The first paintball gun was originally developed for forestry rangers and cattle herders. The Nelspot 007 was a single action, stock class airgun that propelled round, oil-paint-filled, gelatin balls with a 12 gram CO2 cartridge. Two friends found the gun in an agricultural catalog, ordered two, and shot each other with it to see if it was safe. Hayes Noel and Charles Gaines created paintball.
They ordered more, and according to legend, organized a game between city slickers and country folk, to see who could win in the ultimate game of man-hunt. The city slickers lost.
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http://www.warpig.com/paintball/articles/hayes/index.shtml
The game was played in the forest, with friends, and at most a person would shoot 100 paintballs in a day. If only it were still like that...
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ReplyDeletei played paintball in the 80's. we used nelspots. conserving ammo, and minding your CO2 was part of the game. 5 years later i went again. guys had full-auto tippmans. if you even showed an elbow behind a tree, there would be 15 balls launched at you, one of them would hit and it was game over. guys would spend 250$ a day on paint. if you were seen, you were showered with hits. I had 25$ to spend on paint. i came home with 100's of bruises instead of 10. it was no fun. if i could find a single-shot pistol only, or even a single-shot pump field, i'd go again. haven't found one.
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