Well, last Saturday we played at one of the NeoDawgs private fields. It was a great day to play, for what would typically be considered one of the last days of the paintball season, if not a little beyond due to cooler weather.

Some things didn’t go as planned. For one thing, the weather was warmer than I expected, though I did go out and purchase some hand warmers, just in case. It was probably in the upper fifties most of the day, and sunny. We had about ten people playing, so the teams were even. But we did lack a chronograph, so we couldn’t measure the paintball velocity. Firing at some inanimate objects, we guessed that velocities were close to normal, or down a little bit, so we wouldn’t injure anyone, but enough to have the balls break.

So in typical Indiana fall fashion the weather was unpredictable, which worked out in our favor. I do plan, however, to try taking the marker out once the temperature gets a little cooler, and testing some warming techniques for the CO2 air system. Something else that was brought to my attention, aside from getting the CO2 bottle warm enough to speed the liqiud-to-gas conversion, was how well it would handle in the marker itself. Many woodsball players use Tippmann paintball guns, such as the A5 and 98. Our teams mostly used either of the two, sporting both semi-auto and automatic, some of the 98s using the cyclone feed (as well as all of the A5s), and some with response. These, of course, use gas (CO2) to operate. Will they freeze in a colder climate?

These are the things I want to find out.

On a more semi-humorous note, during the prep for one match, while we were waiting for the opposing team to get ready, we heard three shots. They were NOT from a paintball marker. They were from a shot gun, from some hunters that were bird hunting. So you can imagine the conversation that took place when we heard it…

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