barrel kits

[paintball72]

ive been looking into getting a barrel insert kit and am wondering what brands you guys use and if it is worth it to get a 7 piece kit over a 5 piece. Do you actually use all of your inserts i just dont like buying more than i need (im cheap what can i say )

[Sumthinwicked]

get a 3 set if your on a local field if tourney or senario get 5 7 or 8 remember you can upgrade seperatly esp freak inserts :P

[t0nnn]

I love my powerlyte sceptor kit..got it off LuisV on here, 7 bore kit, great price and the barrels great. I've only used maybe 3 of the 7 inserts so far in the past 4 months...prolly don't need 7, but you never know

[pk5]

depend on what you play and how much you emphasize on hitting the target.

Normally i don't think you need more than 1 common bore anyway especially if you play with field paint that depend a lot on the weather.

If you really want to be careful about the paintball then go with the 7 bore size. But i play with field paint and it just grow like crazy, so i just end up using the largest bore i have.

Ooo yeah..my JJ kit come with 5 insert/bore but i only manage to use 1 or 2 max. the .689 and the .692

[Sumthinwicked]

i snipe so i have a 9 insert freak set

[lostprophet]

Travel

I travel around alot for my play. This has lead me to buy the 5 piece hammerhead kit, I can usually get good boresizing no matter what size paint the field is using.

[Ruler_Mark]

I use deadlywind fibur barrels with the SS freak kit for inserts

[Warwitch]

Sanchez Machine SM1
Deadly Wind Fibur
Powerlyte Scepter

The only 3 kits I will use.

[BigEvil]

You really cant go wrong with any barrel kit. I have ones with 3 bores that work fine, and I have ones with 7 bores that work fine also. Price and preference.

[secretweaponevan]

Cheap?

http://www.pythonpaintball.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1

[pk5]

For that price, i would just go with a whole set that's on sale either here in the dealer forum or on the nation.

Unless you have a twistlock mag and want to convert it to cocker thread.

[halB]

If you're using cocker threads I cannot pimp the CP line of two piece barrels enough. Sure, you have to buy a new back for each bore, contrast that to inserts where you only have to buy one back, but they're CP! CP has aaaaaalways shot the straightest of any barrel I have ever touched. I also do not trust sleeve insert systems. They can rotate, they can move. I also do not believe that the freak inserts actually line up with the inner diameter of the upper tube of any paintball gun. I get the feeling you could see an "eclipse", in other words, I'm pretty sure that you can see the edge of the insert. I just do not trust anything that thin, that's held in by THAT mechanical connection (which is not a mechanical connection at all. Friction simply doesn't do the job).

So get CP! It's a tad expensive, it's like 30 dollars for each new back. But CP has never ever done me wrong. Hell, since the brick and mortar I ordered from screwed up my order, I've been playing with only the control bore on my impy, and it shoots darts/ropes/strings/neutron bombs. I DO like the looks of the freak better. But some things are more important.

*if you're only going to get one bore, get the .689. I haven't found a ball yet that doesn't fly out that perfectly.

[Sumthinwicked]

say cp is the best like saying spyders are the best gun Shens i say! i walked into a store looking for a freak back 2 years ago and to check out the store for my boss and got the same speech from the woman behind the counter mind u i work for a store so i laughed at her misinformed knowlage "cp are the best!" me :i want a freak back not crappy cp 34 dolla poor-folk barrel " okie and i see the crack is free in your neiborhood yea better put the pipe down the glass heats up from all that toking and your gonna burn your lips sweety and walked away never to return..... till 2 years later to give them another chance (have 3 mag parts a benchy listed for 80 and some other 1980 prices what a joke but since my store closed i had to try due to distance from field to store was an hour drive he closed it down and he has online now but i needed it that day so i had to try END OF RANT

[halB]

say cp is the best like saying spyders are the best gun Shens i say! i walked into a store looking for a freak back 2 years ago and to check out the store for my boss and got the same speech from the woman behind the counter mind u i work for a store so i laughed at her misinformed knowlage "cp are the best!" me :i want a freak back not crappy cp 34 dolla poor-folk barrel " okie and i see the crack is free in your neiborhood yea better put the pipe down the glass heats up from all that toking and your gonna burn your lips sweety and walked away never to return..... till 2 years later to give them another chance (have 3 mag parts a benchy listed for 80 and some other 1980 prices what a joke but since my store closed i had to try due to distance from field to store was an hour drive he closed it down and he has online now but i needed it that day so i had to try END OF RANT

I bet the closest you ever got to grammar was Nelly's first single. Don't flame me or troll in here unless you can:

A) put together a sentence
B) not put together a run-on sentence and
C) provide some evidence. Talk about what I said, about how the inserts rotate and whatnot. Can't you even do that? I presented real tangible reasons for WHY I prefer the CP. The only thing I can infer from your post is you like smoking crack.

Sit down. Shut up. Learn english. Of course - what do you expect from someone who called themselves "sumthinwicked" THERE'S A G IN THERE YOU FOOL!


edit: Actually, I'm going to try to rise above you. Here are the reasons why I think the CP barrels are better, listed for your puny brain's convenience.

1) Solid, one piece construction - which means
a) "Control bore" (which shall hereafter be the designation for the part of the barrel that first touches the paintball) can't rotate
b) Control bore cannot move linearly
c) Control bore will ALWAYS line up perfectly with the gun's inner diameter.
d) Control bore CANNOT be moved, influenced, wiggled, shaken, vibrated, or in any other way "touched" by the firing of the gun.
e) Control bore cannot be damaged easily by minor compression - unlike tiny thin inserts. Even if no damage is visible to an insert, it could still influence the paintball's flight because we are talking about thousandths of an inch.
f) I'm pretty sure you can mill metal more precisely if you are milling it out of a solid block vs a thin strip of metal. I'm not sure, but I think the freak bores are rolled too, not drilled out.
2) CP has always created a VERY high quality product. My 8-10 year old CP barrel for my spyder still has the same shine to it. There is no flaking of the anno. There are very few scratches and no deep ones. And I have never kept it in a sock or case or anything.
3) If CP didn't create such high quality products, then you wouldn't see their regs on every gun. Oh... what's that... SP regs are no longer looked at highly? OMG! WHAT A SHOCK! Too bad CP is STILL a highly respected company in every endeavor they undertake.

So there, don't flame me, don't belittle my opinion as stupid. Don't tell me some pointless story about what happened to you when you walked into a store 2 years ago. Argue on these 9 points. Let me give you a tip - F and 3 are my weakest points. Practice arguing on those while the big boys can try to pick apart my other 7 points.


BTW: Open question to everyone: how DO they make those freak inserts?



Oh, and to help out the poor soul who started this thread: Get whichever brand you want. I have shot both the freak and the CP and my eyes can't tell the difference, and I doubt even a computer could. The only question is how you feel about inserts. And as for 5 vs 7 inserts/backs well, there's so much variation between each paintball produced (even in the same case) that I find it hard to believe that those 2 extra inserts could make any difference. Just make sure you have a good range. I would get a .689, a couple right around there, and then one really big one and one really small one to cover all your bases.

[Geronimo7]

^^
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