Barrel Question: What should I do...?!

[DiRTyBuNNy]

My real question as it stands right now is that I've got a .688 Dye UL for my X-mag and I jsut picked up a .687 Stiffi barrel...I knew the stiffi would be a little small but I'm trying to decide if I should swap the Stiffi for a .689 which is the average barrel bore size or go for something larger like .691 so that I have an average and a large bore barrel...the only problem is that I'm afraid I'll like the stiffi more and want that in a .689 instead of the UL..

and no...I'm not switching barrels to a Kaner/Freak/Scepter..i want to work with what I have..

[krafty]

I'd go to the .691 if I were you. Having a .687 and a .688 really gives you limited options with paint. I'd rather have the paint be a bit loose in the .691 than have it breaking in both of the others because it's too tight.

[rikkter]

i dont know if its just my luck, but i've never had a paint that was larger than .690.
i've been using .689 mostly but the paint still falls through. even with a .687 paint would fall through a little. and i didn't care go lower since it wasn't cocker threaded and bolt would get stuck.
but now i got the karta that i mostly use the .686 for paint

but i'd say go with the what you have now, that is unless you tend to get rather large paint most of the time.

[Eric Cartman]

What about just picking up an extra back for the UL? Maybe a .692 (I think they just go up in even increments).