Check out our special edition jersey for this year's World Cup! The limited run sold out in Europe in 6 hours.

Had a custom Blizzard ano job, matching freak (I know sp is heresy on a Tom Kaye gun). Custom tuna flashed board, tunablade. Red checkerboard grips, cp on/off.

Sold it to a guy in Cali. Wouldn't mind buying it back for old times sake. If anyone knows the owner or seen it or hasn't been parted out, let me know.

Always nice to have a buddy with a 3D printer. Made me some marker stands. They work better with the barrels removed. They get a little unstable. But otherwise they’re cool!

Would be sweet. As long as the first three pulls are something resembling semi, for safety, wouldn't it be fun to let the teams do what they want? Would add a layer of strategy and be fun to hear the boys in the back rip like they used to.

Also, why not limit paint by team? Let two guys go out with a back strapped with paint shooting automatic machine guns, with three guys up front rocking a pod and true semi.

Id watch that

DM7 anyone know who it is?

Really loving the new setup an ready to put it work at Cup !!!!!!!

Went to my home field today (Tanks) since the first real front of the year came in, I figured some people would be out slinging some paint, showed up and there were only a few private parties playing 50 cal and gellyball not a single recball player in sight,

2 weeks in a row of showing up to the field on a Saturday morning looking to get a few spins in and no recball players in sight, guess next time I go out and play I’m gonna have to drive across the city oh Houston to another field like TXR.

Tanks is just conveniently located and a quick 10-15 minute drive from home, and I just so happen to have some field paint left over from my last visit.

What reg is on this e99? Possibly a spimmy?

Sending out for WAS impulse eye board fabrication today. Excited! 😁

The board is dual sensor capable, so if the OEM sensor becomes hard to find it's a quick swap to the new sensor and back in action 👍

My prescription glasses fog up constantly under my paintball mask and once I start sweating theyre basically useless. Ive been thinking about trying contact lenses just for paintball instead because dealing with fogged lenses every game is getting old. Anyone here switched from glasses to contacts for playing and actually preferred it? Mostly wondering about comfort, dry eyes and whether contacts hold up fine during longer games.

I’ve been involved in paintball for about 25 years, and one thing I’ve noticed is just how much of our sport’s history is slowly disappearing.
Old teams, tournament results, manufacturers, leagues, fields, players and entire eras of paintball are becoming increasingly difficult to research. Websites have gone offline, forums have disappeared, magazines are out of print, and a lot of what happened only exists in the memories of people who were there.

So I’ve started WikiPaintball.
https://www.wikipaintball.com

It’s a free, community-driven encyclopaedia dedicated entirely to documenting paintball history, from the earliest days of the sport through to the present.

Why does it exist?
We’ve had some fantastic resources over the years, including Warpig, PBNation, M. Carter Brown, various magazines and countless smaller websites and forums.

But much of that information is scattered, buried in old discussions, or disappearing entirely.
Wikipedia also has strict notability requirements, meaning many historically relevant teams, players, manufacturers and regional organisations will probably never qualify for their own articles.
WikiPaintball isn’t intended to replace any of those resources. It’s intended to bring together paintball history in one searchable place, with references to original sources wherever possible.
And importantly, this isn’t just about American professional paintball. There’s decades of history from Europe, Asia, Oceania, South America and elsewhere that deserves documenting too.

Where things stand, and a note about AI
I launched the site in 2026 and have been spending a lot of time building out the initial articles, categories and structure.
I want to be upfront about something: I’m using AI for a lot of the initial research and drafting.
It’s been incredibly useful for tracking down old tournament results, archived websites, historical references and connections between teams, players and manufacturers.
But AI has limitations. It gets things wrong, misses context and can confidently present incorrect information.
That’s why I see the initial articles as a starting point, not necessarily the finished historical record.

What this project really needs is people.
People who actually played in those tournaments, worked for those manufacturers, ran those fields, or were involved in those teams.
People who have boxes of old paintball magazines sitting in their attic or shed, full of information that never made it onto the internet.
People who remember obscure regional leagues, forgotten teams, early equipment innovations, or the names of players who were important locally but never became famous.
And people who can help verify claims, correct mistakes, add missing information and connect it all to reliable sources.
There’s a difference between finding a historical lead and verifying that it actually happened. I want WikiPaintball to take that distinction seriously.

I’m looking to build a core volunteer team.
This is a completely voluntary, unpaid community project. I’m not trying to turn it into a business.
I’d love to find a group of people interested in helping develop, maintain and eventually take shared responsibility for the site.

I’m particularly looking for:

Technical volunteers: People familiar with MediaWiki, website security, spam prevention, backups, user permissions and general site administration. There are plenty of improvements I’d like to make to keep the site secure and sustainable.

Editors and administrators: People interested in maintaining article quality, reviewing contributions, checking sources, correcting errors, organising categories and helping other contributors.

Regional and historical specialists: People with detailed knowledge of particular countries, leagues, periods or aspects of paintball. Someone might focus on 1990s European tournament paintball, early American professional teams, Asian paintball history, classic markers, scenario games, women’s paintball, or the history of a particular manufacturer.

Collectors and archivists: People with old magazines, tournament programmes, catalogues, photographs, results sheets or other historical material that can help verify information that isn’t readily available online.
You don’t need to know everything about paintball. Someone who knows a ridiculous amount about one particular team, league, country or era could make a huge contribution.
And you certainly don’t need to be a professional writer or historian.

You don’t have to join the team to help.
Even if you only have time to correct an article, identify a missing player, provide a source or share an old tournament result, that’s valuable.
I’d also love people to tell me when something is wrong. I’m sure there are mistakes in the articles already, and finding and correcting them is part of building a reliable resource.

The longer-term goal
I’d like WikiPaintball to become a genuinely international, community-maintained reference for our sport, with knowledgeable volunteers helping look after different areas of its history.
More importantly, I’d like to build something that doesn’t depend on one person to survive.
Paintball has been around for more than 40 years. Some of the people who helped build the early industry are getting older, and a lot of the original records are already disappearing.
There’s a real opportunity to preserve that history while we still can.

If you’d like to get involved in the core team, help with the technical side, become an editor, or specialise in a particular area of paintball history, please comment or message me.
And if you have old paintball magazines gathering dust somewhere, please don’t throw them away!
I’d also love to hear what people think of the project, what needs improving and what subjects are missing.

What part of paintball history do you know about that you think deserves to be documented?

Just thinking about getting back into paintball, I have an invert mini kicking around. Is it better to just buy a newer gun?

I have an old gen A5RT that chops approximately once per day when I play rec ball with it (1 out of 500 shots). I can’t ever find paint in the cyclone, which makes me think it’s happening somewhere in the chamber. Anyone have this happen? I am wondering if there is anything I can do to alleviate that.

For reference:

I have a 98 custom with ACT installed and haven’t had a chop with it yet.

I also have an X7 Phenom with an upgraded bolt. Still no chops all day every time.

I use field paint, the cheap stuff.

Current using a black Proflex which has rubber ears and I feel like the comfort are decent and I saw HK makes some foam ear options and wonder if anyone has tried and if so how do you like them?

I'm moving from the other corner of the country in a few weeks. I'm in my late 30's and have mostly been playing in my age group recreationally. How's the community there? What are the fields like? What places should I definitely check out or completely avoid?

Etek 2 with a virtue board capped at 19 bps automatic. Halo 2 loader.

In theory, what would be the most expensive setup you could create? Specifically mask and gun but feel free to add on anything else head to toe.

Anyone know where to buy one or have a link for the 3d print?

Does anyone know what the capacity on an A5 would be with these two products used in conjunction?

I’m 30 and have been having strong urges to get back into it consistently. I play maybe once a year at this point and would rather play paintball than golf which is what all me and my buddies do these days. I am still in good shape and I feel like it would be a great way to keep my body active. Also I finally have the money to buy literally anything I couldn’t when I was a kid and would stare at everything. I would love to play enough where I can get back into tournaments.

I live in Long Island NY. There’s only two fields and both are outdoor. They closed all indoor places years ago so playing gets even more scarce because of weather. I want to play alone but feel funny about it.

Would love to hear thoughts/stories.

Just got into playing recently, been using rental mechanical guns, but just got my first empire mini gs second hand. Looking to basically build out a kick this winter to be ready for some spring games! I am lost when it comes to looking for quality air tanks, hoppers, and masks that won’t break the bank! Any recommendations would be super helpful! Probably going to be playing pretty recreational for the most part and mostly woods ball.