X7 with Straightline barrel

You are shooting in the recommended speed for the straightline. This barrel is made by Hammerhead and likes the better paintballs like DXS Blaze or its equivalent. Since paintballs are now smaller and smaller, you might want to consider a few smaller bore sizers for a better fit as well. With the better paintballs that are properly sized, you will have few breaks and the accuracy will pleasantly surprise you. You can call Paul  or write him at www.hammerheadpaintball.com. He will help you get the maximum out of your barrel and tell him 'SmakDaddy' sent you. You have a great marker/barrel combo and once it is dialed in correctly, you will be the force to have to deal with on the field.

I see on the Tippmann website you supplied that you received 3 bore sizers with your barrel. These are excellent sizes for todays paintballs. Start with the .686 and go one smaller or one larger as per the paintballs you are measuing with these sizers. And if you will look on the Tippmann link you provided to me, you will see in the first sentence that the Straightline is made by Hammerhead. I have several of them with various tips including the Scenario MoFo. I use them on my 98, A5, Ion and SP1. They work great and look awesome as well. When you order the sizers you just ask for the ones you need or want. You already have the basic kit of 3 sizers but Hammerhead will provide you with more if you just ask them. Because people all want differnt sizes, they make up the kits as per your request.  Your barrel is the same as the Bang StikXX and like this barrel you can get addational bore sizers and tips, I have 3 tips ( Magnesium, M-50S, and the Snaggle Tooth) and really enjoy them.

You are playing in temps like our early spring.  What you are doing with the barrel and paint is correct and your fps speed is correct as well. I highly suspect the Tomahawk paint you are using.  You may find a dramatic difference in what happens in the morning than in the afternoon. I assume you are keepinng your marker, barrel, and paint inside and warm before you go outside. Paint is temperature sensitive and at 5C using CO2 that is a formula for ball breakage. Whereas at 15C, your problem may disappear completely. And your fps speed may spike accordingly so be aware as this could cause breaks as well. Try the Draxxus Frostbite, it has a much tougher shell and is much less sensitive to the cooler temperatures. Presently our temps vary from 15C to 29C in the daytime and is why we have many paintball games going on every weekend. In another 3 months our paintball will decrease because of the heat. Also, I use HPA as an air source as this also contributes to shooting without the extra cold of CO2.  CO2 has a problem converting to gas in the cooler temps you are playing in (5C) but at 15C this should not be so much of a problem. The best suggestion I can give you is to always carry your marker barrel up not allowing liquid CO2 to run into your marker and  carry the marker/CO2 tank close to your body for the heat. You want to shoot the gas and not the liquid which will cause velocity spikes, curving paintballs, loss of accuracy and paintball breakage. If you want to stay with CO2, I highly recommend you purchase a Palmers Stabilizer. (www.palmer-pursuit.com)  This is a regulator that will prevent liquid CO2 from getting into your gun and will regulate the amount of pressurre that hits the ball. This is a must for the X7 in cooler climates and actually works well in both hot and cold weather and can be used on any other paintball markers you may use in the future. This is the most respected regulator in America for handling CO2 issues. It handles HPA also if needed.

Well. First of i am using Air and not CO2,actualy i cant say that i know anyone at all who are actualy using CO2 on their guns. We also usualy have temps between 5-15degrees during the spring here and in the summers it can go upp to 10-25degrees at least.
I did open upp my marker a week ago and cleaned it inside and oiled it upp again with some : Field Gun Oil that i bought at the local PB store. Other than that i havent done anything at all with my gun eccept for putting on hte barrel kit and a car stock.

Currently i am using the : Porno Cammo ball that they sell on the shop in witch i linked. But i have also been thinking about that i maby should still use some kind off winter ball until the temperature goes above 15 degrees.

Well,the problems with the ash varies from day 2 day. ! day the air space is open and the next its closed,so its kinda back and forth.

I can change back to the stock barrel and see how the paint behaves with that on,but i dont have easy access to other barrels for comparising. Then i would have to buy a new barrel.
But i was planning to chrono my marker down to around 260 the next time i was going to play,and i will go down to the shop and buy a case of thos winterballs and try those out.
Ill give an uppdate on sunday,if the weather allows for any playing that day.
Thanks for all tips and help so far.

Hehe,sounds nice..Ill make sure to drop by if i ever get a chance to go to the US. I would love to,but no clue about to when it might happen tho.

On a different note,yes we can get both soft paddles and the cyclone uppgrade here in Norway also. I have the softer paddles,but i diddent put them in until yesterday tho. So havent tryed them out yet.

Dragev, How did the Straightline shoot?

OK,  temps below 10 C make the paintballs smaller and more fragile. It is good you had no breaks last weekend but your accuracy may not have been up to snuff. Be sure you buff out your barrel after each game removing any colorless gel the paint may be leaving behind. This will affect your accuracy. Even in our summer we drop our barrels in a pail of water during lunch and then squeegee  and buff them out before we play again. Just good barrel maintenance.