Field caught bootlegging paint

[iamthelazerviking]

If you're unfamiliar with "willballforsoup", he leaks stuff l about the paintball industry or shares rumors from sources that usually end up being true. This is an interesting one for sure, LOL. A field is allegedly making and selling their own bootlegged paint with their own used encapsulator machine. Not something you'd expect, but also...why not? Unless the quality is terrible, fields making their own paint wouldn't be a bad thing.

[autococker04]

Only problem I could see is passing it off as something else. If they make good paint that’s awesome.

[RuleOfSines]

They make their own air, why not paint? As long as they aren’t slapping someone else’s brand on it seems like a good idea.

[Cdn_Cuda]

I mean could it be worse than some of the filed paint places are using? At least it would be fresh!

[iamthelazerviking]

Truth!

[cougar20th]

They make their own air, why not paint? As long as they aren’t slapping someone else’s brand on it seems like a good idea.

As long as its not passed off as something it isn't it should be all good. At least in my mind. Can it be worse then some of the crap that we get now?

If it makes sense financially to the field to make there own what's to say there is a problem. Although insurance companies may disagree.

[OpusX]

The only question should be is old school size like .689?

[SignOfZeta]

Hahaha, WTF? Paintball has its own wannabe Walter Winchell? Thats both hilarious and sad.

The narrative you’re forwarding is so loaded and unlikely. Why is the paint “bootleg”? A bootleg is banned or fake stuff. Making your own paint wouldn’t be either of those unless it was branded as someone else’s. The only rules I know of that would prevent anyone from making paintballs would be exclusivity deals with GI SportZ.

Secondly…making paintballs is hard. The equipment isn’t cheap. You need a real industrial building with adequate floor space and all the power and storage needs for not only the encapsulation but everything else. It’s kinda tall…won’t fit in an attached garage or a shed. And profit…if you’re only supporting one supposedly struggling field…will be negative. Getting up and going with paintballs is basically a $1M operation. It would be only done by the most successful and well run fields…of which there are none in existence.

Then there is the angle that if someone somehow managed to make their own paintballs that they would be hiding this achievement for some reason, and people will have to sneak under a fence to see it…why? Why to any of this.

[markdem]

I like the idea of fields producing their own paint, but im with SignOfZeta on this one. Producing paint is a large operation.

paint grenades may be a possibility tho

[Ecapnation]

Who's the "struggling field"

[uv_halo]

I agree with the probability of this rumor not being true. Just watch the "How It's Made Video" on paintball to get an idea of the scale for each of the pieces of equipment and, the volume of paint they process, i.e. the drying racks. I think it is worth considering how much different fields have in paint throughput in a given day (i.e. pump only vs magfed vs open, vs strictly speedball).

A field Making their own paint is not inherently a good or bad thing. It is entirely up to the manufacturer. Do they switch to cheaper non-food safe fill components? Do they give up on thinner shells and their propensity for forming more lopsidedly (during drying) and just go thicker (look out Monsterball). Do they use dyes that stain everything? do they bother to test their product against the ASTM?

[Grendel]

As long as this "Field", if it actually exists, is not pawning it off as some name brand paintball I am good with this. I have day dreamed in the past concerning making my own brand of paintballs but it really isn't something that you can get into on the cheap. So I doubt this is real but if it is I'll try out their paint can't be a lot worse that a lot of the paint I have gotten in the last 10+ years.

[iamthelazerviking]

Also disclaimer, I know it's not exactly "bootlegging" as in creating a fake item to pass it off as legitimate, but just easier to call the DIY, "underground" approach to making the paintballs as "bootleg"

[Heavy_D]

Cool IMO, I mean as long as its "safe" and not Like vintage Monsterball haha.

I wish I had the funds and knowledge, to start a small Paint manufacturing company, so frustrated with crappy field paint these days...

[Autococker07]

Who is going to bootleg the trash that passes as paint these days? there is no profit in it.....

On the other hand, if a field could beat the cost of buying someone else's product, that would be a win..... but I think manufacturing cost would far outweigh sales.

sounds like someone trying to manufacture a viral post......

[DarqSpark]

We used to play at a field next to the Brass Eagle plant in Neosho, MO. They had it set up as a flat fee "all you can shoot" field. The paint would be in these tall round cardboard barrels you would just fill as much as you wanted. I am pretty sure they made the paint there and what we got was end/beginning runs. Some days it was pretty good, other days it wouldn't even come out of the gun.
But it was cheap, like $40 for everything.