Homemade Paintball Bunkers

Homemade paintball bunkers can be made fromwith the point at the top or you can use your cinder
practically anything you find in the dump, in the woods,blocks and prop them up between rows.
or around the house. They just have to be tall enoughEmpty plastic or metal 55 gallon drums make good
to crouch behind in order to be effective. They can bebunkers. You can stand them upright with two or three
as simple as rope tied between two trees with tarptogether to crouch behind or line them up on their side
over it or hay bales piled high to forts constructed ofon the ground. If you want them to be a little more
scrap wood and plywood.stable fill with dirt and they won't move.
Old tires make good bunkers. They can be stacked asUse drums and tires to make a taller bunker. Place a
high as you want or can be dug into the ground with adrum upright and put some dirt in it to stabilize it then
trench behind. To stack them high find a long branch ofstack two tires on top.
a tree and dig a hole to put the end in. Secure with soilLogs stacked upright or dug into the ground (if they
and stack the tires over the branch. Get tires from theare big) make great bunkers and you can find them
dump, you can usually get them free.right in the woods.
Palates are easy to get and useful in making bunkers.If your neighbor gets rid of his old garage door you
Visit your local discount stores and they will probablymay want to ask if you can have it. This makes a
have them stacked by their garbage bin. Palates comereally big bunker once you get it standing. Actually any
in wood (the ones usually thrown away) and in plastic.type of door that you can find in the garbage dump
Plastic palates can be purchased at lumber supplycan be used to make a bunker.
stores or hardware stores. Usually palates have largeTake chicken wire or inexpensive wire fencing and
spaces between the boards and these must beform a circle with it. Now place all your grass clippings
covered to make an effective bunker. You can coverall summer and by the end of the season you will have
the palates with tarp by cutting to fit and stapling witha grass bunker.
a staple gun. Plastic Garbage bags work too but areBunkers for paintball can be made from just about any
not long lasting. If someone in the area is throwing outtype of garbage. With any luck you won't have to
old carpeting cut it to fit the palate and staple it on withpurchase anything to build them. Just make sure if you
a staple gun. You can attach palates together in a Vare going to take something be sure to ask first.