Tazer; naw... considered it, but found out that the actual guns like the cops use cost about 400 dollars, plus there's only one good chance of hitting your mark. The handheld units seem far too ineffective, since I wish to be far away.
The louder the better, I mean the goal is to scare the crap out of them and make them run away. I mean whats scaryer than hearing shots go off, then feeling a sharp pain in the side of your head? Not much, especially in the middle of the night.
-that's somewhat of my thinking. If I'm tucked away neatly in my house, firing though the vent in the peak, nobody doing something they shouldn't will have any idea what's happening. You're breaking into a car; adrenaline is pumping, and suddenly you hear a noise; doesn't matter what kind of noise it is, it's just there. Before you have time to put anything in perspective, there's a sharp pain somewhere, be it the head, leg, whatever. I'm equating it to how I suppose I would get when I go beige boxing, or just random acts of tresspassing (not saying that I do or have done either of those). (I'd imagine) the nerves get so tense, you find yourself battling between playing it cool, and freaking out at every little thing. Getting shot with a paintball while hypothetically tucked right next to a telco box would probably cause me to shit myself and, you guessed it, run like hell.
Anyway, I'm operating on a budget of about 100 dollars here. I didn't get the chance to make it out to any sporting good stores today, er, yesterday- and I'd rather not go in blindly. 'GenRik_pHreaK' seems to know paintball, and I'm sure someone else here does too. What would be a good solid performer in that price range? I'd prefer something semi-auto, or automatic, if that's available and cheap enough.
