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New History of Paintball Website There's a new paintball site that I'm very excited about. Paintball X3 has released a new History of Paintball website that I highly encourage you to check out. I'm familiar with the general history of paintball, but the early years were before my time and much of my information has come from anecdotal sources. This new site provides a detailed history that comes from the people who were involved and fleshes out the general story that is commonly available on the web.I'm sure that The History of Paintball took countless hours and it is evidently a labor of love. The site's primary author, John Amodea, has done a wonderful job of sharing the history of the sport in a fun and entertaining way. As an added bonus, John has been involved with the sport for almost its entire history so you can get a first-person's view of the sport's growth and development from someone who lived it.If your not familiar with the history of paintball or you want to learn the personal stories from the people who lived them, check out this new site. It's the best new paintball site I have seen in a long time.New History of Paintball Website originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Monday, February 1st, 2010 at 19:15:05.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |
Semis and CO2 There's something familiar about playing paintball with just a good old Tippmann, Spyder or similar-type gun with a CO2 tank. It probably has something to do with the way I was introduced to the game, but there's something so comforting about just screwing on a tank and pulling the trigger. Playing with dwell times and tuning output pressures and getting after-market boards can be fun, but it also can take away from the pure enjoyment of the sport of paintball.One thing I've come to realize is that a competition with the "best" guns doesn't mean the game is any more fun to play. The games I enjoy the best are when everybody is shooting a comparable gun. That way, when somebody does better, it's because that person won on their merits. I don't care if it's Egos and Angels, Tippmanns and Piranhas or plastic pumps, it's better when everybody is shooting comparable guns. But, when I play a game with semi-automatics, I find that I run more, spend less time behind bunkers and generally enjoy the game more. I like the basic blowbacks because they remind me of playing the game how I learned to play it.Semis and CO2 originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Friday, March 5th, 2010 at 12:32:53.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |
Rebuilding a Gun I've probably owned around a hundred paintball guns in my life, which means that I've seen just about every problem at some time or another. Since I love tinkering I always try to fix the problem myself. While most problems can be fixed with simply cleaning out a gun and replacing the o-rings, sometimes a gun has simply worn out and needs to be replaced. That's when it's time for a rebuild.Rebuilding, in its simplest sense, consists of replacing the parts that are most prone to wear and then reassembling the gun. It's amazing to pop in a new cup valve, a hammer spring and maybe even a new sear and then fire the gun like it was new.If you're gun is having problems like double-firing, misfiring, leaking down the barrel or just seems sluggish and worn, it might be time to rebuild it. Most manufacturers provide rebuild kits with the parts that most likely need to be replaced - put them in and see if your gun fires like new. It's a lot cheaper than buying a new gun.Rebuilding a Gun originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 at 10:14:03.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |