I killed a Kid was I wrong?

[RavishingEddie]

Well not literally took his life away but something close I guess. Last weekend I went to play and I didn't take my mags because they are being annoed so instead I took my ancient Tippmann SL68 2. Anyway I was in the middle of a scenario game war and my team was losing. I made a daring move with the help of some of my team mates cover fire and moved really close to the enemy in the middle field. They were closing in on us and as I looked back only 6 of my team mates were keeping the fight alive. As I peeked though the holes of the tiny broken down bunker I saw a head sticking out every once in a while shooting at my team. I just remember a red mask and a silver DM6 and being about 30 to 40 feet away. I waited and as he stuck his head out a third time, I aimed and BAM!! nailed him right in the side of the head.
Right after I was eliminated from another sniper I noticed the person I shot had not eliminated himself, so I walked up to him and it was a 13 year old kid holding his ear and sort of crying. The ref immediatly walked up to the kid and helped him up and asked how far I had shot him from and the kid said from really close point blank close. The kid also said that he could not hear from his left ear. The ref then went up to me and told me I should be more careful As the ref walked him out I remember him asking if I was really close and kid kept nodding his head. They checked my chrono and it was 280 fps which was 5 fps more than the limit. For some reason I ended up feeling bad about the whole thing even after I saw the kid I shot playing gleefully the second game right after

[geekwarrior]

eh, if he was fine the next game, than don't feel to bad. Be sure he would have ripped on you if he was that close, and probably put 4 or 5 to your head. You only shot him once, and your gun was not hot.

/ how close were you?

[CKY_Alliance]

Of course you where wrong..you were playing paintball and shot someone..what the hell were you thinking?

[RavishingEddie]

eh, if he was fine the next game, than don't feel to bad. Be sure he would have ripped on you if he was that close, and probably put 4 or 5 to your head. You only shot him once, and your gun was not hot.

/ how close were you?

about 30 to 40 feet away.

[Glickman]

about 30 to 40 feet away.

lets see you go for a bunkering nex time

[geekwarrior]

about 30 to 40 feet away.

yeah, just saw that

in that case, no way should you feel bad. In fact, you probably did what 99% of this forum would feel good about doing. You shot a kiddie (shooting a gun his mommy bought him) with one shot, sniper style. The only down side it wasnt with a mag.

I accidently shot a kid after he called out, put to balls on him from all the way across the field, had to arch them to get them to him. He was standing behind a tree watching the rest of the game, wasnt in our designated dead zone. Easy mistake, but I walked up to him to apologize. I said sorry, and than he started crying saying he had called out, and why did I shoot him. pfftt...if you can't take hits from 30-40 feet without crying, than dont play the game.

[robnix]

30-40 feet? He should pay better attention, his whining was from the shock of getting smacked from out of nowhere.

[RavishingEddie]

yeah, just saw that

in that case, no way should you feel bad. In fact, you probably did what 99% of this forum would feel good about doing. You shot a kiddie (shooting a gun his mommy bought him) with one shot, sniper style. The only down side it wasnt with a mag.

I accidently shot a kid after he called out, put to balls on him from all the way across the field, had to arch them to get them to him. He was standing behind a tree watching the rest of the game, wasnt in our designated dead zone. Easy mistake, but I walked up to him to apologize. I said sorry, and than he started crying saying he had called out, and why did I shoot him. pfftt...if you can't take hits from 30-40 feet without crying, than dont play the game.

Yeah I am sure if it was my mag it would of hit him in the same spot 3 times. I love my mag, I just use the ol SL because it is indestructable. Reminds me of my mag.

[AGDRetro]

As a ref I would say that the first thing wrong here is that nobody called him out. I dunno about you guys, but where I ref we don't wait for somebody to call themselves out, if we see the hit we'll call it ourselves. This is in my view a lack of a a good ref to player ratio.

You did everything right, you one-balled him and made him cry like the little girl he is. I recently got my 12 year-old brother out on the field for the first time. I made sure that he understood he was gonna get shot and it was gonna suck that first time, but he will get use to it! We practiced a bit first, he had a full hopper and I had a 10-round tube ghetto rigged into the feed of my Mag. We did a snap shooting drill and I shot him square in the forehead! He took it like a champ, and we went and played a few games later.

These young kids who are just handed an excellent marker rely on that great gun to the point that with it they think they are invincible, and cry when they take a goggle shot!? The goggle has got to be the least paintful place to take a hit! He was lucky you gave it to him at 30-40, I like to get a little closer

[Jackel411]

We call that a run through.... It happens in almost every game of paintball.. So what the kid was crying boo hoo hes 13 and should get some stones.

[Pneumagger]

dude... don't feel bad.

Last Sunday, we were playing attack the fort. I was on offense. Long story short... I made it to the doorway of the fort and stepped in. I signalled the ref at which point the ref declared this was an elimination game and I proceeded to hunt the players inside after 2ms of deliberation.

Everyone was upstairs in the fort and had NO CLUE I was down there. I stuck my pneumag up over the railing of the stairs into the one room "balcony" and could've touched the little noolets I shot. Shootin fish in a barrel

I felt sorta bad and winced a little bit each time I pulled the trigger... cause I sure as heck was not missing. At least I wasn't aiming for heads you ***hole.

I chronoed the pneumag after that... 305fps.

[AGDRetro]

...At least I wasn't aiming for heads you ***hole...

If heads are all they give ya...

[Pneumagger]

I was joking about the heads thing and the ***hole part. All's I know is if somebody shot me with a 305fps gun from 0.75 feet away... there would some fighting.

On a side note... We once played outlaw ball back in the day with the guns chronoed @ 400 fps (Tippmann Prolite). One of my my budies got knocked out from a noggin shot like 15 feet away. I'll never forget... he just dropped like a tree.

[geekwarrior]

dude... don't feel bad.

Last Sunday, we were playing attack the fort. I was on offense. Long story short... I made it to the doorway of the fort and stepped in. I signalled the ref at which point the ref declared this was an elimination game and I proceeded to hunt the players inside after 2ms of deliberation.

Everyone was upstairs in the fort and had NO CLUE I was down there. I stuck my pneumag up over the railing of the stairs into the one room "balcony" and could've touched the little noolets I shot. Shootin fish in a barrel

I felt sorta bad and winced a little bit each time I pulled the trigger... cause I sure as heck was not missing. At least I wasn't aiming for heads you ***hole.

I chronoed the pneumag after that... 305fps.

that story is why I rarely hole up in a house. 90% of the time you're the last one to get out, and getting out normally means getting shot from 10ft away or less.

We have played SWAt before. We even had shields, 50 gallon plastic drums we cut in half. We also had grain carts you could push and advance behind. There's nothing to get your adrenilin pumping in a game of paintball than tryng to clear a dark room.

[RavishingEddie]

Well the head is all I had to shoot. I see it more like a rough introduction to the Nelson Valve

A couple of games later the kid walked up to me and said "Hey buddy did you shoot a kid in the ear?" I replied "Yeah, from far away." Then he gives me the dirtiest look and switched teams along with his other friends. They had nice guns I give them that. I was sort of funny to me when he kept looking at my gun with with a disgusted/confused look wondering what the hell was that thing that made him cry LOL.