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

[nerobro]

Originally posted by Doc Nickel
Last but not least, the hydro on my very first HPA tank expired eight years ago.

Doc.

My Raptor has a hydro date of 94 ;-) It's very nearly at the end of it's life.

I however, am not old school :-(

[Tyger]

Evolution of safety, while I'm at it...

'Yall talk about chronos. Let's hit the other side of it...

Knurled Aluminum barrel plugs. I was the firt guy to buy one from my local store.

And if you remember all the other expirements we tried. Socks. Tube socks, I mean. Like what you wear on your feet. A lot of fields required socks.

Old school : You ever hated the SP Splash kits, becasue the barrel, gadget grip, and barrel plug were all MATCHED splash annoed.

You ever saw, or owned, the original barrel sock device, made by a small indi company who only was into it for a year.

You actually use the safety on your e-gun grip.

If you've ever taken o-rings off your barel plug becasue the freakin' thing REFUSED To fit with that .70 ring on there!

If you've ever looked at the LAPCO barrel plug and thought to yourself "No, it couldn't be..."

-Tyger

[Dryden]

You purchased bulk 8 packs of elbows in the hope you could find one that approximately fit your ammo box and feed neck without too much extra electrical tape.

Brass Eagle wasn't the punchline of a joke.

You subscribed to APG as a color catalog of mail order merchandise since the World Wide Web hadn't been invented yet.

You and your teammates personally debunked all the Autococker / Automag myths yourselves ten years ago, much to the protest of the guy with the PMI-3 and the other with his F1 Illustrator, who insisted their guns rocked too.

[Tyger]

Oh, wait, gotta add a few more.

PICS I WANT TO FIND :

The Ironmen playing a woods tournamet with PPS Hurricanes, sprinting through the woods.

The NJ Devil Dogs playing speedball in thier "Realtree" jerseys with player numbers on the back.

Jerry Braun standing on a box while filming the 1995 "World Cup" for ESPN.

Any photo of Youngblood in camo from his early days, pre suits. I'd love to put that with his quote from an interview where he said paintball needs to be out of the woods.

I still have photos from 1993's "National Pro Shop" big game. People like Shane Pestina, Oh Pawlack, Tom Kaye, Tim Schloss, Youngblood, Bob Long, Glen Forester, Daryll Trent, Rose Griffith, Marty Tripes, Charles "Happy" Holton... I really should scan them....

Speaking of which :



If you can name most of these companies from this lame pic, you're in the old school category...

And, finally... All the people talking Nor-Cal / So Cal battle? It's been done. Circa 1991, "Paintcheck" magazine. You're old school if you can name at least 50% of the people in THIS photo :



Ok, I'll stop posting pics now. :) But, say, is that Bob Long sporting...



...A mullet.

-Tyger

[hitech]

Originally posted by Tyger
And, finally... All the people talking Nor-Cal / So Cal battle? It's been done. Circa 1991, "Paintcheck" magazine. You're old school if you can name at least 50% of the people in THIS photo :

The picture quality is a little low, but I recognize a lot (or at least thing I do) of people in there. Considering how many of the people I know, I want to know why I wasn't there! If I ever talk to Fred again I'll have to find out!

[lopxtc]

I was at this game, and the one in 92 before the Paintball Zone flooded out in the flood of 1993.

There was a walk group of us that played against the "pros" at the Paintball Zone ... talk about getting walked on.

Aaron

Originally posted by Tyger
Oh, wait, gotta add a few more.

I still have photos from 1993's "National Pro Shop" big game. People like Shane Pestina, Oh Pawlack, Tom Kaye, Tim Schloss, Youngblood, Bob Long, Glen Forester, Daryll Trent, Rose Griffith, Marty Tripes, Charles "Happy" Holton... I really should scan them....

-Tyger

[Chris42050]

I remember haveing a splatmaster and thinking I was hooked up. We mostly used slingshots and shop goggles. I actually thot people with masks were wimps. And 100 paintballs was enough for a day.

[SMG]

"Old School"

You know you are old school when:

-You've walked around after a game to find your SMG-60 stripper clips

-When the guy with the Crossman revolver had to be close enough to touch you if his .50 caliber paintball was going to hit you

-You've been shot to the forehead, cheek and ear while wearing U-Vex goggles

-You were hit in the arm or leg, but were only "wounded"

-You've seen an SMG shoot through/into objects and people

-You were wowed by a huge PVC silencer with camo

-You had a guy on your team who was known for climbing up trees

-You referred to a Nelspot 007's as a "Nelly"

-You bought a plastic stock for your PMI Long Barrel

-You thought that the Sheridan pump rifle shot farther than any other gun (first shot was guaranteed to role out of the barrel with approximatley eight more before it was time to change the CO2)

-Bunkers referred to as "Pill Boxes"

-You played 10 on 10 for four hours and did not get shot or see another player

-You were arrested for playing rec ball in the local forest preserve, park, industrial park, etc.

-You thought about setting trip-wires or booby traps

-You dreamed about playing Wolf's Lair

-You carried a bolt action pistol as a sidearm

[punkncat]

Well I am by no means old school, but by some definitions here I could be.
I always wear camo to EVERY event.
I still play with people known for climbing trees.
Definately have to watch for booby traps and trips.
Tube socks are required equipment, to keep your co2 tanks from clanging together.
The best marker on the field was a Stingray.

[Python14]

-you went to the world cup to watch the games and you only saw 7 players playing in 15 games...and you thought that was so cool.

-you have pics of Marty Bush with a sniper 2

-you remember the first add for the shocker and thought "naw, it'll never do good"

-You've ever just given up and burned your clothes from the day....and only lost $3 in the venture(hell, even I remember turpentine parties)

-Proball wasn't called probounce

-Speedball was to paintball what monster trucks were to the autosports industry.

-Bob Long=Super Mulletine Action

-You know what Phyllis Long looks like

-You bet your friends that you could empty your ammo box in less than a minute....and even though you tried real hard, lost.

-You're familar with "Ping Pong" and "Pinball" (No one has said either of those to me in years)

-You remember Keely Watson when she wore Renegade stuff and didn't have a drivers license.

-You check Durty Dans website for updates

-You thought about making down payments on a Cyber 9000.

-You have a permenant scar in the webbing of your thumb from the quickchange on your PGP.

-You told everyone at the field without the internet or a subscription to APG to keep a lookout for a semi-auto named Chamile.....and you still look.

[Rooster]

"when a high-end, superfast gun was one where you could hold the trigger back while pumping it."

I remember a artical in APG that was a newbie's glossery of paintball terms. That was 91 or so.

[badinfo]

No one got this one yet?

Ya know how to imitate the sound of a 12gram emptying.

You ever got anyone out using the above trick.

[DeeEight]

Originally posted by AGD
When you have been around long enough that people go on the other team just to shoot you.
AGD

When you've been around long enough to remember how TK looked on a 1991 Videotape describing the automag, and thought to yourself... "oh good, it wasn't just me with that hairstyle..."

[DeeEight]

Re: "Old School"

Originally posted by SMG

-You had a guy on your team who was known for climbing up trees

-You thought about setting trip-wires or booby traps

-You carried a bolt action pistol as a sidearm

On the first point, four years ago during a night game, one guy on the other team, stingray in hand, scaled the outside wall of a barn, without ladder, ropes, or climbing aids, to come in thru the hayloft to get the jump on someone.

One the second... its amazing what you can do with spring loaded rat traps, spare guns in your collection, some pulleys, duct tape and nylon cord.

On the third, I carry a Nightmare LB comp as my sidearm.



An addition to the list...

Whenever you play a game involving the BATF, someone has a bottle of colt45 in one of their pods ready for double duty as paint remover/lense cleaner and to wash the taste of paintballs out of your mouth after a mask hit.

[Jackel411]

You know your old school when...


- You still play on a team that started in 1981 and then it was called RT Tham Sat! WOOOO Wild Geese :)

- You can recall that the real wild geese's last hurrah was against NH Wild Geese and the game was called becasue a team mate of mine severly sprained his back.

- When you were raised in the game of paintball from birth and later joined up with your father on the same team!

- When " sluggo " doesnt mean an AGD product :)

- When you get all antsy when your shop gets a PMI-1 in for repair over a Dm4

- When you take apart the PMI-1 first :)

- When WGP Ranger didnt mean a crappy Espyder clone

- When you can remember that the first spyder was spelled spider and was an inline blowback semi.

- When you can recall the adds for the gun that was the fist spyder clone called the Asco Mander and still not giggle.

- When HI-Tech meant VM-68 :)

- When Low-Tech meant Splatmaster.

- When you can with out shame say yes... I did coil a remote line around and around my mag so I can use it in the winter.

- When you long for your Vent Predator

- When you can recall that brass eagle was once a very very good gun

- When APG had " Wild Women of the Caribian! "

- When you can say... Line SI... That was some good stuff!

and last.......

- When this game was actually inovative , and people who made the sport grow were not trying to collapse in from the inside out and when the game actually meant something to you.. just not another excuse to go shoot some paint and win something... it was bonding and comradery ( Uhh man I spelled that wrong ).


I dont know... I know it got negative towards the end... but theres reason why I still use old guns over new guns.. simply because there relaible.. ****.. I still have my first gun and never had to repair it yet.. some new guns break right out of the box... go fig..