SWAT Extreme Paintball

[Modokun]

          Wow, just wow.  Today I went to a new paintball field.  On they mentioned an indoor field, so I was looking forwards to playing out of the cold. The field was about 70 feet long and 20 feet wide, WTF?! I wasn't too mad because it was colder in there than outside.  We walked down to the fields and I started to load up my 10 round tubes.  After a couple balls I noticed that EVERY ball was deformed and dimpled and easily rolled through the smallest freak insert. According to the owner it was the paint they used for tournaments. I was in a pretty good mood so I didn't complain.

          When I checked out the fields I died a little bit inside. Only one field was in "working" order because the staff hadn't taken care of the only other one. The other one was a nice size but the whole field was muddy, paint was all over the place, and the majority of the bunkers needed to be filled up more. We started playing our first game halfway through I noticed that NONE of the paint was breaking. (I got a bounce off of my lense) So after playing a few more games I decided to talk to the owner. 

           After standing at the front desk for several minutes I knocked on the door to the employee's office.  I showed the owner how all of the balls were dimpled/deformed, way too small, wouldn't break. I made sure that he knew that I was using a pump and couldn't just walk my shots in. The owner said that three tournament teams had already played this morning and he had gotten no complaints. (Maybe because they're shooting 13.33 bps?) In the end he ends up giving me a bag of 500 balls, taking the balls back, kicking me out, unkicking me out, offering to let me shoot his ?Fusion? and admitting that the paint is crappy. All in all it was the worst day of paintball i've ever had and there is no way I will EVER go there again

Share your new field horrorific experiences?

Sorry that the sentence structure etc. is repetitive and stuff I'm too lazy to go over it... My english teacher would give me a C...

[gunman_2000]

worst day I can think of was at the big field near where I live.  It wasnt the fields fault by any means, paint is great, fields are fun, but the players you play with sometimes just dont live up to expectations.  Things didnt seem to go well all day long, until the second last game when I ran back for cover and a kid on my own team shot me 6 times in the head.  I was the only one wearing red, and the only pump player on the whole field.  One game after that I felt I had enough and went home.

Thats the bottom of my list I think.  If anything was worse I think it would stand out in my head.

[Unimoose]

I really find the quality of the paint will either make or destroy a day of play for me.  Tourney grade paint is usually hard as a rock.  I played one day where the bunkers rarely had to be cleaned because the paint was bouncing off of them due to the hardness of it.

[Modokun]

Tourney grade paint is usually hard as a rock.

Really, why?

[yuppers913]

Small bore = more structural integrity?

My brother (DSS) and I had a very similar experience at Adventure Games paintball in NH.  Upon seeing us closely inspect our second bag of 40+ dollar paint (because the first bag looked like raisins), the owner got belligerent, mocked us ("What are you, some sort of professional?", and threatened to throw us out.  Nobody he or I have ever encountered in years of playing paintball has ever given us a problem, or been anything but friendly, but she was absolutely terrible.  I will never ever go back and I will continue to tell that story and advise people not to support that field.  Overpriced + Crappy paint + Rude... no thanks.

[Unimoose]

Small bore = more structural integrity?

My brother (DSS) and I had a very similar experience at Adventure Games paintball in NH.  Upon seeing us closely inspect our second bag of 40+ dollar paint (because the first bag looked like raisins), the owner got belligerent, mocked us ("What are you, some sort of professional?", and threatened to throw us out.  Nobody he or I have ever encountered in years of playing paintball has ever given us a problem, or been anything but friendly, but she was absolutely terrible.  I will never ever go back and I will continue to tell that story and advise people not to support that field.  Overpriced + Crappy paint + Rude... no thanks.

Luckily Cynthia (the woman you met) sold the field last year.  I've heard from some of the guys on McB that it has improved considerably since the guys from Canobie paintball took over.

[yuppers913]

YES!  Great news!

[NS Pumper]

Worst time i had was at a field down here called storm waring the guy is mostly interested in money and his quality of everything is crap the only good thing is its an x ball field .Anyway i was playing one day with my pump and he got mad because i hadn't bought enough paint from him (and i had bought 1000 because i was planing on using some for top gun games for me and my friend back home) so he said because your not playing real paintball don't come back so i went back a week later with my semi bought the same amount of paint and used about 700 or so and he was all friendly so im not going back there again.

[lululu_42]

My worst time was playing at Skirmish D-Day with an Elctro gun The only other place i Hated cause it was covered in rocks and everything seemed to be at a slope.