The Real Deal

[Lump]

gash house every time

 

[Tony Harrison]

Actually, Lump is living the dream.

He has a hot wife who loves paintball.

 

[Dusty]

I have to disagree, no one says you have to spend £30-60 a day.

A good days training on techniques can be done on 1000 balls and you can get plenty of snap shooting/breakouts/bunkering/running and gunning done with that. Once a week on that amount of paint, you'll soon see an improvement.

Nothing annoys me more than people standing emptying loader after loader over the chrono or into a static cardboard box, then moaning about the price of paintball.

 

[john251282]

If every sport trained at the same frequency, it put it second behind clay pigeon and other stuff with "live" ammunition.

I do both and in my experience paintball is fairly consistently more expensive than clay shooting

 

[Bon]

I have to disagree, no one says you have to spend £30-60 a day.

A good days training on techniques can be done on 1000 balls and you can get plenty of snap shooting/breakouts/bunkering/running and gunning done with that. Once a week on that amount of paint, you'll soon see an improvement.

Nothing annoys me more than people standing emptying loader after loader over the chrono or into a static cardboard box, then moaning about the price of paintball.

1000 balls is still £10-15 more than that kid kicking his 1 time investment around.

 

[The Evans 11]

1000 balls is still £10-15 more than that kid kicking his 1 time investment around.

unless of course he's one of those kids, who has to have the new pair of latest boots every week

 

[Devrij]

The point is, it can be done cheaper, and if you're willing to be smart and not dick about then you can get a lot of training out of less paint. Whether you're willing to do that is another matter. I agree with the OP, for those of us who are less ambitious, however, there is still a lot of fun to be had.

 

[jagerpirate]

I do both and in my experience paintball is fairly consistently more expensive than clay shooting

But do you shoot clays as much and as frequently as paintballs?

What abot reballs, if you have access to somewhere you can train with those that can massively cut costs.

 

[Lucky_Tech]

I have to disagree, no one says you have to spend £30-60 a day.

A good days training on techniques can be done on 1000 balls and you can get plenty of snap shooting/breakouts/bunkering/running and gunning done with that. Once a week on that amount of paint, you'll soon see an improvement.

Nothing annoys me more than people standing emptying loader after loader over the chrono or into a static cardboard box, then moaning about the price of paintball.

It is still going to be over £30
Paint @1000 balls lets say you are lucky and get paint at £25 per case so that is £12.50
then there is entrance to a training field £10-15
then there is fuel to said training field £10 min

It all adds up and that doesn't include the cots of equipment wear and tear.

 

[Raffles]

A 'decent' football costs about £10 - a decent marker....

To kick the ball about - nothing
To shoot some paint - see Lucky Tech's post!

So, it is a VERY expensive hobby - which is probably why most youngsters don't keep at it for long (especially when the parents are footing the bill).

Until the price comes down to nearly nothing - then the mind state of most new/young player will remain the same.

Paintball is an expensive luxury.