How paintballs are made

[st6212]

Dunno if anyone has seen this vid before. Just came across it a few minutes ago:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6300354640369281174&q=%22how+paintballs+r+made%22+playable%3Atrue

[the mag guy]

pretty neat, nice find

[Will Wood]

I still don't get how the paint filling process works...that looks like it would only get them partially full

[StygShore]

huh?

Invented how many years ago?


I know guys that have been playing since 1979


Styg


Neat video though

[geekwarrior]

they add a sweetner? pshh....they need to add alot more, because all the paintballs I've been shot with, it tastes like soap. Some of them smell like bannanas, but they still taste like crap. Edible paintballs, now theres an idea.

[warbeak2099]

Edible paintballs, now theres an idea.

Bah, that would ruin paintball eating contests at scenario games. Great video by the way.

[StygShore]

experimental

At one time there were scented paintballs, flavored paintballs, talcum powder filled paintballs (Ouch - like being shot wiht a ball of mud! ), even paintballs with glitter inside to prove people were whiping.


I remember being out in a game and Ceasar Pizzo ( of Detroit Fusion infamy ) laid into me with about 40 rounds of glitter filled rose scented paint, it was horrible!!!



Styg

[Maggot6]

Every so often you see that on TV...I saw it a few years ago, but it is still neat.

[warpfeedmod]

Invented how many years ago?


I know guys that have been playing since 1979


Styg


Neat video though

I think they're talking more mainstream here, it's actually been around longer then that I believe, how it all started with the farmers marking their cattle and whatnot.

[ttink]

even paintballs with glitter inside to prove people were wiping.

Now i like that idea. Except cleaning between games. Vacuum?

[Rick-USA]

The glitter was in with the normal fill. It was a product as I remember from PMI. It didn't last long because it was scratching your lens when you got gogged. There is still scented paint being made, apple, banana and one other I think.

You know people who have been playing since 1979? If that's the case they should make the claim they invented the sport since it's been recorded as not officially starting until 1981 when the first organized game was played in New Hampshire.

[warpfeedmod]

The glitter was in with the normal fill. It was a product as I remember from PMI. It didn't last long because it was scratching your lens when you got gogged. There is still scented paint being made, apple, banana and one other I think.

You know people who have been playing since 1979? If that's the case they should make the claim they invented the sport since it's been recorded as not officially starting until 1981 when the first organized game was played in New Hampshire.

the key here is "first organized". As I said, the concept of "paintball markers" has been around long before that when farmers used them to mark their cattle heards, and foresters used them to mark trees for cutting.

They started shooting each other and sometime around the 80's (I've heard ranging from 81 - 85 even) that about a dozen people, investment bankers, etc, played the "weekend warrior" game and they purchased several of the tree/cow markers from Nelson (hence the Nel-Splat markers) and started selling them to the public.

If I'm not mistaken around that same time frame the first paintball fireld opened in New York.