Far=Flatline

Accurate=J&J ceramic, All-American, Boomstick, Lapco...Etc

by "Sniping" do u mean squatting?

The closest sniper type barrel in existent...is the Flatline, all the others will not come close to what the Flatline can accomplish.

Besides paying the price tag on the Flatline, be prepared to purchase quality balls in order fer the Flatline to work to your advantage.

go with the flatline and dont say the "S" word on this forum you will get flamed you really been lucky so far.i disagree with _drew i think there are "S"ers in paintball its just really hard to be a good one

I have a standerd A-5 flatline and it works perfectly. I dont even use great paint i mostly use 32 degrees team collors and i love the accuracy and distence.

Trust me the A-5 flatline is a great upgrade for woods ball, especially if u want to attemp to become a "sniper" I recomend for ur first game u bring ur velocity adjusting wrench though so u can get the velocity good.

If u havent already read the sticky on flatline, read it, he knows wat hes talking about.

You probably want a Lapco or Smart Parts barrel( 12,14,16,18 inch).

Flatline. The range is just dominating.

By the way everyone, I read an interview with Chuck Stoner, and I have to admit, he actually gives the best argument for being a paintball sniper. I never considered myself a sniper or anything, I just play whatever position I'm in the mood for, but I always saw the cause and understood the arguments snipers make. After reading what Chuck had to say, all the people who say there is no such thing as a paintball sniper can just quiet themselves.

I would post a link to a website, but I read it in a book.  Hold on a second, I'll go find it.

EDIT: Ok, since it's five pages long, I'll try to summarize the main points.

1) "As a sniper, I'm hunting...what I try to do is set myself up in siutations where people will approach me, enter my effective range, and not know where I am even after I've eliminated them."

2) "As soon as you begin to fire, if your gun is noisy, or if your movements are quick and jerky, you give away your position..your fighting ability is compromised"

3) "You should always set up fights on your own terms."

4) "I choose where to hide, I choose the shooting lane, I choose the terrain...Human eyes pick up erratic movement very quickly-rapid, jerky movements, swift movements. Our eyes are arranged in that way...move very little...steadily and smoothly."

5) "If you go into the woods, and you're looking for a whole paintball player, you might get lucky and see that.Mostly, you're going to see hands and the corner of a goggle, or the tip of somebody's boot. You have to be able to interpret what you see and then incorporate that piece into the whole and identify your target. The same thing happens in...deer hunting. You rarely see a whole deer. You see a tail, a leg..."

6) "It helps to know the fields...I know the fields very well, so I can use the creeks. people don't realize it, but one of the most effective stalking techniques is to...move in a creek bed because the noise of the water conceals most of your movements...Your down a foot or two below the line of sight...People just don't expect to see you wading down a creek..."

7) "...you always find bunkers and trees and log piles and fox holes. Everybody thinks those are the ideal places to hide. I disagree. I want to hide where somebody is not going to look for me..."

8) "I strive for a shooting lane that provides me an effective, defensible, dangerous position to work from."

After this, there's tips on scopes and how to make them work, a lesson in camoflage and the colors of the terrain, and the tutorial on a cheap ghillie suit. I probably missed other keys points, but I didn't want it to be extremely long.

I REPEAT BECAREFUL USING THE WORD "SNIPER".  I SWEAT THE FRIKEN PEOPLE IN HERE WILL TURN INTO LYNCH MOBS AND ATTACK WITH PITCH FORKS.  I BELIEVE IN SNIPERS IN PAINTBALL.

FLATLINES= FAR BUT EASY TO DODGE, TEMPERMENTAL

BIGSHOT, J & J CERAMIC, AND CMI RIFLED TRU-FLITE ARE AWESOME BARRELS.

Thanks Nigel.

It's all from "The Complete Guide to Paintball". I know it sounds kind of like a childish info book that only rookies (the world "newb" is a stupid, stereotyping corruption) would buy, but it's got a lot of market reviews, tactics, field and store listings around the world, history, etc. Hey, it was only twenty bucks and I found it at my college's book store, so it's practically a text book for me.

holytoeldo333 wrote: Is the Tippmann Werks Barrel or the 12" Sniper Barrel Good or Not

Go to http://www.pbreview.com - www.pbreview.com and read the pros and cons on the barrel.

^yea, except u can hit things with a flatline, so you wont have to worry about it.

i belive paintball snipers do exist, but i dont belive u can simply become one.Why do you people not belive that paintball snipers exist?

Wut if you are wearing a ghilli suit, and up in a tree, and picking off people who are runing to different trees/bunker 150 feet away from you? What characteristics of paintball are their that make it impossible to become a "sniper" please tell.

Tippmann Lover wrote: You probably want a Lapco or Smart Parts barrel( 12,14,16,18 inch).

And the 18" doubles as a walking stick to help you get around after you got bunkered cause you sat in the bushes the entire game.

^And you can do that with a reguler barrel ?

And who said you would be shooting through dense brush? It would be a real crappy woods ball field if all their was was brush around.