worst barrels/kits

[ahellers]

you see alot of the "whats the top 10" stuff going around on all the fourms but i think what really helps people is knowing what the worst brands are. im mean then they know what to stay away from.
so i was just wondering what barrels do you all think are the biggest waist of money or just plain the crappiest out there.
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[MonsterMag]

Any 32* barrels
Some stock barrels

[Steelrat]

The older empire barrel kits had a bad reputation.

[spwz99]

the freak?

how about someone's opinion on the freak?

[MoeMag]

how about someone's opinion on the freak?

Love my freaks (plural). Definitly does not belong on this list.

[buzzboy]

Whoever made the TruFlight barrels needs to be shot. Same company that made the Thunderpig 21 inch barrel that was all the rage where I live.

[Teamslayer76]

The Evil Pipe, we've all seen the pictuers of the bores chopped up from one paintball. Thats a horror story. Also Dye Xcel, they wernt that great. :)

[BigEvil]

Love my freaks (plural). Definitly does not belong on this list.

Agreed. The one thing Smart Parts is good at, is barrels.

The Dye Excels are decent barrels.


By far the worst stock barrel ever to grace a paintball gun was that craptastic brass one on the VM-68. Most stock barrels you can use if you were holding off or saving for a better one, but those VM barrels were aweful.

I also had a distain for any Taso barrel. Especailly for those Eliminator barrels. (I think thats what they were called)

[grEnAlEins]

Anyone remember the RAMROD barrels? I never had one, but they sure looked silly, and they were only FS for a few months if memory serves me correctly. I had always heard that they were super-cruddy

[FallNAngel]

Agreed. The one thing Smart Parts is good at, is barrels.

Has everyone forgotten that one of the main problems with Freaks (at least older generations) is that the inserts weren't labeled correctly for their ID? You'd have a .688 insert that's .684 ID in one insert, someone else might hav a .686 ID and someone else might have the right ID. Somehow that doesn't scream quality to me.

[Pump Scout]

Whoever made the TruFlight barrels needs to be shot. Same company that made the Thunderpig 21 inch barrel that was all the rage where I live.

Roger that. Those things were awful.

[buzzboy]

If we are talking stock barrels I would say that the worst barrel ever(not including plastic) has to be the stock stingray barrel. 3 inches of rough unaccurateness.

Another bad one that I have seen is the stock viewloader barrel. My friend had one that could shoot perfect screwballs everytime. It was sick to shoot for fun but in games it sucked.

Actually I would like to say that all the modern BE barrels are crap, eccept the tigershark. I don't know why but my friends must have been scratched perfectly because it outshot some high end barrels I have seen.

[geekwarrior]

there any bad kits out there, or are they all pretty decent now? (i think 1 was mentioned already)

[Tao]

The stock barrel on the Brass Eagle Raptor was horrible. (It did allow you crazy cork screw shots and stuff though!)

I hear that Empire barrel kits aren't too great either...

[FreakBaller12]

yea I had a 4 piece empire kit, they're nothing special at all. I'd stay away. The tips on older pipe kits are something to look out for as well.