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Topic: rifle
Posted By: Joseph Manton
Subject: rifle
Date Posted: 26 July 2004 at 9:23pm
| I know what your thinking, "this kid thinks that he wil make a paintball rifle", but that's not what I'm saying. I want to know if there actually is a rifled paintball gun because someone told me about one that instead of having a circle mark on the target you have a spiral one. Is this true? |
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Posted By: 5ptcontingency
Date Posted: 26 July 2004 at 10:31pm
| Yes, there are some rifled paintball barrels out there. |
Posted By: holysmartone
Date Posted: 26 July 2004 at 11:20pm
| There are rifled barrels out there. And actually I own one. Im not sure what you mean by having a spiral mark instead of a circle one. All the barrel does is put spin on the ball in an attempt to increase accuracy. As far as Im concerned the barrel works great. Until you get paint or dirt in it.... I have a 13 inch Armson stealth by the way. |
Posted By: Dragunfly_Mech
Date Posted: 27 July 2004 at 9:53am
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It doesn't really make a difference in accuracy or the marking it makes. If paintballs were more solid it would. Or if your gun ran at very very low pressure it would. My gun runs at 200, and after the intial blow to the ball (which isn't much) I think it has time to reshape, But accuracy is pretty much "you get what you get" ------------- w00t dragunfly mech! |
Posted By: Joseph Manton
Date Posted: 27 July 2004 at 1:01pm
| where would you get such a barrel? |
Posted By: Pyro-TFA
Date Posted: 27 July 2004 at 1:41pm
| barrels like that can be found on ebay or at http://www.888paintball.com/ - http://www.888paintball.com/ |
Posted By: Helmut12289
Date Posted: 01 August 2004 at 12:32pm
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look, rifling works for a bullet, but not a paintball. You put spin on a football so it goes farther, (football= bullet) and you put spin on a baseball when you want it to curve (baseball= paintball) so really, its not doing anything. ------------- Axe in the head, early to bed, Axe in the helmet, a thanks to Helmut... and I support Bush! So there. |
Posted By: thecorpseman
Date Posted: 01 August 2004 at 12:43pm
Kinda. It does SOMETHING ------------- FAPM- Forumers against PopeMobile. |
Helmut12289 wrote:Posted By: Large Unit
Date Posted: 01 August 2004 at 1:51pm
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its the barrel that gets rifled not the gun. |
Posted By: PaintBsniper
Date Posted: 01 August 2004 at 8:09pm
Exactly rifled barrels are stupid and they do nothing. |
Posted By: capcadetspencer
Date Posted: 02 August 2004 at 9:59am
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Empire Twister barrell.... the paint mark wont spiral though because there is more forward momentum than than momentum from the spin... basic physics ------------- To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift -Steve Prefontaine |
Posted By: Helmut12289
Date Posted: 02 August 2004 at 4:44pm
Yeah, its lowering your accuracy, which a paintaball gun doesnt have much of in the first place. ------------- Axe in the head, early to bed, Axe in the helmet, a thanks to Helmut... and I support Bush! So there. |
Posted By: MagnumForce
Date Posted: 02 August 2004 at 6:55pm
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yes there is such thing as a rifled barrel but believe it or not it isnt as acurate as you would think ------------- 
http://img205.exs.cx/img205/3905/schooltwo7300044yc.jpg - -My A-5 |
Posted By: Snake_98
Date Posted: 02 April 2007 at 2:54pm
| Ok if barrels dont put spin on the ball that is enought to effect it what is the point of a flatline. |
Posted By: Razgriz Ghost
Date Posted: 02 April 2007 at 3:18pm
| Dude, no, a paintball is not a baseball it's an egg. Each one has a bludge on one side of it that makes it egg shaped. |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 02 April 2007 at 4:12pm
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wow... it was a whole thread about rifling and you bring in the flatline. The flatline spins the ball in a completely different direction than rifling would. Flatline gives backspin.... a gun obviously does not. Your comparison does not work at all. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: kickinwing2010
Date Posted: 02 April 2007 at 10:20pm
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All the flatline does is pop the ball up as it leaves the barrel to ark it a little better flatline>rifled barrel no doubt. But if you really think you need a rifled barrel there is a brand called like hammerhead that I have heard nothing but good results from.
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Posted By: Bird-Dog
Date Posted: 12 April 2007 at 3:27pm
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Rifled barrel=doesnt work. Period. ------------- 
_Bird-Dog_ |
Posted By: Stang909
Date Posted: 13 April 2007 at 9:40pm
maybe if you are using paint that costs $30 a case but if you are using good paint then no, just no, take a look at a fresh case of marbs some time ------------- 
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 14 April 2007 at 1:00pm
I'll tell you what, why don't you quit staring at your fresh case of marbs and try looking at a physics book so that you'll understand exactly WHY paintballs aren't spherical but rather elliptical in shape Every single paintball is at least slightly out-of-round and thus while the properties that affect spherical objects do somewhat affect paintballs, they don't follow the physical laws to a T. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: bigjrus
Date Posted: 20 April 2007 at 8:07am
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I gotta agree with tallen, look at a paintball closely and you will see on the case that one side goes barely over the other to seal it together. one side is bigger than the other so this can happen, hence not spherical. -------------   
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Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 20 April 2007 at 10:10am
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Holy Old Post, Batman.
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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 20 April 2007 at 12:38pm
begin sarcasm/ Yes, but it contained such wisdom! /end sarcasm ------------- 
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Posted By: p_p_b_h
Date Posted: 29 April 2007 at 5:36pm
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a paintball has no groves or rifleing so why would you want to get a rifled barrel? same thing with long barrels, it just causes mroe drag. a bullet spins in a barrel and the longer it goes in a straight direction, the longer it will continue in this straight trajectory. a paintball, is not a bullet. the longer a barrel the more drag you can get, so just get a barrel kit with a nice fit. |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 29 April 2007 at 9:54pm
Just out of (morbid) curiosity, what does the lack of grooves or rifleing have to do with anything? I highligted the word in the post above so I could point out that we have several groves of trees at our paintball field. -------------
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