You want paint to bounce off the material more than break, so I'd got for netting of some sort. Look at Home Depot, they sell it by rolls... not sure on the pricing, though.

[cky shane]

Also, window screens don't stop paintballs... atleast, not the screens on my friend's neighbor's house...

[Rancid Milk]

Yeah, make sure you layer the window screening if you were to use it. My friend had a field and used ththe screen to make a staging area and the paint was going right through it. I'm sure that there is some more heavy-duty stuff that you could use though that would just let your paint bounce off.

[xLoHungWangx]

I used to play at a field behind the middle school near me. We used pallets, tires, garbage cans, old barrels, etc. Anything we could get our hands on. I think I'm going to rebuild that field...good days spent there. It was trashed by some dirt bikers.

[FalconGuy016]

Originally posted by shartley

A paintball going at 250 fps would go right through that stuff. Havent you ever accidentally put your hand through a screen before? Its almost effortless

[magnj]

ok found some tarps on ebay, What would you say is a safe height? Would 8 feet be too low if we were carefull.

[cky shane]

I would use 12 foot. 16 to err on the side of caution.

Ask yourself how many times you've shot while moving the wrong way and the barrel jumped up.