think this is true?

[thei3ug]

i'm a geek.

[Evil Bob]

George Butler saw a Nelspot in a farm catalogue.

The Nelspot 007 was invented by James C Hale, he was issued a patent for it on Jan 29th, 1974 (U.S. patent 3,788,298). Unfortunately, full text is not available on this patent, so I'm unable to look up the related patent number for the paintball itself that Charles Nelson created. Searching the patent database is troublesome considering it only goes back as far as 1975 and the paintball itself predates the Nelspot patent date as it was created to fire the paintball that Charles had invented.

-Evil Bob

[RoadDawg]

Anyone remember Gotcha guns? Me and my bro would chase each other around the neighborhood with those things. Then we found pball 5 years later and the rest is history.

[Muzikman]

Yep..I remember Gatcha guns. Before that we used BB guns to shoot each other. Eye protection? what was that?:) I still have a nice scar on my arm where a BB inbedded it's self in me and had to have a Dr remove it. Though, this was all around the same time Paintball was coming about (around '82).

[Mutilus]

Originally posted by Muzikman
Yep..I remember Gatcha guns. Before that we used BB guns to shoot each other. Eye protection? what was that?:) I still have a nice scar on my arm where a BB inbedded it's self in me and had to have a Dr remove it. Though, this was all around the same time Paintball was coming about (around '82).

Me too, we used to play 1 pump bb wars all over the farms. Of course there was always one jerk who would pump more than once. Eye protection = sunglasses.

[RRfireblade]

The REAL story.....

ACTUALLY,

What really happened was....

These 2 kids were playing tag out in the woods named Nelson and Gurnsey.Nelson comes up and tags Gurnsey on the arm.Gurnsey is like, "Dude,you totally missed me".Nelson is like," Oh yeah? Take this" and throws a rock in anger which leaves a nasty welt on Gurnseys arm.Both kids were like,"That's so cool,look at those neat colors!Wouldn't it be awesome if we just started welting all the kids around here?" Then they realised that some of the kids in town are bigger than them and would probably kick thier butts for doing so.While saying his prayers that night,Nelson wished for a way he could inflict welts on people from a distance so as to not get beat up everyday.In the middle of the night,2 tall men dressed in black on black suits visited him in his room.One of them handed him a strange device,and said "it is time".Nelson was in awe,he said "How can I thank you for this gift?" he was told no thanks are necessary,just freely pass this knowledge on to others.He said "Ok,but I don't even know who you guys are"."I am Kaye"said one and in a flash of light they were gone.
They next day Nelson ran to Gurnseys house to show him what he was given.They fiddled with it for a little while when all of a sudden,somethng came from the device in great speed and hit Nelson on the arm."OWWWWWEEEEEE" he screamed.After a minute a large welt appeared.The 2 boys were amazed and ran off to "play".They went into town to shoot people but before they had a chance,a large man stopped them and asked what the device was.When they told him,he swiped it saying that they were to young for such a thing and walked off.They called him names and yelled at him.He turned around and said "I should spank you boys for being such smart alecs",they replied"Well that thing is part of our new game".He just chuckled and turned away.They boys could hear him murmmering
under his breath,"Smart *** kids,what kinds of game need Parts,....parts.....hhmmmm,smart parts...funny."
Time went by and one day,Gurnsey went out to get the newspaper for his father and what did he see on the back page!! It was an ad for a new game called "National Survival,see if you can survive a blow from this gun,fun for everyone.PatPend SmartParts.At first the boys were very angry,they tried to tell everyone that the new gun and game really belonged to them but no one believe the 2 small boys.Eventually the old man returned and confronted the 2 boys.He said,"I hear you boys are calling me a liar and a thief,I could stomp you into the ground and no one ever find you!Imagine what a shocker it would be to your parents to see you like that!You better be quiet OR ELSE!" He handed them both a new SmartParts gun and said he hopes he doesn't have to come back here again".With an evil look in his eye,he was gone.

The rest is pretty much history....

At least that's how I heard it.

Jay.

[goat]

hahahahha

That was a great story, the other guy in black should have been "Palmer" , and the boys should have been playing in "Indian creek".
while were at it the guy should have called them "cocky" and "nothing like angel's".
goat