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Recreationally hunt fearsome foes, friends, and your fearsome friend's foe with today's Groupon: $20 for an all-day paintball pass at Cowtown Paintball. This pass includes equipment, air, and 500 paintballs to spatter strangers with neon splotches all day ($25 field fee plus $5 for a CO2 cartridge, $10 for equipment rental, and $20 for 500 paintballs makes this Groupon worth $60.) The park is located in Peoria—just 50 minutes outside of Phoenix and Scottsdale—and is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Cowtown is designed with novices and expert players in mind, so you won't need years of mercenary training to enjoy it like you did with that crocheting class. Depending on what shade of camo brings out your eyes, dodge bullets and duck-and-cover on the two desert scenario fields or the two grassy speedball fields (click here to see photos). Men and women of all ages love paintball because it gives them a chance to de-stress from their shift at the paintball factory, take out their birthday aggression, and commemorate Richard Pryor's famous campfire scene from Blazing Saddles with a non-fatal re-enactment. Set aside a Saturday for a lighthearted wartime experience free from pain, injustice, annoying ethical dilemmas, and trench foot.
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Three reviewers on InsiderPages give Cowtown Paintball a perfect five-star rating:
Groupon Says
Talk the Talk, Stalk the Stalk
Paintball pros know that it's not enough to be invisible, silent, and deadly (any store-bought ninja can bring that to the table); you also have to have technical expertise, and be able to efficiently communicate your tactics in the field of combat. That's why Groupon has put together this glossary of paintballing terms to prepare you for your first foray into splatterdom:
Marker: The primary piece of equipment in the sport of paintball. Often referred to incorrectly as paintball gun, or super-correctly as Lucille.
Clustering: When the paintball team pauses action to enjoy a handful of Clusters: the caramel-coated peanutty-popcorn snack that's great for kids— and paintballers like it too!
Ghost: A participant who remains in play after being tagged out, due to unfinished business regarding the mysterious locked chest in their attic, a missing will rolled up inside a bedpost, and the preternatural hunches of a precocious 10-year-old girl with an adorably oversized magnifying glass.
Newbie: Any player who is less than eight months old.
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