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

[andreb]

What about that cool Baracuda ad where the guy is crossing a river with water up to his chest.

[WARPED1]

I've done that!
Remember the first "harnessess", to hold tubes(10 round) or 12g powerlets?
I had friends who would unscrew the top off the KP rifles tube where you put in the 12g, then they would pump the gun, which punctured the seal and sent the powerlet fly across the field.(never during a game).

[Tyger]

Originally posted by WARPED1
(never during a game).

Why not? It'd discourage wipers. "Dude! Those balls are hard!!!!"

-Tyg

[andreb]

Originally posted by Doc Nickel

Last but not least, the hydro on my very first HPA tank expired eight years ago.

Hydro ? Hummmmm.....

[FallNAngel]

Originally posted by andreb
Hydro ? Hummmmm.....

What don't you understand?

[WARPED1]

Originally posted by Tyger


Why not? It'd discourage wipers. "Dude! Those balls are hard!!!!"

-Tyg

Yeah, you can't wipe unconsciousness.

[andreb]

Originally posted by FallNAngel


What don't you understand?

[WARPED1]

Maybe he thought you crazy Brazillians had a differen't name for hydroing?

[andreb]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[rabidchihauhau]

I got you ALL beat

1. Being the first player at Skirmish USA to own his very own gun...PGP..the NEW model PGP, complete with ten (10) round magazine tube AND pump
2. Playing with an UZI mark I and thinking it was pretty damn cool cause it had an integrated magazine that could hold 43 rounds
3. Experiencing first hand one of the initial techno-cheats in the game: shimming your nelspot or pgp main spring with washers...
4. Being on hand at the Bushmaster introduction frenzy - and thinking that pretty soon paintball guns would all just look like tubes (oh, sorry newbies - that's the Line SI (pre 1990) Sigma Machine PUMP action Bushmaster)
5. Introducing the Gray Ghost to the East Coast and making players run away from the 'machine gun'
6. Lobbying for and receiving a scoreboard at tournaments where EVERYONE could check scores - not just the tournament promoter and his pet team
7. Lobbying for and receiving a formula (actually introducing the formula, but I'm so used to not getting credit these days I almost forgot it was me...) for game scheduling (far better than the old system of being able to change your team name in order to change your draw)
8. Being called 'crazy' for carrying 120 rounds onto the field for one game
9. Spending an entire tournament season beating up on semi-auto teams with pump guns
10. Switching from pump to PMI-IIIs, because they were the only semi with decent range........
11. Arguing with Tom Kaye about the introduction of nitrogen at the PaintCheck 5 Man - out of a sense of concern for safety (lost that one)
12. Arguing with California teams against the introduction of CA (constant air) at tournaments (won THAT one for three years...)
13. Managing to talk the field owner DOWN to $150 per case of paint so the home team could practice more
14. captaining one of the first teams to ever play against an all-female team at a national event - and winning it (Lady Tree Dancers)
15. Arguing the merits of feminist dialectic with (losing) female team who contended that since they were women, doing 'well' was just as good as 'winning' (think I won that one with the counter argument that in paintball, winning counts and losers go home - regardless of their sexual affiliations)
16. Captaining a team that lost one of the first games ever to an all-female team (pump game, am open)
17. manufactuing some of the first stick-feeds ever, the morning before a national tournament
18. championing the tactical concept that no one needed to be left back to 'defend the flag station' and helping to establish the concept of 'run-n-gun'
19. almost being arrested for 'looking like rambo'
20. dismantling my patch jacket when patches were no longer the 'cool' alternate activity at tournaments
(after having paid nearly 200 bucks to have a seamstress sew them on...)
21. best old skool story? averaging 25 to 50 eliminations and surrenders per GAME, and having so many game flags that Skirmish USA offered me free play and paint if I would bring some of them back.......

[Furby]

Okay, I feel like a n00b now.

[Gunslinger-ActionBob]

is that you Jim?

[Furby]

That would be Mr. Davidson.

[Gunslinger-ActionBob]

"Mr Davidson" - the thought of that blew coffee out my nose. Hi Steve
BTW the first upgrade to nellies was wadded up paper towels in the hammers

another one - having a pic of yourself with Bob Guernsy when you bought into the NSG franchise.

laughing yourself into a fit while reading above field owners manual - it had some market predictions and field owner tips in it and also an old paint order invoice in it.
200 balls in tubes with caps - 65.00 dealer cost delivered

[SMG]

first game...

Played my first several games with an Uzi Mark I - it would load 1, 2, or three balls at a time and usually chop at least one. On a positive note, we forgot one in the woods all winter and found it the following summer and it still worked.