spool markers: to big of a profile?

[RingOfScale]

I'm about to argue why spool markers give you a bigger profile then a larger double-tube gun, even tho technically they are smaller. My FreeStyle-7 came in yesterday, but their air compressor was broken so I couldnt get my new tank filled yet and have been stuck just clicking the trigger without it gassed up. One thing I noticed is i couldnt sight down the barrel well. While spool markers are smalle overall, the top tube itself is bigger, whereas on my old b2k the top tube was only as thick as it needed to be ti fit a paintball and the bolt which was only the size of a paintball. I'm finding that the thicker tube makes me bring my head almost a whole half inch farther out of the side of the marker to be able to see around the milling/body to the end of the barrel and acurately sight down it. I know it isnt much, but a half inch of a whole head I think makes up for any target space you lose by having a single tube marker... It seems like this could effect acuracy too for people who sight down the barrel, because the farther away your head is from being right now to the barrel, the more of an angle difference there is between you and the barrel, making it slighly harder to predict exactly where the paintballs are going. I dunno... was just thinking... anyone else thought about this?

-rIng

[Maggot6]

Valid point, and it makes a bit of sense, but well, I still think a spool valve has a lower profire than any bko/b2k...

[Drew Perkins]

umm, a shocker is a spool valve, no?

[RingOfScale]

yes, a shocker is a spool valve. My point in a nutshell is that once you count the extra mask you show to sight down a barrel of a spool marker your showing overall a larger profile then a 2-tube gun.

-rIng

[68magOwner]

no

[punkncat]

Cannot agree on that one.

[White_Noise]

then learn to shoot differently. learn to point and shoot. you argue that there is a change in the angle that you look down the barrel, the same is true for people who switch barrel lengths, and those people seem to do just fine.

[Xenocide]

Try sighting over the gun between the hopper and the gun. Makes your profile smaller anyways.

[RingOfScale]

thanks for the advice, i'll try sighting over the top like yah suggest. I was just so used to looking down the side of a gun and i cant anymore hehe... hard to teach an old dog new tricks, ehh ?

[MadPSIence]

or learn to shoot without sighting.

[RingOfScale]

yeah, and it looks more sweet too !
currently working on that so i can actually run and shoot effectively ...

-rIng

[ojhspyro89]

I actually prefer my freestyle over my old defiant.

The freestyle has next to no kick, its lighter, and bunches faster with nox board. The gun isnt THAT much wider.

Also, when your sighting, use like where the feedneck ends and the gun starts. Basically its like the top side of the gun. Thats what i do.

Running and shooting is great, im getting better at it. I just run with it down to my side while im crouching and running and i just shoot.

freestyles are sweet though. Youll like how it shoots more than likely, they are all smooth.

[magman007]

first off, i wouldnt classify the FS as a true spoolvalve, because it really isnt. its a whole nother beast. Now, the reason it is wider is for this reason. With a stacked tube, you gotta realize you got bolt and body. With the spoolvalve this is still true, but the bolt kit has to be wider than the bolt to encompass the bolt, and the body has to be bigger to encompass the bolt kit, there fore, they may be a bit wider, but if you look at a DM, and think they are wide, then you sir, are crazy