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Shooting with a Slingshot
Some paintball players have been brave enough and crazy enough to play with a Slingshot. Now hale you might not be able to shoot 30 paintballs per second with a slingshot, you will feel very proud to eliminate an opponent that is packing a semi-automatic. Like David vs. Goliath, a player wielding a slingshot could stay in a game for an entire match if the does have the right combination of stealth and shooting accuracy. If a player shooting with a slingshot finds a good enough hiding spot and is well trained at manipulating this weapon, he could possibly make several eliminations in a game. While the latest trends in paintball tend towards machines that shoot faster and faster, there are always old-schoolers who favor games with less shooting Hopperball and Gettysburg are designed to limit the number of projectiles that pollute the air during games. And there still manufacturers that produce less suppression fire and are limited to how many paintballs they can shoot in a second. The slingshot is just one of many weapons that players can use to eliminate opponents.
Paintball is a sport that started in the woods. My first games were against my friends in the woods behind my house and far enough in so that no neighbors could get hurt. I didn't have enough money to buy a paintball gun, but I did have enough to buy half a case of paint from my friends, and I did have a slingshot that I had been shooting around since I was a little kid. So when my friends started playing I decided to get involved. My and my friends were lucky enough to live in an environment with lots of natural and unmolested woods and natural environments, and we would have paintball games that would last for hours. Though my friends would laugh when they first saw me show up with a slingshot, a lot of them weren't laughing when I would start picking them off during games. Unlike my friends and other players I competed against, I knew my weapon backwards and forwards, as I had been using this slingshot for years.
Though the slingshot does not contain the type of firing capabilities as an electronic marker, it can be a very powerful tool in the right hands. A shot fired from a slingshot does travel fast enough to break open when it hits a player, and a player with years of practice can make an accurate shot from pretty far distances. And remember that it only takes one accurate hit to knock a player out of a game. Some paintball fields that may have allowed the slingshot as a homemade marker have included Back Creek Paintball in Chambersburg in Pennsylvania, and Special Forces Paintball in Buffalo Minnesota.
"Goliath stood and shouted to the Israelites "Do you need a whole army to settle this? Choose someone to fight for you, and I will represent the Philistines. We will settle the dispute in single combat."
1 Samuel 17:8
This excerpt from the Bible is an example of what one man can do against many, as long as he has the courage and will to stand up to a challenge. Using a slingshot to make player eliminations can make one player feel like a hero against rapid fire giants.
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