Any old school ballers out there?

[toolbott]

How many people remember this one? Here I am ( i'm the tall guy up front ) at opening day of Wolf's Lair in Penn. I never saw so many paintballers in one place before. I mean wall to wall ballers. Notice I'm sportin a brand new Sheridan pump gun. Had just gotten it with my tax check. Cost me near the whole check and my wife threw a fit. She had no sense of humor? ( well, she did marry me )

[Lee]

toolbott: pmi 2 back bottle 7 oz tank, 40 round box loader, daisy point site, jt mask.

does Lee get cookie?

[toolbott]

Oh yea Lee, good call " toolbott reaches for the milkbones and grins"

[Lee]

*BOOYAH!*

chics dig shiny white fangs and puppy fresh breath!

[toolbott]

I don't get it? I started this thread about old school ballers and suddenly my tag says senior member. Is there a hidden message here? lol

[WARPED1]

Originally posted by toolbott
Haha, that was good. The big knob was the thing back then. They had a name for that tank but alas I can't remember. I removed the top tube and added the elbow for the direct feed. Seems like I could carry 20 ten round tubes with my two belt packs. wow 200 rounds? Anyone notice the pgp?

Tanks were california style.

[Athius]

Man if Tom see that pic of him with the nitro tank on his back he would say after seein himself on a mirror "Damn im old." lol

[SeeK]

This was scanned 10/10/96 from Paintball Sam's Fall Big Game.
From the Left:
Tyger, Shives, me, Kennedy How, ???

This was a TIP unplugged photo.

[RobAGD]

Well first weekend I played was the 92 Am Open So the 04 Am Open will mark my 12th year playing and most of that being tournament.

I started out with rental Pro Am's, then 68 Special did some favrs and start using the team guns ( PMI's F1 Ill, Automags etc )

Well technically I played myt first game in 86 with Splat Masters in my buddies back yard. With only 2 of us and no local field we could find at the time it got to be old quick.

Here are some pics from 93/94







Enjoy !

[Beemer]

Old school am I

LOL there are a few older ones here. Been playing since 86
Got to shoot the Panther back then.

Remember the Music City Open,Line SI Masters and Windy City Open?

First gun PMI 68 Magnum with auto trig mod,remember those?
Carried 40 tubes of 10

How bout Miss PaintBall at IAO, they played to.The All girl team Lady Tree Danceres

Remember John Dale and the JDN2

Youngblood and his long barrels.lol

http://home.comcast.net/~beemer2/TK_Bioe.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~ineedspeednow/Youngblood_gun.jpg

[Beemer]

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Go Fred

[phantomhitman]

i bow to the senior citizens.....
my first memory of paintball was going to play with spyers compacts (originals). Pumps were still big but spyders were the first "affordable" semis out. I saved my money forever to get one. Then when I took by break Automags and cockers were on top. And VL were making the first "agitated" loaders. Now I step back into the sport and my have thigns changed. D@mned electro dohickeys

[Richter]

someone wrote:"
Do you suppose Tom turned his tank upside down to make sure he got all the air out of it?
hehe!"

He probably did it because he didn't want to bend the remote as much and maybe have a little more slack: This is just a guess

[Tyger]

Oh, and to prove that not everyone was born looking cool...

Bob Long, with a mullet.





Ok, I'm hiding now. :)

-Tyger

[Tyger]

One more, before I hide from Bob Long...

Old gun, I dragged it up to prove that the "old guns" were a lot larger than people assumed they were. Heavy too, this thing weighs 6 pounds or so, no tank, no hopper!

And those are 140 pods next to it, for size refrences.



Yowsa. BIG gun!

-Tyger