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February 20, 2004|By Dan K. Kurland, Special to the Tribune.

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When I accustomed at Paintball Blitz in Gurnee, my aboriginal consequence was it looks ominous, like a bare park. To my larboard stood a fire, a shed, and ample fields broadcast with pieces of pummeled wood. And there were signs acquaint on copse read, "Barrel plugs on!" and "Goggles appropriate above this point."

Yet I ill-fitted up and soldiered on, acquisitive to do battle.

Apprehensive, I below abaft a allotment of plywood in advanced of me, angry on its ancillary and massacred with orange, red, and chicken paint. As I peered carefully about it, I saw my adversary and accursed as fast as my chill duke could clasp the trigger. And afore I could say "Dutch Boy," my goggles were splattered with a thick, yolk-like substance--yellow paint. I got up, aloft my gun and absolved off the field.

This was war, and yet fun--after all, it was fought with assurance of paint, not bullets.

As I found, paintball is aloof the analeptic for anyone gluttonous a blitz after the risks airish by added thrill-themed pursuits. "It's apparently the safest acute action you could anytime play," said Dan Colby, 47, buyer of Paintball Blitz. "It gives [you] danger, excitement, fun, and adrenaline after the aerial accident of abrasion on skateboarding or motocross."

Colby, who has operated Paintball Blitz for 18 years, claims never to accept had an injury. Alike paintballing on a actual algid January day, the affliction I acquainted was a brief, aciculate bite on accepting hit.

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It was aloof abundant allurement to focus my thoughts on revenge.

To participate, players accouter themselves with goggles, air guns, butt plugs (to put in gun aback you're not shooting) and paintballs. Anniversary gun has a ample pressurized air catchbasin and a baby artificial alcove to authority the paintballs.

Colby explained the rules: Never lift your goggles while on the arena field; butt plugs charge to be in the gun if you're not playing; and if you're hit with a paintball, you're out of the bold (each challenge lasts about 20 minutes).

Throughout the day, my accumulation played at four altered fields, anniversary centered about aggregation comedy and with altered rules. Acreage one: Eliminate all the opposition's players. Acreage two: "Capture the Flag." Acreage three: Raise a banderole at a acropolis nicknamed "The Alamo."

But my admired was "The Gauntlet."

Encompassed by trees, The Gauntlet runs about 75-by-15 feet. Active bottomward the centermost is a bright aisle; on either side, the battlefield is broadcast with splattered, splintered plywood.

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The purpose of The Gauntlet is for one aggregation affiliate to ability the added ancillary of the field. Accompanied by my sister Alex and acquaintance Max, we headed out to face two adolescent paintballers. They had their own guns--which fabricated us nervous--but we askance bottomward and gave it our all.

Working with Max, we attempt at the action while I confused ahead. He was hit soon, abrogation aloof Alex and me to bulwark off our two opponents. As I glanced abaft me, I heard article backlash off some adjacent lumber. Then, I saw a foot. Knowing addition was actual abutting to me, I accursed as abounding paintballs as I could area I saw the foot, attempting to aim amid some copse and added barricades.

I hit him.

After winning, we fabricated our way aback to the shed, area Colby arrive us to balmy up by the fire. My consequence was that paintball is a bold for teenagers such as myself, which is mostly true--though not entirely.

"Ninety percent of our business is kids ages 12-16," said Colby. "But we've had bodies up to 65 appear out here."

Colby alike hosts business audience (in apparently safe releases for abode aggression) and clandestine parties. He additionally maintains paintball is a abundant action for parents and kids because it doesn't crave lots of active like football or basketball.

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"You can be actual able by continuing in back," he noted.

About the alone check is that paintball can get a bit expensive. One cost-saving advancement is to breach up balls, which ambit from accoutrements of 100 ($9) to 2000 ($120), amid whoever's arena with you. Colby additionally recommends blockage Paintball Blitz's Web armpit for common promotions and apprentice discounts.

In the end, I begin paintball fun and exhilarating. Like any war game, it activated my experience and abilities for strategy, advice and aggregation play.

As for ambidextrous with those buttery acrylic stains, it all comes out in the wash--literally.

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Paintball Blitz, U.S. Highway 41 arctic of West Stearns School Road, Gurnee, is accessible 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, acclimate permitting. Admission is $30 and includes accessories rental and 100 paintballs. Waiver appropriate for ages 18 and under. For added information, alarm 847-545-9999 or appointment www.paintballblitz.com.

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