paintball expertise from paintball experts

Hey, I’m not saying they all do but the electric markers I’ve been around all my life seamed to…uh break. A lot of the time during combat. Gonna throw this out there, but can’t be any fun.  Meanwhile, those of use with mechanical guns are more than happy to take advantage of a dysfunctional gun.

Really, electric markers are the epitome of the paintball gun…if you take care of it. To many times have I seen buddies leave guns in the dirt, clean them after a year, or simply abuse them. There is a line between combat stress on a marker and down right misuse. Some Alec is planning on recanting a story from this weekend, involving the unfortunate senerio detailed above. I hope you find it educating. TAKE CARE OF YOU MARKER PEOPLE! The army has a saying. “Your gun is you life”. In paintball, your gun is $$$ and the difference of getting shot or shooting someone.  I recomend treating it well.

PAINTBALL STORY: part of the new ”Don’t try this at home” series…

For all you paintball junkies out there, I know you have all had that need and desire to build a paintball tank. The ultimate machine, portable doom. Well, my friends and I, having the lowest of budgets, ascertained to meet this fantasy. Don’t try this, it didn’t work.

We got a refrigerator box. We got some styrofoam. We got some wire.

We cut a hole in each of the four walls of the ‘tank’. We glued the styrofoam on the inside. We cut four more, larger holes at about face level, then covered the holes with the thin wire , to prevent the paintballs from going through. Over the ‘gun holes’ we laid strips of cloth over the holes, then glues them down. The gun barrel could be pressed in between the strips, but a paintball would burst. Our ideas were flying, it seemed as if there was no way anything could go wrong.

Have you ever shot cardboard? Have you ever shot styrofoam? Cardboard tears from about forty feet. Styrofoam explodes into tiny little bits.

One of my more ballsy (or dumb) friends braved being the first to try it out. Testing without someone in it, of course, was out of the question. Well, he started running in the opposite direction with that thing, and we opened up.

Inside the tank, the paintballs zipped through our ‘armor plating’ losing nearly no velocity. At the same time, styrofoam was flung everywhere inside the tank. My dear friend lost his bearing and began running towards us, and being the assholes we are, we kept shooting. Our ‘tank’ no longer was a ‘portable doom’ it was a flashing, enormous target.

My friend swears he would do it again and that he had fun anyway.

–John Da Host

{ 0 comments }

Paintball Crunch is

our focusing point for a multitude of crazy ideas and thoughts. The two of us fancy ourselves Paintball Theorist and thought that nothing could be more fun that a paintball blog, a siphon for the stuff that flows from our brains.

To navigate our site it’s quite simple. Above the site title you can navigate from page to page until you’ll find subject to your liking, click on it, and you’ll be reading about said subject. We’ve got everything from paintball theory, to ideas for game play. Your comments and ideas are welcome as well, on the comments page.Or you could read the daily posts, add your own comments and even write guest posts.

Or you can simply use the on-site search engine to search through posts, pages and comments on the subject matter you seek.

Remember, we’re here for answering questions as a resource or more as guides through massive amounts of resource. The comments are for communicating to us and other users. We encourage you to use it as much as you want, keep it clean though, we don’t have to publish your comment.

Paintball IS NOT just a hobby. It’s whatever you want it to be.

Enjoy!

Mr. Crunch and John Da Host [ Your Web Host] PAINTBALL