sssshhhhh quiet!

is there any way to quiet my sppedball tippmann 98c? i havn't seen or read on this in a while.i have everything speedball except the e-grip that i am going to make fit in my old style gun and a better barrel/ but seriously i have everything except those for speedball witch are like the only 2 things i have left.anything else besides qiuting the sear, and lpk?(NOT GETTING E-BOLT)

PaintballPIMPIN wrote: is there any way to quiet my sppedball tippmann 98c? i havn't seen or read on this in a while.i have everything speedball except the e-grip that i am going to make fit in my old style gun and a better barrel/ but seriously i have everything except those for speedball witch are like the only 2 things i have left.anything else besides qiuting the sear, and lpk?(NOT GETTING E-BOLT)

A heavily ported long (14" or more) barrel with very small porting holes.

Edited by Bruce A. Frank - 30 March 2006 at 11:49pm

If your playing speedball, whats the point of a quiet marker?

No selling on teh forums


Edited by You Wont See Me - 30 March 2006 at 11:59pm

well, i play both, but i never really thought about that, true. but i do practice in the woods most of the time

do you really think because you have a quiet gun, people wont know where you are in speedball? 

rocket cock.

the quieter you are, the harder it is to pinpoint your position off of just sound.  Yes you will still be heard, but where your exact location is, its much harder to track with a quieter barrel.

Gasdrinker wrote: do you really think because you have a quiet gun, people wont know where you are in speedball?

Actually, I play speedball at night on a lighted field. The way it is lighted there are deep shadows in places from which you can shoot so that a relatively quiet marker can keep you from being detected. It allows me to post on people, take them out, and go undetected for much of the game...at least until I'm the only one left on the field.

quietness may not seem important until you actually play speedball.
first off, when you break the starting position the first thing yer gonna do is run, it don't matter if you hear their markers shooting. what matters is if you hear the balls hitting the bunkers next to you. but, then again there is a rational threshold for the best noise level of your marker. i think, the quieter the better. see, a guy has a mask on and is breathing very deeply in speedball, well, in any paintball, so his breath whispering through the mask slits and the mask partially covering his ears, he won't be able to hear much for markers anyway.
there- hope that helps settle some noise debates about speedball.
now, if your looking to quiet your marker a bunch there's many things you can do. when i got my BSEM98 kit, the low pressure kit, and my J&J 14" ceramic together, i was very impressed with the noise level. i have honestly been told on numerous occasions that my marker was the quietest tippman they have heard. my marker is operating at 150psi, too, which helps a bit.
so, get a newer barrel. J&J's have a reputation for being very quiet, light, self-cleaning, and relatively accurate. the next thing is definately the LPK. smaller hammer, covered cocking hole, etc. makes for a very good cyclic silencer.

daveb333 wrote: SuzukiRider987 wrote: PaintballPIMPIN wrote: FyreFly wrote: LPK, if you don't have it. yup, got it. don't u think the 14in barrel to to big for speedball? i thought of a 12in is speedball. what do you mean about heavily ported?.689 for caliber, is that what u mean? If you're talking about airball, a 14" barrel is perfect. The longer barrel helps you wrap around and push into the sides of bunkers. No way.  12"-10" is perfect for speedball.  You need to be able to peek around bunkers at close range, and you want the gun to be lighter, with more agility.  Trust me, using a 14" barrel in a speedball course is nothing but a pain.

A longer barrel makes it easier to push into airball bunkers.