| All New Paintball FAQ Like any sport every aspect affects your success out on the field. From your skills to your equipment everything counts. First and foremost Paintballing is a sport for the bold and not the weary. If you jump at the sound of paintball marker discharging or do projectiles directed at high speeds toward you make you duck and take cover then paintballing is not the sport for you. Paintballing like most sports is not for everyone. Most people who are attracted to paintballing are thrill seekers. paintballtimes.com |
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My New Favorite Sub-$100 Paintball Gun While I like high-end paintball guns as much as the next player, I'm really interested in the quality of lower-end guns and it's always a nice surprise to come across something well-made that doesn't break the bank. Recently, ANSgear.com set me up with some equipment to test and an Azodin Kaos was included. I've known about the Azodins since they first came out and they were always on my list of guns to review, but I just never was in much of a hurry - the Kaos just seemed like another Spyder-clone that would perform similarly to all the comparable JTs and Piranhas in the world. My lowered expecations, though, were much more than met when I actually tried it out.The Kaos is a simple, mechanical, blowback paintball gun and is basically identical to a classic Spyder. The difference, though, is that it improves upon a classic Spyder in every area from the feedneck to the trigger to the bolt. In fact, not only is it my new favorite paintball gun that costs less than $100 but it is also my second favorite mechanical gun to shoot after an Automag. There are still much better paintball guns in the world (most guns that cost over $200 I would classify as being better overall), but for the price, I can't think of a gun I would rather have.If you haven't tried out an Kaos, I highly recommend it. All the low-end paintball gun manufacturers in the world now have something new to aspire to and hopefully improve upon. Now I have high hopes that there will soon be another sub-$100 gun that is just as good or better.My New Favorite Sub-$100 Paintball Gun originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 at 13:46:04.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |
Designing Your Dream Paintball Field During the winter months there's often time between trips to the paintball field. While the weather often doesn't cooperate, it's even more common that your peers won't cooperate and argue that freezing temperatures aren't conducive to paintball. That means that you probably now have more free time than you had all summer and fall. With your open weekends you can fill them cleaning your gear or even doing non-paintball related things, but I'm sure that's not what you really want to do. Why not spend some of your time designing your dream paintball field?There are two ways that you can approach building a dream field - designing one you may actually build now and designing one you would love to see built someday. Last winter I took a few weeks to design a couple of fields for a resort that was thinking of adding paintball to its attractions and I must say that it was fun and a lot of work. After going to lots and lots of fields, I've seen some good things and bad things and it's not easy to put the best parts of different fields into one setting and then add a few original features. It turns out to be a lot of work, but at the same time, a lot of fun.If you have some time, try and redesign the local field you play at. If you play on private property, try and make the layout exciting while also feasible to build while figuring out what supplies you'll have access to. For example, check to see if there any demolition projects going on in your community where you might be able to get some building materials over the winter that you can then reassemble in a unique design come spring. If you play at a professional field, share your ideas with the field owner. Most field owners I have spoken to are generally pretty friendly and open to new and exciting ways of laying out fields. If you agree to organize some friends and provide the labor, chances are that they'll agree to let you make some improvements. Even if you don't get to build your field, odds are that you'll come up with some new ideas and strategies to try out the next time you do play.While the fields I designed haven't, yet, been built (and might never be), I still have the plans so I can one day build my own dream field.Designing Your Dream Paintball Field originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Saturday, November 20th, 2010 at 00:29:24.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |