Paintball guns . . .

[Leeboy]

Could paintball guns be used somehow against zombies. If not for killing them, wouldn't it be amusing to sit in the window of a safehouse and shoot zombies for target practice?

[Webber]

Shooting them wouldn't do anything. You could use it as a club though...Dunno if you wanna get that close to something that might not even kill it though. Or you could use the tank as a throwing object...I dunno, recreational purposes sure but I wouldn't waste it against zombies. That'll just attract them to you.

[Augustus Desius]

I guess if you could find floresent paint you could shoot zombies to make them more visible at night. Umm....

You could shoot them in the eyes and either pop them, or cover them in paint, making it hard for them to see you.

You could fill the paint balls with cement, let it harden, and basically fire rocks?

I think I'm out.

[Leeboy]

It'd be cool, I thought.

[Shadowalker191]

I'm going to be keeping mine near by, I have a Smart Parts Epiphany with a black heart board that can fire upwards of 22 round a second. Using compressed air I can fill from home with my own compresser/booster combo. (worked for a local paintball field, have the gear I need to fill my own)

I plan on using it with the reballs i got once i run out of real paint to just take pop shots to piss them off or play with them. Not to mention take out some eyes.

Can also get a supply of pepperballs from a police supplier to use on the still living that start to get to close. (Pepperball-paintball sized round filled with a powderized pepperspray that bursts on impact, imparing that vision and causeing great discomfort to the target) good way to make them a target for the zed's as I make a quick escape.

[Leeboy]

Originally Posted by Shadowalker191

I'm going to be keeping mine near by, I have a Smart Parts Epiphany with a black heart board that can fire upwards of 22 round a second. Using compressed air I can fill from home with my own compresser/booster combo. (worked for a local paintball field, have the gear I need to fill my own)

I plan on using it with the reballs i got once i run out of real paint to just take pop shots to piss them off or play with them. Not to mention take out some eyes.

Can also get a supply of pepperballs from a police supplier to use on the still living that start to get to close. (Pepperball-paintball sized round filled with a powderized pepperspray that bursts on impact, imparing that vision and causeing great discomfort to the target) good way to make them a target for the zed's as I make a quick escape.

Good analysis.

[Darkness]

"I hear they shoot steelies pretty good."

[mattifikation]

Complete waste of time and space.

The space for that paintball gun could be used for a real gun. Space for the paintballs could be used for bullets. Or food, or medicine, or whatever.

If you already have enough of all that, then leaving behind your toys frees up your movement.

Time spent shooting zombies with paintballs could be time spent shooting zombies with lead. As for using them to turn people into meat shields, a chunk of lead in the knee does that job perfectly.

[Darkness]

"The difference with paintball guns is: As long as its round, smooth, and the right size, a paintball gun can shoot it. It's a handy toy to have around. Marbles, Steelies, Ball Bearings and many other things can be used as ammo."

"I'm not saying it beats cold hard steel and a gun, but it's not totally useless."

[Leeboy]

Originally Posted by mattifikation

Complete waste of time and space.

The space for that paintball gun could be used for a real gun. Space for the paintballs could be used for bullets. Or food, or medicine, or whatever.

If you already have enough of all that, then leaving behind your toys frees up your movement.

Time spent shooting zombies with paintballs could be time spent shooting zombies with lead. As for using them to turn people into meat shields, a chunk of lead in the knee does that job perfectly.

Hey don't be hating on paintball. Go play some airsoft, you coward lol.

Anyways, yeah Darkness paintball could be very useful. They could mark zombies and stuff, I dunno. I just thought it'd be cool to shoot zombies with paintballs and see what happened.

*stocks his Tippmann in case Z-Day is tomorrow*

[Lian]

Well if all I have is the paintball gun then I'll try and put it to use...maybe...idk blinding them or something. But as Zombies most likely don't feel pain I doubt it would be of any "real" use. Not to mention Paintballs are kinda bulky. In my Woodsball rig I can carry around 1200 shots, counting my off gun air tank...However in that same amount of space I could carry 2000+ rounds and a real gun and actually do something useful. Personally I think it'd be more useful spending your time actually killing them, or doing something to better your survival position than shooting them with paint.

Some possible actual uses I could see for a paint ball gun though. Shooting some kind of a pepperspray ball at raiders. Covering the windshield of raiders cars in paint so they can't see to drive them. Popping a guy on a motorcycle might blind and even potentially knock him off the bike taking him out of the fight. But given the range and accuracy of your average paint ball gun I still think you'd be better served popping some lead off.

[kai055]

how can u carry more rounds for a real gun when paintballs are smaller, and if u have a backpack and waist of 4 packs on each thats 2000 paintballs and then another 200 in the hopper

[Webber]

I'd rather have 100 rounds for an M4 then 2000 paintballs for a tippmann any day of the week during a ZPAW.

[kai055]

i havent got that choice

[Leeboy]

I'm just saying, I thought it'd be fun to shoot zombies with paintballs. Damn lol. And maybe just maybe you could use the pepperspray paintballs to shoot raiders.