New Barrel
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Topic: New Barrel
Posted By: red_panda
Subject: New Barrel
Date Posted: 22 February 2006 at 10:10am
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What's the longest barrel i can get for a Tippmann '98 Custom? ------------- -Red Panda- |
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Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 22 February 2006 at 10:19am
| You can put any length you can find on it. However I would not go over 14", anything beyond that will just give you less proformance with more gas usage. Remember in paintball Barrel Length doesn't equal Distance. All Straight barrels shoot the same distance. |
Posted By: red_panda
Date Posted: 22 February 2006 at 10:26am
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Thanks I was just wondering because i was thinking about ordering a flatline barrel if i bought another tippmann. Heh i need a new gun right now my friend destoryed mine. ------------- -Red Panda- |
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 22 February 2006 at 10:33am
| The Flatline is a good barrel if you have the patience and time to put into it. THe Flatline doesn't just screw on like other barrels, it must be installed and tweaked, and chronoed in perfectly in order for it to work right. It you have the time and the patience to do it, I would get one. If you dont hav ethe time and patience I would get a good straight barrel like a Lapco Bigshot that will get give you better accuracy then the Flatline, but it wont give you the range. |
Posted By: red_panda
Date Posted: 22 February 2006 at 11:37am
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Ehhh... I really wanted the range and i like the butt stock option but i'm not sure what type of gun to buy now that a i need a new one. ------------- -Red Panda- |
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 22 February 2006 at 11:44am
| Well, the way I see it is like this. With the Flatline you do get the range of around 150ft but the ball loses velocity at the same rate from the Flatline as it does a Regular Barrel, therefore combined with the inaccuracy of the Flatline at range, even if you do get a hit on your target the chances of the ball actually breaking are slim. |
Posted By: ionpride
Date Posted: 22 February 2006 at 12:54pm
yeah i really wouldnt go past 14" but the biggest one is probably about 21" ???  ------------- im the closet thing that u will come to war !!! SMART PARTS ION 3000/47 PURE ENRGY AIR DYE 03 STICKIES TEARDROP BARREL HALO B HOPPER |
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 22 February 2006 at 1:00pm
I have seen longer. |
ionpride wrote:Posted By: red_panda
Date Posted: 22 February 2006 at 2:20pm
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I saw a 32" today but i didn't think i needed a barrel that long uses up more co2 doesn't it? ------------- -Red Panda- |
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 22 February 2006 at 2:24pm
Yep, don't go over 14". |
Posted By: dodan44
Date Posted: 22 February 2006 at 2:47pm
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The biggest I would go is 16". If I was you I would get a Lapco Bigshot. ------------- i pawn noobs |
Posted By: RavenGuard
Date Posted: 22 February 2006 at 3:43pm
The flatline may lose horizontal velocity at the same rate, but because the ball flies in a straight path, it will reach a much larger distance with equal velocity. Umm... also the backspin of the paintball would mean the paintball strikes the targed with much more force, because it's the force of the forward velocity as well as the force of the spin :) Sooo, maybe at EXTREME range it wouldn't break often, but you'll still be able to mark someone out of the range of a normal barrel with no prob, and atleast have some sort of chance (that you would not have with a straight barrel) of marking a target a great distance away. ------------- Tippmann A-5 Polished Internals E-Grip Ape Board JCS Blade Trigger QEV 8" Bigshot + Apex Ricochet R-5 / Tac Cap Palmers Stabilizer 68/4500 Crossfire |
Posted By: Justice
Date Posted: 22 February 2006 at 4:52pm
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Yo Raven anything past I'd say 50' your going to have to put an arch on your shot with any barrel flatline or not. We normally call this shot "Long Ball" and pray you hit somthing hard, like the marker, hopper or mask. FPS=FPS, simple as that. ------------- 
-JUSTICE http://www.myspace.com/outkastpaintball - Outkast Myspace |
Posted By: KALIS-PIMENTA
Date Posted: 22 February 2006 at 5:07pm
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