Paintball realism?...Big respect to the real warriors and a Father's Day, shooting with my sons.

[Streetcleaner]

First off, Big Fuckin' Huge creds go to our service men and woman  !! (on the front lines in particular) for this forum effort.Sunday, I was planning on going by myself to  paintball,as I usually do and meet up with the regulars dudes I hang out with(the flotsam and jetsam of the paintball crowd), lone warriors banding together to fight for the cause or whatever rules pertain to this particular game at hand....It being Fathers day and my two sons were there,because we had a college graduation party for my youngest on Sat into Sat. night and they stayed.I thought they would say No to me asking if they wanted to go but to my surprise they said yes.So I got out their guns oiled them up switched out my oldest sons stock barrel on his Tippmann custom 98 with one of my Lapco(smaller bore size and the best one piece barrels out there).Cooler full of water,compressed air tanks and the necessary gear.Gear........gear for me is NOT like a speedballer and or a hopper fed baller.Oh no......you have to have more than a belt with extra pods,gloves and a mask and maybe a remote line for their tank hanging off a pod belt or strapped sideways on the small of their back.They can carry 150 to 200 rounds in their hopper and each pod can usually refill their hopper and most have electronic feed hoppers that can shoot up to 19 balls a second...some guys carry like 3 to 4 pods if not more but very out of the way and easy to carry....noisy as hell though...lol.Here is where Realism(Mostly) meets paintball.....Magazine fed,like....magazines that hold 19 to 21 rounds of paint and a gun that fires magazines...magfed.No hopper on top, that restricts your view or just a pain in the ass to me(one thing I never liked about playing paintball before but you couldn't get around it...haha, around it)....when I recently was turned onto magfed this last fall,I instantly feel in love with it ! So much more real and when everyone is magfed,it's totally bad ass !. Getting back to realism,besides that,I have to have some way to carry my mags,I run with 9 right now,a mag dump pouch for spent mags,this requires a vest,plate carrier or just a mag carrier vest that just has mag pouches in front across the whole chest,mine takes 6 and this is what I was using today because it was hot as hell and I wanted to be somewhat lighter.....one mag in my gun two loaded in my mag dump pouch and the 6 on my chest rig and on my belt,3 pistol mags and a barrel squeege/cleaner, a pistol strapped to my leg(off of my belt) with one clip in.I have a utility pouch with wrenches and micro fiber clothes and gun lube on my belt along with  2 pod s,one filled with extra ammo and one with a back up 13 cubic inch tank....if needed.Long pants,knee pads(don't laugh because they 'are" necessary,especially when your old like me)....My shirt is a real Army issue long sleeve summer shirt for Afghanistan but is still hot as hell because of the sleeves....I obtained this from a guy I know who did 4 tours 2 in Iraq and 2 in Afghanistan,along with a mask and gloves...this gear is hot as hell on a day like that....at least 88 to 90 degrees and humid as hell with no breeze...needless to say this is not near the amount of gear a normal soldier wears and in heat hotter than where I was...these guys have to go out in the heat with all that gear and to just walk around can be exhausting but to have to fight and maybe for hours and hours on end....Holy Hell ! it was getting to me and I'm in good shape,yes older than them but still....I was drinking like an empty camel ! they have to do this day in and day out and be mentally and physically alert for anything,adrenaline pumping...it can become quite and obstacle to overcome but they do it.So they don't have to just deal with the enemy but other factors like the weather.We had a blast ! my sons did well, I racked up some wicked kills as well as getting shot,I took one to the mask .. ha ha  coconut.... Old COD 4 Ace humor....I also tagged a guy 5 times from his knee up his arm to his head,all on semi auto but I did blast some unlucky souls in the final match of the day with some full auto...yeah baby ! and even got some when I ran out of rifle mags and went with my side arm,including a head shot   NO MERCY !!

side note:I'm always at a disadvantage when I play on these small contained courses with hopper fed crazies and the speed of the game is much faster but I go because I work on my rig set up to make things more efficient and to work the bugs out before I go play some serious Magfed.Doing stuff like reloading or cleaning the barrel after a break or even changing a tank(which sucks)to cleaning out your breach after you just chopped a ball in half(doesn't happen much at all but when it does,you have to be ready) when I do this under pressure it just makes me a better player and faster,for when I get in some serious Magfed.

If any of you want to play COD for real,Magfed is the closest you will come and the serious games and tactical warfare can be intense !

Ball on brothers and sisters !!  

Edited June 22, 2021 by Streetcleaner
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[KaptCrunch]

get non-clorinated brake clearner to clean out barrel after broken paint ball wil keep barrel good

[RobMc]

It's great to see someone so enthusiastic and upbeat about his sport, he really loves it doesn't he?

 

PS FU SC

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