Monday, March 7, 2011

What Should You Know About Cheap Paintball Barrels?

By Jerry Mcgregor


Paintball barrels are one of the important parts in playing the paintball game. For the aiming of the paint balls this barrel is used and also for controlling the gas pocket. This gas pocket is usually present at the back of the paintball barrel. Since there are different sizes of paint balls, this barrel bore are also available in different sizes.

Apart from the bore diameter, the barrels are also available in different styles and different lengths, to make it fit for different marker. Usual paintball barrels just slid and screwed in the marker. So the threading should match exactly. Some type of threads are autococker, angel, shocker, spyder, A-5, etc.

There is different type of configuration available for the paint ball barrels. The most common configuration is the one piece, three piece and the two piece configurations. Usually the barrels should have the provision of interchanging between them during playing for the effectiveness of the game.

The paintball barrel has some specifications to be maintained. It must be 3 - 31 inches in length. Barrels with customization option can go up to 48 inches. The length factor is important that longer the barrels very less sound while shooting.

In order to make your shooting accurate and also to make your paintball barrel easy to carry with you, the length of the barrel should be around 14 to 16 inches. Some holes are provided in the paintball barrel so make the extra gas to flow out and the holes should be placed after 8 inches of the paintball barrel.

The paintball barrel has an inner bore in which the paintball is placed and shot. This bore should be equal in diameter to the paintball to have uniform and more velocity of the ball during shooting. If you use a two or three piece barrels, there is no need of changing the barrels.




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