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Sporting Witness: Paintball

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27/10/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Sporting Witness, Paintball

How the team shooting sport began in the woods of New Hampshire in 1981.

In 1981, the first game of the shooting sport, Paintball, was played by American outdoorsman, Charles Gaines, and eleven of his friends in the woods in the American state of New Hampshire. Paintball is now enjoyed by millions of people around the world and has also spawned a multi-million-dollar industry making protective body gear, goggles and paint-guns. Charles Gaines talks to Anya Dorodeyko about how Paintball started.

PHOTO: A Paintball player in action (Getty Images)

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