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EdTheWard
[1] Posted by EdTheWard 01-07-2004, 11:25 PM
 
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I remember my first marker like it was yesterday...ok it was pretty
nearly yesterday or SEEMED like yesterday, but in fact, it was about 2 years
ago.
Hmm..actually the painful passage of time has left it's mark, so I really
felt every second of it scrape across my life like broken glass on my gums.

I guess you could call me a dreamer, or at least while I am sleeping, or
call me a cynic, but that only really applies when I am being cynical.
Sooo...call me "Kind-Hearted Belzebub" and leave it at that.
I believe that many things come full circle, starting the process over and
over again in a never ending pattern. Life, Taxes, seasons, circles,...you
get the idea.

Well, to get to my point, ( I have a point dammit...now just let me think
about what it was) With all the fun old and new formats in paintball, with
the many games, scenarios, woods, speedball, renegade, vandalism, etc. It
has all become tiring to me. It's time to go back to basics. Back to when
paintball wasn't called paintball, it wasn't a competition, and it wasn't
fun.

I'm talking about marking trees. Ahhh. those must of been the days...no 10
foot rule, no surrender rule, no need to bunker. Just walk up to a tree,
pull out your $1400 electro-pnuematic bling-bling marker that can shoot
20BPS..and well....mark the tree. Now, I'm not saying you have to mark it
WELL, or only hit it ONCE, I'm saying feel free to wipe it off and shoot it
again with some of your $100.00 a case ultimate evil paint if you so desire.

Paintball has come so far and the technology is now WAY past what it started
out as, it would be the PERFECT time to go back to marking the trees. Back
to nature, back the the quiet calm forest, critters and flowers. To see and
hear the light crackling of dried leaves underneath your $200 Dye paintball
cleats....

I have found my calling. THIS is why I bought a marker.

Now...you may ask yourself..why do you want to mark the trees? what purpose
would that serve?

Well, it has always been my dream to be something like Johnny
Appleseed...well...actually the complete opposite.... I'd mark the trees to
plan some deforestation and some kick-ass urbanizaton! We have plenty of
trees to mark...enough for my lifetime and yours...lets get this party
started and kill some trees.

back to basics my fellow tree-markers, back to basics.

So if you see me at a paintball game in the woods, and I am only shooting
trees and not the players, don't hold it against me, I'm only practicing .



 
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z
[2] Posted by z 01-08-2004, 01:24 AM
 
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heh

I dusted off the old PMI Pirana pump (with the wood handle grips!) and
played the other week oldschool. It was still as fun as ever.
 
Phelps
[3] Posted by Phelps 01-08-2004, 01:33 AM
 
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In article <P44Lb.5399$_w.5053@fe1.columbus.rr.com>,
"EdTheWard" <nowhere@fast.com> wrote:

> Well, it has always been my dream to be something like Johnny
> Appleseed...well...actually the complete opposite.... I'd mark the trees to
> plan some deforestation and some kick-ass urbanizaton! We have plenty of
> trees to mark...enough for my lifetime and yours...lets get this party
> started and kill some trees.


Actually, in Texas, you can paint trees purple to mark your property
line and post it for no trespassing/no hunting. Maybe you CAN get a
paying job marking trees.

<http://fri.sfasu.edu/pages/resources/landownbriefs/html/posted.html>

--
Phelps <http://www.donotremove.net>
"You better slap a muzzle on that scaled down piece of evil." -- Space Ghost
 
Mofaz
[4] Posted by Mofaz 01-08-2004, 12:24 PM
 
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I've always wondered about your mental state. Man, you're up there with
Tony Sr whenever he forgets his medication.

--

Mofaz
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"EdTheWard" <nowhere@fast.com> wrote in message
news:P44Lb.5399$_w.5053@fe1.columbus.rr.com...
> I remember my first marker like it was yesterday...ok it was pretty
> nearly yesterday or SEEMED like yesterday, but in fact, it was about 2

years
> ago.
> Hmm..actually the painful passage of time has left it's mark, so I

really
> felt every second of it scrape across my life like broken glass on my

gums.
>
> I guess you could call me a dreamer, or at least while I am sleeping, or
> call me a cynic, but that only really applies when I am being cynical.
> Sooo...call me "Kind-Hearted Belzebub" and leave it at that.
> I believe that many things come full circle, starting the process over

and
> over again in a never ending pattern. Life, Taxes, seasons, circles,...you
> get the idea.
>
> Well, to get to my point, ( I have a point dammit...now just let me think
> about what it was) With all the fun old and new formats in paintball,

with
> the many games, scenarios, woods, speedball, renegade, vandalism, etc. It
> has all become tiring to me. It's time to go back to basics. Back to when
> paintball wasn't called paintball, it wasn't a competition, and it wasn't
> fun.
>
> I'm talking about marking trees. Ahhh. those must of been the days...no

10
> foot rule, no surrender rule, no need to bunker. Just walk up to a tree,
> pull out your $1400 electro-pnuematic bling-bling marker that can shoot
> 20BPS..and well....mark the tree. Now, I'm not saying you have to mark it
> WELL, or only hit it ONCE, I'm saying feel free to wipe it off and shoot

it
> again with some of your $100.00 a case ultimate evil paint if you so

desire.
>
> Paintball has come so far and the technology is now WAY past what it

started
> out as, it would be the PERFECT time to go back to marking the trees.

Back
> to nature, back the the quiet calm forest, critters and flowers. To see

and
> hear the light crackling of dried leaves underneath your $200 Dye

paintball
> cleats....
>
> I have found my calling. THIS is why I bought a marker.
>
> Now...you may ask yourself..why do you want to mark the trees? what

purpose
> would that serve?
>
> Well, it has always been my dream to be something like Johnny
> Appleseed...well...actually the complete opposite.... I'd mark the trees

to
> plan some deforestation and some kick-ass urbanizaton! We have plenty of
> trees to mark...enough for my lifetime and yours...lets get this party
> started and kill some trees.
>
> back to basics my fellow tree-markers, back to basics.
>
> So if you see me at a paintball game in the woods, and I am only shooting
> trees and not the players, don't hold it against me, I'm only practicing .
>
>
>



 
LCT Paintball
[5] Posted by LCT Paintball 01-08-2004, 12:38 PM
 
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Whimp! What kind of mamby-pamby whimp shoots at poor defenseless trees.
'Round these parts, we mark cattle when we want to get back to our roots.
And, we use the oil base paint so it don't wipe off. There's nothing worse
than a cheating cow running around wiping their marks off.

--
"Don't be misled, bad company corrupts good character."
www.LCTPaintball.com



"EdTheWard" <nowhere@fast.com> wrote in message
news:P44Lb.5399$_w.5053@fe1.columbus.rr.com...
> I remember my first marker like it was yesterday...ok it was pretty
> nearly yesterday or SEEMED like yesterday, but in fact, it was about 2

years
> ago.
> Hmm..actually the painful passage of time has left it's mark, so I

really
> felt every second of it scrape across my life like broken glass on my

gums.
>
> I guess you could call me a dreamer, or at least while I am sleeping, or
> call me a cynic, but that only really applies when I am being cynical.
> Sooo...call me "Kind-Hearted Belzebub" and leave it at that.
> I believe that many things come full circle, starting the process over

and
> over again in a never ending pattern. Life, Taxes, seasons, circles,...you
> get the idea.
>
> Well, to get to my point, ( I have a point dammit...now just let me think
> about what it was) With all the fun old and new formats in paintball,

with
> the many games, scenarios, woods, speedball, renegade, vandalism, etc. It
> has all become tiring to me. It's time to go back to basics. Back to when
> paintball wasn't called paintball, it wasn't a competition, and it wasn't
> fun.
>
> I'm talking about marking trees. Ahhh. those must of been the days...no

10
> foot rule, no surrender rule, no need to bunker. Just walk up to a tree,
> pull out your $1400 electro-pnuematic bling-bling marker that can shoot
> 20BPS..and well....mark the tree. Now, I'm not saying you have to mark it
> WELL, or only hit it ONCE, I'm saying feel free to wipe it off and shoot

it
> again with some of your $100.00 a case ultimate evil paint if you so

desire.
>
> Paintball has come so far and the technology is now WAY past what it

started
> out as, it would be the PERFECT time to go back to marking the trees.

Back
> to nature, back the the quiet calm forest, critters and flowers. To see

and
> hear the light crackling of dried leaves underneath your $200 Dye

paintball
> cleats....
>
> I have found my calling. THIS is why I bought a marker.
>
> Now...you may ask yourself..why do you want to mark the trees? what

purpose
> would that serve?
>
> Well, it has always been my dream to be something like Johnny
> Appleseed...well...actually the complete opposite.... I'd mark the trees

to
> plan some deforestation and some kick-ass urbanizaton! We have plenty of
> trees to mark...enough for my lifetime and yours...lets get this party
> started and kill some trees.
>
> back to basics my fellow tree-markers, back to basics.
>
> So if you see me at a paintball game in the woods, and I am only shooting
> trees and not the players, don't hold it against me, I'm only practicing .
>
>
>



 
Space Cadet
[6] Posted by Space Cadet 01-08-2004, 12:44 PM
 
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On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 03:25:35 GMT, "EdTheWard" <nowhere@fast.com>
wrote:


>
> I'm talking about marking trees. Ahhh. those must of been the days...no 10
>foot rule, no surrender rule, no need to bunker. Just walk up to a tree,
>pull out your $1400 electro-pnuematic bling-bling marker that can shoot
>20BPS..and well....mark the tree. Now, I'm not saying you have to mark it
>WELL, or only hit it ONCE, I'm saying feel free to wipe it off and shoot it
>again with some of your $100.00 a case ultimate evil paint if you so desire.
>
>Paintball has come so far and the technology is now WAY past what it started
>out as, it would be the PERFECT time to go back to marking the trees. Back
>to nature, back the the quiet calm forest, critters and flowers. To see and
>hear the light crackling of dried leaves underneath your $200 Dye paintball
>cleats....


>

Actually that doesn't sound too bad! Me, I'd go back to marking cattle
though. (in my new 80$ Outlast pants of course!) Ahhh...the lure of
the open range....trodding through fields and pastures...the pungent
aroma of fresh cow manure...that's the life! No velocity limit!..crank
that suck up to 400fps....the damn cows can't complain! And after
awhile they will get wary of you stepping out with your finely tuned
Angel or DM4....then...the chase is on! I can picture myself running
full speed after a herd of fleeing bovines...my 6 pod harness rattling
away behind me...sliding in behind the trough to reload...


Yeah....that would be my happy place.....

(And if this "mad cow" thing gets any worse...this could work into a
real job for the USDA!)

SC
 
z
[7] Posted by z 01-08-2004, 03:03 PM
 
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"LCT Paintball" <nospampleasemnotlyon@mchsi.com> wrote in
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> Whimp! What kind of mamby-pamby whimp shoots at poor defenseless
> trees. 'Round these parts, we mark cattle when we want to get back to
> our roots. And, we use the oil base paint so it don't wipe off.
> There's nothing worse than a cheating cow running around wiping their
> marks off.
>


heh

It's open range up here and I had a lot of cows stomping around my place in
the late summer-- wasted a lot of paint on them. They eventually got used
to it so I had to switch to the 12 guage

also sheesh I was going through paint like crazy -- just 1 or 2 7-1/2 quale
duck loads does the job much better
 
Space Cadet
[8] Posted by Space Cadet 01-08-2004, 03:13 PM
 
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On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:38:43 GMT, "LCT Paintball"
<nospampleasemnotlyon@mchsi.com> wrote:

>Whimp! What kind of mamby-pamby whimp shoots at poor defenseless trees.
>'Round these parts, we mark cattle when we want to get back to our roots.
>And, we use the oil base paint so it don't wipe off. There's nothing worse
>than a cheating cow running around wiping their marks off.


LOL!...I thought of that too after my post...."Wipe that ya friggin'
heffer!!"....

I also flashed on the old cowboy movie scenario....riding my horse at
full gallop...reigns in my teeth...hat blowin' back...Impy in
hand....bunkering the herd at 15bps....YEE HAW!!

SC
 
Jeff Goslin
[9] Posted by Jeff Goslin 01-08-2004, 03:44 PM
 
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"Space Cadet" <Redwoodman8*nospam*@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I also flashed on the old cowboy movie scenario....riding my horse at
> full gallop...reigns in my teeth...hat blowin' back...Impy in
> hand....bunkering the herd at 15bps....YEE HAW!!



Hrm. How do you "bunker" a cow, much less a herd of cow? I would have
thought that the cow would actually BE the bunker, some sort of moving
bunker. Imagine that, hearing that description of a game.... "And then, I
popped up from the snake, and ran over, and slid into the cow, but the cow
didn't like that too much, so she moved, and I got hosed.... then I got
shit on, and the cow left, and then someone on the other team lit me up."

--
Jeff Goslin - MCSD - www.goslin.info
It's not a god complex when you're always right




 
ayar-15
[10] Posted by ayar-15 01-08-2004, 07:32 PM
 
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"Jeff Goslin" <autockr@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>
> Hrm. How do you "bunker" a cow, much less a herd of cow? I would have
> thought that the cow would actually BE the bunker, some sort of moving
> bunker. Imagine that, hearing that description of a game.... "And then, I
> popped up from the snake, and ran over, and slid into the cow, but the cow
> didn't like that too much, so she moved, and I got hosed.... then I got
> shit on, and the cow left, and then someone on the other team lit me up."
>
> --
> Jeff Goslin - MCSD - www.goslin.info
> It's not a god complex when you're always right
>



ROFLMAO!!!


 
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