It seems ironic to me that with soo many people bemoaning the cost of paint as reason for not training, they sure do let rip at every oportunity
I think people have a very different attitude to paint at a tournament. People are prepared to shoot two pots off to make sure their gun is cronographed correctly, and their loaders feeding properly, paints not breaking etc. Also on the field, you think nothing of chucking half a pot away if it wont fit in your loader, or even if a pot opens up during a slide. At campaign, I shot on average 6 pots a game - If I did that at training I would never learn anything, I'd be too skint.
What I'm trying to say is that when people are on the field battling out an important point they, quite rightly I feel, forget about paint costs etc and just do everything they can to win it.
On the other hand, I think its ridiculous people refuse to train cos of paint costs. I normally get through 2 boxes of paint at training, it costs, but training is INvaluable.