Strange Occurrences or pure BS

[abunkerer]

Anyone have any strange paintball stories, "or one in a million shots" that they have done or seen happen while playing paintball?

I was playing one day and I saw a guy get a paintball shot into his barrel. It seemed like it happened in slow motion!

Ive also shot some curve balls around Airball bunkers, balls that seem to hook 90degrees and gog people. lazer guided paintballs

[Kaiser Bob]

a lot of weird things happen with curves. ive had the pleasure of playing in monsoon conditions, so when the ball hits a drop of water it imparts a hell of a lot of spin. A couple of mine looked they they stopped dead and went straight up! Definitely a neat thing to see.

[SpecialBlend2786]

My friend was wearing a shirt with a front pocket once. After a few games we came in and somehow he had a paintball in his pocket...

Another time, i was using some guys flatlined m98. I fired off a few rounds at him, and he got out. When i went to visit him in the dead box, and one of my paintballs had gotten stuck in the fold of his coller. it was weird.

[WatchDragon]

once i had a ball hook around some hyperball tube and gog someone. Well, after the game the people on the sidline said it bounced off a rib of one of the other tubes, some said it hooked. All i know is the dude was perplexed for the rest of the day. I was shooting some evil that day.

And i had the same deal, but i cought a ball between my pack and my stomac.

[50 cal]

I was playing a scenario game at Bearclaw Paintball a few years ago and this guy would only show one half of his googles through this hole in a bunker. My bud Joey said a Corona at Hooters if you can hit his googles the next time. It was a good 40yds through the woods. He barely peeked his gogs up just a bit, I fired just as he started to look my way and tagged him. I don't know who was more surprised, him or me.

Got my Corona later too.

[nato]

I have caught a paintball once while I was comming in to a bunker. As I went in for a hip slide my hand went back and in the process nabbed a paintball. I didnt hold on to it long enough to put it in my hopper and shoot it back though.

[SkyBoySurfer]

last week I shot some guy under his mask and hit him in his bottom lip.

It was crazy ...I took 2 shots at him..Iknew I hit him but I didnt quite know where ..all of a suden I hear game over...and the dude walking off the field...turns out I shot him under his mask...hit him in the lip and all the paint shot in his mouth..

later that day it looked like he had a paintball inside his bottom lip..

I have never ever done that before.

[oldsoldier]

I had a paintball stick in the holes between the soft rubber part on the front of my mask once. I might have a pic of that somewhere, actually...

[RRfireblade]

Did the one in a million barrel shot to someone.Went down his barrel and hit the ball in the breach.It splattered paint back up into his hopper and out of the P/F.If we weren't using different color paint and shell combos,we probably wouldn't have believed it.

[StygShore]

Steange/funny

I was at the Michigan Monster Game a few years ago and playing the official shooting duck and walking back and forth for the longballers in the woods to shoot at. This was of course with the requisite DING! sound when one of them hit me and I would turn and walk the other direction ( didnt break )

A friend of mine was out of paint, picked up a ball that bounced off me, and shot it back, gogged the guy with his own ball

I have been playing long enough to see people shoot balls down each others barrels, balls collide in mid air, lots of paintballs caught in all manner of places, and bunker bounces that create some very confused players when they get shot in the back on the rear beer can in a enclosed field.

Styg

[wyn1370]

I had a ball fall inbetween my pack and jersey. Later that day I took my pack off and had a ball just sticking to my jersey.
A few years ago I was playing with my old classic timmy. Had some huge guages on the LPR and HPR. They stuck out about half an inch or so from the side of the marker. We where long balling with the other team and I got an incoming ball wedged inbetween the gun and guage. So I took it out and shot it back.

[Mindflux]

I was playing this weekend, and one of the walkons was there with his dad.

Somehow amongst one of the matches a paintball landed in his shirt sleeve (he had his jacket cuffed at the end). We were waiting for the next game and he finds this ball in the sleeve. funny stuff.

[Dryden]

Two stories I remember very well.

1) This occured about ten years ago. My buddies and I were out playing in the Winter of '93, a pick-up game of 5 on 5. Most of us had old PMI Piranah pumps, Razorbacks, or Brass Eagle Nightmares. What was great about the old, closed bolt pumps though was that if the marker had been cycled, you could take at least one shot from virtually any position and angle.

I had been eliminated and was walking down an open path to the no-fire zone, when I witnessed what had to be the most spectacular 'intentional' shot I've ever seen, not ten feet from me. One player, on the other team, was chasing a teammate of mine (the flag runner) down the open path. They were both running full sprint. The trailing player's shots were rather erratic - trying to pump the auto trigger and sprint head long at the same time. My teammate being chased cocked his Piranah once, without looking turned the marker upside down over his shoulder, and pulled the trigger.

Square in the center of the goggles of the player behind him from about 40 feet.

2) At a big game about six or seven years ago, a teammate of mine and I were with a large pick-up group of about 30 players. We were at the base of a hill and pinned by the opposing team who had been dug in along the hill side. The other team really wasn't threatened by us with their advantage of elevation. Quite simply, they could shoot us, and we couldn't shoot them.

Our group retreated to form a plan, and the fire died down. Every once in a while, someone would take a shot at a silhouette up the hill, which would prompt both teams to unload on each other, despite the fact nobody could hit anything at the ranges we were separated.

This went on for about two or three minutes while our group decided what to do. Eventually, some loud mouth on the opposing team opened up out of frustration, screaming "How do you like that buddy?!" as he emptied half a case at us. His shots rolled up at our feet, and he never hit one of us.

In a brief period of dead silence, my teammate screams back, "Shut up!" and aims his gun about 45* up in the general direction of the guy and pulls the trigger.

Three seconds later, from deep within the wooded hillside, we all hear the same voice, "$@!%, I'm out!"

[athomas]

I got shot down my barrel twice in the last 2 years.

A few years ago I gogged a guy with my pump gun. He was looking through a two inch hole about 30 feet away. I was under heavy fire from a couple of semi-autos, one being the guy looking through the hole past his gun. I was in trouble so I jumped up took one shot and ducked back down before they could react. I shot through the hole and gogged him. It was sweet. Boy was he suprised.

Using my trusty pump, I picked a guy off with one shot while he was at a full run at about 60ft away.

In a big game about 5 of us were crawling in some tall grass at one edge of the field. We were spread out and could hear the other team approaching. We were going to be outnumbered by at least 2 to 1 from what I could tell, so we just stayed quiet and waited. The other team guys decided to crawl since they thought it would be better to sneak up our "unguarded" side. It was quite funny when I could hear their leader a few feet in front of me saying, I think we're getting close. He reached forward and parted the clump of grass I was positioned behind. As he parted the grass he slide forward and pushed his head forward to get a better view "of my barrel" that was poking throught he grass clump. Not a word was spoken. He stood up and declared "I'm out." His guys were all, "What? How can you be out?" It was hilarious. He just walked away like a gentleman. Dead men don't talk.

[Z-man]

I think the most impressive "1 in a million" event I saw was several years ago a local field. For whatever reason, the local hotshots and team was playing against the rental and recball players in a big game.

One of the renters had a tippman grenade as they often do and he was itching to use it. So he yells "GRENADE!" as you are supposed to and lobs it high into the air toward the 4 or 5 tourney guys closest to him. They all spot the grenade, open fire on it, and blow it right back to him! Now it did not him directly but where it landed took out on of the recbal players. I was reffing that game and laughing pretty hard on that one.