Well, seems like noone on here knows much about it, so I'll try to fill everyone in.
www.redriveroutdoors.com
I decided to give the field a try last Saturday. It is located in Slade KY.
First up, the positives:
Actually had a safety talk. I've been to alot of different fields over the past 14 years and besides tournament, I believe this was the first.
Nice people. I've been to some fields where only the regulars are treated nice.
3 different fields to play on.
An airball field. Who doesn't love airball
A field called concrete jungle. Didn't actually play this one but it look pretty fun. It has block wall, conoes cut in half and a hut.
And last up was a field called Hillbilly Town. Pretty fun. It had several building on it including a Bank, Jail, and a Salon just to name a few.
Actually had a ref to start and stop games. Now how many fields have you been to where that didn't happen, or worse......the players had to ref between their own games
Yup thought so.
Rentals were 98's, paint prices where about average. Field fees average also.
30+ players. Mostly young kids. But hey thats cool. We all are getting older, can't play forever, and paintball will be there when we are gone. Right?
Negitives:
Airball looked like it was throwed up at random.
Hillbilly Town is located on a huge hill, thats seems to take forever to walk up. A skylift would be nice here......just kidding
Um, one ref on the field....can't complain much there. I've seen alot worse as stated above.
Didn't see a Proshop. Gotta have a proshop, so we all can buy the worthless do-hickies that the inturdnets guru's say will make us play AGG.
30+ players. Mostly young kids. Not a problem for the owners and nothing against kids, but if you are a top notch tourney player.....well give these kids a couple season. Maybe the next Ollie Lang will come out of them.
And my biggest complaint.........NO COMPRESSED AIR
The owner did say it was something they was going to try and get in the near future.
All in all, I would have to give this field a rating of 8/10
With the addition of a compressor and and decent proshop, this could easily be one of the top fields in the area.
