Nasty Paintball Injury

[Destructo6]

In the old days (1986), a buddy of mine took one to the upper lip at SC Village (goggles only). It looked like a giant herpes canker.

[BobTheCow]

Good God Cryer, that pic freaked the crap out of me... the lighting and stuff, wow!!

argnot - yep, sure looks like a butt to me too, lol.

[xXHavokXx]

Why were you chronoed at 240?


ANS reg? Yeah that will move quite a bit. If you said sidewinder I'd believe ya.

[sneakyhacker420]

240 was apparenly the field limit...

and that brings true meaning to butt cheek... or butt chin for the matter


but that sucks!! - i got one of thoes when 3 balls hit dead on the side of my neck - rumor went around the whole school that i had gotten a hicky from ____ (my ex-GF), when infact, i had been pwned in the neck while volunteer reffing


ps: jesus cryer - that gave me the chills, but for some reason, i felt compelled to stare at it for a few seconds and analyze it

[TheTramp]

Wow, my GF would have been PISSED!

She wasn't happy when the welt she got on her thigh turned into a black and blur mark 6" across that lasted at least two months (no exaggeration believe me I had to hear about it).

That was the last time she went paintballing.

[mrhooie]

Had a shot like that under the flex of my flex7. Saving grace? I sport a goatee and it hid most of it. Mine bled too

[Evil Bob]

My wife had (until recently) a quarter sized scar on her right wrist from 1988 from a paintball hit she took, its now gone thanks to the new scar remover medications you can buy off the shelf at your favorite pharmacy. If your GF looks like's she's starting to scar up, do her a big favor and send her to the pharmacy to get some of the scar stuff, there were at least 10 different brands last I saw, and all pretty much do the same thing.

The crappier the paint quality, usually the more damage done to the skin. Better quality paint shells disapate the enegery better and will usually only leave a bruise, whereas crappy paint will lacerate (cut) the skin badly in a circular pattern. If you're cutting costs by using crappy paint, you will literally be cutting the people you're shooting at.

-Evil Bob

[Mindflux]

My wife had (until recently) a quarter sized scar on her right wrist from 1988 from a paintball hit she took, its now gone thanks to the new scar remover medications you can buy off the shelf at your favorite pharmacy. If your GF looks like's she's starting to scar up, do her a big favor and send her to the pharmacy to get some of the scar stuff, there were at least 10 different brands last I saw, and all pretty much do the same thing.

The crappier the paint quality, usually the more damage done to the skin. Better quality paint shells disapate the enegery better and will usually only leave a bruise, whereas crappy paint will lacerate (cut) the skin badly in a circular pattern. If you're cutting costs by using crappy paint, you will literally be cutting the people you're shooting at.

-Evil Bob

I have absolutely NO idea where you guys dream this crap up. I've been 'cut' by Expensive paint (evil, marbs etc) and by the cheap Zap stuff too. The fact of the matter is, a sphere flying at you at 300FPS will sometimes break skin (the shell is rather firm gelatin) depending on the angle of impact.

[1stdeadeye]

So your girlfriend had your brothers balls on her chin?

[Fixion]

I got 3 on the roof of my mouth, all because of the flexies. oh well they are still awsome.
Pete

I got one straight in the mouth (wearing a flex7). Most of the shell was stopped by the flex part, but ALL of the paint went into my mouth. My lip also bled for a little while. But there wasn't even a bruise. BTW that was at 290 fps from about 50 feet.

[Evil Bob]

I have absolutely NO idea where you guys dream this crap up...

No need to dream anything up, not all paints are created equal or react the same upon impact, some bounce more then others, some have more brittle shells then others, some weigh more then others, some lacerate more then others. Talk to your local field owner, they'll tell you the same thing, some paints result in a higher number of "cuts" then others. Its a direct correlation to type of shell used (not all brands use the same type), the manufacture quality (is the ball perfectly filled or are their airspaces, does the fill seperate easily, does the fill react with the shell?), the age of the paint, and how it's been stored.

That's just the paint side, the other factors involved are the range and velocity the paint was fired at, the angle of impact, what part of the body it struck (some body parts take impact damage better then others), etc.

-Evil Bob

[1ofkind]

Just because the gun chronoed at 240 it doesn't mean it spiked up to 330 fps like alot of guns do.

[Duck Hunt]

I'm nursing a fractured rib from a bad fall last time I played.... I can't seem to stop lifting things either so its taking foreer to heal.

Sean

[argnot]

Chances are it never spiked over 240. Outta 6 shots at the chrono it was 220 to 230.

[OysterBoy]

Im sorry.. Ill be the first to say it..

your girlfriend has a HUGE *** CHIN. LIKE MANLY. lol

sorry.

pretty bad injury, btw.