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  • Big_Chops
    Big_Chops get fat diet
    • May 2003
    • 757

    #1

    need opinion on barrel length

    i am am back player and i as wondering what length barrel should i get? i would do a search only if the search option was working right now

    thanks for your time

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  • toyotaboy12
    e-tough

    • May 2003
    • 3663

    #2
    go with a 12, 14 is good but you realy don't need anything bigger
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    • the_next_guy_
      official ao member #10261
      • Jun 2003
      • 429

      #3
      If you play on an airball field, then a 14inch will help you bend in the bunker a little and have a smaller profile.

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      • Ice-Child
        Captian: Team Kindred
        • Dec 2001
        • 959

        #4
        Originally posted by the_next_guy_
        If you play on an airball field, then a 14inch will help you bend in the bunker a little and have a smaller profile.
        I agree. I am a back player, mid at times, but mostly back. I have a 14 for Sup Air fields, and a 10 for none Sup Air. Use the 14 to help Bend the bunkers on a Sup Air field. Everything else, a 10 or 12 would get you by. I play with the barrel as short as I can get it actually. But 10 is about the smallest I will go. To me it is all in personal preference. But running an 18+ is just plain nuts. You cant slide into a bunker and stay behind it when your barrel hangs up there like a flag pole.

        Later
        Rob

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        • p8ntball1016

          #5
          12. good length. easy to find

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          • smee
            It's a lie. Trust me.
            • Jan 2003
            • 1360

            #6
            10 for front
            12-14 for back
            16 for big woods
            18 if ur crazy
            20 if ur retarted

            anything less than 10 isnt that good, at least from what ive seen
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            • Ov3rmind
              Speechless
              • Nov 2001
              • 2637

              #7
              14"-16" for airball
              12" for everything else
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              • dyeforever
                Addicted User
                • Oct 2003
                • 764

                #8
                12 is the perfect length. nuff said
                mag for now, mag forever

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                • 68Classic
                  I LOVE MY MAGS!!
                  • May 2003
                  • 267

                  #9
                  I use a 8 inch minimag stock barrel. It shoots very good. Works awesome on Sup air.
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                  • Ice-Child
                    Captian: Team Kindred
                    • Dec 2001
                    • 959

                    #10
                    Originally posted by smee
                    18 if ur crazy
                    20 if ur retarted
                    Ill agree with that. We had a moron that kept trying to tell everyone he could shoot farther and with more accuracy with a longer barrel. So he had a custom barrel made for his shocker. Was a 28" barrel. He had to run so much pressure into the marker to get anything out of it, he blew an oring, or two, at least once a day. Was some funny stuff to see him draging that monster barrel out of the car with a shocker attached to the back of it. The barrel would be a foot or so out of his car when the shocker would start to emerge.

                    Rob

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                    • Lohman446
                      Useful posts: 7
                      • Jun 2003
                      • 9315

                      #11
                      I have an ACI Phat system for reference

                      I have used just the back (like 5") with some success in the rain (this gets rid of the porting)

                      I normally use the shortest front - making it like 10"

                      On airball fields I go up one size to push bunkers.
                      "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. Its not" - Dr Suess

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                      • Ov3rmind
                        Speechless
                        • Nov 2001
                        • 2637

                        #12
                        Originally posted by 68Classic
                        I use a 8 inch minimag stock barrel. Works awesome on Sup air.
                        How so? That wouldn't really give you enough to poke around an airball bunker.
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                        • dinger
                          I AM THE BIG DINGER!!
                          • Jul 2003
                          • 1267

                          #13
                          i have an 8 inch barrel, but its only 6.5 inches when screwed in

                          i've been questioned "wheres the rest of your barrel?"
                          yet they were serious about it lol

                          its also LOOUD BOOM BOOOM BOOM BOMBOMB
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                          • Jon/xpm
                            Registered User
                            • Jan 2002
                            • 2170

                            #14
                            10-16 is the magic numbers...

                            16-airball
                            14-back/mid
                            12-front/mid
                            10-front

                            but then all this depends on the barrel
                            because of the porting...

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                            • 68Classic
                              I LOVE MY MAGS!!
                              • May 2003
                              • 267

                              #15
                              It's barely enough, but its able to poke around. I really like it, but as dinger said, it is very loud.
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