OK we gotta get this going again. It's summer, that means paintball whenever you feel like it! I'll start with what happened in the last month or so that no one posted.
Basically, my gun was messed up big time. I gave it to my uncle to install a regulator a while ago, just because I didn't have the time back then, and he gave it back with Teflon tape on it. I asked why and he told me it would prevent leaks. Thought that was a little strange, but went with it. Didn't have time to argue or ask more questions at that time. Went to the paintball place shortly after i got my gun back. It felt lighter, more compact and more comfortable. Everything was going just as it usually does until i went to go chrono. Put my air in my gun and starts leaking right away. Took it apart at the tables and took a look at it. I thought it was the Teflon tape and I was right. I put the air back in after removing it to fix my gun and now it started leaking from the firing chamber....
At this time I'm pretty damn pissed. My first time going for FUN in a long time and my gun is in pieces on the table. Now, leaking from the firing chamber is luckily and easy fix most of the time. It's usually the bolt that's messed up or the hoses aren't connected properly. So, first I checked the hose. The O-Ring that should have been there was gone and in it's place was a huge ass O-Ring that just barely allowed the banjo fitting to go into place. Now, I know that could have been the leak, but because my gun was already apart, I figured may as well look at the bolt too, right? So I take a look and again, there in an oring out of place. One that shouldn't even have been there this time. That little Oring made the bolt just far away enough to cause it to leak.
So basically I took my gun apart and fixed everything that could be wrong with it so far. First the regulator and then the firing chamber. At this point I've already missed a good 2 games (Well, 1 game really. The other game was low-tech). So I put in my air and now it's leaking from the hose that goes from the bottom ASA to the regulator. Took the hose off and it looks like someone cut it with a pair of scissors, I shit you not. The hose's ends were all messed up. Instead of being a straight cut that is usually done, its a really sloppy, squished, deformed cut that changed the airflow from my tank to the regulator. Buy a hose there, cut it myself this time, and put it in.
At this point, if my gun isn't going to work, I'm ready to kill someone. I put in the air and it finally works. I go chrono, reload everything, put my jersey and pants on, put in my goggle lens and put all the tools I used away. Missed 3 good games and 4 games that I wouldn't have played anyway. Oh well, right? What are ya gunna do?
So the moral of the story is this - Leave your gun with someone who is 100% sure on what they're doing. Looks like I'm doing my own gun work from now on...
Yeah so about the actual paintball. I went with a few friends who aren't bad but I wouldn't ever have them on my team's starting roster. They go just for fun, which is why I bring them. Paintball is beginning to look like work to me, and I can't have that. We met up with 2 of my teammates there, so now we had a group of 5 and felt like taking on the refs there for some reason. Probably because they are nasty. They said no because they had to ref and work, but we knew it was because they didn't want to get their asses kicked.
Highlights of the night would be when me and one of my friends hit both snakes off break and almost literally just walked down the field killing everyone. Then a classic 4v2 match with my and the worser of my 2 teammates against 4 of them. Lucky for me, I went mid that game and he's a backmen. He shot one, I shot one, I shot one, I covered him on a run through for the win. And my personal favorite moment of paintball that night was when there was 4 of them left and I think 6 or 7 of us. Can't really remember...but anyway, There was 4 left and I knew where they all were - 1 back left, 1 back right, left snake and mid 30. One move. One win. ran across the field from my right 30 to bunker the left snake, ran around the center 30 bunker to bunker that guy, and dove past the back right bunker to shoot the last 2. I'm not going to lie, that may have been the most insane move I've done or even see anyone do. A 4 man run through. Usually 2 is really good.
So, my gun broke, got it fixed, had the time of my life playing paintball - just as God intended.
