Paintball Magazine August 2015 | Page 60

MORE THAN 30 YEARS AGO I played my first game of paintball at Skirmish USA in the beautiful Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. So bear with me if I seem a little excited to be here again for Invasion of Normandy 2015. Although I’ve played in and attended more than 100 events and games at Skirmish, it still brings back memories of my first time playing every time I walk out onto the fields. If you’re not familiar with Skirmish all I can say is playing 060 paintball magazine there should be on every paintball player’s bucket list. With 700 acres and a gazillion fields of all types, Skirmish is one of the most amazing places you will ever play paintball. There are castles, villages, trenches, towers, thick woods, hills, tall grass fields and just about every type of terrain or bunker. And they know how to run a paintball game for any level of player. For many Skirmish’s ION game is simply a big game—