on three seperate occasions i have had to completely dismantle my phantom while on the field (breach breaks all three times) just to stay in the game. my question is do any of you out there have any stories about field stripping your gun in extenuating circumstances?

:vangry: damn now i gotta take it apart.......... :pow: ahhh thats better

Hehe, you forgot to add "and under fire from the opfor." :P

yes this is true i was under fire all three times. todays was the worst i was on the left flank with three other individuals. one was just firing co2(ran out of paint) one was out of air and his shots where going 20 feet and dropping and the third was firing fine. so three auto cockers (one actually working) and a phantom ( which stopped working) defending the whole left flank (the fire was all coming from there as well) so i broke a ball in the breech and disassembled my gun, unfourtunately while i did this it gave the kid i was trading fire with a chance to flank me, so i got my phantom up and running again only to be eliminated 10 seconds later. oh well i got it working again anyway

Back in the days before LP cockers I choped the crap out of a few balls with my trusty cocker. This was also the time before uni-directional bolts so it "could" be put back in up-side-down. Well I decide while I have a few bunkermates I might as well clean the breaks so I pull the pin, and the bolt and feed in the squeege. Well ofcourse I put the bolt in upsidedown, so when I start shooting again nothing happens. Took about 5 rounds to figure that out. I take the barrel off so I can clean the goo out of the feed tube and then fix the bolt. Both my bunker buddies get whacked so now I have to hold my own. I hold the cocker over the bunker top with no barrel and start firing....they kinda noticed it was a "bit" loud and saw I had no barrel (never got a chance to reclean it) I duck back down and screw the barrel on. I hear the 3 people charging my bunker and I pop out the side and fire one shot....3 hits. Aparently while the bolt was in wrong it was feeding rounds into the barrel but not firing them so it had stacked 6 rounds in there. The next shot launched 7 rounds at my charging opponents :)

~CHUBBIE~

I once had to field strip my gun,and some kid ran up,poped around my bunker,and fired like 20 some times. He had no paint. The look on his face was priceless(and to you nitpickers,he was wearing a clear mask.I do know what the're called, but really don't like to spell.)

hehehe, the last time I played with one of my Bushmasters I had to take it apart on the field. I was like "guys, cover me . . . I gotta take my gun apart" Some guy close to me didn't believe it but by the time he looked over I had it all popped apart and was tinkering with it. hehehehe, gotta love how fast a nelson based paintgun with quick strip screws can be torn down.

:D

I don't think I've completely stripped a marker on the field, but I do remember a day when I had to clean my barrel over 30 times! That paint just did NOT like my barrel! :vangry:

Oh, and it was very cold so I couldn't shoot through it. <_<

I've really never had those sorts of problems with my PPS guns. Before that, I had to strip my BE Raptor at least every other game. By the time I stopped playing with it, I could have the gun completely disassembled, cleaned and oiled and put back together in just a little under three minutes blindfolded; in the staging area of course ;)

Anyway, the best story I've ever witnessed was the first time I watched the Indoor in Harriman, TN. Immediately after the break, one guy with a top-of-the-line angel (old LED model for reference) made it to the 50 closest to the viewing area. Right away, his gun started giving him problems. Pretty soon, he's got this white rag pulled from his pocket and is ripping parts off of his gun and throwing them on the rag. All the while, the game is still continueing around him. Pretty soon, he's the only guy left on his team, with only one guy on the other team. This is one of the tourney's that allowed side-coaching, so as the guy was running for the flag, his coach from the sidelines yelled to him and pointed out the guy fixing his angel. The angel guy looked up when he heard the coach and kept throwing parts into his marker but then started to throw balls at the flag guy. The guy running for the flag ducked behind a bunker, not knowing that the angel guy was having serious gun trouble. So they swapped a few "shots" like that while the angel guy was still working on the gun. Eventually, the flag guy figured it out and came to bunker angel guy. Just before the flag guy reached angel guy's bunker, angel guy finally got his gun working. As flag guy came rounding the corner of the bunker, angel guy raised his gun and fired one point-blank shot and flag guy returned fire with a long string of shots as he ran by. After the paint check, the flag guy was eliminated, but angel guy was clean and went to hang the flag.

one of the fastest ways that I've noticed to keep players from jumping you during field-stripping is to carry a holstered PGP or Splatmaster. I've had plenty of incidences where my main gun /ran out of air/broke a ball/fouled up/, and someone sashayed up, thinking I was an easy bunker. One shot from the sidearm later, they weren't quite as brave to try it again.

Back when I had a very old model Tracer pump gun (converted to semi with a phnematic autococking kit thing) it always messed up. My uncle was the one who installed the kit on the gun and I must say, either he did a poor a$$ed job or the gun just didnt like the kit but that thing did everything from chop balls to barrel breaks, not fire, not cock, double cock, leak, ect... anyways I was in a woods game of about 20 people and I had advanced to about halfway up the field in deep brush. I got behind a bunker and looked out to see 4 oncoming enemies. I lifted my marker up and put the red dot right on the tallest one's chest and FLUMP it didnt fire but somehow recocked and chopped a ball in the feed neck. I was so pi$$ed off at the thing that I disconnected mr remote line and started removing the autococker kit right there, I got all the parts off accept the mounting for the 3-way and threw the kit in my pocket. Then stripped the whole marker and cleaned the break put it back together and continued to play the rest of the game without a pump handle but using the bolt screw as a "bolt action" type marker. I havent used that autococker kit for about 2 years untill 2 days ago when I got bored and installed it on my ACI Maverick, works flawlessly. If anyone wants pics of the new auto-maverick let me know and ill e-mail them cause I cant seem to post pics on the site.

My friends auto-traccer was a POS too, don't feel bad.
I broke a pump rod on my cocker once and had to play all day hand cocking the back block. That was fun :)

~CHUBBIE~

yea my auto trracer kit sucked so i turned it into a p.a.maverick

Ive had to field strip my gun a few times during a game. Luckily I play woods ball so I take a short little hike into the bushes and fix the old phantom. Ive only been caught once with it in pieces, and I was screaming for cover. Almost lost a screw too.
But I think the funniest thing I even seen so far is the time I played at All-Star Paintball in Hawaii and seen my teammate bust his tube during a game. I could tell cause paint stopped coming out as he cocked his gun. He simply charged toward a bunker. Which, on the flipside was being charged by another guy that had a E-Spyder that had took a spill only seconds before snapping his barrel, yes his barrel, off at the threads.
As they nearly smashed into each other at the side of the bunker, they both shouted surrender, and my friend being a little newr to the game gave up first...