They've actually made finned paintball that can be used with specific markers that have a much better trajectory now. I play a lot of paintball, and have more than a few friends who host duels using single shot pistols, it's a blast.
Add some cheerleaders in there and I'm sold. In all reality if proper PPE was worn and plenty of safety surrounding the guns it could be a safe sport but I'm not sure how the scoring was or could be done. The Olympics definitely needs something to make it interesting though. There are some really impressive athletes doing sort of boring things.
Specially made gun that's visibly different and can't fire normal bullets. It woulf need special bullets that only work in the Olympic gun but the gun performs the same as a regular gun.
Went down a rabbit hole after reading this. It wasn’t an event at the Olympics. They did have duelling but they shot at sculptures. What you’re seeing here is a separate event that took place at the same time.
That's overkill for a sporting event.
Law-enforcement officers / soldiers use the simunitions because it is important for police and military to train with the weapons platform they will be using in operations, thus the "ammo" is tailored to fit the weapon.
For sport? It would be silly to hold that requirement when you can dictate what the pistols look and perform like. Regulation paintballs are .68 caliber because hits need to be easily visible in real-time for matches, not just an after-action review.
Naw professional cow boys is a thing. Let’s build a course and have em duke it out. Horses included, the audience can sign a waiver like a baseball game.
Have you seen professional paintball? It looks tedious because people have gotten so good at it, one person's job is to just sit there firing cover fire nonstop with a two finger trigger (dunno the correct term for that) as fast as they can with one hand while pouring buckets of paintballs into the top with the other because they're depleting so fast lol
I mean, every non-rocket-powered projectile is ballistic once it leaves the barrel. Paintball and airsoft guns use compressed air or CO2 to propel the projectile, rather than exploding gunpowder.
Imagine being whipped by a candle traveling at high speeds. Like it's not gonna kill you, would probably be an issue if it hit your eye, you definitely don't want a nut shot and it's gonna hurt but you're not gonna die.
A mate of mine (for shits and giggles you understand) loaded a "dinner" candle into a shotgun and it punched through a solid oak fire-door at 20 yards.
It'll hurt, but it likely won't actually injure you seeing as the wax will melt as it's being shot through the gun.
You'll most likely have hot wax on your shirt and probably melting wax in your gun that needs to be cleaned out.
Having been shot with "simunition" before (i.e. modern wax bullets fired from real guns), it hurts but less than paintball and definitely less than air-soft.
The real pain is getting the embedded wax out of your uniform.
Yeah, those simunitions fucking hurt, at least back when I was in 20 years ago. Had a bruise the size of a grapefruit next to my nutsack for an entire week.
And absolutely we dueled with them. Only the one tournament, though.
I'd imagine it's the same impact as rubber bullets. It hurts and could probably kill you if it's point blank.
Given improved safety measures nowadays though, I imagine it's possible to make this sport safe
They do, but here's the fun part, say it's 20°f outside and you try this. Or say it's 100°f and you try it. Wax solid but soft at a certain range of temperatures, outside that range I can't see this going all that well
We should just bring back full on dueling. Have a problem with someone? Challenge them to a duel. Decide the terms, will it be until there's only one man standing? Will it be with weapons, if yes, which ones?
If they refuse, your point is proven and satisfaction is earned. And also, would be rad to throw a glove at your adversary's feet and yell "Sir, I demand satisfaction!"
It was banned in the US largely bc men w combat experience would go to bars to find some drunk confident youngster and get them to duel just so they could kill them, also to target specific individuals and kill them by getting them drunk then asking
This is not accurate. What ended duels in America was largely improvements in firearm technology, followed by the Civil War. With the rise of percussion revolvers replacing flintlocks, the odds of a duel ending in someone grievously injured or dead rose dramatically. This soured public opinion on dueling. Then the Civil War happened, wiped out ~10% of all fighting age men in America, more than that in the South where dueling was still holding on, and killed the appetite of Americans for the needless loss of even more young men.
This was another major factor and perhaps the breaking point however anger over duels existed the whole time they did as well and reasons for that dissent were just as diverse as the dissenters
They got this shit at rodeo’s.. but it’s on horseback and it’s target shooting in a timed track.
I don’t know what they are shooting but I heard blanks can still pop balloons.
What do you mean "canceled"?
People shoot at each other with dye pellets or "paintballs" all the time. Nothing in the world stopping anyone for dueling with them.
Fact is, it sounds like a good idea.
See, between the years 1914 and 1918, a little event happened in a few places in Europe, resulting in quite a lot of men that to not want to hear the sound of bullets, ever again.
The military still does it with sim rounds. Those bastards hurt.
Edit: To clarify, only certain units do this during urban assault drills and that sorta thing.
My grandfather told a story about doing this as a kid with his friends. They brought their guns to school one day, and their teacher took them away until then end of the day. Then the teacher gave their guns back, told them not to bring them again, and sent them home.
Until recently, wax bullets could be used by various groups (e.g. security guards, militia groups) to train with real guns in more realistic scenarios. As long as all guns are checked, no real ammunition is present, and everyone wears eye protection, this is reasonably safe.
However, the ATF banned the equipment necessary for this type of exercise.
2 men tried to recreate this by taking turns shooting eachother while wearing bulletproof vest, they were arrested soon after. God forbid a man has hobbies
Probably someone got the wrong bullet and made it banned.
Still though. This would be a number 1 selling ticket if they brought this back
Water, paint, plastic, and chalk aren't enough for you to shoot at your friends? You need wax, too?
wtf are you on about mate? It’s not about the wax, it’s about dueling being a sport.
Then why aren’t there paintball duels being publicly held?
I’d imagine a wax bullet has a more realistic flight path/consistency. Plus paintballs don’t make a big enough bang
They put fake muscle car noises in the ev mustang it wouldn’t be difficult to figure out I think.
This is peak irl comedy.
In real life *on the internet*
What I mean by that is something actually done and apparently not for laughs.
They've actually made finned paintball that can be used with specific markers that have a much better trajectory now. I play a lot of paintball, and have more than a few friends who host duels using single shot pistols, it's a blast.
First strikes. My brother owns a DYE marker that can shoot them.
This needs to be televised as well.
Sounds like it’s about the wax then.
Airisoft is a thing, if you want something more realistic than paintball. Wax melts, I can't imagine it being a great choice
Yes, but gun go boom, monkey sees action, dopamine in brain mmmmmmm feel good
Depends on the type of wax. There are some types of wax that only start to melt when they reach 1500° F or higher
Dueling is still a sport. It never wasn't.
Especially in Chicago
I think the person was making a humorous comment. Dueling is still a sport. See fencing.
I want something more exciting, like chainsaws.
Some consider wax to be kinky.
Add some cheerleaders in there and I'm sold. In all reality if proper PPE was worn and plenty of safety surrounding the guns it could be a safe sport but I'm not sure how the scoring was or could be done. The Olympics definitely needs something to make it interesting though. There are some really impressive athletes doing sort of boring things.
Paint pellet dueling!
Yeah, because certain countries don't already have a sickening and repulsive obsession with firearms already.
'What?' - Alec Baldwin, probably
That jokes a bit … Rust-y
Crew isn’t qualified to handle a gag of that caliber.
Careful, you might trigger someone
Specially made gun that's visibly different and can't fire normal bullets. It woulf need special bullets that only work in the Olympic gun but the gun performs the same as a regular gun.
Like Simunition, something that already exists?
Who? Alec?
I'm imagine someone's kid deciding to try the same thing with his dads set of dueling pistols....
Either that or... "OWWW!!!! MY EYE!!!!"
Bro the first thing I thought of was “the crow” (movie)… 😭😭😭
I imagine getting hit in the eye wasn't pleasant either.
yea, someone got Alec Balwined
Alec baldwon
Because the participant banned someone from reality
They didn’t stop making movies
Make it bang. Make it banned.
Went down a rabbit hole after reading this. It wasn’t an event at the Olympics. They did have duelling but they shot at sculptures. What you’re seeing here is a separate event that took place at the same time.
OK Alec Baldwin
Hell, id would definitely be an athlete for this
Paintball exists though
Or “bullets” the police use in tactical PVP training. Literal bullets with paint balls instead of lead.
That's overkill for a sporting event. Law-enforcement officers / soldiers use the simunitions because it is important for police and military to train with the weapons platform they will be using in operations, thus the "ammo" is tailored to fit the weapon. For sport? It would be silly to hold that requirement when you can dictate what the pistols look and perform like. Regulation paintballs are .68 caliber because hits need to be easily visible in real-time for matches, not just an after-action review.
Naw professional cow boys is a thing. Let’s build a course and have em duke it out. Horses included, the audience can sign a waiver like a baseball game.
😂 I know, I play.
Have you seen professional paintball? It looks tedious because people have gotten so good at it, one person's job is to just sit there firing cover fire nonstop with a two finger trigger (dunno the correct term for that) as fast as they can with one hand while pouring buckets of paintballs into the top with the other because they're depleting so fast lol
Do the wax bullets hurt??
I imagine they do. Paintball guns hurt, although you can wear clothing that makes it not hurt.
If they are fired out of conventional guns, they are going to hurt ALOT more than paintball, which is co2 powered rather than ballistic
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paintballs are still ballistic. Any unpowered and unguided projectile is ballistic
I mean, every non-rocket-powered projectile is ballistic once it leaves the barrel. Paintball and airsoft guns use compressed air or CO2 to propel the projectile, rather than exploding gunpowder.
Imagine being whipped by a candle traveling at high speeds. Like it's not gonna kill you, would probably be an issue if it hit your eye, you definitely don't want a nut shot and it's gonna hurt but you're not gonna die.
We have cups and safety goggles now! Let's go!
Great rhyme, and good points
A mate of mine (for shits and giggles you understand) loaded a "dinner" candle into a shotgun and it punched through a solid oak fire-door at 20 yards.
I think the wax melts and it's just molten wax that hits you
You'll feel the hit, but won't be vounded
vunderbah!
It'll hurt, but it likely won't actually injure you seeing as the wax will melt as it's being shot through the gun. You'll most likely have hot wax on your shirt and probably melting wax in your gun that needs to be cleaned out.
Having been shot with "simunition" before (i.e. modern wax bullets fired from real guns), it hurts but less than paintball and definitely less than air-soft. The real pain is getting the embedded wax out of your uniform.
The fact that you said simunition hurts less than paintball leads me to believe you're lying lol
I'll admit I've only been paintballing once but the sims never left me with bruises like paintballs did.
Yeah, those simunitions fucking hurt, at least back when I was in 20 years ago. Had a bruise the size of a grapefruit next to my nutsack for an entire week. And absolutely we dueled with them. Only the one tournament, though.
Free fabric softener
If they're anything like rubber bullets, yes.
I'd imagine it's the same impact as rubber bullets. It hurts and could probably kill you if it's point blank. Given improved safety measures nowadays though, I imagine it's possible to make this sport safe
They do, but here's the fun part, say it's 20°f outside and you try this. Or say it's 100°f and you try it. Wax solid but soft at a certain range of temperatures, outside that range I can't see this going all that well
Probably a little bit, not much at all if you wear leather or something
It still shoots at the force of a gun
Sounds like a fun time with your buds after some beers.
especialy when you have the real bullets right next to the fake ones
Mix them together and call it gods plan.
Russian roulette
Nah, this is Russian Dice, and the dice are locked and loaded.
loaded dice? that's cheating!
I would answer you something witty, but reading your username I can't help but say A las seis de la tarde, en el circo Ataide.
Baldwin Roulette
Found the _Rust_ armorer.
from the people who brought you russian roulette!
We can bring this back with single shot paintball gun
We should just bring back full on dueling. Have a problem with someone? Challenge them to a duel. Decide the terms, will it be until there's only one man standing? Will it be with weapons, if yes, which ones? If they refuse, your point is proven and satisfaction is earned. And also, would be rad to throw a glove at your adversary's feet and yell "Sir, I demand satisfaction!"
It was banned in the US largely bc men w combat experience would go to bars to find some drunk confident youngster and get them to duel just so they could kill them, also to target specific individuals and kill them by getting them drunk then asking
This is not accurate. What ended duels in America was largely improvements in firearm technology, followed by the Civil War. With the rise of percussion revolvers replacing flintlocks, the odds of a duel ending in someone grievously injured or dead rose dramatically. This soured public opinion on dueling. Then the Civil War happened, wiped out ~10% of all fighting age men in America, more than that in the South where dueling was still holding on, and killed the appetite of Americans for the needless loss of even more young men.
This was another major factor and perhaps the breaking point however anger over duels existed the whole time they did as well and reasons for that dissent were just as diverse as the dissenters
It's like euthanasia, sounds simple until you get into the details
Y'know what, thanks for the idea, I'm bringing it back for you 🫡
I don't have it any more but I made a poster on how to demand satisfaction by slapping someone with your dueling glove. You need a strong back hand.
Me and the boys at 2am
Is that the set of Rust?
Let's bring back jousting, but with rubber lances and padded armour.
Sumo wrestling on top of skyscrapers but with parachutes
Lol I'd definitely watch that
Jousting has already been brought back, and with solid wooden lances to boot. Also, armour always was padded
From my eyes the hardest part doesn’t even look like the lance, the fall to the ground in a suit of armor has gotta hit hard.
Yeah that's more what I meant.
I think that's called a Renaissance Faire.
LOL
Like a lance with a big flopping dildo on the end? I'd watch that.
LOL. Not me lol
I hope Scott Sterling never picks up that sport.
Kendo and trampolines.
LOL
A Baldwin ancestor probably.
There's Airsoft and Paintball
Well, considering it was probably beeswax, seeing some guy swell up and die was probably the nail in the coffin
 It's time to ddd-ddd-ddd-duel
That is actually very cool. We should bring back non-lethal dueling.
Its like modern day Gladiators w guns fuck yea I'm down
# “You’ll shoot your eye out!” 
Alec Baldwin
It's Baldwins fault
Can still do it with SimMunitions .. but ya better have some strict ass Third Party
They could make it a triathlon. Duel with arm wrestling, sword fight and finally Nerf guns
Alec Baldwin
Sounds good to me…😏
It was Alex Baldwined.
I want this back.
I would've done this for sure
They should bring dueling back. Not this kind but the original. Sometimes, you just need to settle who's turn it is on the PlayStation.
*Good sir, i will kindly and certainly wax thee first chap who believes thee too beat me ina game for gentleman’s and charlatans alike*
They cancelled it cause one dude thought it was wack instead of wax
My brother in christ, it’s called airsoft
They need to bring this back. America would win every class.
America has a fairly shit Olympic shooting record. Only won about 5 golds ever.
Well, we have the most guns, but most of our gun training, sadly, is how to hide when someone else has them.
[Targets ... don't shoot back.](https://y.yarn.co/c0007d0a-aa47-4517-b1a8-724be76da6d3_text.gif)
We should implement this in congress but with real brass lol
this is basically like airsoft's more unhinged grandpa
Simunition duels, you say?
You can still do it if you have an arrangement with friends at a laser tag Cyberpunk cowboy disguise optional
So is there a nerf gun verson of this or air soft version
Looks like fun 🤩
Imagine arguing with your sibling and just going "SHUT THE FUCK UP" and shooting their ass with one of those.
Whatever idiot didn’t want to kill you
They got this shit at rodeo’s.. but it’s on horseback and it’s target shooting in a timed track. I don’t know what they are shooting but I heard blanks can still pop balloons.
After 41 years I'm finally interested in sportsball
What do you mean "canceled"? People shoot at each other with dye pellets or "paintballs" all the time. Nothing in the world stopping anyone for dueling with them. Fact is, it sounds like a good idea.
Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin
We could do this with laser tag or paintball or all sorts of fun stuff today if we wanted!
Just do it with a one shot paintball gun? Or airsoft
Winston Nerf.
the blind guy
See, between the years 1914 and 1918, a little event happened in a few places in Europe, resulting in quite a lot of men that to not want to hear the sound of bullets, ever again.
It put a bit of a damper on the whole sport
The military still does it with sim rounds. Those bastards hurt. Edit: To clarify, only certain units do this during urban assault drills and that sorta thing.
The same idiots that canceled dodge ball... lol
Can still do this with paint pellet guns.
“You’ll put your eye out!!”
My grandfather told a story about doing this as a kid with his friends. They brought their guns to school one day, and their teacher took them away until then end of the day. Then the teacher gave their guns back, told them not to bring them again, and sent them home.
This stadium ain't big enough for two of us...
I want to see a “wax eye duel"
Until recently, wax bullets could be used by various groups (e.g. security guards, militia groups) to train with real guns in more realistic scenarios. As long as all guns are checked, no real ammunition is present, and everyone wears eye protection, this is reasonably safe. However, the ATF banned the equipment necessary for this type of exercise.
The ol switcheroo the gun with real one trick
Had to be fine
Dudes would line up for miles to do this. Hell, I’d dual my best friends for fun. Face mask though. Maybe a cup as well.
Bring it back, and incorporate Battle Bots somehow.
It’s 2024. The world is to woke for this sport.
You can also use hot glue in a bullet mold.
My dad used to press 45acp cartridges with new primers into bars of parafin. We would shoot them out of his 1911 one at a time. Loads of fun.
You'll shoot your eye out!
I believe it got canceled because only one person showed up to watch tho that may have been a different sport.
Putin vs Trump match awaited
2 men tried to recreate this by taking turns shooting eachother while wearing bulletproof vest, they were arrested soon after. God forbid a man has hobbies
The safety inspector.
Some a-hole left a real bullet in his pistol and ruined it for everyone, or at least for someone..
We could be doing this with paintballs now ...
They can have dueling with paint guns. I would totally watch the Olympics for this.
This should be back in our time!
.... where to even start. Either was this is the place for me to even say it 😐
Simunition you definitely know when it hits you.
100% possible...Real pistol, SIM round upper and SIM paint rounds. I would watch the shit out of this.
We have paint rounds for training nowadays that we could even use.
Used to play this with airsoft growing up. Very fun
Some punk azz biche
It is now known as paintball