ChoicePaintballGuns

After you’ve been playing with the same old paintball gun for a while, you soon get a craving for something fresh. You’ve also probably seen Joe Blow paintballer down at the field with a totally decked-out paintball gun and he’s absolutely crushing his opponents. When you get the craving for something faster, it’s time to think about an upgrade to your paintball marker.
There are many different ways to upgrade your paintball gun. The first one, and probably the easiest is to upgrade the barrel. You can get more out of your paintball gun barrel by making it longer, adding rifling (grooves inside) or fluting the end (tiny holes that let air out ahead of the paintball). These additions will add to your trajectory’s distance and straightness greatly. After you’ve upgraded to a rifled barrel, you may also want to consider getting an APEX barrel from www.choicepaintballguns.com. You can direct your paintball for longer distance or curved shots with this addition that goes on the end of a rifled paintball gun barrel.
You can also upgrade the insides. By getting better, lighter, more efficient internal parts to your paintball marker, you will be able to shoot farther and faster. A lighter hammer takes less work from the paintball gun to move faster, therefore pushing out more paintballs faster. You can buy individual pieces (striking bolts, paddles, etc.) or you can buy kits that have multiple internal parts upgrades. Check out the Tippmann Cyclone Feed Kit for example.
You can also upgrade the trigger. Most paintball guns come with a stock trigger system that’s semi-automatic. You can purchase better/electronic triggers for most paintball guns. These will allow you to shoot faster and have choices such as 3-round burst or fully automatic. Some of the higher end competition paintball guns have electronic trigger upgrades that can have up to 17 different trigger settings!
Depending on how fast you want your marker to shoot, you can also upgrade the hopper. Most paintball guns operate by a gravity feed loader, however you can upgrade to an electronic loader that will feed paintballs to your paintball marker at alarming speeds, making your paintball gun shoot much faster. We recommend a Halo-B electronic loader or the Pinokio hopper for tactical or increase storage capacity.
Finally, consider buying an upgrade kit. These are kits you can buy that will basically turn your stale, old paintball gun into a brand new killing machine. Kits are available to turn your paintball bun into an MP5, M4 Carbine, Sniper paintball gun, AK47, M16 and many more. Many times these kits also have upgraded pieces in them, for example many of the kits on www.choicepaintballguns.com come with tactical rifled barrels.

Here is another fun scenario paintball mission that you can use to practice how to set up an ambush and also how to deal with being ambushed by another team.  You can play this mission with a huge group of people or just with your paintball team.  If your just with your own team, get one or two players and they will be the ones setting up the ambush against all the ‘unsuspecting’ other.  You can also play this the other way around as well (large group ambushes the smaller).

The team setting up the ambush should try different strategic scenarios.  Try setting up trip wires with paintball grenades.  Also try using paintball landmines set in strategic places that you might try and flush the others into to get them to blow themselves up.  Of course use fully decked out semi and fully automatic paintball guns on both sides.  Also look for strategic places to put a sniper paintball gun position somewhere to pick off key players while your other ‘regular infantry’ are keeping pressure on them with constant fire.  Be smart with your location as well; try to use the layout of the land or specific sections of territory that might make your ambush more successful.  These are things like a stream, a bottleneck - someplace where the opposing force would have to go through.  This might be a bridge, a trail or even a section of a field.  Try to use paintball gun firepower to divert the opposing team and force their movement into a certain area you’ve already strategically placed paintball landmines or tripwires in.  If you have multiple players in the ambush, consider separating your forces in different areas of your location to accomplish your mission.  Try to have alternate plans and be ready to go with the flow.
Your Mission…. Ambush the opposing team.  The opposing team should give the Ambushers enough time to set up their ambush (so they can strategize, set trip wires, etc.) without knowing what they’re doing.  The mission starts when the opposing team enters the area where the ambush is set up.  Eliminate as many enemy as possible.  Either team can win.
Time Limit…. 30 minutes. Also set a time limit for the ambush set-up (15-30 minutes).
Teams…. One team for the Ambushers (1-2 players if dealing with a small group - or you can use a whole squad if you’re with a big group).  The rest of the players will make up the Opposing Forces getting ambushed.
Enemy….Enemy forces consist of a squad of local insurgents.  Insurgents are suspected to be highly trained and armed with small arms and automatic paintball guns.  Also use snipers as part of your ambush strategy (using high powered scopes and long range sniper paintball guns).
Props…. Use any kind of props you want for forts, hiding spots and snipers, etc.  Try to utilize landmarks or interesting points specific to your location.  Be creative with your equipment for a great time; set paintball landmines or paintball grenades.  You will have more fun with awesome tactical paintball guns and scenario gear that’s totally decked out.  Depending on how much room you have to play with, try using different numbers of players, different equipment and different strategies to be ready for anything.

Here is another fun scenario paintball mission that you can play with a huge group of people or just with your paintball team.  This one’s better with a larger group though.  If your just with your own team, get one or two players and they will be the ‘US Special Forces’ team and all the rest of your team will be the ‘Opposing Forces’ protecting the weapons cache.  Here’s the situation…

A local warlord has recently taken control of a small mountain village capturing a large cache of heavy weapons in the process.  Intelligence reports the cache has been separated and moved to two locations, one in the Northern sector and one in the Southern sector of the village.  You can use either extra paintball guns, but this game is most fun when played with rationed ammo.  Start out with everyone (good guys and/or bad guys) having only half a hopper full of paintballs (or a certain small amount); use boxes of paintballs for the ‘weapons cache’.  You can choose to give everyone a small amount of paintballs or you can give unlimited supplies to the bad guys while the good guys have a small amount (this will make things much harder!).
Your Mission…. Conduct an assault of the mountain village in order to secure and deny the enemy the use of the weapons caches.  Eliminate as many enemy as possible.
Time Limit…. 30 minutes.
Teams…. One team for the US Special Forces (1-2 players if dealing with a small group - or you can use a whole squad if you’re with a big group).  The rest of the players will make up the Opposing Forces protecting the ammo/weapons cache.
Enemy….Enemy forces consist of a squad of local insurgents.  Insurgents are suspected to be highly trained and armed with small arms and automatic paintball guns.  Snipers are also suspected to be in the area (using high powered scopes and long range sniper paintball guns).
Props…. Use any kind of props you want for forts, hiding spots for the weapons cache and snipers, etc.  Try to utilize landmarks or interesting points specific to your location.  Be creative with your equipment for a great time; set paintball landmines or paintball grenades; try to set up a strategic ambush.  You will have more fun with awesome tactical paintball guns and scenario gear that’s totally decked out.  Depending on how much room you have to play with, some guys really go all out and play this game at night with night-vision goggles, high-powered scopes and sneaky tactical strategies.

The Airowgun unit was designed to be a tool to draw the neophyte paintball player back to the game, or into the game for first time.  Over the last few years with Airball fields and Tourneys taking over paintball we have noticed a decline in new players taking up the sport.  You know, those people who can’t afford $500 + for equipment, are afraid of getting lit up @ 15 balls a second, and don’t want to have to shoot a case or so of paint for a day of play.  With the combined # of people who throw together games in the woods behind their house, and the 7million + bowhunters, 6 million + airgun shooters and the 10 milllion + paintball players out there, it is clear that tournament paintball is just not everybody’s cup of tea and that there are a whole bunch of bodies still out there waiting to be collected.  To this end was the Airowgun designed. We both know that most players come out to play and just have fun, laugh and BS with friends.  Some will evolve into tournament players, but the greater preponderance will not. It is also true that if we can provide a positive experience to first time players that they will return and become loyal customers. Then a great deal of them will begin what we call here the “Upgrade Race”.  You know the “I got shot out by that guy because he has brand X marker and I only have brand Z” so the trading up begins. This results in numerous sales to same individual right up until such time that they actually develop a skill set. Well, we believe that the Airowgun can help be the catalyst to get that whole ball rolling by getting a few of the guys on the sidelines to give paintball a shot as it were. Plus they can still go out and engage in archery and hunting when they’re not playing paintball!  Scenario guys love it!  Bow hunters can’t wait to see who’s the best!  You can purchase the Airowgun from www.choicepaintballguns.com.

Here is a fun example of a scenario paintball mission that you can play with a huge group of people or just with your paintball team.  If your just with your own team, get one or two players and they will be the ‘US Special Forces’ team and all the rest of your team will be the ‘Opposing Forces’.  Here’s the situation…

Intelligence reports that Opposing Forces  are using their base camp to plan and launch attacks on U.S. forces in the area.  Interrogation of Opposing Force prisoners has revealed that sensitive, perishable information is tored on a CD and safeguarded in a satchel somewhere in the base camp.  There is also reportedly a ‘phony’ satchel containing false hard copy documents intended to deceive the enemy.
Your Mission…. A squad of US Special Forces will seize the target, identify and secure the satchel with the correct CD and proceed to the extraction point.
Time Limit…. 30 minutes.
Points…. You get 3 points for retrieval of correct satchel, 2 more points for safe transfer of the satchel to intelligence Analysts waiting at the extraction point.  Additional points may be awarded for Officer capture or casualties.
Teams…. One team for the US Special Forces (1-2 players if dealing with a small group - or you can use a whole squad if you’re with a big group).  The rest of the players will make up the Opposing Forces.
Props…. You will need one ‘phony’ satchel containing hard copy documents and one ‘real’ satchel containing the ‘real’ CD.  You will have more fun with awesome tactical paintball guns and scenario gear that’s totally decked out.  Depending on how much room you have to play with, some guys really go all out and play this game at night with night-vision goggles, high-powered scopes and sneaky tactical strategies.

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of participating in the sport of paintball is to play it with a specific objective in mind.  These “missions” can range from the simple (Elimination) to the elaborate (multiple day scenario missions - like ‘D-Day’).  Often times, missions are part of a much larger Scenario Game, which can involve as many as several thousand players and last for 24+ hours.  Your team may get assigned several missions; one right after the other.  By successfully competing a number of pre-planned missions, the paintball team with the most points wins the game.  Remember you may also have to accomplish your missions in a certain time frame; you may also have several missions to do, so you will have to accomplish them as quickly as possible so you can move on to the next one.  After mastering some of the more common missions, many platers find it challenging to create and play their own Army-style missions.  An excellent resource for creating and playing missions online or adapting them for paintball play is www.americasArmy.com.  This site contains all the tools you’ll need to create your own game and missions; this information can help paintballers enhance their skills in a variety of locations, weather and lighting conditions.  You can also visit www.choicepaintballguns.com and check out their ‘paintball game variations’ section for a wide variety of mission options and scenario play ideas.

Whenever your kids start a new venture, there’s nothing more important than ensuring that they are completely safe. With that in mind, if your kid has expressed an interest in paintballing, it’s best not to deny your kid the right to play. Saying no outright will only cause your kid to want to play all the more. Just make sure that your kid is properly outfitted with safety gear. And remember, it’s only paintball. The only major risk posed by this activity is damage to the eyes, which is why paintball goggles are an absolute necessity.The vast majority of the time, protective eyewear will stop any serious harm from happening to your child. Without any significant padding, paintballs might leave bruises or welts, but these will fade with time and are very unlikely to leave permanent damage. If you are concerned, however, with the paintballs injuring your children, you can always send them out on the paintball course wearing thicker clothing. This will help absorb some of the shock. There is also padded protective wear should you still be seriously concerned with injury.

What do you think about the direction that paintball is heading in?  Direction meaning new equipment coming out, the way competitions are run, scenario paintball getting bigger, etc.
I love the current direction that paintball is heading; I think it’s heading in the right direction and it’s a very good one.  I think more and more people are starting to experience the fun of paintball.  More and more people are joining teams and wanting to compete in both speedball and tactical tournaments; competition is definitely getting better and bigger.  The new equipment coming out has also improved a great deal.  Paintball guns keep getting more advanced - making them more efficient so they shoot and operate a lot better.  For what they used to have, compared to the technology they have now….. paintball markers have actually gotten cheaper!  In other words it used to cost a lot more for some of the ‘extras’ that now come standard on a good paintball gun.  There’s no doubt about it though, you get what you pay for.  If you spend less than $150 on a paintball gun, don’t expect it to carry you very far.  But then on the other hand, if you spend $750 on a sweet tactical paintball gun, that sucker better run well and there’d better be some kind of warranty!  With the development of more advanced paintball equipment, scenario paintball is also getting bigger, better and more fun.  I also think the way some of the fields are set up nowadays has also really improved and added to the fun of the game.
Joey W.  Midwest Assassins Division 1 Paintball Team, Perryville, MO.

What’s your favorite brand/company; What do you like that they have/why do you like them? What’s your least favorite paintball company and why?
I would have to say that Spyder is my favorite brand because that’s all I shoot.  I think the durability and reliability are practically unmatched by these paintball guns.  Tippmann is also great like this.  I’ve used several different Spyder paintball guns and they have never let me down - easy to use, hardly break down and plenty of paintball accessories you can add.  I have Spyder paintball guns for speedball tournaments and also a Spyder MR1 for all our tactical games and practice.  Honestly the MR1 has become one of my all time favorite paintball guns.  My favorite company would have to be our team sponsor, ChoicePaintballGuns.com.  I like that company because they sell the best paintball guns and accessories.  They also have low prices on most items and they will give you good deals on packages.  I really like the assault rifle paintball guns and also I like the paintball pistols.  This company also carries an unbelievable selection of tactical paintball vests and scenario gear.  My least favorite paintball company would have to be brass eagle.  I didn’t like their guns very much, but their paintballs are decent.  I had too many problems with my brass eagle paintball guns breaking too easy; oh well - you get what you pay for though.
Joey W.  Midwest Assassins Division 1 Paintball Team, Perryville, MO.

If you know somebody in your life that’s interested in paintball, tell them it’s a great activity for learning strategy, hand-eye coordination, and various other skills.  Parents should understand however that paintball is an activity best enjoyed responsibly.  If your young child is asking for any kind of paintball accessories, make sure that they’re ready for that kind of responsibility.  Paintball guns shoot fast and it hurts to get hit.  Make sure they have the proper safety equipment before playing, so they don’t think the sport is too ‘intense’.  This is the main reason that you should be 18 years old before playing; most kids (who are too young to play) think it hurts too much to get hit with a paintball.  Safety must always come first when it comes to these kinds of activities.

The best way to introduce a younger child into the paintballing community is by providing him with all the safety gear and a very basic paintball gun.  The most important piece of safety equipment for the newbie is a good set of goggles or a paintball mask.  After he or she’s been properly versed in paintball safety and given all the necessary protective gear, look into paintball pistols.  These make ideal beginner guns because they tend to be smaller and more manageable.  They can also be outfitted with many extras once they prove he or she is responsible and capable of handling the basics.