This is from Morristown, the home base of our paintball team, and also the home of Shooter’s Roundup and Rendezvous. While down there in 2002, I woke early Saturday morning and went for walk. It was a crisp, late August morning and as I walked around a bend in the road I came upon the following scene.

No, that is not a real buffalo - it is a 3-D target used as part of the atl-atl and bow demonstrations, but hey… it was still a great sight to behold.

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I am off this weekend to go play paintball in a game in St. Louis… because of this I decided to post something I wrote for our paintball site a couple years back.

March 11, 2006. Fort Ahlman - Morristown, MN
The weather supposedly was to be rain today. Well, that didn’t happen, but thanks to the mild weather the last couple of weeks, the field was soupy. Wet, muddy, mucky. Soupy.

First game of the day we had a bit of five-on-five going. And while it wasn’t raining, it was windy, so we hit the woods instead of the field around the island. Myself, Snapdragon, Fodder, Dwome, and Lucky going up against Goblin, Buckman, Raptor, Sparky, and Carpenter. The game, Center Flag. Our team starts at the Deer Stand, the other team Pine Stadium. The flag was put at the bottom of the berm in the Archery Range.

It’s fairly close quarters shooting when your in the woods. Sure there are a few spots where you can end up with open lanes and some field area to toss some long balls across, but for the most part your shots are gonna be in the 50-75foot range. So I decided to go in scalled down. I took my usually 50 round hopper and put it on my 98 Custom, then instead of my 14″ barrel I went for the stock barrel. A lil 8 incher that I’ve only used a handful of times before. To top it off, or would that be bottom, I screwed on a four ounce tank. Two pods on my belt and I was good to go.

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