One of the most enjoyable aspects of playing paintball is that the game can be enjoyed any time of the year. No matter what the weather, you can go out and play a great game of either woodsball or move the game indoors at a professional facility if it's raining badly or far too hot or cold to play outdoors. No matter what, there's always a place to play paintball.

In the winter, you can up the fun of your woodsball games by dressing in white and blending in with the snow as much as possible. There are a few considerations for playing in colder temperatures however. Number one being your paintballs. If exposed to extremes of heat or cold- they tend to warp and once warped, they may or may not travel through your barrel. More often than not, warped paintballs tend to burst inside your barrel making it necessary to get out of the game and do a little field stripping cleaning to your paintball marker.

Dress in light layers. A t-shirt, a thermal shirt and a jersey should be enough for most winter play - take a jacket along and as you run and play paintball, you can always take it off when you start feeling overheated. Speaking of overheated, it is very possible to become dehydrated during the winter - so pack along water to drink so you stay on the top of your game.

Stay warm, stay hydrated and don't bring along more paintballs than you can comfortably use in a game so they don't get too cold and warp and then you'll have a great winter season of playing paintball.

No matter if you're into Woodsball or Bunker-style paintball games at your local range - eventually a rifle or a pistol marker will need some bells and whistles to keep the game interesting for you.

Adding in items like scopes will help you target opponents at great distances and you quickly learn through trial and error what length barrel lets your individual marker shoot a paintball at a higher rate of speed as well as which barrels will help your paintball arrive on its chosen target with more accuracy.

The Swat Red Dot Scope is a third generation scope that has everything you need to make your sniper-style games something that is state of the art. The scope itself is designed to have a tactical look that resembles scopes in use by law enforcement and the military. It was designed to have a clear red dot with flexible brightness settings.

The wide field of view is also something that previous incarnations of scopes didn't have. This scope will allow you to aim from any distance and allow for wind and elevation adjustments to insure a perfect marker shot every time.

Best of all this scope fits easily on pistols, rifles and shotgun markers. No matter what you use to play your game of paintball, you can effortlessly add a scope to your game and up the ante for your opponent!

One of the first things that you learn when you enter the fun sport of paint balling is you can spend as much or as little as you want and still have a great collection of equipment.

If you're new to the game of paintball, you're going to want to use a gun that won't get you laughed off the field for looking like a newbie player but you also want something that won't break your bank account either. Tippmann has made a gun that is ideal for entry level players or anyone that plays paintball on an occasional basis.

The Tippmann A-5 Response Paintball Gun is a great marker that is a high performance marker with the patented Cyclone Feed System. The Cyclone Feed System is unique to Tippmann guns because it links the feed to the air system of your marker. The faster you shoot your marker the faster it feeds paintballs in to be shot. Up to 15 balls per second. This marker is also very easy to keep clean and requires no special tools or equipment to field strip and clean off.

The trigger resets itself with every shot so that the pressure of your finger on the trigger actually stimulates the marker to reset itself for the next shot. That's why the tippmann response trigger system works and it works to your individual speed level. If you're not firing your marker, it's not feeding. If you fire a little slowly, it will feed more slowly. This paintball gun is made to play the way you play paintball.

Playing woodsball is the way most paintballers were introduced to their new favorite sport.

Woodsball is a great way to learn stealth paintball tactics and unless you're playing on a private lot that charges fees, woodsball is free. There are a lot of advantages and a lot more ways to track and mark your opponent. Most often, woodsball games are played one of two ways.

The way involves a flag being placed at an area designated as "home" for one team and then another flag at another area designated "home" for the other team. The object of this woodsball game is to capture the flag of the opposing team. This is always a fun game to play and some snipers even go so far as to paint the soles of their shoes black so they can be stealth and unseen, even up in the trees.

The type of woodsball played most often has a lot of different names like BunnyHunt or TurkeyShoot but it involves one to two players going off ahead and then the rest of the team following and attempting to mark the "bunny" or the "turkey". The persons chosen as bunnies will have the ability to fire back as well as the possibility of laying land mines just to up the ante in the paintball game.

A lightweight gun is always best for woodsball as you wind up doing a lot more moving than in bunker type games where normally you wind up setting in and then picking off your opponents as they advance.

If you're looking for something fun to do this upcoming weekend - organize a game of woodsball with your paintball buddies for old time's sake!

If you've been interested in getting into the sport of paintball, you've no doubt been doing a lot of research on different markers (paintball guns), types of games and places to play. In addition, talk to your friends that are already playing and find out what type of paintball gun they enjoy using most. Some players love a pistol and others swear by a rifle. One name you will hear again and again when you're researching paintball markers is "Tippmann".

Tippmann has made a paintball gun that is fantastic for the newer player. It is honed down to the very basics and doesn't have a lot of complex workings that will take time away from learning the game.

The Tippmann Custom Pro Basic is just what the name says, a basic paintball gun. It is accurate and will allow you to make deep strikes on your opponents without having to spend and arm and a leg on a higher powered gun. This basic gun outfit comes standard with an eleven-inch stone honed barrel that will allow you to be accurate without compromising speed. The double trigger on this marker serves two purposes, not only to propel paintballs out of the gun but the dual action actually feeds more paintballs in to be shot. The more you shoot this paintball gun, the more it feeds. It also comes standard with a 200 round hopper that will more than fulfill your needs as a newer paintball player.

It's fully-customizable to enhance performance and compatible for CO2, compressed air, or nitrogen so you can experiment and find out what type of system you enjoy playing with the most in your paintball game.