Colorado: Dynamic Paintball Park

For those of you following my paintball adventures, you can now mark Colorado as being half way done.  I visited Dynamic Paintball Park in Aurora, Colorado on Oct. 16 and spent all day playing.  For this adventure, I took two of my cousins; Alex and Nathan Moss.  Also tagging along was my uncle Buck (Civilian Observer).  For this day of paintballing, I chose to shoot my DYE DM10 marker while Nathan used the Smart Parts Ion I also packed along for this trip.  Alex used the Smart Parts Ion XE that the field rents out to all its players using rentals.

Dynamic Paintball Park is located approximately 45 minutes east of Denver and near Buckland Air Force Base.  I would consider this field to be perfect for those just getting into paintball and small group gatherings (birthday, scouts, company, etc).  For those of you who paintball at SC Village in Chino, CA; the size of this field is about the same as the Bosnia map.  It’s one large field divided into quarters by imaginary lines in the dirt.  The park does have two speedball fields for those looking for a little faster paced game as well.  Entry is $10 for those with your own equipment and all day air is included.  Rentals cost $15 plus entry.  Included in the rentals are an electronic marker, so newbies can have nearly the same advantage as those with their own markers.  They are a Field Paint only field but the prices are decent ($60 for a case of 2000) compared to other FPO fields.  The paintballs sold are Draxxus Field Paint by Pro-Caps, of which I am not a big fan.  I broke about a dozen rounds in the barrel of the DM10 throughout the day.  Look on their website for monthly specials: www.dynamicpaintball.com to see when their next big game or tournament is scheduled.  When I went, entry was only $5 for all players (before 11:30am) and a case of paintballs was only $50.

Some people would think playing on one field would get a little boring after awhile, but I found that not to be so when I played.  They played your basic elimination game,  President, and Center Flag Capture.  A new game I was introduced to was Alamo.  Rules for this game are; 4 attackers to start and everybody else has to defend a pre-designated area and may not leave that area (the Alamo).  Once a defender is eliminated by an attacker, that player must reinsert as an attacker at the attackers start point.  The attacker must take the Alamo and is allowed to respawn as many times as needed in order to finish the game.  On a side note; I was an attacker during one of the Alamo games and may have inadvertently shot my Uncle as he was taking pictures of his grand kids.  Whoops, my bad.  In my defense, I was trying to shoot the opponent who took refuge near where he was standing.  Now my mom is mad at me after she heard what happened.

The paintball day ended with the President game.  The whole field was in play and both teams designated a President they had to protect.  The Presidents were armed this time around.  Goal is for either team to kill the other team’s President or get their President to the opposing team’s start point before the 20min time limit ran out.  I went solo along the left side of the field while everyone else on my team went to the right or center.  The other team sent two people to their right (opposite me) and the rest took defensive positions near their President.  Both the opponents engaged me and I was only able to eliminate one of them.  By some miracle, the second player who was trying to make a move on my position, was shot out by one of his own teammates who was a little trigger happy.  This left the whole left side unprotected and open for me to advance and pick off players as I came up behind them.  Lots of “where did that come from” and “What the???” could be heard from the eliminated players as they were hit.  Soon our team pulled in closer to where the opposing team’s President was hiding and kept pelting his hideout with paint.  Unfortunately for their President, his hideout had a big enough opening between the logs that I was able to rush the opening and yell for his surrender.  By this time, the rest of my side converged on the hideout as well and just kept firing at the log building so I could not hear if he had  surrendered.  So, as I have done before when offering a player a chance to surrender, I yell out “surrender, surrender”.  If that player made a move I perceived as a  threat, I would then give them a ball in their pod pack.  However, this player did not have a pod pack and started making a move from the prone position I found him in.  So I gave him a shot to his right butt cheek.  First time I ever heard anybody yelp from a shot to the butt.  After that the Ref called the game and I did apologize to the player for taking a close shot.  His friends however were laughing it up and offered me congratulations for making the kill.

I still feel bad for shooting the player from so close a range and for possibly shooting my Uncle on accident.  The staff at Dynamic Paintball were friendly and pretty cool to talk with.  One of the Ref’s, Aaron, moved out from Oceanside recently and returned home to Colorado a couple of months ago.  We got to chatting about what paintball fields in Southern California we liked and why.  Bob, one of the two owners of the store and field was pretty cool, complimented me on the way I play and liked my attitude.  He was a little surprised to see me play all day, seeing as groups of people showed up and left throughout the day.  James worked the back counter and helped with the air fills and taking players money for entry and paint.  He even diagnosed why one of my air tanks was leaking and fixed it for me.  “B”, was a cool Ref and kept the players happy with different ways of playing the game.  Thanks for introducing me to the Alamo game “B”.  So besides the sore feet and a few bruises I’ll be taking with me back to California via Oregon this week, I will also be taking back with me the fun experience I had at Dynamic Paintball Park.  Thanks to everyone at Dynamic Paintball and I hope to see you in the middle sometime soon.  Next stop is Lebanon, Oregon October 22 - 24.

Internet Link:
http://www.dynamicpaintball.com/