For the paintball expert  - paintball  barrels?
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First of all, length of the barrel has little to do with accuracy. It's more about the quality and consistency of the bore, and the size and quality of the balls. It also has some to do with the consistency of your gun, but there isn't much you can do to change that except for an expansion chamber or the use of an HPA tank with regulator.\n\nIf the ball is too small or too big for your barrel, it has a low chance of shooting straight. If the paint has dimples or bumps in it, or a broken ball in the bag or the barrel, it will also shoot poorly.\n\nNext time you play, try some other people's paint in your barrel. If you put it in, it should have 2-3 points of contact with the barrel and you should be able to blow the ball through it with ease.\n\nIf most of the balls in the sample you test have these attributes, that's a good kind of paint to use. Paint can still be inconsistent from box to box so don't expect ideal results every time.\n\nAlso, unless you plan on sticking your barrel through thick brush or need to push into airball bunkers, you wont get much of a performance benefit from a 16 inch barrel.\n\nSome more things:\n\nRusty is sadly mistaken on a few things in his post.\n\n\nFirst, you have to see what kind of threads the barrel you want to buy has. A barrel that will fit a 98 custom will not fit your Orion. It will not fit the A-5 either. You cannot get a flatline for your gun unless it is modified from the original. You can, however, get a BT Apex barrel. It is a straight barrel but has a part on the tip that adds adjustable backspin. If I could suggest any good, cheap barrel to you, it would be any Lapco barrel in your price range. They rarely disappoint.\n\nI'm pretty sure VL guns can take spyder threaded barrels but I could be wrong. Make sure that someone else's spyder barrel can screw into the gun no problem. Do not force anything.\n\n\nAs for the pros. They don't all use Boomsticks. Heck, I don't think any pro team uses them anymore. They mostly use the barrels that came with their guns, because manufacturers' "best" guns usually come with the best barrels they make.\n\nAnd Dye certainly does not make the best barrels on the market. That trophy would have to go Glenn Palmer.
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go buy wire leader.there will be a clip at one end and a barrel swivel at the other.clip your lure on the clip and tie the barrel to the line .use them up north on blues.youll never lose your lure
325136
you need practice. i hope when you played on your buddys field his field had a good air bunker set up. playing air ball is a different sport then playing any other type of paintball, especially if your just messing around with your buddies. i played woods ball for about 2 years, than spent about 600 on new equipment once i started playing airball. you must have good equipment, it wont be worth it to go out and get dominated. i hope you have a high end electronic marker with high pressure air. your also going to need electronic hoppers, and most of all, you need to have a harness. you must have atleast enough paintballs for about 3 hoppers full. no use for a front man or back man. you from man will get shot and your backman will get cornered. naturally you guys will be in different positions in the fron or back of the field. if you want to win, take it seriously. I have been playing for about 6 years, and play against Dynasty weekly. Dont be surprised when the guys you play have the best equipment. Lots of people you play will have the top of the line equipment, and it IS a big advantage, next to experience.
254409
I have an air soft gun, but I think that a paintball gun would be better because you can see where your shot landed and you get to splat things with paint.
143201
your best way to go since the paint is already dry is to use Acetone. Make sure to remove the barell from the marker and use in a very well ventilated area. also as with Gasoline, paint thinner, mineral spirits and also acetone they are ALL EXTREMELY FLAMABLE, and you should use caution when working with any of them. Make sure you clean the barell afterwords to remove any residual chemical on it. ANY paint removing chemical will damage the inside of your marker, O rings will disolve as will you seels.\n\nAlso if you really want the barrel to look great you can send the whole thing, marker and barrel to get anodized in whatever color you want. usually costs around 80-100 dollars.
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the tippmann 98 custom is the best because it is designed to be accurate on all fields. I have one and it has 150+ accuracy right out of the box. i added a flatline barrel and i now get 300 feet of accuracy.  also you can customize the tippmann 98 to fit your style of play.  one other thing you can customize the heck out of it and end up with a gun that can take out the highest priced ones for half the cost.  that's why its the best woods ball gun. also you could compete with the best if you got just the flatline barrel because you hace very good accuracy
590847
http://www.paintballbrothers.com/home1.htm\nand Greenacres in Jax\nhttp://www.jaxgreenacres.com/\nWalmart sells some paintball supplies too.
881274
It's hard to say because everyone likes different features. But I'll give you a link where you can go and get reviews on just about every single paintball product out there. \n\nI just picked up an Odyssey RPM on ebay for $100 and that was a great deal. Guns with the kind of features this gun has go for $250, easy. But do some research and see what you might think will fit you best.
1088611
Any paintball gun can take nitrogen or HPA.  Because the spyder is made to run off of CO2, a HP tank would be a better choice than a LP one, because it has an 800psi output pressure, the same as CO2.  I have never heard of the spyder requiring a mod to take HPA, if anything it might require a reg if it doesn't come with one.  Always make sure that you chrono your gun at 300fps max.
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The JT Tac5 uses Spyder threads on its barrels.  Companies such as Empire, Smart Parts, 32*, Evil, CP, J&J, Proto, and Stiffi make Spyder threaded barrels and barrel kits.  Remember to look for barrels with porting, and possibly different sized backs, since the only way they improve accuracy is with the proper paint to bore match.
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Go here....\n\nhttp://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/paintball1.htm\n\nand go here......\n\nhttp://www.ottersccustoms.com/works.html\n\nBasically C02 or Air comes from your tank into a regulator then into the front valve, when you pull the trigger the bolt and striker move forward, the striker pushes open the vale for a split second letting the C02 or air up into and through the bolt which blows the paintball out of the barrell. Read the articles. Pretty good I think.
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Stealth is determined by how loud the gun is.  Louder guns will be open bolt, blowbacks.  You can make a marker quieter but running it at a lower pressure.  All paintball markers will shoot just as powerful as one another (the international limit on the max speed of a paintball is 300fps).  With an unlimited budget, I would say the "stalthiest" marker would be a DM4/5/6, but those cost around 500 for the cheapest and $1500 for the most expensive.  For woodsball, which is what I assume you are playing, since you want stealth, a marker with a low operating pressure, such as a Smart Parts Ion, would be fairly quiet.  You have to remember, the marker is expelling almost 200psi of gas in as little as 10ms, so no gun is going to be as quiet as a normal gun with a silencer.
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the best beginner guns on the market are the tippmann 98 custom the custom pro, and the A-5 you can literally bang them against a brick wall and they will still work lie they came out of the box. a big bonus is that you can customize these guns to fit your style of play as you get more experienced. you can put on sniper barrels, drop in just about anything that will make you shoot faster, you can put on nitrogen without having to replace any parts, and so much more plus tippmann just came out with a new anti chop system for these guns so that means if a paintball gets stuck you can still shoot without having to clean your barrel. another thing is that you can field strip it and fix the gun if it malfunctions during a game. tippmann has made great strides in producing reliable, dependable, and cheap markers. i would recommend them to anyone even to people who have been playing longer than i have
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Are you looking for a complete shotgun or just the barrel.  Many barrels are availble. Check with Numrich Gun Parts e-gunparts.com\nThey have the largest supply of gun parts on the web and are very helpful when dealing with older guns.  Also Brownells is a great source of parts.  If they can't help you your only option will be to have a barrel custom made.  A google seach will turn up many quality custom shotgun barrel makers.
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just look at where the barrel is connected and the brand of your marker.  you will be able to tell what stuff you can use on the gun from that
867194
The skills necessary in playing this sport go far beyond the ability to sling paint at your opponents...I would like to have you think about your overall game by answering this question\n\nThrowing paint is important but not necessarily the most important thing in winning at paintball.  Below are some training videos for shooting drills, movement, hand signals, etc...\n\nFor a faster trigger finger...I would take my marker with an empty cylinder and the bolt uncocked (dry firing a cocked marker is a bad practice...it causes wear on the sear and can damage the striker bolt / needle valve mechanism)...k, cylinder is empty...barrel sock or plug is in place...hopper is on without paint in it...practice how fast you can get your fingers to work the 90 to 75 degree point in your trigger...typically this will be your firing point...\n\nThe reason that you are using an empty cylinder, hopper, etc...is so that you can mimic the weight of your marker...nothing worse than being out there with fast fingers and not having the arm strength to keep you in the game...\n\nThe reason of empty cylinder, empty hopper, and a Barrel Blocking Device is simple marker safety that should always be exercised...Good Luck and Happy Shooting
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I gotta go with the first one.  I forget the name, but it was designed to mark cows.  It started the sport...that's pretty important!!\n\nI gotta give credit to the orignal Spyder.  While crude by today's standards, it definately brought paintball to the masses.  It was cheap and reliable.  Without the Spyder, I'm not sure paintball would be half the sport it is today.\n\nAs far as the most advanced... well, I'm poor and never had the priviledge of shooting high-end markers.  So, no comment :)