Anyone remember Hopper ball?

[Cow hunter]

'Course it was also like $100-$150 a case back then too but still.

still is at my local field

[shorty24]

Course it was also like $100-$150 a case back then too but still.

heck, they charge that much per paintball at my local field...

/I have resorted to shooting ppl in the face w/ wads of cash, as it is much cheaper than buying paintballs.

[Jackel411]

remember?? Thats how I force my team to play with we scrimage.. it forces people to move and become less reliant on the trigger and more on there legs and brain.


Case a day is normal for me in most settings except in agressive tourny ball than Im sinking atleast 2-3 cases of paint in a 7 man situation

[Tao]

Actually all of our tournaments here are hopper ball, including speedball. It may sound crazy for hopper ball in speedball these days but people actually manage to move around the field durring the game :P

[MoeMag]

Thats 50,000 paintballs!
I hope you got a bulk discount. Otherwise that is easily $1000 of paint.


Edit: that is double TS on my e-mag

[usagi_tetsu]

I was actually forced to play hopperball the last time I went out with my outlaw woodsball group by sheer dint of forgetting my packs and pods at home. Everyone else played standard fare carry all you want paintball, and I found I still have some moves for a hard-run 30 year old (it ain't the years, it's the mileage). It's amazing how lighter you are on your feet without a pack weighing you down, how much more cognizant you are of how much paint you've got left in the hopper and how miserly you get with it. Usually I'm a hose-beast, but that day I was Sniper Man: 5 shots, one marking, move on to the next opponent.

[White_Noise]

i still get to play hopper ball quite often actually. i practice for 5-man tournaments sometimes playing only hopper ball. ive even played hopper ball in tourneys sometimes(like when my team is in finals but still has games left, or when we have no chance and just want to do crazy stuff)

when i play with my friends in my hometown, i always play hopper ball. there is such a variance in skills that those of us who do play tourneys, etc just play with hoppers and either sit back and try to one ball people, or do suicide runs to the 50's.

hopper ball in the woods used to be the greatest though, i too remember playing for 2 days straight with only a 500rd bag. wish i could still do that...would be able to actually afford other things

[peewee]

We played 100 round games so when it came time for a tourney 200 was more than enough. I love & still play hopper ball every chance I get.

[mixwell2]

At one time not 'that' long ago it seems....

You could play w/ a hopper at a time, very often not even re-filling between games. Maybe a only couple times a day.

Cases were 2500 rounds and a single case lasted for like a month and half.

'Course it was also like $100-$150 a case back then too but still.

i soo remember those days...buying either 1000 of Zap for $85 or a case of RP Scherer (2500) for $115

back then i was shooting a VM-68 and a ranager

[RRfireblade]

Thats 50,000 paintballs!
I hope you got a bulk discount. Otherwise that is easily $1000 of paint.


Edit: that is double TS on my e-mag

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/I play alot of SC Pump tho
//I can play SC pump all day on what spills out of my pods after a semi day
///Slashes are kinda annoying to me

[ahellers]

some one should mod a pack to hold like 5 halos or somthing. then show ib and play some speed hopperball.
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[68magOwner]

meh, you dont HAVE to shoot a ton of paint now-a-days. Our last 5 man, we played 12 games, all the way through finals, and only reloaded twice all day. And we finished 2nd out of 69 teams, so, it wasnt and itty bitty event or anything. Playing faster=less paint (we won a man game in 14 sec) and i believe all of our games were under a minute, just play like its X ball, at a 5 man, you will save paint lol.

[master_alexander]

haha, only the best play hopperball.

[vonort]

hopper ball? I still use stick feeds.

[Stealth Fighter]

Best game I ever had was hopper ball, it was just me and half a hopper of paintballs left. I managed to get behind the other team and took out the final 4 of them. (please note this is woodsball). I have gotten out more people in a game than 4 before, but that one sticks out because I did it with about half a hopper of paintballs.