Carver one

Well first off congratulations on picking a fine starter marker.  The Carver one has a lot of upgrading options, to begin with:

TippmannParts Tech wrote: Well first off congratulations on picking a fine starter marker.  The Carver one has a lot of upgrading options, to begin with: Barrels There are three main kinds of barrels: Smooth bore, Rifled, and Specialty  Smooth bore barrels are just that smooth bored barrels whose slick interior helps reduce friction and stress on balls allowing them to shoot using less air power, fly straighter and farther.  In this category I recommend the J&J barrels in 98 thread and the Lapco Bigshot barrels in 98 thread.   Rifled barrels have riflings that in a perfect world (with perfect paint) would spin the paintball giving it more accuracy.  Unfortunately paintballs are not perfectly round and unless you want to use expensive paint I would stay away from rifled barrels to begin with.  However I have known many people who SWEAR by their hammerhead barrels (and I am sure someone below me will talk about them later) Specialty barrels include the flatline and the apex.  unfortunately without modifications the carver can't fit a flatline.  however you can fit on the new 98 threaded APEX 2.  which can in fact allow you to curve your shots by adding backspin to your shots (you have to use a harder paint in all specialty barrels so no evil in your apex) you can even fit the apex onto your lapco or J&J barrel if you get the apex ready, or assault tip style. Loader for a loader going electric off the bat is not that important, I would recommend the Proto Primo Loader, it has a shelf that helps to keep a solid stack using the blowback from the marker. trigger with the carver you can upgrade to an e-trigger later if you want using the same upgrade kit as the alpha black, carver one e-trigger. I hope I have answered your questions and got you started upgrading, the best of luck to you and welcome to tippmann!

thx for the post. since i made this post i was lookin into a Lapco Bigshot 12" Apex2 ready barrel do u think that would be a good barrel to buy? i would be getting the Lapco Bigshot this week n the Apex a few weeks after.

Yeah I would definutly recommend the Bigshot! I actually have a 14in w/ apex 2 on my a5.  are you sure you are getting a 12in? for some reason lapco doesn't make a 12in apex ready only 14in.  if you want to put an apex on the big shot you will need to have either the apex ready tip or the assault tip with an apex tip.  to fit it on

will the bigshot even even in my gun tho? cause the outside of the barrel is not round, has some curves in it im wondering if it will knock around inside my gun cause where u put the barrel in is inside the gun not right on the edge like the 98C

hey so delayed the order on my bigshot, went and bought an Apex 2 Tip and i was wondering if i should get the 8" bigshot apex ready instead cause i was reading that after having 8' on your barrel the rest does nothing to the ball while its in the barrel cause once the ball has moved 6-8" any more length does nothing to keep the ball strieght its only the backspin that will do that, and my gun is kinda long with a stock so im wondering if i should just get the 8" barrel so my gun is shorter cause there is not point in a longer barrel.