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LATS

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well, to some of the younger guys, this may not matter but, back in "the day" (early 90's and mid 90's) you try to avoid being shot by proball. proball was a great flying paint.. perfectly round and marker great.. when it was not leaving exit wounds...we (my team) used this paint alot because we always got a great deal with it.. like i said, it flew great and marked well when you ahd the stars aligned just right and the thing broke on your opponent..we lost many games because of the failure to break.. i actually remember numerous times seeing it bounce off wooden bunkers and hoppers...then we finally got sponsored by rp schere and got the paint free for tourneys and cases for practice.. the old marbellizer was great and broke on impact.. the absolute worst though, now that i am thinking about it, was california magnum.. now i am really showing my age.. magnum, when left to sit for more tham a few months would turn to either jelly or rocks.. i had more than a few exit wounds from magnum.. oh, the good old days lol :rolleyes:
 

TOOLE

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yeah, RP scherer is probabably the best paint around at the moment, although the evil paint looks promising (just can't find anywhere in the UK that sells the damned stuff!!)

i've got 200o rounds of scherer and ZAP in my wardrobe, and i think the ZAP will only be getting used for target practice!
 

TOOLE

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yeah, you have to try quite hard to get a decent paint sponsorship these days, mostly people jsut buy it off the manufacturer at trade price for sponsorship!!
 

shamu

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ProBounce... gawd I hated that stuff! It never broke on your opponent, only in your gun. ;)

Toole - IIRC, Evil and RPS = same manufacturer. (PMI distributes Evil but it's made by PRS)
 

PunterHunter

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Cost of things to come..

Not to labour too much on this point, but I'm from the 'Old School' of pintball, like a lot I guess, but I can remember buying a box of paint for £125 and that was cheap - when CalMag was the paintball of choice, when the only thing you had to worry about when playing was standing too close to a six-pack..

In the fifteen years I have been playing paintball I've only had 6 guns - only two of them were bought new - my first (a Python) and third (a Sniper II), all the rest have been second hand - even the Angle I'm using now and the Electric E-Blade that I've just bought (new toy for Xmas).. I guess what I'm trying to say is that costs have come down in a lot of things we use/ need to play with, paint especially - even Co2 - that used to cost 75p per 12gm, now 75p will last at least 2 games - and you don't have to buy new, unless you can afford it - I can't; the new ones I bought took a lot of scrimping and saving and a lot of overtime and 'Quality Time' with the kids to justify, so unless you are young and have no real responsibilities like those mentioned above, or over-paid, you just have to save and make do.

I've been in a few notable teams, the original Zero Boy's (remember them?), and of course The Redskins, but we've never had the luxuary of sponsorship - probably for a lot of reasons - which means that everything I play with I had to buy - maybee it makes me take care of the equipment more I dunno, but all I do know is that I enjoy playing paintball, and that's why I pay what I have to to play - otherwise I might as well take up knitting!!

Keep the faith..
 

Cook$

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Originally posted by TOOLE
ah, but if you were using it then if you were to ever hit someone, it would NEVER break (it feels so good to not be sponsored by ZAP anymore :) )
feels good to not be sponsored by thebest paint on the market?
I was sure K2 and Inferno got a few kills this season using zap......;) :D
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Tony - Stupid Troopers

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Originally posted by Cook$
feels good to not be sponsored by thebest paint on the market?
I was sure K2 and Inferno got a few kills this season using zap......;) :D
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just one or two Cooks.....:D

given that it seemed to break fine all year imagine how well we would have done with paint that didn't bounce eh? :rolleyes: