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  • chip08
    Why am I always sleepy...
    • Apr 2006
    • 82

    #1

    Best Barrel Kit

    Whats a good barrel kit. I really like my J&J ceramic, but are their kits any good. How about Redz or the White Wolf Airsmithing ones that take freak inserts. Any advice appreciated.
  • ABTOCMEPTb

    #2
    as with markers its all boils down to your personal preferences.

    There are no 100% winner in the world of barrel kits. However there are couple that are much better than other kits.

    Custom Products - 5 backs+3 tips
    MacDev - 4 backs + 1 tip
    Deadlywind with freak incerts - Very light and accurate carbon barrel with 8 incerts
    Redz
    Scepter
    Stiffi


    These are top 6 in my list. They very in ammount of backs, available boresize, tip count and final price. I own 3 kits from above list.

    Hammerhead
    Freak
    J&J
    Evil
    Dye

    These are next 4 IMHO. I own 1 out of these 5.

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    • Skittle
      Insert clever phrase here
      • May 2002
      • 305

      #3
      CCM Carbon fiber >all
      Skittle- Your partner in crime.

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      • Pump Scout
        Aging gracefully
        • Jun 2003
        • 141

        #4
        I'm really liking my Scepter. Picked it up used, more on a whim than anything. I wanted to see if an insert system could actually get the job done. I don't know if it's the quality of manufacture, the overall design of the insert system itself, my own shooting comfort, or the planets all being lined up, but I was dead-on my first time out with it. Shot straight, no barrel breaks. Much better results than I had with my Lucky 15 set... and I LOVED those tubes.
        Ben Kohnen, Limited Pump Paintball
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        • VFX_Fenix
          -=Bishop=-
          • Sep 2004
          • 1052

          #5
          Buy what looks good to you and you can afford without suffering in the playing department.

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          • Hexis
            Green Mag Freak
            • Sep 2001
            • 2427

            #6
            I still love my Ti Longbow kit.

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            • Phantom_Mag
              MLHeld.com

              • May 2002
              • 948

              #7
              Originally posted by Skittle
              CCM Carbon fiber >all
              Im going to say the opposite, im thinking about getting rid of my ccm cf because, well its just not worth the money. I found many of my other kits more accurate with bore sizing and so on.

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              • Baby Huey
                Only Christ Can Save
                • Mar 2005
                • 255

                #8
                I love my SS insert freak set.

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                • Dye Angel Guy
                  University of Dubuque
                  • Feb 2003
                  • 929

                  #9
                  I like the way the freaks shoot but they are a pain in the butt to take out those inserts and change them when it gets hot out and you need a larger size due to paint changes, so I got rid of it and just got some older barrels and made my own kit with boomsticks. I have so many barrels for my few angels it is insane but you can't beat getting an Angel LCD, big shot, boomstick, 14" pipe kit with 8"tip for an Ion. PLus the barrels I already had for my Speed to begin with. I just love having an actually selection of barrels because I have my scratched up ones for woodsball and my sup light ones for speedball and my closed barrels with little porting for playing in the rain.
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                  • thefool
                    resident idiot
                    • May 2005
                    • 671

                    #10
                    ive had a freak, scepter, ul, j&j, and exel
                    and imo secptor was best in every department for me. Freak is ugly (old aa frant and freak back) and i dont like the whole idea of orings. ul fronts have really bit holes that i also find look a bit worse, i havnt shot it much though it seems good. Ul is also really expenive to gget a kit going for.
                    j&j was good but not a kit
                    sceptor looks really nice and the insert system seems a lot more reliable. It in my experience cleans itself really well and is really accuratly but this i guess is all biased

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                    • RapidTransit
                      E-Body Man
                      • Jun 2004
                      • 400

                      #11
                      Sceptor Kit is probably one of the better kits you will find
                      Gun: AGD eMag with LvL10
                      Cars: 1991 Lexus LS400. 1970 Plymouth 'Cuda 440-4, Auto, 1 of 816. 1970 Dodge Challenger 318 S/E, soon to be a 440-6 with a 5 speed, and painted Sublime green

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                      • nippinout
                        FUSP
                        • Jan 2002
                        • 1231

                        #12
                        I have yet to see any real testing done to prove any improvement in accuracy of a barrel kit over a simple honed tube. Let alone, efficiency.

                        Anecdotes need not apply.
                        BAM!
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                        • Dayspring
                          aka- The Day Wang

                          • May 2001
                          • 9664

                          #13
                          QFT.


                          Originally posted by RapidTransit
                          Sceptor Kit is probably one of the better kits you will find

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                          • jenarelJAM
                            Club Coordinator
                            • Dec 2004
                            • 1611

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Hexis
                            I still love my Ti Longbow kit.
                            Heh, I got one of those. It came with my viking, and I just use the large bore and leave the others in the barrel bag. Works like a barrel... but i'm really not a kit person.
                            you know you play this game too much when the neighbors stop fixing their broken windows...
                            :shooting: :cuss:

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                            • RavishingEddie
                              Creator of the EMAG 9

                              • Feb 2006
                              • 727

                              #15
                              I just ordered a CCM Carbon Fiber kit and am very excited about it. I bet it will own the rest.

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