Out of air

[Predater]

barrel/paint match could affect it to

[LaW]

Re: barrels and air

Originally posted by res0qjp2
barrels have nothing to do with the air, It only take the first blast to shoot the ball, The rest of the air is going to distort the ball.

Completely not true.... if you have a barrel with no porting all the air that is pushing the ball will keep pushing or still be behind it until it exits the barrel. If you have lots of porting air escapes and thus it will require more air to get the same speed out of that barrel then it did with the one with no porting :)

[LaW]

I'm sorry you are wrong :)


AGD - "The effective length of the barrel is from the balls position before it's fired, to the place in the barrel where the pressure gets released, This is usually at the first porting holes or the step in the barrel. Porting is there to release gas pressure!! You are effectively stopping the acceleration at the ports so your 14" barrel that is half full of holes only has an effective length of 7".

So the more the porting, the more gas pressure is released... so the more air you'll need to use to keep enough pressure .... you get what i'm saying?