The sport of Paintball
There you are. You’re hiding behind a hastily constructed bunker made to protect yourself from enemy fire. You can hear the enemy firing on your position, and you can feel the shots screaming above your head. The firing ceases for a moment. You pop out, fire off a few rounds, and duck back in; but as you are going back in the shots start up again, and you feel the rounds whizzing past your head and ear. One catches your sleeve. You glance down. No damage. Suddenly you have a fellow fighter there in your bunker with you. He tells you he’s going to try to take the enemy bunker out. Before you can stop him, he charges out of the bunker, gun blazing. A burst of fire, and a cry. You glance out, and see that your teammate has been hit. Anger sweeps over you. You check your ammunition; close to full. You make a conscious decision to take them out. Taking a breath, you burst from your haven at speeds you did not know you could achieve. The enemy is surprised by this boldness. They doubted you, and are now caught off guard. You fire upon the exposed enemy. You see one of your shots find it’s mark, and he goes down. There is one more. Maintaining fire to keep him pinned down, you sweep past his bunker, and plac
e three shots in his chest as you pass. You are victorious. It is also a family sport, I have been playing paintball going on three years now. When I first started my son was under the minimum age of most fields to participate. Most fields require players be ten years old. However since he as reached the required age. I have taken him to the fields with me on several occasions. He loves the sport. Not only do I know were my son and quite a few of his friends are for the day, unless they are on the opposite team. I know now have the opportunity to teach them about gun safety. There is no better feeling in the world then to see your son smile because he got his dad. Yea, warm fuzzy. Next, we move onto the gas source. There are two power sources for paintball markers. Carbon Dioxide, almost always referred to in the sport, as it’s common chemical name, C02. The other form is High Pressure Air (HPA). Both are stored in specialized tanks made to hold that particular gas. The most common kind is C02. When C02 is in it’s tank, it is in liquid state. As the liquid C02 evaporates, tremendous pressure builds up. The pressure in a C02 tank is usually around 800 psi (pounds per square inch). As the marker is fired, the pressurized gas is released, allowing room for more C02 to evaporate, and for the pressure to build back up. This evaporation and pressure build is almost instantaneous, except when the C02 starts to run out. The problem with C02, for serious players, is that if one fires the marker very quickly, the C02 evaporation cannot always catch up quite as fast. This results in the marker’s firing pressure dropping, and the ball not going as far or as fast. This only occurs at high rates of fire, such as 10 balls per second (bps) or more. The fast fire rate must be maintained for a time before the pressure drop will begin. The concept of the paintball game was originally conceived by three men; Bob Gurnsey, Hayes Noel, and Charles Gaines. Their intent was to settle a longtime debate about who was more cunning; city slickers, or the real world smarts of countrymen. The first known paintball game was played in the woods of New Hampshire in 1981, with twelve competitors playing capture the flag, using shop goggles and CO2 powered "paintball" pistols, and Nelson brand oil-based permanent paintballs, which were originally used for marking cattle and trees. The goal of this original match was to capture all twelve participants' flags, without being "eliminated" by being shot. On this fateful June afternoon, the eventual winner, country-boy Ritchie White, captured all twelve flags without firing a single shot!
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