Happy Atheist Forum

I used to do it and went through the transition from pump action manual to semi-auto's. I loved it. I used to organise big fights of 60 players rather than play in a team. Great fun!

I play occasionally and love it, my sweetie played semi professionally back in South Carolina and plays here in WA as much as he can.  He has a Luxe.  I'll play with whatever.

I always likened the after effect to a 'mental sauna', I used to drive home absolutly washed out and loved the feeling, all the adrenaline and endorphins having cleared our all the tensions of everyday life.

Like it. Never had the chance to play though

I play as often as I can. Unfortunately that is usually only 3-4 times a year. I have a duffel bag full of gear. 3 guns, mask, hoppers, pods. Army issue pistol belt and suspenders with magazine pouches to hold the pods and a butt pack for tools, more pods, maybe grenades. Closet full of camos. (U.S., Brit, German, and Swiss camo currently in my collection.) I usually wear U.S. pants with a tank top and a British vest.

I used to do paintball but I'm both too sick and too broke to do it anymore.  I admit I miss it.

Quote from: "parrotpirate"I play as often as I can. Unfortunately that is usually only 3-4 times a year. I have a duffel bag full of gear. 3 guns, mask, hoppers, pods. Army issue pistol belt and suspenders with magazine pouches to hold the pods and a butt pack for tools, more pods, maybe grenades. Closet full of camos. (U.S., Brit, German, and Swiss camo currently in my collection.) I usually wear U.S. pants with a tank top and a British vest.

 lol

I haven't played paintball in years.  Around here paintball has fallen off as a big thing and been replaced by airsoft.

My boys and I would organize fights on our farm, sometimes with nearly 100 people running around, it was awesome.  I admit that I often just watched the kids do their thing, but it was fun to watch.  My father was a 43 year veteran of the Army and the Reserves, he retired as a SGT Major, both my brothers and he served in Desert Storm, so they loved doing the tactical stuff.  Me, I just made sure everyone was safe, and that we had plenty of water and snacks.

Tank, that is just plain damned silly!

Quote from: "parrotpirate"Tank, that is just plain damned silly! :yay:  :yay:  

I started 3 years ago.
But quickly got tired of the freestyle/free-for-all crap. No one wanted to do tacticals.
I got out of it 2 years ago.

never played...i bruise very easily and was told it creates huge bruises and my imagination told me that would mean mega bruises on me.  Don't much care for pain.

Quote from: "Whitney"never played...i bruise very easily and was told it creates huge bruises and my imagination told me that would mean mega bruises on me.  Don't much care for pain.

One does get bruised. They are odd as they are mostly ring shaped, one looks as though one has been attacked by squid suckers! And the pain on the day is nothing compared to the muscular grief a couple of days after, particularly the tops of the thighs as one is crouching all the time. We used to have our games on a Sunday and on Tuesday/Wednesday back at work all but the youngest/fittest were groaning 'Never again!'.

How do you post images? I have a cell phone picture of my arm from last year. It's the worst hit I ever took. Less than 5' away on bare skin.

Quote from: "parrotpirate"How do you post images? I have a cell phone picture of my arm from last year. It's the worst hit I ever took. Less than 5' away on bare skin.

You'll have to load it to an image host and link it. Whitney has disabled uploading as the site is near the server size limit. I wouldn't link it to a facebook upload as non-members can't see it. Imageshack is the site I have used, it's free and the adverts that fund it are not too in your face.

http://imageshack.us/ (http://imageshack.us/)

Let's try this: http://picasaweb.google.com/107496024452876430688/RandomStuff#5503130500492447490

Definite ouch!!

You can display it directly like this

(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Flh4.ggpht.com%2F_UF_IU3LsqTg%2FTF8MCIp4TwI%2FAAAAAAAAAB4%2FQa2J0VZHE2k%2FFinWelts.jpg&hash=e6ce38e0500d99bf48a4758907b8db62f45279f0)

By enclosing the image's url (direct link) thus in the (//size=99px%5D%5D%5B%5B/size%5D/img%5D%20'tags'.%5Bcode%5D%5Bimg%5Dhttp://lh4.ggpht.com/_UF_IU3LsqTg/TF8MCIp4TwI/AAAAAAAAAB4/Qa2J0VZHE2k/FinWelts.jpg)[/code]

Ok. I used the URL tags, but IMG is much better. It happened so fast, I didn't really even feel it. I was in a culvert/tunnel (just big enough to belly crawl in) that was sort of a back door in or out of a large bunker. I was at the outer end, watching a guy move in, when my mask started fogging and I lost track of him. Next thing you know, the barrel of his gun is poking into the tunnel  and three quick shots pop. I caught two, as you can see. Partly my own fault for playing with bare arms. The kid apologized for about an hour after. I told him it was no big deal. A year later you can still sort of see marks if you look close, since there were bits of shell dug in.