So I play woods ball with this guy...

Who wants to start a tourney team.  "Ou know...to offset the cost of the balls, maybe we win some paint", yadi, yadi.  I play weekly and feed 3 guns.  Mine my 12 year old's and my 10 year old's.  It sounds appealing.

So we go to the local course.  Afterwards this guy says he wants his team to be willing to shell out the money for hoppers, firepower, nitro, uniforms.  Huh...so we're gonna have to win alot of paint to offset a $1000 layout for all of this equipment.  He just bought a Spyder Electra.  I've played with Spyders 3 times.  All 3 times at some point the gun refused to fire.  I like my Tippman...however.

What I have right now is a Model 98.  My wife bought it for me from WalMart.  Not exactly highly upgradable.  The question I have is, does anyone know if an e-trigger can be taken appart and somehow rigged to work on a stock model 98?  I read the sticky and didn't see it in there anywhere.  There is nothing I would like better than to hand this guy his backside with a lowly M98.  All he has on me is firepower (and a little experience).  I hold my own but it's not too hard to bunker someone when outgoing paint is an average 2-3 rounds per second and incoming is a sustained 15.  KnowwhatImean?

Thanks

Thanks, Norton,  Good advice.  The sticky had a ton of barrels listed.  This may need to be it's own thread, as everyone would have their own favorite.

So, follow up question regarding barrels.  Do riffled barrels make that much of a difference?  With a missle shaped projectile like a bullet, I see the advantage.  But with a ball, does riffling really increase accuracy?  To me, it would be almost defeating to put a sideways spin on the ball.  Isn't a sideways spin one of the requirements of throwing a good curveball?

Anyone have any experience with riffled barrels?  (I'll start a barrel thread if there is little response)

JediJak wrote: SuzukiRider987 wrote: nrthsll wrote: Thanks, Norton,  Good advice.  The sticky had a ton of barrels listed.  This may need to be it's own thread, as everyone would have their own favorite. So, follow up question regarding barrels.  Do riffled barrels make that much of a difference?  With a missle shaped projectile like a bullet, I see the advantage.  But with a ball, does riffling really increase accuracy?  To me, it would be almost defeating to put a sideways spin on the ball.  Isn't a sideways spin one of the requirements of throwing a good curveball? Anyone have any experience with riffled barrels?  (I'll start a barrel thread if there is little response) Rifling does nothing for a paintball. No added accuray is gained by having rifling. To read more on the subject, look here. true real riffiling does not work but air rifiling as seen on barrels such as the smart parts progresive can lead to beter accuracy more for guiding the ball better than actually spinning it

having used a progressive barrel i didnt find any benefits other than cutting the noise down.  With spiral porting or any kind of  porting all your doing is equalizing the preasure in front or behind the ball. This does help slightly but can give no spin.  Having it in a special patern cant "grab" the ball and make it twist like the lands(grooves) in a real rifled barrel.  Every so many years the manfacturers release a "revolutionary rifled design"  ...its just smoke and mirrors.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Yeh.. If you want to really bust his bubble you could splerge and get an SL-68 II for around $50. Not only is it a Tippmann, its a pump.

I've been looking for a Model 98 E-bolt for a while now. Haven't seen one. I belive they are different from the 98 Custom E-bolt, are they not? I hear they are much cheaper.

I have a Lapco Bigshot and love it to death. I have the bead blasted version and it looks great on my Model 98. Its durability is almost unbeliveable, which ties in great with a Tippmann since they also have amazing durablility. Its accuracy I have not been able to thoroughly test due to me being poor and sometimes only being able to use field paint. Going with a group also somewhat prevented me from doing a few things like oiling at my own pace so I got some in the barrel, and thats not good. I will say though, when I took the time to aim, which wasn't very often, I surprised myself. One time I missed the target and I still raised my head in astonishment as the paintball flew dead on. And I did miss, but he leaned really far to get out of the paintballs way, haha. It was a good 40-50 yards away, so obviously he had a little time to move.

My brother has a Smart Parts Progressive. Its a nice barrel too, although I haven't been able to test it at all except with CO2 and super cheap paint. So I can't give an honest review about it.

not any more i found all american barrels for 32.99 here http://www.xpaintball.com/smpaallambab.html ok yea nvm i just read the whole thing its just the back part of barrel srry