Plan for Oklahoma D-Day

The Woodland Reapers will be storming Utah Beach at Oklahoma D-Day this year. Utah is known as one of the most action-packed and most filmed areas of the playing field.

Oklahoma D-Day draws in over 4,000 paintball players from all over the world to re-enact the Invasion of Normandy that took place on June 6th, 1944.

D-Day Adventure Park offers trench works, firebases, villages, HQ bunkers, gun emplacements, tanks, landing craft, armored personnel carriers, and smoke grenades.

Drew will be heading up earlier in the week to play in all the mini-scenarios the field has to offer. The rest of the team's plan is to carpool from Mark's house at 8:30am (sharp) on Friday, June 12th.

Here is a bare-minimum list of what we need to do on Friday:

• Check-in at the registration building (pay [if you haven't already], get armband, player's packet, and buy paint tickets)


• Watch the safety video at the orientation tent (to get hopper cover)


• Get air tanks filled (where they'll be inspected for a current hydrotest date)


• Walk the field around Utah Beach and our objectives


• Get paint


• Chronograph our markers to 285 FPS or less


• Check-in at the hotel in Miami, OK

If you're wondering what it's like to take on Utah Beach, check out these videos:
Utah Beach in 2006 from the German Side
Utah Beach in 2007 from the German Side
Utah Beach in 2007 from the Allied Side

Look for us if you're attending the game this year. Find us at the 517th campsite or join us Saturday morning on Utah Beach where we'll be fighting alongside the 4th Infantry Division.

We'll post pictures and a follow-up when we return...

Sniper Challenge at Mark's House

The Woodland Reapers got together at Mark's house to talk about the team's game plan for D-Day and to see who had the best shot.

We setup a plastic yellow plate at about 150 feet away, which you can barely see on top of the red truckbed in the picture to the right as Scott Lewis lines up his shot.

Seven of us went through 10 rounds and no one could hit it. The combination of the distance plus the cross-wind made it too hard to hit. So we moved up by about 25 feet.












We each took turns taking one shot at a time. Finally Chris Harell, seen above (shooting Dustin's gun) with Drew Purdin in the background, hits the plate. Not only did he show everyone that it was do-able, but as of that moment the $35 was his.

After 10 rounds, Chris took first place (and $35) with two hits, Scott and Drew tied for second with one hit apiece. So we had a 5-round tie-breaker for second place. Scott went first and missed all 5 shots. Drew went next, only needing one hit to secure second place. Drew hit the target once and won the OpsGear pods.

The prizes were $35 for first, 5 OpsGear pods for second, and Splatter Paintball Supply stickers for the rest of the shooters.

Everyone had a great time at the competition. We'd like to thank Mark for hosting the Sniper's Challenge, his Mom and Dad for the food, OpsGear for the pods, and Splatter Paintball Supply for the stickers. The next post will cover the D-Day discussion we had after we finished the Sniper Challenge.

Upcoming Events

06/14/09: Oklahoma D-Day / D-Day Adventure Park / Wyandotte, OK
09/13/09: Call To Duty / Paintball Land / Collinsville, OK
10/17/09: Sands of Iwo Jima / Adventure Zone / Guthrie, OK
11/__/09: Operation Turkey / The Paintball Field / Newcastle, OK
02/__/10: Stalingrad / Adventure Zone / Guthrie, OK
04/__/10: Blackhawk Down / D-Day Adventure Park / Wyandotte, OK

More events to come...