I'm currently running both freak and pipe kit.
Accuraccy.........nothing in it
Bore sizes..........freak has more, but you'll never use all of them anyway?
Noise................freak quieter thru porting, but hey who cares?
Cleanng.............Here's the big one, the pipe is far far far easier to clean, if you have to take your barrel off on field, then you stand no chance of disturbing the inserts or anything like that with a pipe kit. If you've ever had trouble with your gun and it starts to chop, then you will quickly learn to hate the fiddely pipe kit.
Weight.............i could be wrong but i think the pipe is lighter, it feels it to me?
OK, so this is just my opinion but as i have and am using both barrels i think it's a fair one. The pipe on my cocker just feels to me to be that little bit better on a game to game basis, true it's a little louder but when your screaming obscenities up the field a few extra decibels doesn't hurt, does it? If your a stealth player then the freak would be better but then i wouldn't buy the freak for that either as there is much quieter barrels out there.
The Freak on my Ion works perfectly well but i tend to find i only ever use probably 3 inserts anyway so i have 5 spares to look pretty?
I'm a little concerned about the long term accuracy of a barrel system that rely's on 2 orings to keep the inserts straight?
Overall, the freak isn't bad but in my opinion the pipe just has that bit more
"feel" about it, and that's what i recommend
Accuraccy.........nothing in it
Bore sizes..........freak has more, but you'll never use all of them anyway?
Noise................freak quieter thru porting, but hey who cares?
Cleanng.............Here's the big one, the pipe is far far far easier to clean, if you have to take your barrel off on field, then you stand no chance of disturbing the inserts or anything like that with a pipe kit. If you've ever had trouble with your gun and it starts to chop, then you will quickly learn to hate the fiddely pipe kit.
Weight.............i could be wrong but i think the pipe is lighter, it feels it to me?
OK, so this is just my opinion but as i have and am using both barrels i think it's a fair one. The pipe on my cocker just feels to me to be that little bit better on a game to game basis, true it's a little louder but when your screaming obscenities up the field a few extra decibels doesn't hurt, does it? If your a stealth player then the freak would be better but then i wouldn't buy the freak for that either as there is much quieter barrels out there.
The Freak on my Ion works perfectly well but i tend to find i only ever use probably 3 inserts anyway so i have 5 spares to look pretty?
I'm a little concerned about the long term accuracy of a barrel system that rely's on 2 orings to keep the inserts straight?
Overall, the freak isn't bad but in my opinion the pipe just has that bit more
"feel" about it, and that's what i recommend
