For the Viking Guys

[afrankart]

Any one still use their javelin? What is a good paint match for it? I just emptied my checking account and sold my mag:( to buy a orange JMJ featherlite viking:D . Now, I am going to be stuck with that barrel for a while and I was wondering what matches up with it well. I think the new javelins are .687.

[$tevo]

i think marblizers will be good for that bore, they run from 687-689 i think.

[$tevo]

BTW, good choice on the JMJ Viking, nice markers

[Steelrat]

New are .687, old are .684. You can tell the new from the old by checking the porting: the old ones just have astraight row of porting, the new ones have a spiral pattern. I've shot marbs, big ball, and pmi premium through it without a problem.

[Ryknow]

I would think any severe paint would work nice, it tends to run a little small. I shoot an excal.. if vikings are ANYTHING like my excal.. you will be happy :p

[doc_Zox]

ne Javelins have a .685 swage

[afrankart]

Originally posted by doc_Zox
ne Javelins have a .685 swage

What? I have only ever heard of AKA making .684 and .687 bores, outside of custom jobs.

[doc_Zox]

the bore is .687

but there is a step down swage to .685
an inch or so inside the barrel

[afrankart]

Why would they do that? wouldn't it make a whole lot more sense to have the next step be larger, like .687 to .689?
I have never heard that before.

[doc_Zox]

it acts as a pressure seal

its a ring constriction ~1inch inside the barrels breach


Initially they were .684 with some .688's mixed in. The new barrels are .688 with a .685 swage at the back. The new one's have multiple ports in a swirl instead of the 6 ports in a straight circle.

http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=155450

[afrankart]

Interesting. Has anyone used evil with one of these. it is what I prefer to shoot, at least with the Ultralite I used to have.