Welcome to Team Ragin' Rednecks' website. We are a paintball team, dedicated to kicking butt!

Seriously though, we got into this sport a few months back to have some fun. The three of us started out with some really cheap ($20) Brass Eagle pump-action paintball guns from Walmart. We thought we were the bomb. I (Ben) had a decent sized backyard. We turned it into our personal training ground. Starting out with basic "hide behind the shed" or "hide behind the corner of the house" tactics, we quickly aquired some empty 55 gallon drums (Alan) and a stack of wooden palletes. We positioned the 16 or so drums into a miniature speedball field, complete with corale, and began practicing.

Soon we learned that our guns sucked, and we needed something better. All three of us decided to purchase Rebels (around $90 not including tank and hopper). Now we were *really* the bomb. We could now waste several bags of paintballs in a single day and inflict 10 times as many paintball wounds on each other. We were happy.

After obtaining these weapons, we then went to the paintball field with several friends. It was pouring rain in November. No one in their right mind would play in the cold pouring rain, but no one ever accused us of being smart, so we played anyway. Large wooded field and the speedball field. We had a blast, and were hooked from then on.

Knowing full well that we had every little experience, and no team level practice, we entered in a tournament at the local field. Three man speedball format. Seven teams entered, and yes, we finished last place with a total of 20 points (6 games played, 50 posible points per game). Our main failing was the lack of knowledge about tournament rules. We had never concerned ourselves with the speed of our guns, but found out that we were laying out at about 300-360 feet/second. The max for the field was 290. Not knowing enough about our guns, it took us three games before we could adjust them to comply with the speed rule. So for the first three games, we only had 1, 2 and 2 players respectively, on the field. Obviously this hurts a bit on tactics :)

Determined, and hard-headed, we continued practicing. Learning a lot from our first experience in a tournament. We honed our skills on our backyard field, equipped ourselves better for handling problems on the field (taking along tools, spare parts and springs), and discussed tactics and on field signals. The day came for our second tournament. The very same three man speedball.

Again there were seven teams. Again we did not actually beat any teams (winning a round requires getting the flag and taking it to the far end of the field at the oppents base). However, we did score 80 points this time. Also, we got the first pull of the flag 4 out of the 6 games we played. Also, all three of us played every single game. In our last game, we decided to take an "all or nothing" bum rush approach and stampeded our opponents. We made one kill, and managed to take the flag nearly to the base before being shot down. It was not the best plan, but it took everyone by surprise, and we had a lot of fun doing it :)