Teardrop/Progressive VS Xcel Barrel

[vicker77]

Hi All,

Just about to buy a new barrel for my Spyder E99. Trying to figure out which barrel is the best for me. I will be playing up front and have been looking at the Xcel but the progressive is going at a better price.

Any ideas?

 

[Vortex-9-]

Probably just go and have a look on www.pbreview.com, and read all the good and bad things people say.

 

[vicker77]

Thanks, but I have been there and everyone rates all the barrels mainly the same. I am looking for an opinion from someone in the UK who has used them before.

 

[Booti]

as a spyder user the best advice i can give you is this

to upgrade your barrel from a stock one to a freak kit will be a massive difference. to upgrade your stock barrel to a excel or a progressive will be a massive difference. to upgrade between a excel / progressive and a freak kit will be a difference but not a massive one

basically any barrel over a stock will be an improvement, but after that, for me anyway, it is more about the cost than the quality

another set to look at is 32 degrees ones....which i think are fairly cheap

personal choice is an excel barrel, but if you can get a progessive from somewhere cheaper then get one of those.....save the money and still get the benefits

 

[32degreeballerI.E.]

me

i've got the teardrop, it is deadly accurate, only downside is that if you get a break, the porting takes forever to clean completly, haven't heard much of the progressives, i have heard good about the xcel, if i were you, i'd be doing enee, minie, mo