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Article #77: Paintball 101 - What you need to know!

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Paintball is a game played up of many The job of the paintball gun, or as many
players or teams. It can be played call a marker, is to shoot the paintball
indoors or out, with as few as two people at a high rate of speed. In a standard
or as many as 500. Paintball is played at gun, the propulsion system is compressed
designated fields, back yards or even in gas such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen or
the woods. A game can last as little as ordinary air and is stored in small or
5 minutes or hours with all depending on large tanks that can be attached to the
one to take something, find something, or gun. The paintball gun is also attached
to just be the last person not marked. to a hopper, which holds the paintballs.
Depending on the location of where you Maintaining safety in paintball is
play, the strategy of your game will vary important to make the game safe. The
from being quiet and sneaky and choosing power of paintball guns is strictly
your shots carefully, to being loud, regulated. Guns in play are adjusted so
fast, and shooting constantly. Paintball that the maximum speed of the paintball
is a competitive sport played like any is 300 feet per second. A paintball
other competitive sport, to win. It is traveling at this speed is not likely to
challenging game of tag, hide-and-seek or cause serious injury if it hits you,
even capture-the-flag. Being you shoot at though it will sting and can leave a
other people and they shoot at you, bruise. Also, since wind resistance
paintball requires safety equipment to be starts slowing the paintball down as soon
worn such as goggles, special clothing as it leaves the gun, it has a reduced
and etc. impact when fired from a greater
An essential part of paintball is the distance. Speeding paintballs can cause
paintball itself. As in tennis, the ball serious injury to the eyes and paintball
is the main element of a paintball game. players always wear protection.
But unlike a tennis game, paintball has In addition to playing paintball for
dozens, often hundreds, of "balls" in recreational use, paintball is also part
play at any one time. As the name of military and police training. In terms
implies, these balls are actually tiny of feel and handling, a paintball gun has
containers of paint. little in common with an actual firearm,
Paintballs have a really simple but paintball is still good training for
construction. They're actually a lot like combat situations. Mainly, it lets
bath-oil beads. They are made of colored soldiers and police practice strategy and
liquid enclosed in a gelatin shell and the fine art of not getting shot.
are available in a variety of colors. There are many paintball leagues around
Paintball are also non-toxic, with American Paintball League being one
biodegradable and are water soluble. of the largest in the paintball industry.
Basically, a paintball is like a small Another paintball league is the National
water balloon, weighing only a few grams. Professional Paintball League. There are
The shell holds up if you handle it or the two main paintball leagues. Though
drop it from a short distance. When you they both pertain to paintball, each has
shoot a paintball from a gun, however, it their own set of rules for playing the
bursts on impact and leaves large sport.
splatter of paint.






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