carbon fiber barrels?

[CKY_Alliance]

i always thought they were stronger but my friend stepped on his 16" stiffi and it broke and caved in.

I was told they were very durable.My friend was tellign me about a booth they had at a tournamnet and they had stiffi and a metal pipe and if you could dent the barral or brake it they would give you a whole set.No one broke the barrel all day.So they must be strong or hes full of BS.(break it with the pipe)

[yakitori]

I never said that it is the best barrel for shooting through breaks, but of the barrels Ive owned, it is better at self cleaning. I dont claim it to be the BEST barrel out there. I would have to say that yours is the best barrel out there. Your gun freakin rocks man. You have the best barrel, and the best gun, and best tank of anyone I know.

Of the barrel kits Ive used:

Pipe
Freak

The stiffi is better IMO, because its lighter, quieter, and shoots just as straight as any of the top barrels out there, given good paint.

And I would not write of the stiffi just because someone got +-10 compared to +-3. Geez, there are lots of reasons that couldve happened.

And also the guy who stepped on his barrel deserved to have it broken. Thats just outright retarded, and I dont believe it ever happened. I dont know of a single person that would step on an 80 dollar barrel (or any equipment) just to see how durable it is.

[50 cal]

I have a 10" and 14" 32* barrels. They shoot extremely accurate. I shoot AllStar through them if the field has it.

[jewie27]

They are called STiffis. LOL.

[bull]

I have a stiffi fixed ID barrel, this has been the best barrel I have used to date. Very accurate and when I did have a break, I would flip the marker over shoot 3 times and then start playing again like a ball never broke. The barrel is also the quietest I have used. Now this is compare to various freak barrels, manufactor barrels, lapco, dye, and various SP barrels (fixed ID). This is firing the barrel on a Tac-One.

[automikey]

Hope you're not expecting to get that proof anytime soon.

It amazes me the magical properties that people will believe barrels posses. The elves, gnomes, fairies, and other mythical creatures inhabiting barrels are matched in number and power only by those that affect the physics of projectile flight in "closed-bolt" markers.

I put my CCM kit and my freak kit side-by-side, and started reading aloud from this thread. I was quickly assaulted by an angry mob of elves, gnomes, fairies, and other mythical creatures.

Then, when I said "closed-bolt", them pummeled me with the CCM barrel. It sure is tough, but I don't know about quiet. All I can hear is ringing in my ears.

[Codekevin0403]

you can't go wrong with a stiffi

it also seems to break every rule i've learned about paintball. I remember reading an article that said that you needed at least 6-8 inches of useful barrel to make it accurate, but the stiffi switch has only a 1 inch breech but shoots just as accurate if not more accurate then, say a boomstick. That's my experience.

Oh and i didnt' mention the thing is the lightest barrel i've ever felt

[automikey]

now a useful post

My CCM kit is very quiet and also very accurate.

Less weight at the front of the marker makes snap shooting even faster.

Get a kit, you will never know what size paint you will be using at different fields. No use in paying all that money for a barrel and then having lousy accuracy or barrel breaks because your paint/barrel don't match.

Now that I have it I really don't want to use anything else.

If you get a kit and the sizers go all the way into a mag body so you can't reach them, see my thread "CCM/Stiffi bore sizer removal tool". You can make it yourself! :)

[Deathshadow9k]

i always thought they were stronger but my friend stepped on his 16" stiffi and it broke and caved in.

i find that hard to believe, when the stiffi first came out i was there to witness the product testing that another store was doing, we ran over it with a ford f350 super diesel and it was fine, we banged it on counters and desktops all over the place like freakin drumsticks. the barrel worked great until the one equalizer, shot a marble through it and it started to unwrap. other than that it is a great barrel and shot just as well as a boomstick the same length as far as accuracy at 50ft

[SlartyBartFast]

we ran over it with a ford f350 super diesel and it was fine.

Well, it's not the point of the thread but:

It doesn't matter what you run something over with. In fact, if you ran over the berrel with a monster truck or the biggest piece of farm equipment you can find you'd probably be LESS liekly to break the barrel than if you ran over it with a bicycle.

Why? Tire pressure and concentration/distribution of force. The 32psi from a road vehicle (no matter what its size) can be easily supported by a cylinder such as a barrel. Monster trucks and farm vehices use low tire pressure so would be even easier to support. But, a concentrated load, such as from an 80+psi bicycle tire might be enough to break the object.

Just some considerations when viewing demonstrations such as the above.