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Paintball Sniper

Being a paintball sniper is something that many people consider to be a lot of fun. In this aspect, it varies greatly from being a sniper in the military. There are also other ways that being a paintball sniper might not be true to reality, regardless of what you might like to think while you play. These include:

• The biggest difference between being a paintball sniper and a military sniper is the complete lack of fear that you – as a paintballer – can play with. If you are at war and things go wrong, you could die or be captured. If you are hit playing paintball, all you do is go to the neutral zone, get a drink of water, clean up and get ready to go again.

• Paintball offers less time – If you were a military sniper, you would plan out what you needed to do and take a day to crawl into position or two hours to line up a shot. Needless to say, things happen much faster than that for a paintball sniper.

• Being a paintball sniper means that you are much closer to the action. There really is no long range contact because everybody has pretty similar weapons with capabilities that are similar as well.

• There is not a lot of homework or intelligence gathering that takes place in being a paintball sniper. On the other hand, these things are vital to the survival of a sniper in the military.

It is great to have fun while playing paintball and being a paintball sniper is one of the most fun parts. But do not trick yourself into thinking that it is just like in real life. The differences are stark.