History of Paintball

[Emily]

Originally posted by p8ntball1016
welcome to ao emily. dont let suicidal sniper near you. he got his finger stuck in a barrel.

Never fear, I will not be getting anything stuck in the barrel of a marker.

[p8ntball1016]

Originally posted by Emily


Never fear, I will not be getting anything stuck in the barrel of a marker.

thats more than some of us can say. i almost got my finger stuck in my teardrop today.

[Emily]

Re: Re: History of Paintball

What is the true History of Paintball?
Where did paintball begin?
Do you mean the first game that would be considered the start of paintball? Or the initial equipment that would spawn the game? both

What was the first marker made and by who?
First made for paintball? Or again, first produced equipment that started the idea? both

In general what's the history?
I'd like to post, but honestly right now I'm lazy and working on my own website with SRM. So I'm not even sure why I'm posting this, guess I just like to put stuff off. I'm a what you call..... pro.. ummmm. Pro....tractor. Errrr, close enough. You go ahead and take your time, i'm not going anywhere...lol

Thanks for all the info you've given me so far

[Emily]

Re: Well...

Originally posted by Josh2Xtremes
If you attended a Ronn Stern Celebrity Paintball Camp, you could attend my "History of Paintball Seminar" where you could learn the answers to all those questions and more.

Josh I've considered attending that camp and I'm still thinking about it

The first marker ever made was the Nel Spot 007, initially made to mark cattle for slaughter and trees for logging, and the first mass-produced Paintball-specific paintball gun was the Splatmaster

Was this a pump gun? and didn't Tom produce the first ever semi auto?

The Nelson Paint Company made oil-based paintballs for the purposes listed above for quite some time

These ball were made for actually marking trees? Who made the first one for the game?


Another way to learn this information was to read the fascinating series of "History of Paintball" articles in the last several issues of Paintball 2Xtremes Magazine. However, since I'm here, it's all taken care of.

I'll lookup these articles and great job on your article for AOSE 2

Thanks Josh for all your help

[Emily]

Originally posted by p8ntball1016
thats more than some of us can say. i almost got my finger stuck in my teardrop today.

Wesley will be doing any work that needs to be done on my gun so I'm safe...lol

[Meph]

Originally posted by Emily

Tho I could have told GQ no when he asked me several time if I wanted a refill.

Hey at least you have that privilage! I got cut off last night at the bowling ally. Apparently at there being roudy jerks singing horrible kereoke and stumbling around is means to shut off the beer supply? I just don't get it. I thought we were having fun at least.

[Meph]

Was this a pump gun? and didn't Tom produce the first ever semi auto?

The 707 (before 007) was bolt action. And the 007 was actually both pump and bolt action. Pump arm sold seperately.
Tom did not produce the first semi. Because if I recall, it was 89 that the Puma came out, right? That and along with the automag, coming out either same time or shortly after. Well any ways, it was after Tippmann. Tippmann Pneumatics made first blowback, first semi, first full-automatic, etc. Though of course credit seems to usually go to Palmer with Camille... but that's only first Direct Feed semi by jimini!

[p8ntball1016]

tom just perfected the semi auto.