The first paintballs were created by the Nelson Paint Company (1950s) for forestry service use in marking trees from a distance, and were also used by cattlemen to mark cows. Two decades later, paintballs were used in a survival game between Charles Gaines and Hayes Noel in the woods of Henniker, New Hampshire, and Paintball as a sport was born.
paintball was invented by lumberjacks they shot or marked the trees the got drunk and shot each other and paintball was born
John Hoover
in the 1970's, for forest workers
Paintball guns were originally invented for the logging industry to mark trees, and to mark cattle. They were originally invented in the late 1970s. The very first paintball game was played in 1981 by twelve friends in a 100acre field in New Hampshire, USA.
James Hale of Daisy Manufacturing, invented and patented the first paintball gun.
It originally started with forest rangers marking trees with paintball guns
Paintball guns were widly used as marking guns by the wildlife police.
Paintball guns were first designed to mark hard to reach trees for loggers. It was designed by Nelson Paint Company, and was used to service logging companies in the northeastern United States.
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Compressed air tanks were around long before paintball.
Nelson Paintball. They originally invented the s for foresters to mark trees from afar. Eventually, some guys played 6 on 6 capture the flag in New Hampshire on 89 acres of land.
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