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  • Benfica4ever
    Registered User
    • Nov 2002
    • 1583

    #1

    How did You get into paintball?

    And what gun did you start with.I got started because a freind of mine had a spyder compact and i got trigger happy. So then i was hooked. I started out with a sting ray.



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  • Jonesie
    All Around Good Guy
    • Oct 2002
    • 1123

    #2
    I had a friend of mine take to an indoor place on their closing weekend. Field fee was free, CO2 was free, and it was BYOP. That was about 7 years ago. I bought his Tippmann SL68-II pump and had it until this past Christmas, until I sold it. We were shooting Sprots Authority Brass Eagle paint. Man, that sutff sucks!

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    • Will Wood
      Evil Monkey
      • May 2002
      • 3475

      #3
      Me and a freind found some paintballs in my backyard. Talked to my dad about it, he found out our cousins had played before. They were coming down soon. We went online, ordered markers for each of us (Dad, brother, and myself). That order got messed up, so we went to wallmart and bought the BE stuff. Year later, I have a tippmann 98C. 2 Years later, I have a Automag. Year later, I have a Angel.

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      • bunkermaster10
        Registered User
        • Dec 2002
        • 1316

        #4
        Hey

        Was walking around the local store ( Power Zone) and saw a few markers for sale and Me and my friend were like we should go paintballing some day. So about a week later I found out that their was a field really close by and got hooked since. I started out with a spyder compact and now I'm shooting a mag.
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        • ReTro Boy
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          • Jan 2002
          • 576

          #5
          My brother-in-law got the whole family hooked. Now we are all poor.

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          • Tack
            Scenario Gamer
            • Jan 2001
            • 476

            #6
            Several of my friends were in to it, playing with BE guns in the woods behind eachother's houses. I was interested so I bought a friend's Talon, and went out at night in a field with several clumps of trees and some old demo dirby cars parked around it. We didn't even have goggles or masks of any type. It was night, so we taped flashlights on our guns. The only flash light I had was a 4cell police kell-light, I could also use it as a short stock, since it stuck off the back of the gun so far. After that I was hooked. About a month later my friends and I piled into one of their cars and decided to check out the only field in our area, we got there and were awed at everything we had been missing. I bought a tippman 98, and got a membership to the field. That was about 6 years ago. Been playing as much as I can ever since. Now I have a E-Mag, Warped Retro-Mag, C&C Angel, and an assortment of other guns.
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            • Brak
              POOP
              • Sep 2002
              • 1996

              #7
              last summer my friends and i were all bored, so we decided to play paintball. we had been throwing around the idea for the past few years, but it was too expensive. but we all worked here and there and bought m98s and spyders, went into my friends back yard and played. i first used a borrowed stink-ray, then i bought a m98, and now i have a RT mag, hopefully a viking or angel next.

              hey, your from bridgeport? im from fairfield, i basically live on the line. where do you play?
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              • BobTheCow63
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                • Dec 2002
                • 3832

                #8
                My friend had a couple talons, so I played once or twice with him/those... then the next summer my friend was tryin to get rid of his stingray, bought that from him... TRIED playing with it, it wouldn't even chrono, so my friend's dad basically bought me a joker on the spot right there. Then I got a tippy 98C, friend's dad inherited joker, and because of $$$ (or lack thereof) that's where I'm at right now.
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                • WickeDKlowN
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                  • Jun 2001
                  • 3098

                  #9
                  I had a tigershark(i think, the black BE pump, got it at a pawn shop) back in the day, hehe, that was before i even know people shot eachother with them. I just always saw them at Wal*Mart and thought they looked cool. So then i went online, and saw that people actually played with them. Then i got a Raptor, then a Mag, and now here i am...
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                  • *captain_cox*37
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                    • Apr 2003
                    • 245

                    #10
                    My friends! Some of my friends would always talk about it and me and my other friend would always laugh cause we never understood what they were talking about! We thought it was so technical then!
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                    • Crighton
                      Registered User
                      • Apr 2003
                      • 535

                      #11
                      A long long time ago my friends took me to a field. Played with a PGP. My first gun was a KP3 top of the line back in the day.

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                      • Russ
                        Senior Membrane
                        • Jul 2001
                        • 1935

                        #12
                        I bought 2 spyder TL Plus packages (one for me, one for my kid) 2 years ago. the rest, as they say, is history...

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                        • boggerman
                          Registered User
                          • Aug 2001
                          • 684

                          #13
                          Some of my friends and I used to play at an indoor place using rented splatmasters and then PGP's until that place went under(this was probably 12-13 years ago). Then we stopped playing since there was nowhere else to go. Then around June, 2001, a guy transferred into my department at work who was really into paintball, and he had rental equipment for 10 people. So, I gathered up 9 friends and we went and played up in the mountains in July '01 and by the next time we played in August, I had my first mag. I now have a warped LX Emag, a minimag, a cocker, and a Rebel LE(for a loaner). And I just sold that first mag to a buddy of mine, I let him borrow it one day and he had to have it. He traded the Rebel and $$$ for the mag.

                          Sorry this is kind of long, but you asked!

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                          • PzYcO
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                            • Jan 2003
                            • 1067

                            #14
                            boyscouts :o

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                            • Benfica4ever
                              Registered User
                              • Nov 2002
                              • 1583

                              #15
                              Originally posted by WickeDKlowN
                              Then i got a Raptor, then a Mag, and now here i am...
                              Hey. I had a raptor and then got a mag...



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