Freak or Flatline?

Freak's are way too much money , but of the two , I'd have to say , Freak .

Why ? If you can eliminate me with a flatline , I can eliminate you with my  "Regular" Barrel . It's all physic's man . think about it .

 Velocity , drag (AKA Ballistics) .

go with the freak

if you get a Flat line you would have to worry about paint size.

thx for the help

should i get the freak, all-american, or teardrop front? which one is quieter?

i didn't vote because as many other people said on their post the freak is to much money and if ya don't install the flatline right you get all kinds of problems and there hard to clean.my advice is to get a lapco bigshot.extremely cheap and accurate..but if someone had a gun to my head and told me to vote i would go with the freak just because i always hear bad things about flatlines.

hhmmmm.....thats a tuffy. i trust SP very much. i dont own a flatline but i trust em from wat i hear. well i hope u can decide

welcome to the forums

Shadowminion, in your position I would NOT be advising the lad as to matters of physics.

Any paintball will decellerate equally; that is a given. So, this can be extrapolated to say that any 2 similar paintballs, fired from any barrel, at the same velocity, will have practically the same velocity after the same amount of time in the air, having travelled the same DISTANCE.

Distance, however, is an absolute mearure of the total space that an object travels in ALL DIMENSIONS. Velocity, on the other hand, is a vector- it has a direction attached to the unit of measure. Velocity is NOT just a measure of speed, but of direction. Velocity is constantly altered in a paintball, as the forces of gravity, drag, and lift act on it. Lift only comes into play in a flatline, though.

Say you fire a shot from your freak barrel. To hit a target 100 feet away, you must arc it up. From a flatline barrel, you can fire it straight. Because the Freak shot is ARCING, rather than travelling in a straight line, it must travel a greater distance to reach the same spot - pic two points in any circle, and draw a line directly between them. The line between them and the line of the circumfrence which joins them both get to the same point, but one is clearly shorter. This is geometrically how one would compare the flatline and the freak. 

Because it travels a greater distance, it is in the air longer, which means that it arrives at a slower velocity than a shot froma  flatline, because the flatline - having taken a direct vector towards the target, instead of an arc - took less time to travel the distance, and thus has had less time to decellerate due to drag. Furthermore, becuase the lift counteracts gravity, it does not lose velocity climbing the arc; velocity that is not completely regained in falling towards the target.

Furthermore, because the flatline is able to travel more efficiently - requiring less arc to achieve a greater linear distance - its shots can travel farther (linerally) before losing too much velocity (and thus energy) to break on a target. Also, because the spin of the ball will continue throughout the flight, the lift effect will continue throughout, and simply make it possible to fire a shot farther than any other barrel will. Eventually, the ball will 'stall', in that the lift generated will no longer coutneract gravity, and it will drop off relatively suddenly comapred to the gentler arc of another barrel- however, that stall point will be greatly beyond what any other barrel could hope to reach.