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

[Yakko]

How bout this one...

If you still use twist-lock barrels.

[Got_Paint]

I belive www.whitewolfairsmithing.com has the cheapeast phantom prices, if your budget is lower look into Pirahna LB's, newer PGP's, and nelson clones, such as tracers, these run around 100. I know a guy who has a palmerized p68 for 200 if your interested

[Tyger]

Re: How bout this one...

Originally posted by Yakko
If you still use twist-lock barrels.

Hey! I resembled that remark!

Well, 'till yesterday....

-Tyger (TIP # 21!)

[cledford]

Originally posted by rabidchihauhau
every time I hear about SMGs, I almost blow coffee out of my nose.....

In the vernacular from another 'hobby', I'm a 'pain slut' - but perhaps I better back up.

I've been guilty in the past of allowing my sense of humor to interfere with my sense of common, so, for the record - I love Tippmann products; they're built like tanks, they shoot great out of the box and everyone ought to have an A-5. (I think the factory team's win at the am open, using "guns only fit for field rental" was a big, unheralded wake up call.)

But I digress.

I get a rush when I get lit up. (Maybe that's one reason why I'm the guy always volunteering...). When SMGs hit the fields, lots of folks were nervous: they feared two things - the rate of fire and the 'pain' associated with 315-325 fps shots (there was a time when 60 caliber guns were allowed to fire in that range).

Anyhow, we had one of those 'I'ma gonna toast youse all' kinds of guys toting an SMG out at the field and I inevitably ended up being the person to run into him first. Brrrrrrrrrap - 20 rounds in the chest from about 30 feet. No breaks. Whack. Whack. Whackwhackwhackwhack.... from myself and my backup.

Thus was born the SMIG drill. Find an SMG on the field. Find Steve. Yell 'smig smig smig' at the top of your lungs. (This made the guy with the SMG think that he was intimidating us...) (It also made all of the rest of the team drop whatever they were doing and head on over) Have Steve run at the guy with the SMG. See the guy with the SMG unload his clip. See the rest of the team light up the SMG guy. See Steve smile. See SMG guy walk off the field.

Fun for everyone :)

I used to consider myself a "SMG" hunter. When I heard one on the field I immediately headed into that direction to take him out. The 68 caliber pump EASILY outranged the .62 SMG. Even if the guy could drop a couple balls in on you they were harder then the 68s and bounced more often then not. The cool thing that was this was when paintball tactics built around technology was born. Then next thing I noticed ( about 3 weekends later) was that you never found a SMG on the field without a pump "escort."

-Calvin

[billmi]

If you used WARPIG back when it was called ftp.cati.csufresno.edu...

[M-a-s-sDriver]

You certainly are old "something" if...

You bought paint from a guy named Birdsong in metal tubes for 2 bucks a hit. His apartment was covered in vietnam era war banners saying things like "Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out."
Birdsong is STILL reffing at Combat Zone and will nail you with a litany of "true" war stories involving snipers, Marines,Navy SEALS, Ruby Ridge, Indians, Horses, and living outdoors in the middle of L.A.

You played Store Wars in Napa. 400 against 400. You are REALLY dirt if you were on the store owners team in the bunker holding off 700 bloodthirsty numbskulls intent on your death.

You have shot Camille.

You were watching Glenn put the ram in the prototype Blazer, not even annoed yet.

You have invited the entire "Palmer's Factory Team" (Dogs of War) to play at your "homefield" (The River Bottoms)...And they came. And how everyone that heard about it and owned a paintball gun showed up to paste them.

You have drank Separators the night beforea game that you camped out at, and know what a Separator is.

You know how to stalk, and your team had a "Pointman".

You mixed Super Shell with Gator-ball. Super to cut the branches,Gator for the black shell and easy to see green paint.

Last but not least... The feeling you are going to pee on yourself walking down a path, seeing nobody, knowing they are there, about to get totally thrashed by hot guns, and knowing it's the best feeling there is.
Brent.

[rabidchihauhau]

and another thing

quick silver 12-gram changers....ratattack 12-gram changers;

WITH check valves in them - and if you are old skool, you know check valves in changers were illegal gear

old skool - watching a kid take apart a ninja nightmare and having everyone within eyeshot say 'now you know why they named it the nightmare'

you are if you remember Medallion Custom Emblems...and even more so if you know why they went out of business.

which reminds me - old paintball company time:

Command Post (belly up and leaving lots of debt behind)
T.A.G. Supply (The Action Game - short lived distributor)
Ultimate Game (another distributor biting the dust)

Can we say A.G.S.? Adventure Game Supplies, which during a partner brawl morphed into A.G.S. and....? anyone?

T.A.S.O. - that's right.

Granddaddy of them all - National Survival Game Inc. They had a similar problem to Medallion's, which led to the loss of a lot of early game history.....

Anyone ever put a down-payment on a Destroyer?

How about an I.C.S. vest? (You could recognize a player of questionable virtue just by the presence of an ICS combat vest combined with Thunderwear fingerless gloves - greatest wiping combo ever invented for the game...)

***

In answer to the question about old skool archives: I've been gathering my old articles and some pics and sometime this year I plan on putting them up on a website - along with a little history 'lesson' about the game.

[Got_Paint]

Originally posted by M-a-s-sDriver

You have invited the entire "Palmer's Factory Team" (Dogs of War) to play at your "homefield" (The River Bottoms)...And they came. And how everyone that heard about it and owned a paintball gun showed up to paste them.

we came close, we had lori, craig, allen, and max has came before.

anyone here remember the 707's?

[badinfo]

Oh yeah, one other one I dont think got posted yet, you were playing before most of the kids at your local field were even born

[Brophog]

Originally posted by badinfo
Oh yeah, one other one I dont think got posted yet, you were playing before most of the kids at your local field were even born

Don't remind us!

[Mok_Star]

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

Originally posted by DK1

And I have kept a few barrels that I don't intend to ever sell, including a 10" Carter SS, and a 12" BOA "patent infringing" snakebite. Sadly, the BOA needs renickled, it's got a pit in the bore...

DK1

still use the BOA snakebite to this day...BOA is the WAY






BTW: started playing paintball on dec 6th 1986, still have the splatmaster i used day one, went to a p-68 pirahna, the pump not the new semi, then to a automag (#000398), still have it and it works great, been with AGD ever since...

I remember when you wanted to get the flag you had to run..barefoot, through the snow, uphill, both ways..kids these days got it easy.....

[billmi]

Re: and another thing

Originally posted by rabidchihauhau

Anyone ever put a down-payment on a Destroyer?

Hehehehe....

http://www.warpig.com/paintball/articles/funkyguns.shtml

You're old-school if...

You took a hacksaw to a Nightmare to make it direct feed.

You upgraded from stick feed to a hopper made from an oil can.

You owned a hopper that had "magic fish lips."

You know who BLuR and Dave McCarty are.

[Tyger]

Re: Re: and another thing

Originally posted by billmi

You owned a hopper that had "magic fish lips."

You know who BLuR and Dave McCarty are.

I haven't SEEN blUr (or yor spelling either, it moprhed a few times) in a decade. If anyone knws his wherabouts, tell him he's a pud. He'll get a laugh.

As far as Fish Lips? You don't know the half of that... I got an earfull from Sgt. Splatter. Specifically why thye're called a "Whaler" and a "Guppy". Guppys feed the Whaler, you see....

-Tyger

[billmi]

And I will also point out, that you are old school if your 'mag has the Bortex mod. :-)

[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*