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Top of the Line Barrles Help Decide

CraigO

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I just got a new 2k3 wgp autococker and i want to get a new barrel kit i have narrowed it down to these

The Titanium Longbow
The Freak
The Powerlyte Scepter
Evil Pipe
The Empire Barrel kit

these are all top notch barrel kits and i was just wondering which one all of u prefer

Note: i am getting the full kit such as if i get the freak i am getting the full freak set.
 

Albercent

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dont bother with the whole freak set, just get a few inserts, all of them is a waste of money unless you are using really dodgy paint, spend the spare cash on another front.

personally i would get 3 boomsticks all with diff bores :)

Al.
 

Parksy

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Powerlyte scepter, out of the multi bore barrels I have tried that one was the best :) worled spot on with my Eclipse cocker :)

Dave
 

cgrieves

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I have a Freak and it works well, but to be honest I've seen lots and lots of really badly made Freaks. Fronts that don't line up, inserts with no chamfers or chamfers only half way round the end. Extremely shoddy manufacturing tolerances.

I have heard good things about all the other systems you mention. Try them and see which one plays well for you, or alternatively buy the one which looks nicest :)
 

Woza

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it would have to be the freak mate. its damb accurate and u will never need to buy another barrel again (Freak Deluxe Kit). You can also get the freak backs to suit ur marker, ie if u changed ur cocker to a Angel u would only have to change the back and ur away.

bt its up to u mate

Cheers Woza
 

Gyroscope

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Are you people serious? A freak? It brought the idea to the masses, but the tolerances are terrible. Alignment is always a problem, and the inserts are often mislabeled.

The Titanium Longbow, on the other hand, is a dream. It has the smoothest bore you will be able to find. There are no pores in the metal big enough to collect paint fill, so it shoots through like nothing else.

The smoothness also means that you can select a bore size somewhat smaller than what you ordinarily would, which means that you will get more FPS for a given pressure. In your cocker, that means you can back out the velocity adjuster, which means you can reduce cocking pressure, which means less chance of a ball break if the feeding is unable to keep up with you.

Alignment isn't a problem because the control bore is one piece and the tip is one piece. The machining is very precise. There is no tube shifting around in the control section, the threads are meaty and tolerances are tight.

One word of advice for any 2 piece barrel you put on a cocker- put a rubber oring around the control section above the threads. When you tighten a cocker barrel on enough that it won't come loose, it can be difficult to remove that section from the marker, due to the position of the pneumatics. With the oring in place, you don't have to get it on so tight for it not to loosen, but you can still unscrew the control section when you want it off.

Out of the options you list, the Longbow is definitely the highest quality. Powerlytes and Evil Pipes are decent too. But if you have the money, Titanium, man. It is the most expensive, but in this case it is justified.