Barrel Size

[jackaroo]

More questions...

I have an automag and when I bought it I got given 7 different barrels, some of which are different lengths. Just wondering what a short barrel (10 inches is the shortest I have) is good for and what a longer barrel (14-15 inches) is good for, if there is any difference between them apart from length?

Thanks

 

[Kevin Winter]

IMHO, very little indeed! From my understanding, any barrel of 9" or more has the length to allow the paintball to reach full speed, after that, it matters not. I personally prefer a lightly longer barrel for woodsball, where you might often be having thread the barrel through leaves etc, and have no preference when playing sup'air.

 

[jackaroo]

Ok thanks!

 

[tooniek]

Shorter barrel needs less air to get desired velocity. I preffer 12"

 

[M4rkm93]

Perfect length IMO is a 14" barrel, it's not to cumbersome unlike some of the ridiculous 18"-20" barrels but the extra length over the 10"-12" barrels seems to make it a little easy to point/get on target.

 

[jackaroo]

Thanks, I'm playing on saturday so I might just take a selection down and try a couple out of the range haha!

 

[BUBBAcHEWY]

I'd go with the 14" barrel. What bore is the barrel/s(inner diameter)? Also size of paint?

 

[Tom]

Shorter barrel needs less air to get desired velocity. I preffer 12"

That does depend though - on an extreme basis switching barrel to a 3" would drop the velocity on my x7 (because it had less distance to accelerate)
I could reasonably confidently swap barrels for a normal 280fps or a CQB game at 250fps and not need to adjust when I arrived at chrono

 

[dantheman88]

For pure comic value:

"its not the size of your barrel, its how you fire it"