Any old school ballers out there?

[oldsoldier]

I started late 88...my most "high tech" gun then was my bushmaster pump. Man, the old days...

[Vendetta]

I still use mine sometimes.

[hitech]

Originally posted by Blennidae
Did Dave Youngblood ever really play with those long barrels, or were they just for posing?

I don't remember ever seeing him play with one. I'd bet there were just for posing.

[FreakBaller12]

4 years this spring
lol alot of you have been playing longer than i've been alive, i like seeing the old pics, post some more up!

[Vendetta]

lol alot of you have been playing longer than i've been alive,

That's just mean

[Evil Bob]

My first game was in 1982, the field was called "WoodStalk" located in Blossom Hill (south bay area calif, up against the santa cruz mountains). We shot 007 nelspots (the bolt action ones, no pumps!) and the paint was oil based (for marking trees) and a serious pain to wash out of anything (needed terpentine), and we wore $4 plastic shop goggles that couldn't even withstand a single direct hit.

-Evil Bob

[Vendetta]

I never played with the oil paint, but some of the "old" guys on the team did. They had splats on their camos that didn't come out.

[mbyankee10]

since 87 i think

most of those years were a blurr though

[Athius]

Bushmasters pumps??? is that a very old ICD gun???

[JRSJKD]

oldschool

what a cool thread....

I started back in 89. A friend showed ma his splat master and it was all over. We would run around with two at a time, re-cocking them on our legs. I would have huge bruises just above my knee at the end of the day.

Wasnt soon after I bought a Line SI Busmaster, complete with 7 oz CA, 20 inch sniper barrell , and I had a screw on muzzle extension....It took me forever to figureout why I was breaking so much paint...lol. Later upgrades included a 6 pack plus, 10 inch barrell , and one of those brand spanking new 90 rnd viewloaders.

OT...(Any MI players remember Silver Lake Paintball??)

I think I still have the Bushmaster, and a original Phantom, and couple splatmasters.

jrsjkd

[50 cal]

Originally posted by Athius
Bushmasters pumps??? is that a very old ICD gun???

Not to be mean though, but I laughed when i read that. Line SI owned by Ross Alexander made the original Bushmaster pumpguns. Tough as nails guns, couldn't tear one up if you tried.
The Stinger line of paintballs flew fantastic too. I bought it exlusivley till Line SI went under. I still have one the Pointman pumps laying around somewhere.

[cledford]

Originally posted by 50 cal

I still have one the Pointman pumps laying around somewhere.

I always wanted one of those...

-Calvin

[taggtwo]

old school B.C.

B.C. Before Chrono

Hey toolbot this is like a stroll down memory lane. I'll bet you cut down a 35mm film container for a cap on that mammoth 40 round wgp feeder, and even cut the webbing out of the mag pouches to get more ten round tubes in.

knobs with big valves on them--thermo bottles from what I remember.

APG was 30 pages thick, and on the front cover was some guy comming up out of the water in camo with marker on the ready.

Tiger Stripe pull overs had yet to be invented.

The whaler was the craze feeder.

tippman was a smg

cockers were pump guns

grey ghosts were cool

first gun was a sheridan kp3 rifle, and a pump pistol (later called pgp)

Dail-A-Welt--once again before chrono's

first gravity feed wass home made with 3/4 copper tee and 45 elbow, fit to a PMI 1, or mabey a 2, can't remember.

the ghillie suit, and woods ball

how about the defunct "Excaliber League Finals in Las Vegas in 1991.

TEAMS:
Phantoms,Colonial Marines, Dickstinguished Johnsons, Swarm, walrus, Evergreen, Western Oregon Rebels, Parapaligic Turtles, of course our team Magic Markers and so many others
OMG I'M STARTING TO RAMBLE, it must be time for my medication!

Thanks for tolerating my post, I'll try to reserect some photos.

~Tim 1986-present
taggtwo
gray and still going

[JKW]

The first time I played, oil based paint was all that was available and no one had even begun to put pvc pumps on their Nelspots. I was not crazy about the game at that point and did not begin to play in ernest until I saw the premier issue of APG. When I saw pictures of long barreled, "constant air" pump guns with "gravity feed" there was no turning back. I had a tricked, pump Nelspot derivative, with a 7oz tank, "L" stock, and "direct feed" on order from "Skirmish, The Store" within the week and started to play almost every weekend. My first semi was an SMG-60 which was later converted to a 68 Special by Tippman. I bought one of the first Automags in Texas I think, having been given the "heads up" by Denis Ashley that they were comming out before the talk hit the streets. I think it was S.N. 235 and was a plastic nubbined ball breaker until "updated" by Airgun. I miss that gun, and my Annihilator more than any I have had over the years.

Whoa....guess I got to reminiscing and ran away with myself! Ah, but those were some good times.

[toolbott]

You know, it's kinda odd that I was the first to have an automag at my home field way back when. Everyone had heard about them but no one had owned one. All the top guys were saying " aw man automags suck, they are expensive junk" Everyone made fun of me cause it was a tippman field. But it didn't take long before all the top guys at the field were looking to buy one of those sucky automags. Go figure? I can only assume one thing, AUTOMAGS RULE!