If you could start a paintball rumor or urban legend...

[Magoo]

What do it be? Totally untrue, of course.

A couple of my favorites from back in the days of the Tippmann Forums were that the Tippmann Hellhound was for sale and you had to inquire with Tippmann directly. Also, once you reached a certain level within the community, you had access to the Ultimate Barrel, the Superchromium.

Go.

[Magageddon]

I think its true, but not even a picture of them exists from my understanding. When the lightning micromags were done, 6 of them were made. However there were also 6 others dubbed "armageddon micro mags", supposedly in the same lightning air brush pattern, but in red, yellow, and brown. Not even a picture exists of them, so whether they exist or not is anybodies guess?

Also during shatner ball, a purple x mag with bill shatners signature was raffled off and supposedly tom kaye didn't wanna give it up, so he had 2 made and they raffled off the "copy" one and whoever has it thinks its the only one.

[wthomas333]

From my conversations with Forest I believe they do. I would love to see one as well. It is weird that there isn’t a single picture of one of the Armageddons.


“The Lighting pattern was not 100% ano. The airbrush work was a special process, with a clear layer sprayed on. It wasn’t as durable as Cerakote (for example), which was not commonly used at the time, but similar. If there are scrape marks that indicate a vertical bottle/foregrip had been installed, I would agree as far as the removal (???). I’m not positive if we did vert ASAs, etc. on all of them (six total I believe). They arrived just as I was leaving for Mayhem Masters in the UK, and I barely had time to look at them before they were boxed “to go”. We held a couple back here, but most all were sold at that event – Lightning and Armageddon – and most have now found their way back to the U.S.”

[Spider!]

You mean like Chad Thompson day?

[autococker04]

Billy and Adam Gardner stole Camille.

[Fubarius]

One I almost pulled off, for an April fools joke back in 06, maybe 07, was posting pictures of myself using my old Golden Eagle at the 05 IAO Owners Group division and convincing everyone it's a new revolutionary tournament gun from JT called the Aquila (Latin for eagle of course).

The second I never quite got around to doing was making up a new tournament play technique that was supposedly starting to dominate the tournament scene, called Kiwi Style. Some unknown team from New Zealand started it and it was the most intense, the most extreme play technique ever. So extreme that players routinely destroyed their guns by the end of the game, so using $1000+ guns was unsustainable, and thus practitioners of Kiwi Style would be found on the message boards asking to trade one Ego or Matrix for 10 Avengers.

[Olsson]

I would create the rumor that the small batch of titanium Automag valves that were released into the wild can be discerned by taste, and/or tingly feel on your tongue. Preferably with an instructional Youtube video, where I compare a stainless valve to a "titanium" one, showing how they look identical, but have differing weights on a scale.

The fake valve of course being doctored so that it weighs less. Oh, and I could of course throw in a bunch of "random" strangers that I interview on the street, to look surprised when they feel the tingly sensation of the titanium valve.

Then I would laugh, evil genius style, picturing in my mind that Automag owners across the world race to their Automags to give every last valve they own a good ole licking.

[Phantom1313]

Easy one - hold my beer:

Legend has it that there exists a roaming, wailing paintball spirit, much like the banshee - that haunts random paintball fields looking for players, hoping to get a pump or stock class match going, only to find electro players everywhere. The spirit, known only as the mayonnaise marauder, is clad only in a oddly colored kilt (yup, no under-britches), a sweat stained, paint covered slightly torn Hawaiian shirt, an old JT flex mask, and some used but moderately abused battle boots acquired from a pile in your uncle’s smelly and very questionable basement.

the Mayo marauder usually stalks the fields at odd hours, looking quite legit but that’s just to fool you. If you by chance do see the mayonnaise marauder in the midst of a game, your marker will instantly stop working, your paint will immediately break in your hopper and pods, and you’ll get a tingling sensation down-under…which might be kinda sexy at first, until you realize it’s actually you soiling your shorts as your tank burst valve fails, loudly leaving you in a cloud of shame and crippling self-doubt.

The legend tells of one soul who somehow survived the initial ordeal, only for the mayonnaise marauder to silently bunker his ass next round….but not before sliding up beside the player and whispering “tHe OvERlOrD MAR is wAiTiNG….bring mayo and some open cheeks…”*cough*cough* “ I mean open minds….bring more mayo and an open mind…damn it I need to work on that delivery…” Then the mayo marauder stepped back, simultaneously grabbing the player’s marker, and unloaded an entire hopper into the poor bastard….as his soul left this worldly realm- uh, I mean as he left the field…the sound of a whole fist being shoved into a jar of mayo was heard every time the player took a step.

Now, ashamed of his oddly sexual sounding flatulence noise at every step, the player left his gear, got in his car, and drove away, gone forever. Some say he switched to airsoft, but others think he died and now it’s him who haunts the fields forever as the mayo marauder…some even say, if you listen hard enough to the wind, you can still hear the fisted mayo jar sound…letting you know he’s there, somewhere, waiting for the next victim.

Either way, don’t let the mayo marauder catch you peeking on ‘em - it’s only downhill from there.

[Ecapnation]

What do it be? Totally untrue, of course.

A couple of my favorites from back in the days of the Tippmann Forums were that the Tippmann Hellhound was for sale and you had to inquire with Tippmann directly. Also, once you reached a certain level within the community, you had access to the Ultimate Barrel, the Superchromium.

Go.

Except the hell hound thing was mostly true..... Pretty sure a field owner owns it now

[Magoo]

Huh. I thought it was donated to Hell Survivors or something similar. I just remember so many newbies signing up for the forums just to ask how much it cost.

[Chad Thompson]

You mean like Chad Thompson day?

But what one is it, a rumor or an urban legend

[flyweightnate]

High pressure shoots straighter...

[lew]

1100 psi unregulated or go home.

[DocsMachine]

Tried that on a PGP, of all things. The velocity went down because the high chamber pressure acted as a stiffer valve spring.

Doc.

[flyweightnate]

Hush you. It's because you didn't have enough faith.

[MrBarraclough]

Probably something asinine but vaguely plausible-sounding if you don't think about it too hard, relating to ways of improving accuracy. Preferably something that'd cause believers to waste money on it.

...wait a minute, nevermind. Would spend the next 20 years arguing about it online with people who insist it works.

[AnarchicArctic]

Brass is more accurate than aluminum because it is 3x as dense, resulting in a sympathetic vibration as opposed to molecular recoil. The altruistic nature of forced co2 through brass is the same reason it is also used in instruments.

[JeepDVLZ45]

That's no rumor, that urban legend...airy SCIENCE!😉

[Brokeass_baller]

Honestly, back when I started getting heavy into paintball (circa 1999), I distinctly remember people recommending steel and brass barrels (especially J&J and the Boomstick) because they're smoother metals than aluminum, and therefore we more air efficient due to the decrease in drag on the ball.

[zinger565]

Double helix rifling is not only more accurate and precise, it's more efficient.

Hoppers were originally intended to be put feed forward so paint would not spill out when you raise your marker up.

The poppet "drop shot". It's already out there and talked about. I don't know when it came up, but it wasn't a talking point when I left the sport circa 2012.

[flyweightnate]

Poppets like the Etek had noticeable recoil/ barrel rise. Add an overbored barrel, and you have... bottom spin! as the barrel moves up to contact only the bottom of the accelerating paintball.

[Memornix]

Brass is more accurate than aluminum because it is 3x as dense, resulting in a sympathetic vibration as opposed to molecular recoil. The altruistic nature of forced co2 through brass is the same reason it is also used in instruments.

Wait a minute, so your telling me this actually isn't true?

[AnarchicArctic]

All good legends ring with truths

[FullContactUSA]

"This one time a guy I knew put his paintball in the freezer and it shot like marbles..."

And every other frozen paint story.

[Memornix]

There are three stories that always make me roll my eyes and end a paintball conversation because it is clear the person never actually played:

- the frozen paintball guy

- the guy who completely covered himself in leaves and the whole other team walked by and he shot them all in the back

- the guy who hid in a tree and got every one else out

Not sure why but these 3 stories seem to pop up over and over if I ever mention paintball I. A group of people.