the horrors of being a paintball ref (long)

[jerkface11]

Woodsball Speedball I don't care. I love it all. Everyone at work gets together and goes a couple times a year it's great fun shooting your coworkers. My gun is dressed up like an M4 carbine.

[bunnyboy]

Damn, now I'd like to go and get myself a marker, and trick it out and find places around here to play.

This board and the Whiteboard I swear it's a conspiracy.

[Mottom24]

Damn, now I'd like to go and get myself a marker, and trick it out and find places around here to play.

This board and the Whiteboard I swear it's a conspiracy.

You can play in any woods. just make sure it is a good distance from a neighborhood. usually we walked in at about 1/4th to 1/2 a mile in. one time we were just walking into a forest and cops pulled up to us, opened their doors, and had their hands on their holsters and screamed "PUT THE GUNS DOWN!"... so we listened... even tho some of us had nitro on our back so the markers just kinda dangled on them lol. once the cops saw they were paintball markers they eased up immediatly, sighed, and told us some old man (who yelled at us for parking down the street....) called them and said we were shooting BB guns, which are illegal in my town to walk around in public with. we laughed it off, they liked checking out our gear and just told us to head deep into the woods (which we were doing) and that they had to come out because it was called in... I was still scared shitless at first tho lol.

[GreedySmurf]

Ah good old paintball. The only problem is with Australia's gun laws, you need a full on firearms license to own a paintball marker.

I don't wear a box (cup to most of you), it's too awkward, besides I've never copped a serious hit in the groin. My worst hit was in the throat from short range. That stung like all hell.

A lot of the ref's I've seen at the paintball fields I play at tend to carry a marker with them. Which tends to prevent them getting shot at when they can fire back!!

The other ref getting shot in the groin. What a prick the SC was. In that area from that range could easily have ruptured something.

[MercenaryMuffin]

I don't wear a box (cup to most of you), it's too awkward, besides I've never copped a serious hit in the groin

All it takes is once, my friend. Then you'll never, ever play without some sort of padding or protection again.