How to know you're an "Old School" player

[Jackel411]

Im back with more.... These are localized sorta

-If you can remember Long Island and paintball Pre-cousins.... ahhh heaven.

-If you can remember taking the day off from school to go hang out with Tyger and the rest of the guys when they made the book they wrote.... ( I still giggle about the girls that were there tyger who the heck were they again? )

-When you can answer this question " Who had a big chrome duel tanked BIG assed regged silenced 2 foot long barreled pump gun "

-When said person still worked for JT

-When you dont cringe about gassing up a rusty very worn out pump gun , but cringe when gassing up a shocker.

-When you still get the willy's for using a WGP pump changer

-When you can recall that used KP'2 were like todays used spyders

-When you had this scenario...... Trick out , mill up , completely rework a VM68 then add nitro.... and the spyders came out?

-When Earon Carter will give you his direct line at dye
( NO!!! Nobody can have it! )

- When sniper came from the factory in a few ways ( this is in the mid 90's ) Sniper 2 , Sniper 3 , Sniper SC? They never made it but it was an option...

-When you can recall wacking a splatmaster into your head to cock it...and still can do it and not get hurt.

-When you can say you had a beer or food at a Wild Geese Camp out any where.... PBLI , West Point , SNY

Ill come up with more...

[WARPED1]

When you got lost looking for the other team.
When you left 2 guys back at the flag base to guard flag.
You call it base instead of station.
When eliminations were kills(damn pc world)

[FaSSt]

If you remember the breech-drop vs. bore drop debate...

If you know where the ICS logo originally came from...

[Jackel411]

Never mind that

If you know what Kieth Idema ( owner of ICS ) did and why ICS went away..... and as a side note.. that he is a Combat analist for Fox: Fair and Ballenced

[Lohman446]

When you remember the game Gotcha for the Nintendo was the coolest nintendo game out

[WARPED1]

When the movie Gotcha!, starring Anthony Edwards, inspired your love of paintball.

[Tyger]

All this ICS talk...

You know, I *worked* for Keith Idema... I wrote for Paintball Planet!

I still have several ICS vests too, but I can't use 'em. My back is NOT happy with me... I might have to make a "Micah Mod" for my Redz pack....

-Tyger

[Mok_Star]

Originally posted by Jackel411



-When you can answer this question " Who had a big chrome duel tanked BIG assed regged silenced 2 foot long barreled pump gun "

i remember...dave youngblood of team navarone, still have the apg with him and that marker on the cover, think the title was "lancelot from conneticut" or something like that, will have to dig it up....

[Lee]

Originally posted by WARPED1
A 200 round box of Cal Mag lasted you 3 weeks of play, even with target shooting before a game.
Or you played like this *pump shoot pump shoot shake shake pump shoot shake pump shoot*

god...cal mag. we used to beg our field owner to get that for us.

i don't know if anyone has posted this yet or not, but here goes:

.....if you remember when paint came in one bag of 2500 rounds and cost at least 100$ and 3 or 4 guys could play a 24 hour game with one case.....

[Lee]

Originally posted by rabidchihauhau
how many old timer 15 man, 12-gram and pump team players are there still out there?

how many still have their pump guns?

how many would be SERIOUS about getting together somewhere, say in two years time, to play paintball the way it was meant to be played?

How many new skool guys would be interested?

here i am!

put me on the list and let me know when. i'll un-retire my anihilater.

[Lee]

Re: not that far gone yet

Originally posted by rabidchihauhau
I'm not that far out of it that I'm unaware of stock class play and pump play taking place fairly regularly in various environs.

A dedicated group of locals was NOT what I was referring to.

I was talking about the possibility of having an EVENT that was dedicated to what I am now calling Retro-Ball; 4+ LARGE woods fields, referees, honest-to-goodness teams of 15-17 players (substitutes) dual flag games scheduled to last an hour each, and vendors in a trade show selling gear dedicated to pump play - folks like CCI, LAPCO, ActionMarkers, etc.

We'll get charlie holton out there to sell all the stuff he's accumulated over the years, guaranteed to come up with parts for things you probably never even heard of.

A Retro Ball Weekend - 3 days; 15 player pump, stock class (7 player?, 5 player?) and top gun contest.

Hey - when was the last time you went to a tournament and only had to buy 5 cases of paint?

When was the last time you played in a competition where spending 20 minutes looking for the other team didn't mean they weren't on the field?

I've got plenty of experience running large events (specifically paintball tournaments with 100+ teams) - I have plenty of friends who can help make this happen (as in venues across the country) and I think a low-key, pump tournament would be of interest to a lot of industry types.

NOT a weekend of playing with 20 or so friends. An EVENT.

Retro Ball - will it happen?

please do it in florida, pump play is scarce here and needs a shot in the arm.

hmmmm....disney?........

[Brophog]

When you've been playing long enough to remember making the decision not to switch to a semi-auto, and don't regret it to this day!

[Mike Smith]

I remember the Bortex mod for the Mag....

Our field had to ban them, due to the freeway that was 1000 yards from the field. We kept getting complaints from the vehicles getting hit by paintballs from the Mags that had the bortex mod....

[Jackel411]

Bingo Mok

[ogre55]

If you remember the first batch of hotshot paintballs with shell so thick that you could use them to cut through brush.

If you remember using the little cardboard box that Cal-Mags came in for a tool box.

When all you needed to maintain your guns could fit into a little cardboard box.

Ogre