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Summer Paintball The best summer days all seem to leave me a little sore, a little bruised and a little sunburned. A morning game of paintball with enough time left to... paintball.about.com |
A Water Based Paintball? Anyone who has leaned into a bunker that has been shot at all day and ends up with half their body dripping in oil can relate to the complaint that oil-based paintballs can get too messy. Oily paint smears on goggles, sticks to clothes, permanently coats obstacles and makes AstroTurf feel like an ice-skating rink. The simple solution to this oily mess is to create a water-based paint. Unfortunately, the gelatin used to make the shells simply doesn't mix well with water-based paints.Rumor has it, though, that a new company - HydroTec Paintball - is coming out with a water-based paintball. The company plans on debuting the paint early this fall and claims its product will help to "reinvigorate the industry." I'm somewhat skeptical that any paintball improvement (other than free or nearly-free paintballs) will reinvigorate the industry, but I am interested in whether a water-based paintball will actually work better than the traditional oil-based variety. The worst-case scenario is that the paintballs are awful and everyone keeps using the paint they currently shoot, but the best-case scenario means a cheaper, better paintball might be on the horizon. I'm excited to find out.A Water Based Paintball? originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 at 22:34:02.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |
Paintball Brides There's a new trend of brides trashing their dress after the wedding. The idea is that once the wedding is over, the dress isn't good for much and so you might as well get some funny, Facebook-worthy pictures out of it. Typical methods of destroying the dress include playing in the dirt or going swimming. Some brides in Ontario, though, decided that paintball would be an ideal way to trash their dresses.The setup is two brides wearing strapless wedding gowns on a paintball field going head to head in a race to paint the other green and yellow. I have to admit that the video of their game is pretty amusing and it's the first time I've ever seen someone really take off and run in a wedding dress. Now if someone could only get a "trash the wedding dress" paintball tournament with teams of brides competing they'd be headed for YouTube gold.Paintball Brides originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Monday, September 27th, 2010 at 21:11:13.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |
Review of the New Tippmann Gryphon I got my hands on Tippmann's new Gryphon paintball gun and had a chance to try it out. Overall, for $70 gun I would say it is decent. It's comfortable to hold and kind of fun to shoot. I was very impressed with how well it did with brittle paint and I didn't manage to break any balls in the barrel which is a common problem with such low-priced guns.The only big problem with the gun that I see is that it is a royal pain to take apart. Not only is there still the Tippmann clamshell design with a bunch of bolts to remove, but there's an extra shroud over the whole thing (the red-colored part is just a shell) that has its own bunch of screws (not bolts) to remove. Basically, if the gun turns out to be unreliable, nobody is going to fix one. But, if the gun turns out to be reliable, the inability of beginner's to open things up and mess things up will be a plus. To learn more, check out the full review.Review of the New Tippmann Gryphon originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Saturday, November 13th, 2010 at 01:10:18.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |