Tried out a Paintball Bow and Arrow this weekend

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enderwiggin

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Pretty wild! I used to shoot a compound bow, and it was really neat to be able to shoot one again--even with Paintball projectiles instead of arrows!

The bow uses no C02 canister or compressed air, unlike other paintball markers, but instead works off the air compressed in a large tube by drawing the bow.

Here's what it looks like:
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Very cool gadget, even if it is completely impractical for anything but Scenario games. With a 50lb pull, I can easily out-shoot it with my pump Phantom, shown here:

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Not that I think faster loading is always better. I do shoot a marker with a 15 ball capacity, even in Speedball. But still, it would be much easier to catch an Airowgun user on the draw than me reloading my Phantom.

Product website is here:
http://www.airowgun.com/paint.php#home
 
Your trunk looks like it belongs to a terrorist. I hope you never get pulled over!!!!
 
Actually, the group I go with have started changing completely out of their BDU's or speedball gear before we hit a restaurant at the end of the day.

People ask all kinds of weird questions, and it's amazing how many folks out in Corona don't know that SC Village Paintball Park--which is one of the largest in the Tri-State area--is right up the street.

Of course, they might just be reacting to the mud.

You should see the rest of the gear and markers after a full day. Unfortunately I didn't take photos, but I just finished running a load of laundry for the 3rd time, and hosing down my boots a 2nd time.

The paint is all washed off, it's the mud that won't budge.
 
If you had enough of those bows, you could do a "300" reenactment. :D


BTW - :thumbup::thumbup: on the Phantom. :D
 
That is a really cool attachment. It would certainly slow the game down. Which is why people probably wouldn't buy them...
 
one2gofst said:
It'd be great for your Rambo scenarios!
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I was thinking the same thing. Rubber knife plus THIS= Rambo Scenario Games!:D Okay, maybe not the knife, it would be insanely difficult to eliminate someone with that. I suppose you could always use this for plinking somewhere where you couldn't get a proper arrow stop, say a really big basement?
 
Its neat...but wont touch my ego.;)

I shoot archery and hunt, I cant imagine that being better than a pump gun. You must play with some good guys or patient ones, most of the guys I play with laugh at the idea of using pumps...if it dont put out 20+ a second, they dont want it. Good on ya:thumbup:
 
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