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Typical Airsoft players

Dopesick said:
<--- seriously offended airsofter. - not really it was pretty funny.

Some airsofters take the whole milsim thing WAYYYY to far. Then again they should.. They ain't getting into the armed forces in there shape(s).

Paintball is once again fucking lame. With the "ramping" ability of damn near every marker on the market now, and person with a near epileptic siezure reaction in the fingers can "spray" paint like its raining down from above... Yeah that'll help skill.
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Last time I checked airsoft guns shot faster than paintball guns... I agree ramping is horrible but the max that ramping can legally get is 15 bps in tourny play and most fields are regulating walk ons to 20 bps. Also airsoft fires at a higher FPS and holds more rounds than a typical airsoft loader. Granted most paintball players walk on with packs that allow them to hold a few extra rounds but dude tons of small BBs flying at you...paintball is better!
 
one reason why i like airsoft over paintball..

guns look more realistic, more real feel, 1:1 scale, mags, scopes, lasers, red dots, silencers, grenade launchers etc...

besides Real Action Markers...those are cool :teeth
 
call me a pussy but I'd have a major problem with airsoft pellets hitting me in my face. that shit can put out eyes and chip teeth.


I used to love paintballing but that was back in the day when only a few people had automags and autocockers, and most semis shot at maybe 5 bps.
 
Dude, that guy's melon barely fits in his brain bucket. Jesus.
 
Re: Took my squad Pballing years ago.

bicyclemech1 said:
Was a Marine grunt in the late '80s. Took my squad to the Paintball place and slaughtered everybody with solid squad tactics. By the end of the day, shooting a Jarhead was a trophy. Some of those bitches were whinning at the lunch break and wanted to divide us up.
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Aweseome stuff!
 
How the hell is the Bush admin NOT advertising for troops in the airsoft and paintball mags?
 
dubels said:
Last time I checked airsoft guns shot faster than paintball guns... I agree ramping is horrible but the max that ramping can legally get is 15 bps in tourny play and most fields are regulating walk ons to 20 bps. Also airsoft fires at a higher FPS and holds more rounds than a typical airsoft loader. Granted most paintball players walk on with packs that allow them to hold a few extra rounds but dude tons of small BBs flying at you...paintball is better!
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First off, YES airsoft BB's DO travel faster then paintballs, yet inflict the same exact amount of damage. How you ask.... "The Joule". Its all about force of mass. A paintball traveling at 300fps does the same amount of damage a .20g bb traveling at 400fps does.

mercurial said:
call me a pussy but I'd have a major problem with airsoft pellets hitting me in my face. that shit can put out eyes and chip teeth.
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Safety rules exist for a reason. It is 100% required your wear ANSI rated glasses AND a mouthguard. OR A ANSI rated full face setup (paintball masks qualify).

Holeshot said:
How the hell is the Bush admin NOT advertising for troops in the airsoft and paintball mags?
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Ignorance is bliss.

I try not to come off as rude 100% of the time. But pure ignorance is about in the thread and I wanted to take the time to politely point out the mistakes.
 
I think paintball is pretty lame because people just throw paint everywhere. If you wanted to make it realistic, make an amunition limit. 30 round magazines, a max of 120 rounds on any player at one time. It'd stop people from laying a steady stream of paintballs all over the playing field. Granted, I haven't played paintball in like 10 years, but I've seen it on TV recently and couldn't help but think how pointless it was.
 
Nick said:
I think paintball is pretty lame because people just throw paint everywhere. If you wanted to make it realistic, make an amunition limit. 30 round magazines, a max of 120 rounds on any player at one time. It'd stop people from laying a steady stream of paintballs all over the playing field. Granted, I haven't played paintball in like 10 years, but I've seen it on TV recently and couldn't help but think how pointless it was.
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They do that too. "Stock class", "Hopper Ball"....
 
Dopesick said:
First off, YES airsoft BB's DO travel faster then paintballs, yet inflict the same exact amount of damage. How you ask.... "The Joule". Its all about force of mass. A paintball traveling at 300fps does the same amount of damage a .20g bb traveling at 400fps does.
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:nerd According to the law of equal and opposite reactions, when a gun is fired, roughly the same amount of energy is imparted on the firearm as is imparted on the bullet. Yet, only a fool would claim that the person firing the gun receives the same amount of "damage" as the person who is hit by the bullet.

"damage" is based on object speed, mass, size, and shape, not just on a "Joule" rating.

Safety rules exist for a reason. It is 100% required your wear ANSI rated glasses AND a mouthguard. OR A ANSI rated full face setup (paintball masks qualify).
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no one in the pictures is wearing a mouthguard, and not all are wearing glasses. Since I'm not in the habit of rolling around in the weeds and playing war games, I wouldn't know what the normal rules are. your clarification is appreciated but I'd hardly say my post amounts to "pure ignorance".
 
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mercurial said:
According to the law of equal and opposite reactions, when a gun is fired, roughly the same amount of energy is imparted on the firearm as is imparted on the bullet. Yet, only a fool would claim that the person firing the gun receives the same amount of "damage" as the person who is hit by the bullet.

"damage" is based on object speed, mass, size, and shape, not just on a "Joule" rating.

no one in the pictures is wearing a mouthguard, and not all are wearing glasses. Since I'm not in the habit of rolling around in the weeds and playing war games, I wouldn't know what the normal rules are.

your clarification is appreciated, but when you throw around terms like "pure ignorance" you might want to carefully check how you are responding.
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Most of the NONE game play pictures do indeed show people not wearing correct gear. God forbid they take a pic toting a M15a4, with a full face mask on. - You can tell by LACK of eyewear on the said above pics, they're "playing make believe for the camera".

In reguards to the "damage" you quote.. I seriously think your on something. With the way a weapon is setup, how is the said person operating the weapon damaged, aside from fatique of carrying the damn thing and recoil?
 
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Re: Took my squad Pballing years ago.

bicyclemech1 said:
Was a Marine grunt in the late '80s. Took my squad to the Paintball place and slaughtered everybody with solid squad tactics. By the end of the day, shooting a Jarhead was a trophy. Some of those bitches were whinning at the lunch break and wanted to divide us up.
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As competent as you are as a solider those tactics wouldnt work on a modern day paintball field.
 
I agree

The amount of paint flying around then was substantially less. Now I think the best tactic would be to set up ambushes. No one would make it through a frontal assault with the amount of paint your average player can lay down on his own, let alone a squad.

It looks fun still. I like the college stuff I see on ESPN.
 
Dopesick said:

In reguards to the "damage" you quote.. I seriously think your on something. With the way a weapon is setup, how is the said person operating the weapon damaged, aside from fatique of carrying the damn thing and recoil?
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I'm on something? :laughing

what I said is pretty self explanatory. energy is imparted on the firearm (recoil) which is connected to your body. I'm a little baffled at how you could be trying to teach someone about physics and simultaneously have no idea what I just said...
 
First off, hilarious pics!

Paintball pwns airsoft. Just unfortunate what happens to every sport once it becomes "main stream" The amount of paint that gets thrown now leads to scenarios that would get you kicked off a field at the time that I played every weekend (same era as mercurial) If you were Mr Bonus Balls, you were picking your teeth up off the crono later. I still go and play pump at rec fields occasionally just for the ego boost of shooting guys with electro's, but the advent of airfields changed tournament dynamics far enough to make me loose interest in competetive play. Additionally, they allow kids of almost all ages to play now... when I started (11yo) the field I eventually played for made me spectate for a YEAR first. ahhh, ode to the good ol days.

And nick, they do have limits on ammo to be divided up between the entire team per round,(in tournaments) usually leaving the majority for the back players, however realism isn't the goal. its all about fun. Thats why painball guns aren't designed (for the most part) to look like real firearms. Mix that with the fact that a paintball gun doesnt shoot anything like a real gun in regards to range and accuracy and there you have it. Realism is why rambo wannabes play airsoft :nerd
 
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