Carrying while paintballing

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Snakes are pretty fragile creatures. If you see it first, no need to kill it. If you are bitten, kill it with a stick or your paintball gun. I grew up in the boonies w/o ever being attacked by a cougar, wolf, or bear. I never got bit by a snake. I never got sodomized by toothless, inbred hoopies. Somehow, in fact, I managed to avoid all these hazards w/o strapping on iron every time I stepped out the door. Perhaps I was just lucky, though. We didn't have paintball fields in those days (we threw rocks at each other) and I'm glad we didn't. They sound like very dangerous places.
 
Yeah it would be a tough snake indeed to survive paintballs.
 
Art,
Absolutely. One of the main things wrong with this country is that kids don't have good, old-fashioned rock fights any more. No video game, paintball, or airsoft can give the visceral satisfaction that clobbering another kid with a well-thrown goonie has to offer. Not only that, being on the receiving end taught the manly, stoical virtues that served this nation so well in wartime.
 
We were so poor...
We didn't have rocks.
So we threw green dates
And used trash can lids for shields.
Ouch.:)

I've been on several exercises where we had venemous snakes on the course. Couple times cobras even.

Never knew anybody to shoot one.

Sam
 
Nothing short of lunacy to bring a loaded firearm to a force-on-force exercise. If you feel so threatened by other participants in the game of paintball, don't go.

Denny
 
Ohh, let the boy alone. Remember natural selection deferred is natural selection denied.:D
 
We were so poor... We didn't have rocks. So we threw green dates
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(Assuming best Monty Python Dad's voice): You had green dates? You lucky rich B@$t@rd! We had to throw rat droppings, and we considered ourselves lucky to have them! And when we were done Mom would pick them up to use in her Plum Duff - not that she had any plums, or duff for that matter... No, it was whipped cat vomit mixed with mud and dotted wth rat turds...
And afterwards we'd sing "God Bless The Queen" and then Dad would beat us to sleep in our bed - not a real bed of course, it was a pile of dead dogs...

But we were HAPPY, dammit!

Keith
 
Sam, y'all ever have "wars" with Roman candles and garbage-can lids? I guess that would be more like "burn-guns" than paint-guns.
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Ah mammaries er I mean memories! Phun with phireworks! When finances (and the blackmarket) permitted we did similar things. If roman candles were not to be had, it was great fun to take sharp stick (sharp sticks were among our chief childhood toys) and poke a hole in a green apple. Fill that hole with a firecracker -et voila- you have a grenade of sorts. Spent many happy hours winging those babies at each other.
No 'works? No problem. Also enormously fun to leave the apple stuck on the pointy stick, and then use the stick kind of like an atlatl to launch the apple. You needed a trashcan lid or other sheild in an apple n' stick fight. Them bad boys flew so fast they hummed.
I feel sorry for these kids today with their lazer tag and airsoft and paintball. They don't know what real fun is.
 
And don't forget our "Bronze Age" "rubber guns", using O-rings cut from innertubes as ammo. One variant was to cut a rifle silhouette from a piece of 1x4 and saw-tooth the upper edge. Tack a piece of string at the "muzzle" end and lay it along the barrel. Load up with several pieces of innertube and Voila! A machine gun!

And paint-ballers ain't got a thing going, compared to the sneakiness of a bunch of kids. :D We had more hidey-hole ambush spots around our neighborhood than Carter's got Little Liver Pills!

:D, Art
 
I didn't read this whole thread.......................................................................
Just my 2 cents worth.

When I play paintball, I carry.
I play in the woods on a private field. No one knows I carry, I just do.

A NAA mini 22. is better than a 45. left at home.
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The guns I own don't go off unless the trigger is pulled.

Nuff' said.
 
No BS story I heard from a Game warden SW of Denver on the northside of rampart range road a number of years back.

Me and dad.. camoflauged from head to toe, toting shotguns and sidearms and preparing to disembark on a turkey hunt. Game warden rolls up, not seeing our shotties at first, asks us politely if we are paintballers. We say no, planned on doing some turkey hunting up here. Game warden asks us if we see any paintballers to kindly.. avoid them and or inform them this section of forest is OFF LIMITS to paintballers.

Scratching my head I said hmmmm.. why is that?

Apparently, the previous weekend a turket hunter was stalking through the bushes in tall ferns at the bases of large roosting trees hoping to find a good set up for the following day. Suddenly, six FEET away a hyped up, masked guy in camoflauge jumps out screaming like a banshee and lights up our turkey hunter with a full auto paintball gun. Hunter is startled and as he sits down hard (guess he thought he was shot for real?) Lets off a 3 inch #2 12 ga. Turkey load JUST ABOVE Mr. Paintballers' hat.

Aside from the hunter needing to wash his shirt, and the paintballer needing to wash his drawers thank god noone got hurt. The paintballer was arrested for harrassing a lawful hunter.

Soon after a "designated" paintball park opened in the area.. not sure if this was cause an effect but you can draw your own conclusions.

Real guns don't mix with toy guns.

And this advice is coming from a guy that regularly engaged in BB gunfights, bottle rocket wars and other youthful shenanigans.
 
So if you were in the woods. not paintballing and some looney thought you were and opened up with a fully auto paintball gun, would you light him up? Without protective gear, the paintball is a real risk to you.
 
Wow, mdsteele, I'm so glad you are hear to summarize so easily a heavily debated topic without ever addressing any of the points. Where were you earlier? We could have saved two pages of bandwidth.
 
I remember seeing this thread, skipped over it without reading it cause I thought it'd be a boring thread.:D

This was a good thread and excellant points were made on both sides of the fence. Technically speaking, DrJ and his camp is correct, However...

Jeff's camp is correct also. Murphy lives and rears his ugly had at the most inoppurtune moments. I don't profess these guys experiance but must agree with them overall. I wouldn't carry a real pistol on a paintgun field, deep cover or not. The mind boggles at times, fact of life. We've all heard about the copchick who tasered a perp with her Glock.

Standing up for your rights is admirable and correct but to not profess your responsibilities in the same breath is incorrect and would make us just as bad as the cops and such when they only go by the book and do not think outside the box by applying common sense. We want to be above that, don't we?

I'm not into paintgun sports but I imagine it can get pretty well heated and adreneline flows freely I'm sure which would be an open door to Mr Murphy.
Besides, If I (you) insisted on being able to carry a real backup on the field, wouldn't it also be correct to extend that right to the entire field of paintballers, hmm? Would you really want to play paintball when everyone was armed with real weapons DrJ?

This is also the reason an armed million man march wouldn't work. Its impossible to keep so many people at once from having a Murphy moment.
 
So if you were in the woods. not paintballing and some looney thought you were and opened up with a fully auto paintball gun, would you light him up? Without protective gear, the paintball is a real risk to you.
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Would I kill someone for giving me a few bruises? Nope. A paintball is not a serious risk unless shot into your eye, and I know a few guys who took one in the eye and didn't have any lasting effects.
 
Well, the issue of the hazards of a paintball attack are a TOTALLY different subject because we'll get the same thread length on just that (we have before).

I know someone who was shot by a .22 LR round and basically picked it out of his arm like a splinter. Does that mean .22's are not lethal (assault with a deadly weapon)? Your friend who was shot by a paintball in the eye was VERY lucky. So was my friend.

The valid counter-point I read here is should we restrict the right to carry during certain activities? Because the pro-carry team is right, if they were safe to carry in the general public, why shouldn't they be safe to carry during a paintball game (I gave my own opinion that it isn't as safe as general carry). We shouldn't get into the "need" to carry because most of us agree on the RKBA issue, don't ever suggest you should have a need, only a right.
 
I'd like to reiterate my salient point:

If you trust yourself to do make the right legal/tactical decision on the street, why wouldn't you trust yourself to carry during a paintball game?

Use a good concealment and retention holster, and don't tell anybody about it.
 
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