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Are those Wal-Mart carbon fiber paintball barrels any good?
I’m getting into the sport of paintball, and I just purchased a PMI Piranha GTI+ Rampage. Nice little gun, but it comes with a tiny 9″ barrel. The carbon fiber 12″ers from Wal-Mart are a good length for me, and are fairly cheap, but are they any good? I’m new to the sport, but I figure a barrels a barrel, right?
So, any good?
Compared to what? No barrel? Definitely. Your stock barrel? Probably. Other after market barrels. Not compared to most of them.
Those barrels cost what, $20? Sure, they’re carbon fiber barrels, so it will shoot through breaks a bit better than the stock barrel. From what I’ve heard they’re not too bad, at least not for what you’re paying. However, I honestly feel you’d get better results with a slightly more costly, better quality barrel. Three barrels come to mind right off the bat and all cost roughly $30. First, the J&J Ceramic barrel, they’re wonderful barrels for the cash and shoot through breaks pretty well. They are also fairly light and quiet barrels. However, they only come in black and standard .689 bore size (mine is actually grey, but it’s an older discontinued model. Next, the Smart Parts Linear barrel, it’s the sleekest looking of the three IMO and it performs pretty well from what I hear. However, it doesn’t shoot though breaks as well as the J&J and it too only comes in standard bore, but it is available in a few different colors. Last, the Custom Products Classic barrel, this barrel is one of my favorite barrels. It doesn’t self clean any better than the Linear, but it is available in many colors and three (3) bore sizes which are; .685, .689, and .693. With more and more paints on the market being small bore paint the .685 works quite well. With the tighter bore you’ll gain increased efficiency and consistency. As for barrel breaks, so long as you’re using quality paint they don’t seem to be an issue. Hell, I’ve used old dimpled Visible Impact with it in my ProMaster and had very few breaks. If I recall correctly I shot nearly 1000 paintballs and only had a handful of breaks(Remember, this was old dimpled/deformed Wal-Mart paint). With my Beast paintballs I haven’t had one break, but I’ve only shot around 1000 rounds of those as well. In the past when I still used Visible Impact (before I got that horrible case and switched) I usually only got a few breaks per case (2000 rounds). My J&J has also proved to be a great barrel, but due to being on an old Alley Cat I’ve had more breaks (due to chopping), but it seems to self clean fairly well and regains most of it’s performance.
I’d like to recommend that no matter what barrel you choose, go with a 12-14″. I’ve heard that some testing has been done and that the results were that under boring with a 14″ barrel proved to be the most efficient and didn’t produce any more breaks than over boring (using quality paint). Naturally if the pant is old, dimpled, deformed, and/or low quality then it’s much more likely to break in the barrel when under boring than over boring (assuming it’s not the bolt chopping it).
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