You might have a problem if….?

[homerj]

This could be an interesting topic of discussion. What do you do or what have you done in the past that indicates your love/obsession with this great sport of ours?

I’ll start us off: Being on a trip or doing something else that should occupy your mind rather than thinking about that package waiting for you at home. I went to New Orleans this weekend &, while it was definitely fun, i found myself wanting to hurry up & get home so i could open the package that arrived Friday after we left.

Also, i played the day we came home from the hospital with our oldest daughter. I’m not proud of myself.

[Junglepeanut]

Whenever I travel I check the local Craigslist in every town I pass through in hopes of picking up some hidden gem..... My wife laughes when i am trying to pass through Albuquerque at a certain hour so I can meet some dude in a parking lot to buy a paintball marker.....

[Cdn_Cuda]

Peak MCB…

[Myrkul]

When you own 7 different versions of your favorite marker and are actively planning/scheming on the 8th one....

[FredMnkyDad10]

When you have more projects than complete markers and you still keep your eye out for parts.

[DocsMachine]

Ha! Let's see... Paintball (specifically airsmithing) has been my day job for closing in on 27 years now, I've drawn a (not always ) paintball-related comic strip for 23 years, my 25-year-old eBay account was started to buy paintball gear, my 23 year old PayPal account was started do I can get paid for working on paintball guns, I've filled an entire 2-car garage and a side room with thousands of dollars in machine tools specifically to work on paintball guns, some of my personal paintball projects predate the second Clinton administration, my website has over 6,000 photos on it, roughly half of which are paintball parts or guns, and the other half are pictures of the machines I use to do the work on said paintball guns, I have a target range set up behind my shop- and specifically made a "dutch door" out the back so I'd have a flat place to set tools and a chrony when testing the guns- over the years I sold off my snowmachines, 4-wheelers and real-steel collection to either keep this biz going or expand it, and I have HPA tanks lying around that are older than some of you guys.

You lot think you're obsessed? Please.

Doc.

[Drunkscriblerian]

...Aaaaaand Doc wins the thread!

[COB]

Need I say more?

[Junglepeanut]

It's like the paintball version of the old KB Toys store.....

[homerj]

Wow. I only have like 5 or 6 Stingrays & Stingray 2’s. I feel so inadequate now. I had one of those Vulcans about 24 years ago. The first time i put in a C02 cartridge the grip cracked open & CO2 just sprayed everywhere.

[scottieb]

There is a part I'm after.

It's in a lot, with many other things I do not need and will not use.

I buy the lot.

[IAmTheLagSwitch]

When you haven't actually had a chance to play the game yet (it is winter in my defense) and have already bought 3 markers because they were "too cheap to pass up", and then converted one of those to pump

[MrKittyCatMeowFace]

You get really bummed when the weather forecast looks like this. Like I should be so happy with the warm week after this brutal cold. But why do you gotta drop almost 20 degrees on my open play days! XD

[iamthelazerviking]

Scouring every online avenue for hidden gems to flip. Using PayPal credit probably too often, but not so much it's problem. Always paid off fast and likely a major contributing factor to my amazing credit score 😂

[Trbo323]

Guys. There's really only one correct answer here


... If you are on this forum

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[FredMnkyDad10]

Right on the nail, so true.

[COB]

You are wise and insightful. But most importantly, you are absolutely correct.

[Ecapnation]

If your scrap pile looks like some people's coveted collection.

[drewkroeker]

You might have a problem if:

1) you will drive 5 hours one way for a day of paintball

2) your gear collection is worth two to three times the market value of the beater car you drive to the paintball field

[Drunkscriblerian]

You might have a problem if;

-you show up two hours early to help the owner set up his field in exchange for a waived field fee (of $10)
-you stay two hours late to help clean up just so you can A: get store credit at the owner's proshop and maybe score some free gear other players left behind*
-you bummed smokes to people for tubes of paint
-your kit is BDUs, a mask, a PGP, two tubes of paint, ten empty tubes and a couple spare 12ies - but hey, you can play paintball with that right?
-you listen every time someone throws out a case box for the sweet, sweet rattle of paintballs at the bottom
-Same if someone's reloading a pod at a table....those paintballs spilled on the table? that's next game's ammo. Bonus points if you can shoot the guy who loaded the pod with his own paintballs

(this was me at 19 lol)

*Everyone who played there was made aware that any gear left behind at the end of the day was automatically the property of the owner unless it was clearly marked with a name and phone number; he was totally against the idea of running a Lost & Found and was quite vocal about it, said facts were part of the safety lecture

[Psycho91]

That's how I got a set of brand new profilers one time, sat around to see if anyone grabbed and no one did so it was mine lol

[Drunkscriblerian]

I ended up with a bunch of tubes, three different barrel cleaners, four hoppers, a mask and a whole gun/tank/hopper setup (a Mokal Titan). On that last, I did make an attempt to track down the owner but no dice. I still have it, and wonder of wonders it still airs up after twenty-some years.

[Sherwoodsghost]

• Recently brought back to life a Smart Parts Ion. Now I fully understand the love/hate relationship with those markers.
• Love choosing paint based on colors and looks instead of "quality". They all fly the same for the most part.
• When I was a teen, I played on the cheapest budget just to play. Man I struggled with foggy masks.