Is this necessary?
Is a silencer not just one more piece of junk that people buy for the sole purpose of looking cool? Yet another product that doesn't do jack doo doo except get 11 year olds to hang around you at the paintball field?
I guess it's not as absurd as the guy in silver/neon purple with a $1200 gun that has $600 worth of anno and replaced parts to match his pants...but c'mon...it's out of control when people are paying the ATF $200 so they can put a black water bottle on the end of their A5 and pretend their "The Professional".
Don't get me wrong, when I first started playing paintball...I wanted to be a "sniper." Then I realized that in order to truly be a "sniper"...you need to put hundreds of dollars into camo, you need face paint, you need a flat black gun, and you need to spend so much time moving "slowly" that the 15 minute game is over before you get off a shot.
Bottom line...if you got a "non-shiny" gun, a good camo outfit, and you use your surroundings well (and you use a paint that isn't "traceable", i.e. green, black, etc... rather than orange, yellow, pink, etc...)...you gun making a loud "poof" is the least of your problems. And I say this as a guy that still owns and often uses a Raptor Silver Eagle which could be the loudest gun ever made.
Related story...I remember that I was afraid to buy a mask fan because I thought it would "tip off the enemy". Once I got one...my only complaint was that it made a weird sound that gives me a headache and if you take a direct hit to the fan...it makes really crazy sound that only adds to the surprise of getting beaned in the forehead.
Is a silencer not just one more piece of junk that people buy for the sole purpose of looking cool? Yet another product that doesn't do jack doo doo except get 11 year olds to hang around you at the paintball field?
I guess it's not as absurd as the guy in silver/neon purple with a $1200 gun that has $600 worth of anno and replaced parts to match his pants...but c'mon...it's out of control when people are paying the ATF $200 so they can put a black water bottle on the end of their A5 and pretend their "The Professional".
Don't get me wrong, when I first started playing paintball...I wanted to be a "sniper." Then I realized that in order to truly be a "sniper"...you need to put hundreds of dollars into camo, you need face paint, you need a flat black gun, and you need to spend so much time moving "slowly" that the 15 minute game is over before you get off a shot.
Bottom line...if you got a "non-shiny" gun, a good camo outfit, and you use your surroundings well (and you use a paint that isn't "traceable", i.e. green, black, etc... rather than orange, yellow, pink, etc...)...you gun making a loud "poof" is the least of your problems. And I say this as a guy that still owns and often uses a Raptor Silver Eagle which could be the loudest gun ever made.
Related story...I remember that I was afraid to buy a mask fan because I thought it would "tip off the enemy". Once I got one...my only complaint was that it made a weird sound that gives me a headache and if you take a direct hit to the fan...it makes really crazy sound that only adds to the surprise of getting beaned in the forehead.
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