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War reenacted by people who still have to go to work Monday.
means A sport where players fire gelatin capsules of paint from compressed-gas guns at each other until one side is covered in evidence of defeat.
from The guns themselves came first, built in the 1970s to mark trees and cattle — foresters used them to tag timber for harvest, ranchers to mark livestock from a distance. The leap to shooting each other happened almost by accident when a group of friends started using the marking guns for a competitive outdoor game, and the sport that grew from it just kept the name of the ammunition: a ball of paint.
- bruise origin
- welts show up a day after the thrill fades
- velocity limit
- capped near 300 fps to avoid real injury
- invented for
- originally built to mark cattle and trees
- strategy secret
- most games won by patience, not aggression