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This site is a work in progress, and paintball's early history was documented informally enough that there is always more to learn.

We are particularly interested in hearing from you if you have:

  • Photographs of early equipment or fields, especially pre-1990
  • A Nel-Spot 007, Crosman 707, or other early marker
  • National Survival Game documents, kits, rulebooks, or franchise material
  • First-hand recollections of the 1980s or 1990s scene
  • A correction — with a source, ideally

Looking for a field?

This is a history site, not a booking service. To play, search for a commercial field near you and check its age limits, rental packages, and safety briefing times before travelling.

This is a static site, so the form has no back end wired up yet. Connect it to a form handler such as Formspree, Netlify Forms, or your own endpoint to start receiving submissions.

Corrections

On accuracy

Paintball's founding decades were recorded by participants rather than historians, and accounts differ on details — particularly the exact chronology of Charles Nelson's development work through the 1950s and 60s, and the precise sequence of events around the Crosman 707. Where sources conflict, this site follows the most consistently corroborated version and flags the uncertainty rather than papering over it.

Every substantive historical claim on the history page is listed with its source at the foot of that page. If something there is wrong, we would rather know.