What is the best rec paint?

[FalconGuy016]

Originally posted by Frank (the spank)
"I've got big balls
And they're such big balls
Dirty big balls
And he's got big balls,
And she's got big balls,
But we've got the biggest balls of them all!"


I get my Big Balls for $30 locally.. (ACE Hardware store that's ran buy a guy that thinks paintball is too expensive so he makes it so everyone can play as much as they want)

He MAKES them?

[darklord]

big ball or PMI premium. Team colors suck, they don't break very well, I've gotten quite a few bounces from certain individuals who have used them.

[FreakBaller12]

Don't forget, though, if you run a Halo or any marker that uses an IR reflective eye, stay away from black paint. Even half shelled.

why?????

[Frank (the spank)]

Originally posted by FalconGuy016


He MAKES them?

Makes "it" so everyone can play paintball. Basicly it's a store for the paintball players, not store owners.

Everything is sold at pretty much cost. he said it doesn't make a difference if he makes a profit of 10,000 or 100,000 since it's an ACE Hardware store and they're happy if he breaks even, just to get people in the store. So Big Ball goes for $30, PMI Premium about $34, Blaze is $39 and so on.. all fresh since he sells out so fast. he buys in the truck loads and it sells quick, lol

Everything in this store is cheap.

If yer ever in Stockton CA, go to the ACE Hardware store, cheap paintball stuff :)

[LittlePaintballBoy]

Originally posted by Frank (the spank)


Makes "it" so everyone can play paintball. Basicly it's a store for the paintball players, not store owners.

Everything is sold at pretty much cost. he said it doesn't make a difference if he makes a profit of 10,000 or 100,000 since it's an ACE Hardware store and they're happy if he breaks even, just to get people in the store. So Big Ball goes for $30, PMI Premium about $34, Blaze is $39 and so on.. all fresh since he sells out so fast. he buys in the truck loads and it sells quick, lol

Everything in this store is cheap.

If yer ever in Stockton CA, go to the ACE Hardware store, cheap paintball stuff :)

i was just about to ask where you live, i buty my paint there too! great deals on bigball, cant beat 30 a case.and its great rec paint.

[ZAust]

hmm.. is it really worth it for me to drive the hour out to stockton to get cheap fresh paint? the answer is YES.

[Frank (the spank)]

Damn, small world, lol

You will want to call the store first and ask if they have any in before you make the trip. He buys it by the truck load and that place gets swarmed and it's gobe before you know it. last time they sent the wrong stuff so all he had was a ton of PMI premium, but $34 a case isn't bad either :)

Call the Stockton ACE Hardware and ask for Rob or.. uh I forgot the other duders name, just ask for the paintball dept.


If yer gonna make a drive.. hell buy 5 cases and make out like a bandit, hehehe. It's all very fresh stuff.

this is why I got back into paintball.. cheap crap was $120 a case, it was too expensive to kep shooting like I wanted to with my Automag.. $30 a case? HELL YEAH!!! I bring two cases with me and paint bunkers no ones at for the hell of it

Plus I'm a "great guy" when I hand people on my team my pods when they run out of paint.

[Steelrat]

Antioch here, I think I'll be making the ol' trip to stockton, I thought "Someplace Special" was the only store out there.

[pito189]

Hey frank, I e-mailed you.

PMI Premium is not to bad a paint.

[Frank (the spank)]

Someplace Special was... ugh.. it was bad. They charged WAY too much for everything and as soon as Greg left to work for Paintball Inc. it all went down hill from there. Gary (the owner) was mad because business dropped ever since "the Internet", he complained "oh theses kids can just go on the internet and buy all their stuff for half the price now"

I wanted to go "well... YEAH! Cause you're ripping us all off!" lol. But I've known Gary for a long time so i just nodded.. I never go into Someplace Special anymore.. the new kids they have working there are jerks. i went into buy a Dye Ultralight and I noticed they had paint crusted in the porting.. I asked if they were new and the asshat goes "yeah, uh we test all the barrels out before we sell them and stuff, do you want the barrel or not?"

So I headed out and luckily ACE Hardware had the Ultralights. The barrel I was looking at had a small scratch.. the guy pulled out a handful of new ones in the package and said check them out and pick which one I want.. Isn't that how you're supposed to treat your customers?

Big Ball is something like $32.89 after taxes and they have no problem with you opening the box and checking for broken balls, just hard to in the store because it is always packed full and people are asking questions left and right, buying stuff and fixing guns. It's really a heaven for paintballers.

pito189, e-mailed ya back. Yeah PMI premo is good.. not so good the first time I used it, one of them broke inside my Halo.. ya know how many Q-tips it took to clean that?!? lol. But since then it has shot perfect.

[Skoad]

go on www.pbgear.com and look at their paints.

Either order 2 or 3 cases at a time, or get some friends who play to order with you. Orders over $100 gets you free shipping....and they seem to ship paint very well.

Big Ball - $42 a case
PMI Premium - $45 a case
Diablo Blaze - $45 a case
Nelson Anarchy - $48.95 a case


Then theres some really cheap stuff, not sure how good it works. But you can get down to like $30 bucks a case on some of the Zap stuff.

But for some good decent paint i'd go with the 4 listed up above...just get some friends together and order :)

[NJPaint]

ya, I use www.pbgear.com for my paint, fairly reliable... Anyone know anything about Nelso Hotspot paint? Other than that it has a weak fill... Most of the local people are pretty honest.

[No sKiLLz]

ToyotaBoy:

Black absorbs the light the IR tries to reflect off the paint. If you use black paint on a reflective eye in the marker, it might not fire because it doesn't think there is a ball in the chamber. If you use a Halo B, the loader will keep running the motor even though the balls are all backed up and burn it out (shot 2 halos in one day doing that. :o )

[LittlePaintballBoy]

hey if anyone wants 30 a case bigball, if you send us (us being me and my dad) like 35 bucks to cover shipping we might be able to send you some. we bought so much crap from that place they give us free air fills and all that stuff. and on the paint i said MAYBE , im not sure my dad will want to.

[pbzmag]

Originally posted by Frank (the spank)
If yer ever in Stockton CA, go to the ACE Hardware store, cheap paintball stuff :)

I did some work up there in 97 for a medical provider. Back then it was pretty quite, not that many big name store. Then in early 2001, I passed through on my was to SF and it changed alot! The first thing I noticed was the larger traffic. Has the area gotten more busy?