Bandit ball

[WARPED1]

And thats why you won't see paintball on tv..............................

[temps]

I play bandit ball every once and a while. we found a little vally in the middle of a forest. there is no way a stray paintball is going hit anything but a tree even if you tried.

We built up the vally so it now has about 15 bunkers, a tree fort, steel barrels. and a fun thing about it is the water treatment center is near by and any overflow that they get, is dumped out of a pipe that floods the middle of the feild (only happend once while we were playing though..)

Only thing is be extra carefull, there are no refs to make sure you have barrel plugs or anything so you have to be smart about it!

[Z-man]

I agree. It won't help the sport by playing on other people's land and because of that you cannot be sure who will show up and get hurt. I used to play on my land and even then, a car drove by and TOTALLY BY CHANCE the last shot I fired before we were going to wait for the car, went through the open driver window right past the woman's head and hit the other window inside.

Needless to say I stopped playing there. It's just to hard to know where all your shots will go and better to play somewhere it's safe (like a field or on your own land if you have more than like 6 acres).

[WARPED1]

My grandfgather had 50 acres on top of a mountain I started playing on 13 years ago when I lived in massachusetts.

[Steelrat]

BTW the girl in that picture I posted lost her cornea. She will have problems for the rest of her life. There is no way that saving $30-40 is worth that.

[CaptaiN_JacK]

i say go ahead and play in the woods...350 acres is HUGE. if you guys dont know how big that is...my dad has a field thats 160 acres and its enormous, almost a full MILE long and wide. just go into the middle of the forest and play...if there are any hiking paths that go thru it just post a sign that says stay out of something so hikers dont go through it while your playing.

[Infratracide]

I knew some one would bring up that story about the little girl. Believe me when i say that I could not live with myself if something like that happend because of my, or my friends actions. Maybe you guys are right. I would still like to look at the possibilites but i doubt that we will do this.

[Steelrat]

Unless you post a sign every 2 feet for the entire distance around the playing area, someone might still get through. I am not saying its likely. Its actually very UNLIKELY that someone will come through. But on the off chance someone does, and that person gets hit, will you, in retrospect, think it was worth it?

[Z-man]

I figure, why risk it? the consequences suck for a LONG time and the benefits are only monetary. besides in cases like this, Murphy's Law ALWAYS applies. That one foot you didn't put a sign in is where a disabled veteran will come hobbling into your game and the last shot you fire will glance off a tree and take out his eye. It always happens.

[UltimatePaintballer]

if its protected, i would say not to go and play in there. but hey do whatever you want

[sps16]

even if you are safe about it, whats stopping the police from shooting you when they see the guns?

[ZAust]

yeah, chris and i had an awesome field set up, but it got shut down. in retrospect, it probably wasnt the brightest idea.

Originally posted by sps16
even if you are safe about it, whats stopping the police from shooting you when they see the guns?

or chasing you though parks?

[sps16]

yep yep, i put so much time into that field

[aaron_mag]

Originally posted by personman
but I know a couple of the kids he plays with.. they arent very smart and are just the type who would shoot at a passing car, for kicks.

You are smart. What makes "outlaw" ball unsafe is the people who compose the group. Outlaw ball can be cheap and a lot of fun provided you have the right elements. The first element is access to wooded private land (and I mean acres and acres of it). We have a 120 acre farm that we play on with tons of woods.

The second is the group. You need to have a group of people who are willing to follow all the safety rules. There are some commercial fields that I will not go to because they are not strict enough about safety.

Some people are so CHEAP!!! I don't know why they won't give a commercial field a try since it is a totally different experience. Once someone gets used to paying $30 for all day pay (half a case of paint plus air fills) it is pretty hard to convince them to shell out $60 for a day on a commercial field.

[JEDI]

Originally posted by sps16
even if you are safe about it, whats stopping the police from shooting you when they see the guns?

Because they're not as stupid as you are. Police aren't going to shoot some kid with a paintball mask on. They dont go walking through the woods looking for people with fire arms. I've never heard a story about some cop that walked into the woods, and blasted a hunter.

You guys are making to much of a big deal about this. If its not your preference to play in the woods, then dont. But dont make it sound as if the stupid actions of some, include everyone.

You guys claim to be playing safe, and then say, "My paintball still reached the road, and hit some car." Hello!! Thats not safe. You know a ball wont go 200-300 feet. They're not magic. If you're far enough away, it wont happen.

There are plenty of sections of woods in New Jersey that are just public plots of land. No one owns it. Hiking, fishing, hunting, and paintball are all activities that dont require a land use permit to be there.

Being shot accidentally in the eye, or fore head is not exclusive to outlaw ball. Bad safety is bad safety. I've played wooded outlaw ball for close to 5 years in New Jersey. I've never been arrested. I've never had equipment confiscated, and I've never lost a friend to some cop that shot him.

Like I said earlier, play safe, be respectable, play on public land, and stay away from anything that wouldnt want to be shot. Expect to be hassled occasionally by people that dont understand paintball, but other than that, it should be no problem.