[SunRescue] I could run a small country...

[Mike Hebel]

Hah!  Just got an inexpensive paintball gun for Christmas.  A Brass Eagle
Samurai.

Being the geek I am I've already had it completely apart, found more than a
few good replacement barrels for it (aluminum/titanium =-), and am going to
take it to work and see what kind of replacement bolt the machine
fabrication guys can make for it. ;-)

Being in the Midwest we usually don't go until spring/summer but we'll
probably be doing winter practice on a friend of mine's 5 acres.

Mike Hebel

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> >Behalf Of Bill Bradford
> >Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2000 1:27 PM
> >To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> >Subject: Re: [SunRescue] I could run a small country...
> >
> >
> >On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 02:10:06PM -0500, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> >> Paintball helps too.   A group of guys I work with and I try to get
> >> out once a month for some .68 caliber excitement.  We found a place
> >> not too far from work that has a nicely sized indoor course.  We're
> >> trying to get enough interest to be able to do a company sponsered
> >> event - engineering vs. sales.  We're trying to make it interesting
> >> for the newbies and former law enforcement/military types we work
> >> with (surprising number actually) by getting everyone to buy a 10
> >> shot pistol.  Some of them are a little intimidated by those of us
> >> with Bruizers, Automags, and Pirranhas.  We figure, everyone uses a
> >> PT Enforcer 10 shot semi-auto pistol, and that should cut down on the
> >> "massive spray" method that some of us use (not me, of course :).
> >
> >When I worked for ioNET (now part of PSI) in Oklahoma City, we had a
> >company-sponsored-and-REQUIRED paintball day, after a particuarly
> >hectic month.  Stupid me (not knowing this course) shows up in urban
> >camo (black/grey/white) while everyone else shows up in jungle.
> >
> >Surprisingly, I only got hit *once* - and it was a lucky shot, in
> >the back of the heel / achilles tendon area.  Of course, it was
> >the size of a quarter and enough to take me out (which it would have
> >in a nasty way, in RL).  Other than that, I did damn well, considering
> >I was 5'11 and about 250 lbs at the time.  "AIM FOR THE BIG GUY!"  "BUT
> >WE CANT HIT HIM!!!"
> >
> >Somehow, some way, the really annoying pain-in-the-ass tech support
> >"manager" (more concerned with how he looked to the PHB than how good
> >the department was doing - I'd set up the department, he fucked it up)
> >managed to get 3 or 4 rounds to the crotch at close range.. I wonder
> >how..... 8-)
> >
> >They've got a Laser Tag arena here. hrm.... wonder if its "illegal" to
> >make your own IR Claymores. 8-)
> >
> >Bill
> >
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> >Bill Bradford       |    "Do you expect me to talk?"
> >mrbill at mrbill.net   |    "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!"
> >Austin, TX          |        -- "Goldfinger", 1964
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