Crappy Paint

[acropilot19]

Had a BAD experience at a NorCal field (cough***Paintball Zone***cough) and wuz wondering if anybody ever experienced similar...Had to buy field paint (box o 2000) & when I cracked it open first noticed the Grooves/ seams were REALLY Bad. Then noticed all the dents - each ball closely resembled a golf ball Whent to exchange only to find 2 other boxes (& presumably all) were in same shape. Resigned myself to "play-on" when talking to other players revealed similar situations. Tried to match paint to barrel (Evil Pipe kit), even went a little large (.692), but spent the rest of the day cleaning out break after break. Balls were bursting halfway down the barrel. Accuracy down to about 20 feet. Got killed by those who brought own paint. Will NEVER make this mistake again (buying field paint). Any other fields in Cali with this prob?

[dinger]

all i know is i looked at this paint my friend has, and boy oh boy it was 100% shnitzle.

i mean, he was shooting dice out of his emag. luckily none of them were breaking simply because the shell was too rubbery and hard to break in the barrel! ha!

field paint is the bad

never get premium field paint.. its just blech

Edit: Welcome to AO

[acropilot19]

Thanks for the "Welcome", its good to be here. Anyway, Live&Learn.

[LittlePaintballBoy]

We had that problem once, and so we just resorted to vowing to never buying field paint ever again, or not playing at fields that are FPO. Unless it is a special event ie Shatnerball or an AO megameet thing like the one coming up.

We play in Nor Cal, along with quite a few of us, and we are having a AOCA meet in San Luis Obispo on the 17-18 of Jan. Check out meet and greet, the thread is a sticky. AND WELCOME TO AO!

[FragTek]

Field paint is good stuff here in VA They have a wide variety of quality balls to choose from.

However, back home in WA, the field paint sucked nutz. You could choose from Severe, Severe Hurricane, Big Ball, or White Box (u dun wanna know what's in the white box!). Needless to say all that paint is garbage.

If you have never seen or used Severe paint, its a complete joke!

[Kaiser Bob]

Originally posted by FragTek


If you have never seen or used Severe paint, its a complete joke!

I beg to differ, severe's higher end paints, tempest and cyclone shoot friggen awesome, cyclone especially.

[FragTek]

We get that option on tourny days, and that paint blows too... The balls are dimpled, the fill is weak sauce, and theres usually a couple of broken balls per case.

Can't beat some good ol' Ultimate Chronic or Evil paint Heck, sometimes I don't mind Hellfire.

[Kaiser Bob]

no way that is how its coming from severe, theres a problem with the distributor there, thats something i dont even see in the worst white box crap, also cyclone fill is like sparkly toothpaste here...

[Ice-Child]

Well I shoot the same paint my local field sells. Nitro Duck. I either use the Nitro Duck paint, or Nitro Duck Pro paint. Both of which shoots excellent. Not just saying it cause they are my teams sponsor. Am saying it cause I havent found a paint yet that I liked till I started shooting their paint. They also make two grades lower then what I shoot. First Choice, which is a good paint, but if you have a picky marker, when it comes to paint, go with Nitro Duck. Then they have the El Cheapo stuff, called Nitro Ball. Think its like $35 a case for Nitro Ball. Falls under the pay for what you get thing.

Had to use Tourney paint at all the tourneys I have been to except for my local tourneys. Worst paint was at IAO. DRAXXUS SUXKS AZZ. We were getting the $100 a case crap, and even the pros at X-Ball were complaining about it being junk paint. Should have heard Chris Lasoya talking about it. Was almost funny to hear him go at it about how chitty the Draxxus paint was.

Anyway, Ill stick with my Nitro Duck and Nitro Duck Pro paint as long as I can. Only use tourney paint when I have to.

Later
Rob

[FragTek]

Originally posted by Kaiser Bob
no way that is how its coming from severe, theres a problem with the distributor there, thats something i dont even see in the worst white box crap, also cyclone fill is like sparkly toothpaste here...

It's funny you mention about the white box paint, because it usually has less dimples and no breaks... But the white box balls suck, I wish it could be the other way around.

And yeah, the sparkley fill is pretty cool, but it's not as thick as I like in a fill. I'm pretty picky when it comes to paint going through my mag

[Torbo]

we shoot field blaze as our field paint



post 1000 yay im special

[FragTek]

Gratz Torbo

[UltimatePaintballer]

Originally posted by acropilot19
Thanks for the "Welcome", its good to be here. Anyway, Live&Learn.

and then get luvs!

[sneakyhacker420]

i shoot PMI Premiums at BFG Paintball in wisconsin... never had a problem with it in the year that i've been playing there

[robdamanii]

My regular field is FPO but uses only RPS/PMI paints. Never had any problems with them, especially marbs and evil.

Damned if the 32* crap at my regular field in NJ sucks though...and for that reason I went somwehere else, despite the fact it is a very nice field.