the start of paintball

[joeyarmstrong]

hiya guys. i didnt quite nknow where to put this question so ive planted it here.


in america when the lumberjacks was painting trees with pummp guns, what year was it???

cheers

o yeah and what was the very very first paintball marker??


cheers again

 

[Doc Nickel]

They may be off by a few days or even weeks on the "official" date, but it's believed the first actual paintball game, with Gurnesy, et al, in New Hampshire, was June 15th, 1981.

The guns were around for a few years prior to that, used by loggers and cattlemen (and, actually, only sold out of agricultural supply catalogs.)

The very first paintball marker was the Nelson Nel-Spot 007, which was the one bought out of the agricultural catalog for the first game. Somewhere along there Crosman had the Model 707, but I can't honestly recall whether it was earlier or later than the 007.

The first made-for-paintball marker was the Splatmaster.

Doc.

 

[joeyarmstrong]

cheers for that m8. just in time too.(im doing my presentaion on it in the morning


cheers again budy

 

[QuackingPlums]

Originally posted by Doc Nickel
The guns were around for a few years prior to that, used by loggers and cattlemen (and, actually, only sold out of agricultural supply catalogs.)

I can't believe for a second that after the second "gun" came off the production line, the first two people to get their hands on them didn't have the bright idea of running around the factory floor shooting each other

 

[Doc Nickel]

Well, you have to remember that the original paint was actual paint- as in oil-based latex. It was, after all, designed to be waterproof- the trees and cattle thus marked needed to stay marked for more than just a few minutes.

The paintballs were also essentially hand made, and pretty bloody expensive, $2 to $3.50 per tube of ten rounds.

Yes, I'm sure there was some fooling around with them, but it would have been like a squirtgun fight using cans of spray paint.

Doc.

 

[JoseDominguez]

got a big crate of 007s , superb marker, you often see them in sci-fi films being used as tranq guns.

 

[Doc Nickel]

Actually, the same base platform of the 007 was in fact used to make tranquilizer-dart guns.

Such things do exist outside of movies, and in almost all cases were made from airguns of one sort or another (a Tippmann version could be seen in The Island of Dr.Moreau.)

Doc.

 

[Tyger]

I'm still convinced the first game was like Plums said, but I think it was even more sinster.

See, they used these to mark cattle. And I can see some cowboy on horseback looking at the gun, then to his buddy. Then the gun. Then his budy.

"Hey Joe?"

"yeah?"

And in the melee that follows includes the first time someone got lit up as well....

-Tyger

 

[JoseDominguez]

hmmmmmmm Ranchers? loads of cows, not amny wimmin.

More like hunt for bambi......
Hey Joe............she's mine.