Does a longer barrel mean better results?

[Evil Bob]

You're quite right Miscue, the ball eventually outruns the propelling air source as the air reaches its maximum expansion and the ball will continue forward under it's own inertia. Depending upon the distance that this occurs in, there is potential that the ball will create a vacuum behind it as it outruns the expanding air. At which point this occurs depends upon the volume of the air used to propel the paintball and the paint to bore match.

What the porting and the larger bore diameter do is relieve the pressure infront of and behind the ball so that ball is not pushing a column of air down the barrel and pulling on a sucking vacuum behind it, both of which will cause additional drag and loss of FPS at the barrel.

A side benefit of the porting and the larger bore is to quiet down the noise level of the firing process, the longer the barrel/porting, generally the quieter the marker's report.

-Evil Bob

[Recon by Fire]

So where do the paintball elves come in?

[bleachit]

Originally posted by Star_Base_CGI
Whatever. You could not hit a barn with the stock 10 Inch ported spyder barrel. Its pure grade A junk.

I have a stock spyder barrel, and oddly enough, I have a rather large garage resembling a barn. if you were to look on the side of the garage you would see a lot of white marks, many of them left by that stock ported spyder barrel. They arent the best barrel, but they are not junk.

[sithos]

hmm

im a grumpy old man, trapped in the body of a 23 year old paintball fanatic... would you like fries with that?

[Star_Base_CGI]

Hey Sithos. Just about every contest I do, some member copies I something I do. This time I put some pinstripes and AGD on a rail. About ten people made rails and put AGD on every single one. Proclaiming that Jam had the best rail but that every single RAIL SHOULD HAVE AGD ON IT. HMMM. You see me complaining? Someone said imitation is the sincerest form of flatery. I dont see anyone copying your stuff.

CGI simply means Computer Generated Imaging. It could be Paint Shop Pro or 3D Studio max. Your a very unhappy man.

[sithos]

sorry

yah, i think im just grumpy cause ive interviewed at 3 video production houses lately, and they all tell me that they want to hire me, then a week or 2 later, tell me that they don't need a 3d artist, just 2d.. which i can do, but no one pays attention to that.

sorry for bein mean, but really, atleast take some time to render your stuff in a good program, some nice lights can make all the difference.

[Star_Base_CGI]

I dont know what to tell you except the economy is very bad. If I rubbed you the wrong way. Im sorry. If other people are giving you are hard time.

Just remember that the country is losing $400,000,000,000 a year. Thats about $$200 for every man woman and child in the country. I think Most of us would pay $200 to get out of debt but the problem is the government keeps spending.

The spending is a tax. SO they raise Taxs. Everything comes in here from other countries. (were not making anything so everythings going out and nothings coming in.)

Have faith in your abilities. Not just that your an Artist but all the abilities involved in that.

You will get a job. It might not be a 3D artist but it could be something youll enjoy!

Just have a little faith.

That goes for everyone heres thats looking. Its easy to get discouraged but if you suceed a few times that gives you some more faith. If had some minor successes in life and If I can do it you can too.

[Recon by Fire]

Originally posted by Star_Base_CGI
I dont know what to tell you except the economy is very bad. Just remember that the country is losing $400,000,000,000 a year. The spending is a tax. SO they raise Taxs. Everything comes in here from other countries.

The economy is very bad? Despite tales of doom and gloom, the economy has experienced growth albeit less than what we have been accustomed too. The country is losing $400B a year? How, did we we forgot where we put it? Spending is the budget, tax is government income, I don't think we should mix the two up. Psst...taxes are lower now, not higher I do agree the budget could use some trimming and we could all do a bit less importing!

[FreshmanBob]

Originally posted by Recon by Fire



The economy is very bad? Despite tales of doom and gloom, the economy has experienced growth albeit less than what we have been accustomed too. The country is losing $400B a year? How, did we we forgot where we put it? Spending is the budget, tax is government income, I don't think we should mix the two up. Psst...taxes are lower now, not higher I do agree the budget could use some trimming and we could all do a bit less importing!

It's going to other countries in the forum of money from buying things like cars, oil, electronics, mass manufactured crap, cotton, ect. ect.

things we don't want to or can't make ourselves.