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I Want Your Paintball Gun Reviews
Want to share your paintball gun reviews with the world? Have a strong opinion and want the world to hear it? Do you love or hate your paintball gun? Well then, create a short (less than 2 minute or 500 words) video or post and send me an email with it attached. If it doesn’t totally suck I will post it on Paintball Gun Man.com in our paintball gun reviews section.
Your opinion does matter, and I think people respect the advice of others, from similar circumstances more than they do experts. I have personal feelings regarding the value of features that might be different for a new player, or a young player or you.
I want your perspective, and I think others do as well, so take a chance and write or record a review, I might just post it.
Paintball Gun Review Format
What I am looking for is a detailed explanation of the benefits, features and problems with your particular paintball gun. What do you get for it? At this time I have nothing to offer other than fame. In time I’d like to offer prizes for the most popular posts. The criteria you should address is:
- Initial quality – How well made is the gear? How good is the finish? How does it feel?
- Reliability – This is based on long term durability out in the field and is often hard to determine from a short paintball gun review. How I will make this determination is based on the quality of materials used, and the percentage of returns, and defects.
- Performance – Accuracy, rate of fire (if appropriate), ball breakage, upgradable (how many after market parts are available?).
- Price – How well does the price equate to the performance?
As I get my hands on particular paintball markers I will also be creating paintball gun reviews. First up is a review of the Phantom pictured in this post.
All our Paintball Gun Reviews
As you and I create paintball gun reviews links will be placed here to each post.
Phantom Stock Class Paintball gun review.
Paintball Comic Strip
Here is another of my Psychedelic Squirrels paintball comic strips. Every paintball team I have ever played for has had their own way of identifying and passing the most critical information for a field or match. Over time some “bunker” names have become universal. If someone says “the snake”, “dog house” and “Dorito” everyone knows which bunkers they are talking about, whether or not you have ever played the field.
Why have those names become universal? Heck if I know, but it probably has to do with the ease by which the name relays the shape and therefore it is easy to identify.
Back to the Paintball Comic
There is more than ten years between the last Psychedelic Squirrels paintball comic I posted and this one, you might have noticed many changes. Some of those obvious changes are that it is much simpler, which allows me to create them faster, everyone is wearing a full mask and goggles, and the colors are BRIGHT.
I actually spent quite a bit of time redesigning all of the characters to be easier to identify no matter how small I drew them, which meant making them simpler, and eliminating unimportant detail, which makes it faster to draw… Oh and I made it more legible… I always thought the old ones were hard to read.
Will there be another Paintball Comic?
I leave that up to you. I am not sure if I will continue doing this paintball comic, it takes a lot of my time, but I really do enjoy coming up with them, so who knows, maybe I will just create them as time allows, unless you talk me into creating them more often.
My Paintball Comic Strip
Way back in the days of Yore, what ever that means, I had a paintball comic strip. And Before that I had a wildly successful regular comic strip. Well it was successful in that it ran in a few different papers daily, so maybe not wildly, or even truly successful, but it didn’t suck. Anyways that other comic strip was called Cold Coffee and was about a group of college kids who worked for a local coffee shop. I created the paintball Comic as a spin off from that. Only one character ever made the transition between the two worlds. Jamma, wasn’t the main character of the main strip, he was just a friend, a bit part.
About this Paintball Comic Strip
I always wanted a master to teach me the game of paintball, someone like Mr Miagi from Karate Kid to guide me through the game. Since I never had that mentor, I decided Jamma will in the paintball comic strip.
Why did Jamma and no other characters make the transition to the paintball comic strip? He was the only one crazy enough for the world I envisioned. Jamma always came into Cold Coffee as the over anxious fall guy, he fit this new strip well.
I introduce everyone to Griz, the old veteran paintball player, with wisdom and skill beyond measure. Of course Jamma will try his inner calm at every turn. I wanted to play off of these two characters, but over time everything changed including the name. Eventually the Paintball Comic Strip was renamed Psychedelic Squirrels.
More Paintball Comic Strips
White Board By Doc, the king of Paintball comic strips.
Psychedelic Squirrels Paintball Comic Strip at theFunniez.com
My First Paintball Gun
Unlike Jamma I bought my first paintball gun before I had ever played the game. Heck, if it hadn’t been for finding that Nel Spot 007 at the Army Surplus store back in 1989, I would not have even heard of paintball.
But I remember the day I bought my first Autococker. And I didn’t buy some base model, no I went for Deluxe and bought the Bob Long Signature Series. It was green and yellow, reminded me of a dragon, so I named it Penelope… Yes I named my paintball marker!
But like Jamma, and I’d guess many paintball players, I thought the marker would make me great, after all, every great player I knew had a great paintball gun. And Just like Jamma, the first game with it taught me a valuable lesson, it is not the marker but the man (or woman).
Here Jamma tries to get redemption after the mishap of his first game. Rushing in boldly, he charges with reckless abandon into the unknown.
By this paintball comic strip I was starting to get who Jamma really was, and what I was realizing was he, was, me. Kind of.
I hate to sit and wait, I want to go get the other team. Shoot shoot, kill kill!
Sometimes that back fires.
Oh yeah, sorry for reposting the strip about Jamma’s first game. I have been putting them at my web comic site thefunniez.com as well, and had not posted the previous strip yet, so I assumed I had not posted it here either.
In this episode of Psychedelic Squirrels Jamma finally gets out on the field for his first game of paintball.
I would love to hear the story of your first game of paintball, and if okay with you, the best from the audience I will turn into comic strips with my new batch of characters.
So if you are interested leave a comment with your story, I might just make you famous.
A paintball comic strip needs to progress through it’s life the same way a paintball player does. In these strips my characters are being developed at the same pace as the new player is learning the game. So this is the first game of our hero Jamma.
Everyone’s first game of paintball is different, as unique as the people who play it. This is Jamma’s first game.
As you can tell from the change to a new main character, I was already beginning to evolve the strip in new directions.
I’ve always wanted to yell “Eat Gelatin Encapsulated Death, Whimpering Fiends!” while doing a run through in paintball, but the moment has thus far eluded me.
Sorry I missed posting another of the paintball comic strips on saturday, we finally had a break in the 19 straight days of rain, so I had to get outside while it lasted. Now it is raining again, joy to the world… Yes it is June, why do you ask?
This particular strip is based on a real event. We stopped to pick up a friend of mine, pretty early in the morning and he was wearing boxers and a sweatshirt as he took his gear out to the car. And I thought I was bad in the morning.
Yesterday I posted the very first paintball comic strip I ever created, and as promised here is the next one. I will also be posting them at The Funniez along with my other comic strips like Multicampers which is about a bunch of airsoft players and a soon to be published comic strip “Roadie”, the story about a guy, his dog and a neurotic squirrel. Hell I might even post all of the old Cold Coffee comics and the Distemperment strips.
I think there is only one more paintball related strip with this character, then I switched over to a younger guy, just getting into the game, named Jamma. However this character comes back from time to time as the overbearing pro wanna be, big mouth putz. I have not been able to track down all of the Squirrel strips only the first dozen or so.