In the intrest of keeping our members together during the winter months, DesmOhio has started playing paintball. We had about a dozen show for the first round and more are showing an interest. I have spoken with the Hoosier Hooligans, Ducs Unlimited and Coastal Ducati about starting teams in their clubs so we can play against each other. People are digging the idea. If you are interested, talk to your club. It is a bunch of fun.
To make things easier on everyone I decided to become a dealer for Tippmann paintball guns. If you want to play and need a gun/marker I am offering thease guns at cost for Ducati Club members.
Please let me know if you or your club is interested in playing. I think this could be a bunch of fun! [beer]
electric guns are for pussies
that said
I think it's a great idea
Quote from: Mother on November 05, 2008, 10:38:27 AM
electric guns are for pussies
that said
I think it's a great idea
can i be on your team and hide behind you?
Quote from: Mother on November 05, 2008, 10:38:27 AM
electric guns are for pussies
again, mom spouts nothing less than the truth!
I think desmotropic would have just enough players for a 5 man team. :D and I think I'm the only one who ever played 'ball...
So... these would be travelling paintball teams?
I play all the time and love it.
This sounds awesome. . .
I wish this was happening closer to me.
Wait, im in NW PA,
where are you guys playing at?
electric paintball guns??
I love paintball, I'm in Cali. I'll post a thread in SoCal board. I have a spyder M1
- Gil
Quote from: Randimus Maximus on November 05, 2008, 10:09:46 PM
electric paintball guns??
(http://www.plainspaintball.net/videos/animations/Angel.gif)
I think it started with the WDP Angel but I was out of the industry at that point
I do know that...oh god I have forgotten his name....
something Farrel at Fastech was make the beast with two backsing around with an electric rotating bolt design for the the PMO illustrator
(heavy modded F2 for Police/Military training)
since it was going to utilize a spring actuated magazine instead of a gravity fed hopper
it was a slick set-up but the battery tech was pretty weak at that point (15+ years ago)
and it died out with the huge popularity of the new Airgun Designs Automag that was already stealing the thunder from the Worr games autococker
Also
The fastech design was for the battery to operate the bolt where the new "electric" gun are primarily an electric actuated sear instead of the old spring and lever design
some of them you even "boot Up" on a laptop to adjust trigger speed, it's kinda hard for me to switch over to that kind of thinking after learning to tune a gun with springs and valves
even so
the angels and all the clones are pretty neat enginerd wise
one thing that I always got a kick out of is all the elitists who bagged on the autococker as being so outdated
so hard to tune in changing temperatures
and
pissed and moaned
because
they wasted so much time during turny's to dial them in
who are now shooting Angels that are essentially updated autocockers
it makes me smile
it makes me smile so much
I still run an old, if slightly updated, autococker because it's better to be dead and cool than alive and uncool... :P
I just added the products from www.procapsdirect.com to our catalog. I am selling this stuff to Ducati club members at cost to get things moving. Call me if you want anything.
Don't forget that we also have all of the motorcycle related products that you may want and we will beat anyones prices.
Im glad I'm not the only one that plays paintball. So if you guys ever get down to southflorida or do a scenario in Florida shoot me an email.
There's a lot of folks who play on here. Not sure I could drum up a team from CAM - but I've been playing for years. Last couple I went retro and been playing almost exclusively with Orracle bodied Sniper that I pieced together.
Quote from: Mother on November 05, 2008, 10:38:27 AM
electric guns are for pussies
Tippys are still (for the most part) all mechanical - though you can electrify them. And I'm in the 'cocker camp too. People who moan about them being hard to set up are just ham fisted and don't do it right the 1st time. I shot 3 cases of paint through my Mech autococker over 5 different weekends and never had the change a thing.
Maybe we can pull together a PennDesmo vs. DesmOhio game? I'm not sure we really have the members for it right now but maybe spring time or so.
Quote from: yuu on November 07, 2008, 07:02:00 AM
There's a lot of folks who play on here. Not sure I could drum up a team from CAM - but I've been playing for years. Last couple I went retro and been playing almost exclusively with Orracle bodied Sniper that I pieced together.
Tippys are still (for the most part) all mechanical - though you can electrify them. And I'm in the 'cocker camp too. People who moan about them being hard to set up are just ham fisted and don't do it right the 1st time. I shot 3 cases of paint through my Mech autococker over 5 different weekends and never had the change a thing.
I have fond memories of my old 68 special ;D
as to the autococker
for me it was a CO2 issue, and I feel the stock 3-way is junk
after updating it along with my reg and ram and switching to high pressure I have never had a problem with it besides ram adjustment but I tinker too much
usually if my cocker is shooting like shit it's because the cocking rod is loose
Quote from: Mad Duc on November 07, 2008, 12:57:56 PM
Maybe we can pull together a PennDesmo vs. DesmOhio game? I'm not sure we really have the members for it right now but maybe spring time or so.
Lets combine it with a ride. We can hit 711 area around Johnstown and Seven Springs on the bikes and play paintball at the cliffs at Lynn Run. My old stomping grounds! I have a friend in Latrobe where we can use as home base.
Sounds good to me. Let's talk more when the weather starts to turn better. [beer]
Quote from: yuu on November 07, 2008, 07:02:00 AM
And I'm in the 'cocker camp too. People who moan about them being hard to set up are just ham fisted and don't do it right the 1st time. I shot 3 cases of paint through my Mech autococker over 5 different weekends and never had the change a thing.
+1 used to get shit w/the team I was running w/... "you can't play front w/a cocker" blah blah blah. maybe I just don't need to waste so much paint, eh? ;D
that gun was the shizzle. +/-1 over chrono all day, every day. I just had to air up and go.
ahhh... good times.
Quote from: teddy037.2 on November 10, 2008, 01:16:51 PM
+1 used to get shit w/the team I was running w/... "you can't play front w/a cocker" blah blah blah. maybe I just don't need to waste so much paint, eh? ;D
that gun was the shizzle. +/-1 over chrono all day, every day. I just had to air up and go.
ahhh... good times.
we never had front, middle, and rear position
we flipped it 90 degrees and ran side middle side
tended to run from the sideline and pivoted off the middle
and usually used three cockers as the fulcrum
they are loud and accurate
keeps people's attention
the only downfall I will concede to the cocker is chopping balls when you short stroke it (yeah yeah, I said it, perverts)
get too excited, lose your rhythm, and it's all over
and you can never get the make the beast with two backsing bolt out when some asshole is trying to shoot you in your head
[bang]
Quote from: chris@motorcyclewishlist on November 08, 2008, 06:46:43 AM
Lets combine it with a ride. We can hit 711 area around Johnstown and Seven Springs on the bikes and play paintball at the cliffs at Lynn Run. My old stomping grounds! I have a friend in Latrobe where we can use as home base.
not too far from johnstown is the smart parts / all american arena in greensburg.
or we can hit up Riverside Renegades in Pittsburgh, been playing there for over 10 years.
i really need to start going to penndesmo.com
count me in for this if we have a game somewhere in PA/OH!
Quote from: Mother on November 10, 2008, 04:47:20 PM
the only downfall I will concede to the cocker is chopping balls when you short stroke it (yeah yeah, I said it, perverts)
I think it's a matter of setting up the gun's timing to your particular style of shooting. I never had any major problems, and I built my first cocker w/o ever shooting one beforehand.
I played right tape, up front. had an angel S/F for my backup gun.... ended up selling it because it never got used [evil]
Quote from: chris@motorcyclewishlist on November 08, 2008, 06:46:43 AM
Lets combine it with a ride...
I'd suggest going on the ride first just in case someone get's pissed in the match..... Unless of course everyone knows each other. It is the internet afterall. :P
Hitting Smart Parts is a no brainer as far as I am concerned. I grew up in Greensburg and am a dealer for a few of their products from one of my distributors.
Quote from: corey on November 10, 2008, 08:35:24 PM
i really need to start going to penndesmo.com
Yes you do... I installed SMF (same as this forum) a few months ago so it's a lot better than it used to be.
Quote from: yuu on November 07, 2008, 07:02:00 AM
There's a lot of folks who play on here. Not sure I could drum up a team from CAM - but I've been playing for years. Last couple I went retro and been playing almost exclusively with Orracle bodied Sniper that I pieced together.
Tippys are still (for the most part) all mechanical - though you can electrify them. And I'm in the 'cocker camp too. People who moan about them being hard to set up are just ham fisted and don't do it right the 1st time. I shot 3 cases of paint through my Mech autococker over 5 different weekends and never had the change a thing.
Yuu, I'm in for the CAMmers. I think we can drum up enough interest