It’s just a big week of milestones.
Over the last couple of weeks, two different parents1 asked me about the Gang Of Four doing some paintball and if I knew anything about that or had any pointers. Hahaha. It just reminded me that I need to find the picture of me and Corwin out on the paintball field when he was 2 days old.
Anyway, this ended up getting Corwin interested as well, so we had planned to have Jack and Corwin help me dig out and clean my paintball markers the previous Monday. However, because of the school play that didn’t work out. We tried against yesterday and were more successful on the scheduling.
I located all of my old equipment, some of it literally mouse infested. But a lot of it was still in good shape. There were even some paintballs which still worked, which is actually amazing since they’d been sitting in a non thermally controlled garage for 7 or so years. I had sealed the in air tight containers, but still. There were even some CO2 cylinders still charged up, so after cleaning up one of the marker we were able to go out on the back porch and do some shooting. It was the first time for all three (Corwin, Charles, Jack). We managed to get Jack’s dad out for a few rounds when he came by to retrieve Jack.
The boys definitely enjoyed it, although they weren’t much help or attention during the preparation. Still, I have two markers that are not working so Corwin will be helping me trouble shoot those.
The boys are shooting one of my Automag 68 Classic markers with a DYE stainless steel barrel.