I am disapointed with the quality of my empire barrel kit.
Yesterday playing paintball at my local field I managed to snap my empire barrel kit.
I was making a mid-game move towards the left fifty when I came into heavy fire. I hit the ground hard belly first planning on crawling the rest of the way in. I tip the scales at 185 so the impact with the ground was pretty severe. I held the gun up as I came down so as to not slam it on the ground. The order of impact went my chest, then my elbows slammed the ground and I dropped the gun from the shock. I ended up behind the bunker with the gun close to my feet. I had been hit going in but I wanted to get my gun before I checked myself. I scrambled back to get the gun and it was laying on the ground, and beside it was laying the front half of my barell. I threw the front half of my barrel at the net and checked myself, turns out that the ball that hit me did break so I retrieved my barrel piece and left the field. I played the rest of the day with only my barrel back on.
If the gun had slammed the ground I could see this happening but I held it up to lessen the impact. My egg survived unscathed with only a broken ball in the hopper. The barrel broke off just past the threads where the oring sits. Looking at it is easy to see why the barrel broke. At that point the aluminum is paper thin.
Pictures can be seen here
Yesterday playing paintball at my local field I managed to snap my empire barrel kit.
I was making a mid-game move towards the left fifty when I came into heavy fire. I hit the ground hard belly first planning on crawling the rest of the way in. I tip the scales at 185 so the impact with the ground was pretty severe. I held the gun up as I came down so as to not slam it on the ground. The order of impact went my chest, then my elbows slammed the ground and I dropped the gun from the shock. I ended up behind the bunker with the gun close to my feet. I had been hit going in but I wanted to get my gun before I checked myself. I scrambled back to get the gun and it was laying on the ground, and beside it was laying the front half of my barell. I threw the front half of my barrel at the net and checked myself, turns out that the ball that hit me did break so I retrieved my barrel piece and left the field. I played the rest of the day with only my barrel back on.
If the gun had slammed the ground I could see this happening but I held it up to lessen the impact. My egg survived unscathed with only a broken ball in the hopper. The barrel broke off just past the threads where the oring sits. Looking at it is easy to see why the barrel broke. At that point the aluminum is paper thin.
Pictures can be seen here
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