Your in the middle of a game your team mate calls to you screaming "im pinned down!!! help!!"  you run to his aid but the first shot you fire chops a ball. Now you must clean out your barrel or you wont hit a darn thing.

my question is... what do you think could be done to help speed up the prosess of cleaning the barrel out FAST.

dont what??? dont clean it  thats funny

Im talking about a way to clean it out fast while still moving around. like having some kind of rod under the barrel that is attached by a swivel.

Automag's twist-lock barrel.

pic please

i just twist my barrel off get my sqeegee and 1 swipe  twist it back on it takes less then 20 seconds done  arnt ya proud of me

ok how about this... having a swing out barrel. the barrel would still be attached to the gun. the receiver would be in two peices front and back. the front would be attached be a single large pin or screw. at the bottom there would be a spring loaded catch. on the left side of the reciever there would be a spring loaded (cleaning rod)

ball break-- pull the catch down while swinging the barrel left & up. (the swing out barrel would have a stop at which would line up the barrel & rod) push the rod lever forward into the barrel. let go... the rod springs back. swing the barrel back to normal....FIRE

 that prosess would take 3-5 seconds

use a straight shot squeegie.  i think tippmann makes them now.

if you're really screwed, take your barrel off and blow a well-fitted paintball through it.  it should help alot.  it's a trick i learned once while playing stock-class.  i think it's kinda neet, because noone else thinks to do it, that way.

dude Im not thinking about things that would fit a present tippmann gun, Im thinking in terms of the future. something like the Tippmann A7

but what do the pin locked barrels look like?

i've been seeing less and less chops since my first game.  i think in the future, you won't need to clean your barrel, due to chop-avoiding technology.

Styro Folme wrote: i've been seeing less and less chops since my first game.  i think in the future, you won't need to clean your barrel, due to chop-avoiding technology.

Yeah, like eyes.

hybrid-sniper wrote: Styro Folme wrote: i've been seeing less and less chops since my first game.  i think in the future, you won't need to clean your barrel, due to chop-avoiding technology. Yeah, like eyes.

or maybe they have eyes out there that see every color already, idk, i don't keep up on electros...

ACT Bolts, Eyes, Electric Hoppers/ Cyclone Feeders. This pretty much eliminates most of the chopping problems.

Styro Folme wrote: hybrid-sniper wrote: Styro Folme wrote: i've been seeing less and less chops since my first game.  i think in the future, you won't need to clean your barrel, due to chop-avoiding technology. Yeah, like eyes. exactly, but eyes need some more developement, due to them not seeing certain colors of shell. or maybe they have eyes out there that see every color already, idk, i don't keep up on electros...

Breakbeams see everything*. The bounce beam eyes in a Halo can see any* paint when there's a Cheetah at the helm.

thanks Kickinwing2010, you not the only one that thinks my ideas are creative but bad. my wife keeps telling me to get into politics. but then she says that she would not vote for me cause of my "stupid ideas..."

If the triumph had eyes it would be more than just $100 for the gun. They are just a cheaper version of the 98 custom

i forget who's said it before(maybe Snake, or Ravenguard, i forget), but i've tried this many times (both with my J&J Ceramic and my Flatline): get a small baggie, half fill it with rubbing alcohol, and put 5-10 cotton balls in it, so that they soak up all the alcohol, and drain the excess. then keep the baggie in your pocket when you go play. when you get a break, push the front sight, so the hopper slides out of the way, drop a cotton ball in, and fire at the ground, and repeat if necessary. works like a charm, and the alcohol dries quickly.

try walking the hell of the feild.

DeTrevni wrote: Automag's twist-lock barrel.

actualy with automags barrel going all the way into the gun and with the bolt moving inside of the barrel and the detent inside the barrel if you have a force feed hopper all the balls will come flying out  cause there nothing to stop them from coming out.

step 1. take off the barrel.

step 2. clean the barrel.

step 3. put the barrel back on the gun.

there know you know.

Razgriz Ghost wrote: dude if you chop in a tippmann here is the best thing for you to do... keep shooting! They're design for this, they're not like the guns that paint can do damage to, it's a tippmann by the time you shoot through the break it'll be like nothing happened

an94 wrote: its not that simple on flatlines. and I like the drop away hoppers on 98s. but what if Im running a center feed hopper on the 98? they cant drop away like stock feeds, can they?

If you chop with a Flatline barrel, you're pretty much hosed on accuracy at any range until you clean it.  (I like the hopper-dropper option on the 98s way to much to ever run a center feed.)