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07-11-2008, 09:20 AM
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| PopSci, paintball, ICU? So I stumble across the following article, while browsing the web using PicLens Ready, Aim, Splat! | Popular Science Something weird looking is on the end of that Luxe's barrel. The ICU Paintball System anyone seen this before? |
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07-11-2008, 09:24 AM
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 | bleh, a blindfiring enabler.
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07-11-2008, 09:38 AM
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| It was mentioned here a while ago. The basic consensus was that no reputable field would ever allow it, as it would help violate the safety rules. That said, I would be nice to have at indoor fields to look around corners AS LONG AS YOU are not blind firing. But instead, just to prevent painful close shots. As a ref, though, its a bit of a slippery slope. I kinda like it, but I don't think I'd allow it.
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07-11-2008, 06:00 PM
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 | If you look carefully at how it work, you can't use it to blind fire. You'd be fireing in a totally different direction of where you are looking.
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07-11-2008, 06:06 PM
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| So it's a little curved mirror? Certainly violates the blind firing rule, but I question the accuracy of a shooter using that. I have thought of putting a little mirror on a stick (or the back of my glove) for recon, though. Never actually gone through with it, didn't seem practical enough.
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07-11-2008, 07:39 PM
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| I don't see the blind firing think either. If your barrel is out in such a manner that it can shoot at something, you might as well be looking too since you're gun is gonna get shot anyway. The mirror allows you to stick just the END of your barrel out in a direction close to PERPENDICULAR whatever you're looking at - an area you'll be able to see quite readily as it'll be to the side of your bunker. I wouldn't use it just because it'll make it easier to BE seen. - Chris |
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07-11-2008, 07:58 PM
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You come up to a dangerous corner. You stick the barrel past the corner, and see some players just around the corner. You then turn the gun, and aim it in that direction, and blind fire. THATS where the safety issue comes in. It promotes blind firing, though not directly.
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