favorite paintball moments!!

[hellman]

c'mon guys!!! whats your favorite paintball story? got something funny or cool to recollect? here's the place to tell your story!!!! me, i have alot of stories that are good, but only one favorite.i went down to what was then called cobra command in hatfield,pa with my wife and friends.all my friends know that im the type to be left alone, as thats how i do my best work.so, into my little universe of carnage i went.now we were doled in with other walk-ons,but after a few games both sides were starting to catch on to what i was about.everyone reloads and goes back out to the field for the next game,and people are figuring out where they want to go,etc. when this little squirt of a kid walks up and says"im with the soldier guy!!" my initial thought was, "oh christ, a boat anchor" we went crawling through the brush, and he kept yammering.i told him to keep qiuet, and HE will win the game.he finally piped down, and when i found a target, i let him take it(he had a quieter gun, i had a spyder). we worked our way across the field,just inside the tapeline.we made it close to the enmy base, and i told him to wait right where he was, i was going to get to a different position, and when he sees them turn to fire on me, to take out all three. i made it directly in back of them,and sprang the trap.the enemy fell for it hook, line, and sinker and didnt realize we had a sniper smurf waiting for them!!!!the little bugger got all three,our teammates had taken the opposite flank ,and the remaining two guys were caught in a vise. i told my little smurf that im butch cassidy and hes the sundance kid!! "now, we're gonna charge directly at them,and blow them out of the bunker" he thought this was a positively heroic idea,and you could see the exictement in his eyes. so we charged, hooping and hollering out of the enemy base,hoping to confuse the remaining two guys.unfortunately, our teammates did not recognize us and shot us up pretty bad!!!!we wound up LOSING the match, but ahhhh, seeing the hellfires raging in that little kids eyes.......thats what its all about!!!he walked out with this HUGE smile,and looked like a hero to his buddies.we made a joke out of it, and named him "dead on arrival."a member of the other team came over and told us there was no way anyone was going to take him out of that bunker, as he was a marine.we let him talk his trash, and when he finally walked away, i designated him as my "idiot" for the rest of the day. i took d.o.a. with me for the rest of the day, and where i pointed my finger, people were out.the marine didnt appreciate being eliminated by a little kid again and again, so the final game we did a little different.it was a one on one match in the backmost field,and i have to admit that no one who was still there liked the marine,or his mouth.we set a fifteen minute time on the game, which was fine by me.i went about twenty yards, and squirmed into the thorn bushes and waited,hoping he wasnt doing the same!!!!!everyone else left was just standing or walking around, no markers in hand.it seems to me that captain corp had a bit of sniper paranioa inside, as he kept shooting at the onlookers, and he was giving away his position.he was getting closer,so i waited another minute and he went right past me.as it turns out, the next person he shot was d.o.a., as i was coming up behind him!!! as he was arguing with the ref, he received 5 balls to the back of the head!!!he got p.o.'d, and all i said to him was, "DEATH FROM ABOVE!!!!!!" as it turns out, he has heard that phrase before, and he knew what it was associated with. he calmed down, little d.o.a. gave me a high five, my wife hugged me, and all the tension from the day was released in a huge roll of laughter from everybody!!!!! (i kinda felt like rocky balboa after he beat mr. t!!!!)on the way home, my wife said she was proud of me for giving the little guy the chance to look cool in front of his buddies, and i did right in scaring the jarhead out of his wits. ive had alot of great times since then,but little d.o.a. sticks out in my head. ive stopped playing there recently, because i usually get stuck with some little kid, but no one listened like d.o.a. did.he'd make a fine soldier, im sure!!!!!

[TOE-TAG]

my favorite paintball moment was at the 1998 skirmish world record game. We played almost half the day when we got kind of lost. My packs were getting heavy, yeah i said packs. I had an 8 pod and a 6 pod pack strapped to me. It got kind of heavy carrying it around and i was ready to drop, when we came up on a village. There was a sign on a tree that said "Main Village". There was a couple refs sitting there and said if we hold the village for a half hour, we would get the points. So about 2 minutes into holding the village with no one attacking, a big group of the other team were walking further off in the woods. The ref leading them onto the field saw us in the village and told them to attack us. We starting shooting them like fish in a barrel. And then there was so much smoke you couldn't see let alone breathe. Then when we thought it couldn't get any crazier, they was some whacko in a kilt playing bagpipes. Everything was going slow like time stood still. I think 3 of us out of 10 made it through the half hour time limit. And when we were walking off the field we took the sign with us. It was one of the best days of paintball i have ever been a part of. We had our picture taken and it was published in an article about the game in "action pursuit games" magazine. I wish some of the guys from my original group still played in the sport, we had alot of good times together. I could probably go on for days with favorite moments !!!

[hellman]

I have another one, thankfully not as long winded!!! It was Corbinator's first time at I.T., and we did an elimination game vs the russian fort, 3 on 3.We started back at the cemetary, and our other guy disappeared on us.So we went left flank, into the heavy brush by the netting.into the water, thru the mud, and up against the wall. Now the russian fort's a clusterf%@k, it is hard to tell where people are hiding in there. so we worked its perimeter SLOWLY.I shot out my daughter, but we weren't sure if anyone else was in there until we heard Jordan, but we couldn't see him.So we know HE'S in there, but where's doc? Shoot, I had no clue. We got them out in a fast hard gunfight where I walked into a crossfire, but boy, did Corbinator hang in there the whole game with me!! I thought for sure he'd be pissed as hell for being put in the crud we went through, but he went through it like a trooper!!! That guy can be on my team anytime!!