The snow is coming to an agreement with the season, here are some simple tips to make your winter paintball safer and more enjoyable.
Winter is cold!
Yes, we all know, but it is surprising how many people will be prepared for the winter.
- Good shoes: Waterproof and high school. Those white boots are army surplus great if you can find them. Good thermal Sox.
Not much. Even good boots can feel the cold, if your feet do not have good circulation. Keep the snow boots and help keep feet dry. Doo ski or snowboard boots are good. No sneakers or hiking in summer.
- Wear a hat. Keep your head warm is essential to keep the body warm. His body diverts blood from other parts of your body to keep your brain warm.
- Gloves or mittens Good: You’re not a very effective player if you cannot pull the trigger, because his hands are too cold. The water resistance is huge here.
- Use layers: layers to create air pockets that keep you warm. Moreover, during the year will be sweat. Be able to add and remove layers helps to regulate body temperature to keep warm. DO NOT allow clothing wet with sweat.
- Body and external heat: If possible, set up a shelter of some kind of wind. If you can heat a safe way, the better.
Hot drinks are very interesting because they stay hydrated and take your body temperature.
Markers and equipment
- Skins: The winter is when the lights double glazing thermal lens. If you do not get one. At least make sure that your goal is in good shape and has an anti-fog big hand.
- Markers: Use a mechanical marker and hopper gravity, if possible. The batteries do not last long in the cold.
Make sure the marker is well maintained. That could leave in the summer not to fly in winter. Make sure the marker is clean and lubricated properly. In winter, freezing the lubricant and cause excessive slow motion, so less is more in line.
When lubricating, so you can see the grease on the parts you used too. Put a few drops on your fingers and spread in some parts during reassembly of the marker.
Put a few drops of the neck and blow into the valve as usual, but do it at home, in the heat, while the indicator is hot before going to ground so that it sells well.
- Gas: CO2 is not the ultimate in summer. It ‘s worse in winter. If you need CO2, the use of a reservoir at low heat. Take care of your tub is not too hot or too pop the disc may burst. Do not put hot hand directly into the tank.
Use a remote control. Anything that acts as an air-line X and you can continue to shoot well. A good method is to use your tank on a tape under his outer coat and run at a certain distance from a small hole under the arm. Their body temperature is kept under CO2 without the risk of blowing your hard brilliance. If at all possible uses HPA.
- Balls: Using the image of winter. It makes everything much better in the cold.
- Canon: put an X in the rain barrel. Help clean up the jumps can be much better. It ‘very well in summer and and winter.
A word about Camo
The pure white snow and white, not everything is equal.
If you have new winter white, throw them around the floor of the basement of one or two days to kill them down. If you take an old sheet and cut a hole for a poncho that, without loss of light, that blue glow in the snow, the destruction of camouflage that has a value. The whiter you can use the best. Above the waist is the most critical. Use white tape or hoppers hockey masks and camouflage markings. And ‘cheap and easy to remove. Do not buy disposable Tyvek painter seeds. Quick bath and then cut very easy. You will be lucky to get through a game with him. A winter white hockey jersey XL feat camouflage very cheap. It ‘s the synthetic paint or stain and allow you to use a lot of warm clothes underneath. Cam is very effective with good winter clothes gray spray black.
Christmas Rolls “tissue of snow” is dressed like a Christmas village made a big wheels of the economy of snow and aerosols are also good Christmas to help guide to remove the camouflage markers and hoppers.
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