First, I want to say that playing pump paintball can be one of the funnest ways to play paintball, especially for beginners. Why would pump paintball be so much fun? Well, consider the following experience: I recently took out a group of beginning paintballers, each of them using a tippmann 98 (not the Custom). Good gun, nothing fancy. But they still could shoot to their heart’s content since the gun is semi-auto and not a pump paintball gun.

Pump Paintball

So, what happened? I had to ultimately limit them to 20 rounds of paint each game because they all just hid behind things and shot a million rounds of paint at another person who also was standing behind something. Was that fun? Not really. » Read more: Pump Paintball