Cool gun, can I try it?

[wish-had-a-mag]

Originally posted by lord1234
i remember that kid..
and yes definitely,
lately if i let someone try my gun i take my hopper off and let them put their own dang hopper on it!

Yeah, but then you get some kid with a VL Quantum, then not only do you have the disgrace of having that disgusting thing on your mag, but you also have a paint-filled breech to clean.

[paintballbeaver]

i say sure then i laughf when the paints gone, and enjoy my sponsorship god my trix shoot amazing ropes

[JKW]

Ok here is one for you. Lately I have been running a not yet released, sound activated, Empire/Halo-B. Most don't notice it but as soon as word is out, everyone wants to try it. Usually they will shoot their own paint, but I still want to scream when I have just filled the hopper with Hellfire or Inferno, and they are standing there with a pod full of "white box" paint in their hand!

[SpongeBobSquarePants]

I'll let almost anyone rip on my gun with just air. As long as I am there. I only let them shoot my paint if I know them, and they have let me do the same in the past. I think someone mentioned a kid who always borrowed peoples gear. Yea there is one of those at my field too. The arse even came to a tourny with NO MARKER. He saw me using a mag and comes up to me and says sense your using that can I use your timmy. Well lets see I'm not using it so it must be broken idiot. He is such a loser. Ok enough of that. But yea I don't mind unless they shoot my paint.

[shartley]

[magsRus]

I'm not used to this problem that so many of you have gone through. Simply because I dont let anyone shoot my gun I just say no, I'm rude.

[Tyril]

Argh! Not the same, but close happened to me.


I'm near the staging area, decked out in 12 grams and 10 round tubes, and suddenly a bunch of people gather round and start asking about my 'sniper rifle' (phantom).

I start on the 'it's a pump, no more or less accurate...' speech when one guy grabs it out of my hands, and starts pumping it LIKE AN AIR RIFLE!

Naturally, it was already primed, and he managed to feed 3-4 balls in the barrel, then CHOP ONE on the SC body. I just about pulled out my pgp and shot him in the face.

*shakes his fist*

n00bs.


-mike

[land hurricane]

i'm that guy at my local field using everyone else's paint.

[Carbon]

For the most part the guns i try are the rippin' fast type guns. There is usually a procedure i run through, but for the most part its just common sense.

1) I always ask before touching their gun first first.

2) Then ill ask them to turn off their hopper for me, especially if its a Halo. If the hopper is empty or low, i'll put a pod of my paint paint there.

3) Rip away and comment on the trigger job.

Most paintballer i run across tend to wanna show of their trigger jobs and gun capabilities anyways.

[sneakyhacker420]

at my local field (BFG in wisconsin), i only let the regular players that i know personally, or have become friends with, they know that they should only put a few balls through it, and then they let me do the same with their gun


otherwise, i'll let the new players with rentals try out my gun with air, let them realize what they can build up to once they set their mind to the sport, etc, etc, etc...


not to mention i get free all-day air at my field

[RetroEclipseMan]

I normally don't care if someone wants to try out my gun as long as they ask as long it's only a few shots. If they want to start dumping paint then they better have paint in hand. Normally people are just happy shooting air if they've never shot a mag so I just pull the hopper off and they can shoot all the air they want.

As far as lending my gun out to borrow for games I normally only let my friends do that since I just don't want some kid to screw my gun which has happened in the past and have them not even care.

[maglover52]

yeah i had like 10 people ask me that when i got my matrix. i let the owner of the field shoot it and he used all the paint in my hopper and got another 500 round bag and put another hopper through it! but then he gave me the rest of the 500 round bag

[OfficerGoat]

I figure it this way... Trying guns is what sold me on my first mag, first Angel and even sold me on the 2k2 timmy I have now. Letting someone try mine is the least I can do seeing that I have shot alot of other folks guns. Now I always have a keen eye on anyone with their hands on my gear. And yeah... I do get iritated if someone shoots a whole hopper of paint. I normaly dump my hopper and say have at it.

[845]

At the AKA booth at the IAO I emptied all Vikings and Excaliburs on the table like 3 times.

[KornKamp02]

Well, this has never happened to me but if someone asked I would be liek "Sure, just bring it back in one piece" but hey, my marker sucks anyway so......