22 March 2006

New Canberra Paintball

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There’s a new paintball business just opened in Canberra for those of you tired of Fairnbairn Pines or the long drive to Michelago or who want to get their kids involved.

Adventure Consultants has opened up at the Tuggeranong Pines, Old Tuggeranong Rd opp Chisholm.

They offer Laser Sports for those aged 7 and up and Paintball for those over 18.

Laser Sports is an exciting outdoor game for 7 year olds and up. Played entirely outdoors it is great for school groups and kids parties. Open every day. Special School holiday discount rates of $15 per person for 1 hr and $25 for two hours. Minimum Group sizes apply.

Paintball is a great activity for any occasion and they offer special organiser bonuses and pizzas for groups over 20. At the moment they are offering a Sunday Special: $50 for all day play, 200 paintball and all equipment hire included.

The fields are in the pine trees and they are in the process of developing some great open area fields. They have great packages for all occasions including an awesome all day/all night ultimate party pack.

For the Canberra desk warriors (Defence) they offer a bonus 100 paintball per person because they know you can’t shoot straight, or $5 off Laser Sports.

Any questions ring 6262 4242.

And remember if anyone else wants their business or hobby promoted by RiotACT, our tagline is “Beer for Comment” and we mean it.

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Guys, I am the NEW Owner of Adventure Paintball. We have completely relocated to a NEW location at the intersection of Monaro Hwy and Old Tugg Road and have all new fields, including Canberras only speed ball comp fields. Ne Owner, New Fields, new everything…Try it before you knock it! And I offer bonuses to RA regulars…

Tate Alec, I’ve still got a mark on my back from being hit in the spine paintballing back in November.

i agree..the people out there have been doing paintballing and such for ages (what? i live out that way!) and well..i havent been their yet (too young for paintballing, too..apathetic to go and play with lazers..)

I wouldn’t say this is a new paintball business, it just a new name for a half-arsed painball business. These guys have been running paintball out at Tuggers pines for a long time now. Their presence at Tuggers has done nothing but destroy the forest with the heaps of garbage they leave lying around the place.

So if you are looking to play painball in a garbage tip, where you have to watch out for flying mountain bikers (yes I have heard of some guys on bikes being shot at, but also collisions between flying bikes and paintballers) and have a selection of three very average and similar painball fields – then this is your place. Otherwise, go to Fairburn which IMHO is the best paintball in Canberra – has no piles of garbage, very few mountain bikers, and great varied selection of fields.

I’ve got some nice red welts on my back from our yellow gloved friend.
No one would have guessed that we had a mole on our team until he turned on us.

Sounds like fun – count me in next time.

Bulldog, it was Gold, pure gold.

The cruel irony was that one of our team members got bored during one game due to inactivity and shot up about 5 of our own team members and we still won the game…

There’s nothing like a paintball challenge vs – well anybody actually, it’s very thereaputic…

Plans at this stage are for a rematch in about 3 months, although since everybody had so much fun it’ll possibly be a larger group than on Saturday.

Currently we’re working on entering about 4 seperate teams of up to 10 peeps that will challenge each other (insert sponsorship and radical discounts from new paintball field here)

Just didnt want to come across like I was getting deeply offended or something.

Schmerica – I don’t doubt that there’s a lot more to you than the fighting with pillows, but it does you no justice to finish “I’m deeper than you think” with “haha”. 😉

Mael & Thumper – how was Paintballing on Sat?

Oh great! So now I’ve been labled as that ’19 yr old pillow fighter girl’!

Theres alot more to me you know – i’m deeper than you think! haha

Spot the wog7:57 pm 24 Mar 06

Ohhh the black and blue i can see it already.

I’ll definately See you there and to finally Spot the wog

What you need to do is make an ornage gun and just tip a whole hopper worth down the barrel. Obviously, you’ll still need the orange to plug the hole.

Evil!

There are various support weapons avaliable, however mostly are American based and not currently in country.

Yes there are mortars (artillery) which fire a ball of paint, and grenades that squirt everything in a radius with paint as well.

IMHO the best support weapon there is, is the shotgun. Picture this; 6 consecutive barrels each filled with 10 paintballs, 1 trigger.

60 paintballs heading in anybodys direction can’t be a good thing, although I presume that if you’re under cover at the time it would just be an example of money better spent.

Several targets however, patrolling along the same line of travel would have a wonderful claymore-style effect.

That is true jb, but the thought of a shoulder mounted weapon that fires a big fuck-off ball of paint kinda brings a smirk to my face.

you have guns with different rates of fire, but as you pay real money for each round a fast full auto would be a mixed blessing at best.

they do have grenades.

with no armour, anti-armour weaponry would be a little wasted no?

in paintball can you have heavy or medium paint ball weapons ? can i set up proper ambushes with support and assault elements ? what about paintball mortars or carl gustavs (oh yeah) ?

Absent Diane3:14 pm 23 Mar 06

Being a Gamer doesn’t help…. I thought playing heaps of counter strike would improve my shooting skills… but nup

Yeah, got Saturday Mael but my head is still trying to overcome the excesses of the long weekend while coming to terms with a four day week – hence I am barely coherrant.

Will try, sounds like good fun and a good laugh. Will keep you posted.

First time I did paintball I was amazed at how fast your strategising and manuveouring fail when the pain of the ball impacts begin.

Thats why I prefer the laser tag.

Saturday Bulldog, you’ve got tonight and tomorrow night to woo her with a bottle of wine and rare cheeses.

To make it more appealing, what we’ve actually managed is a ragtag collection of Canberra’s IT industry, very good at Quake III, but not so good at the real thing.

Obviously we didn’t tell them that, they are under the impression that they’re going to wipe the floor with us. We have allowed our targets to hype themselves into a frantic mob of computer geeks that have just seen the preview of Lara Croft’s shorts in Tomb Raider IV.

This is going to be good. Very good…

Would pay for you Schmerica, but I don’t want to keep you from your pillow fighting and such…

Tomorrow morning bad; I’ll try but not sure what the minister of war and finance will have to say. If not I will def make it out next time given a little more notice.

Paint starts flying from 9am, my recommendation is to get there sometime after 8, introduce yourself and get all your gear on.

We won’t be waiting for you to start painting, however all welcome.

Paintballing is so much fun! Too bad, being a student, I am flat broke. Hell, i’m keen if someone is prepared to pay for me! haha

Oh I’m all over this one. Pending a random veto from the other half of course 🙁

Freshly back from WA, Thumper and I will be at the Piallago fields this Saturday. If anybody is interested in coming along for a shoot-em-up, feel more than welcome because we may fall short on numbers due to my being interstate for the last couple of weeks.

jamius maximus5:05 pm 22 Mar 06

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Absent Diane4:25 pm 22 Mar 06

hehe… I did wreak havoc playing paintball about five years ago… but I was about 30kg lighter.. and there were no ex-army dudes to contend with

I’m keen for an RA shoot ’em up – anyone else? Thumper, Mael – do I even need to ask?

Actually it could be quiet good – Bonfire could test out the soft comparison between areaman’s head and the paintball. We could see if AD and Mr Evil can shoot as quick as their mouths (or typing fingers).

1,000 readers today?

I bloody hope Che at least held out for tequila.

“I suppose it’s cheaper to get it placed here rather than in the City News “

Yeah but the circulation …

I suppose it’s cheaper to get it placed here rather than in the City News

I’d say it’s more advertorial but at least it appears to be clearly marked as such.

its more an infomercial than an ad and yes the beer was tasty, mmmmm beer
and I’m sure if theres a huge influx of business from RiotACT there might even be beer for JB and the others

Unless they are offering a discount for over opinionated, internet savvy Canberrans, or the Riotact was thinking of organising a get together i reckon this article should be nuked…

the 50 dollar Pricing was only up until the Australia Day long weekend…. unless that has changed…

are people interested, i wouldn’t mind trying to get a couple of shots on JB

This sounds suspiciously like an ad.

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