Info about Mag barrels ?

[Nikodemus]

HI I have been "out" of gaming about 3 years ! and now i finally have time to start it again .I would like to now where i can find some info/revievs about automag (lev 7) barrels and equipments. If you can recommend some barrels to me or give url to a good web site i thank thee.

[nippinout]

Welcome back!

Pretty much with any barrel will be a good barrel.

Barrel kits shoot just as accurate as a one piece or two piece barrel.

Paintballs are inaccurate no matter how much you spend on a barrel.

What you want to look for is a barrel is one that looks good. Seriously. All 'high' end barrels perform the same.

J&J makes great barrels at prices that are fairly low.

DYE makes very pretty barrels.

LAPCO makes loud barrels of very high quality. I like them because they have a lot less porting that everybody else.

I'm using my RT Pro stock barrel without a problem.

[SG Avenger]

It really is all about style. I've used a DYE stainless steel barrel, and I love it, just because it makes this cool pinging noise when the bolt taps against it.

But Nikodemus was right about barrels with less porting, I was playing a scenario game the other weekend, and some guy with a Tipman A5 with one of those really thick flatline barrels was firing right behind me, it sounded like a bloody cannon!

But with anything you making a small investment in, dont cheat yourself buy buying a cheap POS. Hit up a pro shop if you can, and hold a few barrels, to get a feel for weight and how it might compliment your marker.

When i came back a few years ago. I was like, "What? people use yellow and blue Paint Markers?!"

OH! and I just wanted to throw in, if you plan on upgrading to a ULE body, you might want to hold off getting a new barrel, since you'll want a Cocker threaded barrel to work with the new ULE body.

[Nobody077]

Just get a barrel that fits the paint you use. If you dont stick with 1 type/size paint you may want a barrel kit.
I Personaly use a old Smarts parts AA, a Lapco BigShot and the stock AGD barrel that came with my mag in 95.
For the cost the Lapco was the best, you can find them new on Ebay for $30-35

[Nikodemus]

Thanks for help
I think i take my marker and go to local Shop/field and maybe do some testings there, which barrel feels good to me.
I personally like silent markers, my present barrel(crosspoint) makes annoying highping sound,but i really dont care the sound that much ,accurancy comes first so i probably buy 14"

[GoatBoy]

Originally posted by Nikodemus
Thanks for help
I think i take my marker and go to local Shop/field and maybe do some testings there, which barrel feels good to me.
I personally like silent markers, my present barrel(crosspoint) makes annoying highping sound,but i really dont care the sound that much ,accurancy comes first so i probably buy 14"

I think a lot of barrels out there are crap. Just look at the tech tips. It's a round ball with a seam in the middle, filled with a liquid. Almost all barrel reviews I have seen have absolutely NO quantitative data, period. There's probably a good reason for this. You figure it out.

I'd like to see any real data that states, for reasons other than a flagrant paint mismatch, why a barrel made out of 2, 3, 4, or even 5 pieces shoots better than a quality barrel made out of ONE piece. I can come up with reasons NOT to get multipiece barrels. They're harder to make correctly, they have joints that can get crud in them, and these joints are harder to shoot clean once they do.

Similar thing goes for porting, with the exception that porting can actually do something useful. It can reduce the noise of your gun a little. However, it reduces your efficiency, and again, you can get crud into your cute little porting designs. Awww, how cute, this barrel has spiral porting. Awww, look at the porting design of this barrel, isn't that just adorable? This barrel can double as a cheese grater off the field!

If you're totally ate up about paint size matching, get 2-3 barrels, one for the smaller stuff and one for the bigger stuff. I'm betting 2 perfectly good single piece barrels will be cheaper than than some of these high tech insert based multi-piece barrels, and perform just as well.

I like J&J ceramic barrels, even though they still have way too much porting on them. The barrels are nice and smooth, light, and yep... they've got that annoying porting on there to reduce noise AND effective length. The barrel, for its part, is pretty quiet. I do still have an old 14" J&J ceramic mag barrel from the old days, and it has like more than 2 inches LESS porting than the newer ones. I did email J&J the other day about getting a barrel with less porting; they said my options were a barrel with the normal bajillion ports, or with no ports at all.

I also have a Lapco barrel which is pretty decent, although the process on it is not as nice as the J&J ceramic injection stuff.

And for the times I'm going to lend one of my guns to a friend/moron, and I think he's going to be rough with the gun (picking up paint off the ground, getting dirt in/on/around it, etc), I put a stainless steel barrel on there.