a.) Their mother had probably spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $4,000+ on the three of them for Christmas (and that's probably just for paintball related stuff)
b.) Two of them had never played before and
c.) That they saw nothing wrong with this,
I had to explain to the middle one that you were supposed to hook the quick disconnect on the 4500 fill station to the fill nipple on the tank and not try to screw it into the pin valve on the front, answer several questions about my marker, show the little kid how to screw his CO2 tank into the ASA of the A-5, cock it for him, show him where the chrono was and how to use it (explain that it had to be turned on before it would register a shot), and then go back and tell the oldest one for the third time not to keep messing with his feedneck or he was going to strip the threads out of the body.
As it turns out, the feedneck that was included with his DM5 was defective and did not fit the gun. He still managed to strip it out, but fortunately for him, he didn't strip the threads out of the gun body. One of the guys that worked there tried another Matrix-threaded feedneck and it fit, but he ended up loaning the kid his own DM3 to play with for the day.
Eventually, after they all got their crap together, we went out on the hyperball field to play. I played pretty badly for the first several games, I managed to take the snake pretty quickly during the fist two games, but I had been using the Viking lately and was out of practice with the Nelspot. I was missing shots I normally would have made with ease, although it might have had something to do with the fact that paintballs have a somewhat different range and trajectory at 235 fps.
They stayed about two hours and shot about a case of paint each. From what I've heard though, kids that have never played before getting $1400 guns for Christmas doesn't seem to be a rare occurance. What are your thoughts and opinions on the subject?
On a side note, I would have spent $5 the entire day (for field fee, I had 140 rounds of paint left over and brought 12 grams, so I didn't need to buy air), but I finally convinced myself to buy a $15 pair of gloves after three bleeding wounds to my left hand and digging dirt out from under a flap of skin with the blade of my knife. Of course, after buying them, I only took one hit to the hand the rest of the day. Maybe next time I'll convince myself to buy a neck protector.
b.) Two of them had never played before and
c.) That they saw nothing wrong with this,
I had to explain to the middle one that you were supposed to hook the quick disconnect on the 4500 fill station to the fill nipple on the tank and not try to screw it into the pin valve on the front, answer several questions about my marker, show the little kid how to screw his CO2 tank into the ASA of the A-5, cock it for him, show him where the chrono was and how to use it (explain that it had to be turned on before it would register a shot), and then go back and tell the oldest one for the third time not to keep messing with his feedneck or he was going to strip the threads out of the body.
As it turns out, the feedneck that was included with his DM5 was defective and did not fit the gun. He still managed to strip it out, but fortunately for him, he didn't strip the threads out of the gun body. One of the guys that worked there tried another Matrix-threaded feedneck and it fit, but he ended up loaning the kid his own DM3 to play with for the day.
Eventually, after they all got their crap together, we went out on the hyperball field to play. I played pretty badly for the first several games, I managed to take the snake pretty quickly during the fist two games, but I had been using the Viking lately and was out of practice with the Nelspot. I was missing shots I normally would have made with ease, although it might have had something to do with the fact that paintballs have a somewhat different range and trajectory at 235 fps.
They stayed about two hours and shot about a case of paint each. From what I've heard though, kids that have never played before getting $1400 guns for Christmas doesn't seem to be a rare occurance. What are your thoughts and opinions on the subject?
On a side note, I would have spent $5 the entire day (for field fee, I had 140 rounds of paint left over and brought 12 grams, so I didn't need to buy air), but I finally convinced myself to buy a $15 pair of gloves after three bleeding wounds to my left hand and digging dirt out from under a flap of skin with the blade of my knife. Of course, after buying them, I only took one hit to the hand the rest of the day. Maybe next time I'll convince myself to buy a neck protector.
What can you do, the will always be people who can deck themselves out with the latest gear. I think it is fine as long as the kids are being safe and not bonus balling anyone.
) There was also a kid in all DYE with a new proto that his parents had bought for him, but, at least he could actually use it/play, so, not AS bad. I am 16, 17 soon, i have bought all of my paint ball equipment myself, and pay for all of my stuff when a play (one exception- my mom once bought me a case of paint with some of the money we got to fix my car after i got hit in it, i also got a barrel kit, and warp feed for christmas (over 2 years, not both at once)) so, not 100% by myself, wit barrel kit, warp, and case of paint, parents have put ~$175 or so into my hobby over the last 4 years, so, i concider myself paying for it all for the most part.
my ao feedback http://www.automags.org/forums/showthread.php?t=167490
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