How things have changed with pump.....

[Spaceman613]

I remember not too long ago (01-02), when us pumpers were very few and far between.   Heck, The few of us for the first of Tattoo's birth (10 of us?) had to have a private game at Badlands.   Finding other pumpers in the staging area was like seeing the a long lost cousin.   

When we had an "event"  it was generally chatted up ont he forums and we just basically "showed up" to a field and played open but in a small group.......


Fast forward to today.

SPE, PP, FPE, and a few others with no snazzy acronyms. 

Other fields are having "pump days"  and what do I see today.  Badlands is talking about how they are seeing an increase in pumps, so they are having a pump day.

Sigh...    Woudlnt it be nice if we could say we had a small part in this growth?  But who would believe it.   That bastard chef that was banned from PBN,  the grouchy troll that tries to get pumpers to Bloomington, The kilted redhead still pumping when the purple warriors switch to semi (and back) to pump.

Nah,   Couldnt have been from anything the PHOG has done.  No way

[Chefdave]

Yeah.  We rock.

Hell, that one troll even started playing some SC.

[Rayodder]

So when is the first Spring Mechanical Event?

[Ed]

I still remember getting "talked to" by a field owner for playing pump and having others put their semis away to go back to pump.

I still remember the bday bash's and all the fun we had. I also remember that there were more phantoms than snipers or brass too during those games.

[StrongLeft]

Can't say I really miss the days of having 15 different people ask

"How many times do you have to pump that before it can shoot?"

"So that things like super-accurate, right?"

and my favorite question after explaining that I have to re-cock my marker after every shot, and that I play this way by choice not by necessity.

"Why?"

[greenmtn]

5 years ago I was the first person in the area to go back to pump (bought my first phantom)  Now 2 of us use Phantoms, 1 a Pyre, 1 a 007, another one is buying her first 007 at PP this year and 2 more are looking for pumps.  The University started a Paintball club last year, I am the Faculty Advisor, after I played one event with them 3 members started looking into buying Phantoms.

[Shane-O]

Bot howdy have they changed, the times that is.

When Sage and I started playing playing pump in 98 or so, we were 2 of 4 or so that played that way regularly. I had bought 2 Bushmasters and we played alot with them (thats why we were recruited into TG). Then we moved to Sniper 2's, and semi play. We joined the purple warriors in early 98 iirc, and they weren't playing much pump at the time. Fast forward 2 years to 2000, and we played pump vs semi tournaments and did ok, but the response from other players was awesome (converted a few people along the way). It got to the point at the field, that we couldnt wear a SC harness, the people feared us thinking that pump guns were more accurate. How little did they know, it was all about shooting skill, not bps and it wasnt the gun that was more accurate. So in the midwest, we did have an effect and yes that includes you Spacey and all the other disciples of pump from that time. So yes we DID have a hand in creating what we have today. My pinnacle of playing pump was the Action Markers Tourney before Shatner ball, while I was the worst player on the "A" squad, the reason we did so well, was team work. So at Xtreme we held pump tourneys and recruited people to the pump world, and now there are always new people showing up playing with a pump gun, and it grows and grows from there.

SPE, FPE and other pump events are only making it bigger, and that is cool to have been part of the resurgence. Its ok to be a little conceited and claim some responsibility of that resurgence, at least for the few you mentioned..... >...maybe more...lol

[casperct]

In my area there still aren't many pump players ,but if I drive 1 hour there are sometimes more than semis.CCM is up in way northern california so you can kinda tell what allot of people shot around here.
My friend and I are the only full time pump players here locally and are hated cause we must be cheating to be shooting that accuratly!!We sent many a player packing and was even accused of hurting the fields buisness!!

[Timmycuddler]

where i live there is a kid with a pump ion and a guy with a sniper and then me with the M98 converted to SC,the splatty, and the phantom i feel lonely