Tombstone field in LA has banned rt's on mags and A-5's

[wallace9111]

He was definetly talking about a tippman

[EnderWigginPballin]

the reason we have problems like this is because people aren't educated enough. If you look around at the online paintball community, you'll see that 90% of us have a decent amount of technical knowledge about markers. Most of the people who post online often at least recognize that cockers don't shoot farther/more accurately, there is no actual "best" gun, etc...

The stupid myths that we know aren't true are still believed by probably the majority of the paintball commnity. I hear the REFS at my field still say that cockers shoot farther. Or they say that my Mag won't be as accurate, just because it's a Mag. (nevermind the barrel)

the new barrel kits have probably done more to kill the myths about accuracy than every article ever written about the subject.

People don't care what science says, because their friend's cousin's uncle's son once shot a bottlecap at 300 feet with his cocker, that he was running on 12 gram cylinders. (or some other rediculous feat)

that being said, if a marker is meant to be fired semi-automatically, and it is being adjusted so that it fires automatically, then that marker is broken, and needs to be fixed by a good tech. If a marker is tested by the referees at the beginning of the day and declared legal, unless the owner changed its settings, then the marker shouldn't ever be considered illegal any time during that day.

[pbzmag]

Ok guys, I emailed the owner of Tombstone, Leon, and he said that they are ok as long as the reactivity is low. In other words, no trigger bounce. Sounds like he's using the NPPL rules for his field. Others that are banned are Hyper modes, full-auto, and anything that is capable of firing more than once per trigger pull.

[rtslave]

You know when nppl came out with their rules there was a big discussion on this type of thing and I never added my $.02. I personnaly think this is clearly black and white, if you mod. your marker to the point you can't release your finger and stop the shots then it should be banned from the field, unlike rt's there are people who slide into a bunker and their marker starts firing away uncontrolably now thats unsafe.

[ezrunner]

well actually

I was talking about an RT valved Mag.

I was being sarcastic. I don't shoot CO2 on anything that isn't blow back.

Notice I said I'd have a palmer stabilizer and an expansion chamber? You'd also need a fusion reactor to keep the co2 from being liquid in an rt valve.

I was joking but I did mean mag

I've been around for a while and remember seeing my first "RT", as in single trigger and it was a really fast gun to have. Even then I never saw someone put co2 on it.

-rob

[cphilip]

Originally posted by pbzmag
Ok guys, I emailed the owner of Tombstone, Leon, and he said that they are ok as long as the reactivity is low. In other words, no trigger bounce. Sounds like he's using the NPPL rules for his field. Others that are banned are Hyper modes, full-auto, and anything that is capable of firing more than once per trigger pull.

Those all sound reasonable to me. And I hope he is checking ALL markers for this. And I suspect he is indeed and so thats fair enough. I do not blame him realy. Sounds like a safe thing to do.

[Python14]

I have a neato idea....

When you become a field owner, employee, referee, airsmith, etc, a little microchip is installed in your lower spine. It has a little microphone on it and whenever it hears you utter an ignorant statement, you get a mild shock. We could give a master controller to Tom because it seems most inaccuracies concern mags and he could zap the industry when it becomes necessary.

....the trigger bounce ruling is very acceptable. Being a ref, I can tell everyone now that I find it harder and harder to weed out fullauto guns from the field with everyone shooting 10-14 bps.