Paintball business takes aim at entertainment

With limited opportunities to play paintball in Montana, Nicholas Lynn embraced the responsibility for keeping the sport alive, and at only 18 years old, jumped head first into owning his first company, Montana Action Paintball.

“There was a paintball center in Columbia Falls that I was working at, and the old owner wanted to sell it and I thought, ‘I bet I can swing that kind of money.’ I was right out of high school and I ran it for two and a half years before looking for a new location.”

Despite the housing hysteria that the pandemic caused, Lynn was able to secure a property to build a new facility in 2020. With the next closest paintball facility in Anaconda, Action Paintball aims to collaborate with the niche community of players by coordinating tournaments and making the sport more accessible.