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how to increase accuracy with a bravo one?????????

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Topic: how to increase accuracy with a bravo one?????????

Posted By: jamesdewit
Subject: how to increase accuracy with a bravo one?????????
Date Posted: 06 July 2010 at 9:32am

I have just baught a tippmann Bravo One(Alpha black)

i would just like to know what mods i cane use to improve accuracy?

and also a list of the customizable's that will fit a bravo one if im planing to build up a sniper for woodball?

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Posted By: ChEwYY$$
Date Posted: 06 July 2010 at 8:54pm

the word "sniper" in paintball should be used lightly, but the only way to improve the accuracy is to get a longer barrel

Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 06 July 2010 at 11:33pm

^^^ Incorrect. While ultra-short barrels will have a negative effect on accuracy, once you go beyond 10-12 inches of barrel length (depending upon the marker) anything additional really doesn't increase consistency. Using good paint, storing it properly and a good paint to barrel match are much more important.

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Posted By: Kopkins
Date Posted: 07 July 2010 at 11:18am

Mack, that doesn't make any sense. I shoot further with my 25" sniper barrel and my scope.

Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 07 July 2010 at 11:41am

^^^ I really hope you're joking.

On the off chance you aren't, consider this:

Distance is directly related to velocity.

I.e. the faster the ball is traveling when it leaves the barrel, the farther it will travel.

Velocities are limited in paintball.

I.e. fields limit the speeds of fired shots to 300 fps or below.

A paintball fired from a 12" barrel at 300 fps is going to go just as far, once it leaves the barrel, as an identical one fired from a 25" barrel at the same velocity.

If you really are getting a major difference in range then you are firing at a higher velocity than the people you are comparing to. Either they need to turn up their velocity or you need to bring yours back down to a safe range.

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Posted By: Kopkins
Date Posted: 07 July 2010 at 12:21pm

lol... jokes.

Posted By: jamesdewit
Date Posted: 07 July 2010 at 1:11pm

but wont the quality of the barrel have an effect on this as well? sory i jst wana knw if it worth the cadh geting a longer barrel? cause i keep geting told to get a ceramic barrel? "it shoots better"?

Posted By: Magoo
Date Posted: 07 July 2010 at 4:56pm

A tube is a tube is a tube. I've noticed a quality single-bore barrel will shoot just as good as a kit. What the adjustable bore WILL affect, however, is efficiency. If your paint is tight in the bore, it takes less gas to get it to speed. If the bore is loose, gas can escape past the ball. That said, a cheap single-bore barrel (like a stock barrel) will shoot like doodie. For example, the Tippmann 98's stock barrel. You can look down and see the texture in the bore...

Anyway, the quality does affect how it shoots. A lot of people say J&J Ceramics are good because they have a smooth, polished ceramic coating inside the barrel. This lets you shoot out paint if you chop a ball. It won't be as good as squeegeeing the barrel, but it will suffice. Also, the do shoot quite smoothly.

I honestly prefer a single bore to a kit though. The less changes in diameter the paint has to shoot through, the better to me. I tend to underbore (find a good bore/paint match, and get a barrel a few sizes smaller than that), so I can use a single barrel as my catch-all. Thing is, it's quite hard to find a very small bored barrel for today's goofy small paint...

Length really doesn't affect much.

Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 08 July 2010 at 1:52am

I'm with Magoo on the single-bore thing. While I think it is easier to get a good paint-to-barrel match with a barrel kit I have always believed that the difference it makes is probably not worth the expense to the average recreational player.

While I do use an Angle 4-piece kit on one marker and various forms of the Freak on three others, the main reason for this is all of these markers (an Autococker and three pumps) do not have ball detents and the barrel kits allow me to avoid roll-out.)

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Posted By: jamesdewit
Date Posted: 08 July 2010 at 1:29pm

so if you wer me and you wer playing more bush (woodball) what length barrel would you get and what make/type would be relyable

Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 08 July 2010 at 2:12pm

I'd get a 12-14 inch J&J Ceramic.

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