[geeks] Re: [rescue] SparcCenter 2000E on Ebay

[Kurt Huhn]

On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 10:20 PM, N. Miller wrote:

>
> Paintball gear gives you the opportunity to have team on team 
> situations
> which allows more creativity than against static 
> mechanical/computerized
> targeting systems, with the "shock" of a hit anywhere on your body 
> taking
> you out.  (My understanding is that MILES does not register hits on 
> anything
> other than the vest and headgear.)  Particularly in an urban COB 
> situation,
> where you are going to get hit with a 280fps paintball at less than 10 
> yards.
> (I don't want to get hit with a paintball at 20 yards, much less from 
> across
> the room.)
>

I'll agree with everything here.  Being an active paintballer (not a 
"speedballer" or tournament style player) I can see where that type of 
practice would be beneficial to CQB training.  I've only played on a 
speedball course once, and it's *not* paintball as I know and love.  It 
sucks.  Spray and pray.

I love my mildly tuned Tippman Model 98.  I won't use anything else - 
I've used Bruisers, Spyders, Brass Eagles, Shockers, Angels, and so on. 
  Nothing was as reliable as my Tippman.  Nothing sucks more than having 
your spiffy electro-pneumatic marker chop balls on you because the 
solenoid got out of adjustment, or it got too cold, or a piece of dirt 
got stuck in the bolt, or whatever.

But I suppose this is a topic better suited to Geeks at .  Attempting 
move...
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