I play as much as humanly possible, and I’m really feeling the bite after such a horrible winter (check out http://www.newfoundlandsnow.ca to see what I mean); couldn’t get out to climb the hill in that much snow.
I’m wondering how many other folks own their own gear, what works for them, etc. etc. If others are interested, I’ll post my gear list here (if others aren’t, I’ll stop sucking up bandwidth. :))
I’m not a avid player, but I do get out to the field occasionaly. I have a Spyder Compact with a 20oz. tank, expansion chamber, drop line, and the standard 200 round hopper. I love to play, but I have a hard time getting a team together down here in Florida.
I helped out a local university as a machinegunner for their team. Yep, they gave me a fully automatic paintball gun. Most inaccurate thing I have ever fired. Sounded very frightening though so it was great at keeping the opposing teams’ heads down while my squad advanced.
Yep, yet another hobby I want to get back into.
I’m not who you’re looking for, but since this thread is languishing…
I got roped into playing. I had no desire to and would never have agreed had I not harbored a huge crush on the guy recruiting players. Grudgingly, I went along. And ended up having the time of my life.
I’m a real wuss and not real athletic. Mostly I’d hide out behind the safest structure possible, giggle a lot, and try to shoot. But during one match I began to realize that just about everyone else on my team was dead and the rest were pinned down and it was do or die time. I went for the flag. After a mad dash through a field I was crawling through the mud on my belly with my mind on nothing but getting that flag and suddenly realized I’d totally forgotten it was a game. I think I could have killed a wolverine with my bare teeth if it stood between me and that banner.
All that to say, I understand the allure of the hobby.
Aha… there’s a couple of players out there, and Cranky seems to understand why it’s my #1 hobby. My girlfriend noticed the same thing… she really turned into a commando once she was forced to. 
I had a ton of paintball guns a few months back, but I sold a few to finance my new computer… right now my main gun is a Micromag with a LAPCO Bigshot barrel, run off of a 114ci Raptor HPA tank. I’m not much of a machinegunner, since I’ve noticed that as I shoot more my accuracy suffers (as you mentioned, Blackclaw :)).
My backup/girlfriend loanout guns are my ICD AlleyCat2 or a Joker STP; both are good solid guns, quite cheap.
Brewha, if you’re having trouble finding other players you might try http://www.warpig.com in the classified section; they have a players looking for players section. You might be able to put a team together.