Strange Occurrences or pure BS

[robdamanii]

My favourite thing to do is get on one side of a large open field, and let a guy with a flatline shoot at you. The balls sort of float, and you can dodge them a la matrix or even pick them out of the air if you've got soft hands.

Actually, I've caught balls out of the air while reffing in castle games in the woods. It's kind of amusing...

*catch the ball out of the air*
"here dude, have another paintball"
"where'd you get this"
"The other team was giving it to you, I just intercepted it before it went over your head"
"uhh...oook."

[cphilip]

Originally posted by 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.

That happened to me. cept I was on the recieveing end. All I knew was I just started exploding paint down the barrel. Could not figure out why till after the game was over. And I got plenty of witnesses to this one. We were shooting two totaly differnt color fills too. And I took some pictures to show it and posted it here about a year ago. Went right in the barrel and broke futher down in and some of it made it all the way to the bolt. A tiny bit did. That post is here somewhere.

[Yudanja]

back in the day, about 8 or so years ago. Shooting my first ever owned marker, a F-2 illustrator.

Playing in a woods feild in Waco, TX. I started to run out of air, got the full auto sound. Pointed my gun up in the air to see if I could see how far it would shoot. Well not very far and it fell on this VERY well hidden guy in some thick brush/tree. Smacked him right on top of his head.

[chunk_daddy]

playing at a tourny a couple of weeks ago i was sweet spoting off the break and walking and i see a guy and start shooting at him, he tunrs around and shoots at me and i see a orange paintball flying at me but i didn't move and i shot and the ball broke like 5 ft from me i stoped for a second and then kept shooting. i was just like 'uh.....did that just happen?'

[manike]

I've duelled with a friend with PT Extremes, one shot each, and they hit in mid air. Was freaky as hell and witnessed by the guy standing between us calling the turn to fire. If I hadn't been there and participated I would never have believed it.

I've also been shot down the barrel, and shot others down the barrel.

[StygShore]

had to put this one up

Had a buddy that had a backup with him in case his gun went down.... a slingshot.

The field we play at has a large tree on a dirt mound in one area, and he was using his autococker, both of them were 10 feet apart trying to pop over the dirt mound to shoot one another. His cocker chopped a ball, and the bolt locked on him.

He grabbed his sling shot, picked up a ball on the ground dove around the endge of the dirt mound and nailed the guy right in the back of the hand.

I would not have believed it had I not been reffing the game, and i was 15 ft away when it happened.

Styg

[Mindflux]

Re: had to put this one up

Originally posted by StygShore
Had a buddy that had a backup with him in case his gun went down.... a slingshot.

The field we play at has a large tree on a dirt mound in one area, and he was using his autococker, both of them were 10 feet apart trying to pop over the dirt mound to shoot one another. His cocker chopped a ball, and the bolt locked on him.

He grabbed his sling shot, picked up a ball on the ground dove around the endge of the dirt mound and nailed the guy right in the back of the hand.

I would not have believed it had I not been reffing the game, and i was 15 ft away when it happened.

Styg

They need to chrono that thing

[einhander619]

I have purposefully bounced paint off an airball bunker to hit someone before. I guess that's not a freak occurence, but it was pretty freakin' sweet and it won us the game!

[abunkerer]

HAHA, awesome stories! keep em coming!
I was playing at Badlandz one time, and this guy was reloading his hopper behind his bunker. I got a good angle on him and shot him a couple of times and instead of just raising his hand to call himself out he raised his gun over his head and dumped his still open, freshly reloaded, hopper out on his head. It was near the end of the game and a lot of people who had been shot out were standing by watching, I yelled out "that's called the waterfall effect" and everyone cracked up, except for the guy who felt the wrath of the "waterfall effect"..haha that was funny.

[phantomhitman]

i went to a field 2 weeks ago with a lot of co workers. since they are all noobs i ran to the 60, or there 40 ? of course they all starting pinning me down but they were not close enough to get a good shot. someone kept lobbing balls inside my bunker and they were landing on my lap. by the time i had 10-15 balls just laying on me i put my gun down and just starting throwing paintballs at them from behind the bunker. it took them a few shots to get me but everyone was cracking up.

[ah137]

In a MICT tournament, my mirror and I where exchanging paint (I was back left) our paintball meet at the 50 and exploded. Very interesting to see.

Later Hills

[melch]

i was playing with a few neighbors in a open field last summer and i was wearing a pocket t shirt so when the game was over everyone was out i went over to the hose in my friends yard as everyone was walking over i bent over to pick up the hose and like 4 paintballs fell out of my pocket in my shirt and everyone saw it and was amazed it was prety cool

[StygShore]

slingshot

Slingshot = around 224 fps actualy when we chronied it :)


Styg

[RoadDawg]

Slid into a air bunker at a (then) local field and pulled the plug on it. It started shrinking and I was like "WTH?" Definatly an odd occurance as I tried to scramble to my next bunker (didn't make it).

I've also managed to bounce a ball off of a air bunker and get my center player before. It was my paint and no one else was using that color so we knew it was mine.

[tobz]

I have a few, nothing great...

1. My friend was using my spyder, at the time it was very erratic and chrono'd like 279, 325, 409, 357, it was bad. My current teammate was running to the other side when he got ambushed. He yelled out, "retreat, retreat" and started running back. He ended up taking two shots to the adams apple by my friend (his teammate) with my really HOT spyder. Knocked him off his feet, and we almost had to take him to the hospital. Coincidentally both of their names were Andy.

2. I shot my brother right up his barrel once. He couldn't figure it out.

3. I had a nice one shot kill by sticking my mag barrel through a hole in my bunker and lobbing a paintball to the back right guy. He was perplexed.

4. I was playing with my eblade and we were on a short indoor field. I saw a player in the window and I ran up to bunker him, but I called surrender because that was the rules. To my dismay, about 6 little kids, none could've been over 12 yrs old all stood up and walked away. Had one of those been a tourney player.. I would've got lit up.

5. I have a video of me reloading, and some guy bunkered me so I got really startled and shook all the paintballs out of my hopper with a quick twitch. They just flew everywhere.

6. One time my teammate (same Andy that got shot in #1) had a gun jam. He was in an air bunker with the opposition in the same bunker, (other side). He took out a handful of paintballs to throw at the guy, and hopped over the bunker, instead of throwing them, he just dropped them all because he got lit up so bad it hurt.

7. Lastly, not really paintball related, but on our way to paintball my teammate forgot his wallet so we drove back in his driveway and he hopped out and ran up to his house. He had one of those basketball hoops with the adjustable rim height, he didn't even see it until it closed lined him and he was flat on his back. Huge lump on his forehead. The close lining was so bad, he scraped the top of his feet bloody (he was wearing sandles). Not sure how you get the top of your feet that bad, but he did.