Gun Hits Count
Monday June 22, 2009
Call it a pet peeve, but I just don't understand why some people don't think gun and hopper hits should count. Is it to penalize the person shooting since they mistakenly shot directly at their opponent's mask and hit the hopper? Or, is it to reward the person getting shot for being so adept at using his gun as a shield? I just don't get it.
I've heard people say that if you were in a war and got hit in the gun you wouldn't be dead. They're probably right. Paintball, though, isn't a war - it's a game of tag. Plus, I'd be willing to bet that if you were in a war and you got hit in the gun you probably wouldn't be firing it again any time soon. Those same people that say they "only" got hit on the gun sure don't seem to be in any hurry to lay down their gun and start throwing paintballs by hand.
Just remember that paintball is a game of tag. If you get tagged, you're out. That doesn't matter if it's in the goggles, the arm or the sole of your shoe, you're still out. That goes for gun hits, too.
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When I play with a group of friends, we have a simple rule:Gun hits kill the gun, body hits kill the body.This rule has eliminated many arguments. If your gun is covered in paint, set it on the ground and keep playing with whatever you have left. If you run out of ammo, you’re not out, so why should you be out if your gun is “out of commission” due to “gun fire”?Many of my friends carry a 10 shot side arm for just this purpose, along with a paintball grenade. One even keeps a slingshot on hand, but those aren’t allowed on any public fields that I know of.Anyways, gun shots should do what they would do in real life, destroy the gun for the remainder of the game!
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My previous post looks horrible because of it.
From a field owner’s perspective allowing gun hits to count means more time in the deadbox (safe zone) and less time on the field shooting paint. And that’s not a greedy field owner talking – That’s a field owner that knows players come to shoot, not sit. Great posts.
I drives me up a wall, but at the local field I play at, gun hits don’t count. He does it, so that the people are out there shooting more paint. I think it teaches bad habits, and encourages blind-firing.
As a field owner we enforce gun hits counting as an out. one of the main reasons is if gun hits dont count players hold their gun out and blind fire all over the field. when you blind fire the only people who get hit are the refs. not only does that get tiring, refs will not do a good job if they are constantly getting hit for no reason. a good ref will get hit occasionally but they generally know how to avoid it and still do a great job. blindfiring makes that impossible. gun hits need to count.
I don’t think there should be a great outcry either for or against this. My group typically plays where gun/hopper shots count, but on occasion we mix things up so they don’t count.
I do see how on many fields it could encourage blind firing, but this would get you kicked off of ours anyway.
So sometimes they do, and sometimes they don’t. As long as it’s safe, let the players decide how they want to play.
I agree with Joe….Whatever everybody agrees on.Sometimes we even play 3 hits until you’re out if we dont have a lot of players.It keeps the game going a little longer.The main goal is to enjoy, enjoy, enjoy.If your not having fun then why play???
Every so often, we play a civil-war variant where anything that gets hit is unusable; get hit in the arm, you can’t use that arm anymore, hit in the leg, can’t use it, etc. But it’s something we all agree on.
It should come down to whatever people agree on
As a scenario producer I completely agree with you. Gun hits count…
If you are playing with a group of close friends you may use Ghillie Man’s suggestion, but for big games and games at a local field with people you don’t know, it can become an issue.
I also like your point about how the players that argue for no gun hits NEVER want to lay their gun down if it gets hit, they just want to have their cake and eat it too…