The Stock A-5 Barrel

[Cpt. Morgan]

Me and a friend have an idea. We are wondering if you could possibly customize the stock barrel. My friend wants to spiral it... I do not know how he would do that. I was thinking you could seal up that nasty porting in the mid section of the barrel and add some to the front. Polish the inside and etc and see what it does for accuracy. These two stock barrels are already crap... i figure they can't get any worse... Is there anyother suggestions as to customizing the barrel.

[therron258]

lol see how quiet you can get it by porting the crap out of it :)

[J-man the great]

lol see how quiet you can get it by porting the crap out of it :)



Im gonna try that....

[Ness]

lol see how quiet you can get it by porting the crap out of it :)

I heard you can duct tape a 64oz soda bottle onto it and cut a hole for the paintballs to come out and it's next to silent... Bet it looks southern, though.
To get it rifled, you'd have to get it to a metal lathe, and if you did do it, the balls would go out sideways, not straight. What you should do heat it up and bend it into your own flatline and then port the hell out of it.

[Ness]

Wait, now that I think about it, the whole reason I didn't like my Tippmann was because it was large and long. You should saw off the barrel and make it like, 3 or 4 inches long. Like a MP5 with a silencer.

[Cpt. Morgan]

I was thinking that I could cut the barrel jest a few centimeters after the porting in the center... so the barrel would be like 4.5 to 5 inches. It would probably be very inaccurate but would look awsome. Also I like the heating up and bending idea but I wonder what I would need to do that and I thought the flatline barrel created a backspin not only because of the cure in the barrel but that the inside was kind of rough. If so how could I do that to the barrel?

[GT_Hawk]

There is info there aobut polishing the stock barrel and maing it somewhat usable and not the 100 grit sandpaper that its made of :D . I was thinking of doing this to mine and even trying some extra porting (polsish after porting). See if it acutly dose some nice shooting after that.

[therron258]

port It =]

[Cpt. Morgan]

I like the idea of the bottle over the barrel... would that be considered a form of suppresser and therefore illegal?

[therron258]

ive tried it with a .22 and it DID Not work lol but a paintball barrel wont fit into the tip of a bottle either lol

[Cpt. Morgan]

Before I have to go and forget this idea... I was wondering if you ported it in a different way... like not drilling holes in it but like slits in the barrel running down its length... maybe a few centimeters or so... just tiny... like say finger nail thickness... or would this idea completely mess up the barrel?

[therron258]

never done it but its worth a shot i guess, i mean you aren't really worried about messing it up are you?

[Ness]

I like the idea of the bottle over the barrel... would that be considered a form of suppresser and therefore illegal?
I doubt it. It's a 2 liter strapped onto a paintball gun. Come on, what are they going to do? That law's bogus, anyway. No cop is going to say, "Hey, I think it's illegal to silence your paintball gun."

As for the slits Vs. Ported, It'll sorta do the same thing, but it'll mess up your accuracy and consistancy, I think. The only reason it gets more quiet when ported is the air escapes out the side, but if you do it too much... Well, I'm not sure what'll happen.

[Ness]

You should try doing the slit idea, but start it right after the threads and go off the end of the barrel. Then you could have a five-star-formation-like-object barrel. I bet it'd be quiet then.

[GT_Hawk]

Actulay I am interested in the slit idea. Use a dremal with cutting disks, would do the job. Make say 2 cm cuts after the porting that already exists. From what I understand you do nead some solid barrel at the beginning of your marker so hye go after the stock ports. After you make the snits, stick some steel wool on a stick and the stick onto a drill to clean up the holes form the inside of the barrel. then do the polishing thing I mentioned earler. It may be interesting :D

[wiabomb1]

Me and a friend have an idea. We are wondering if you could possibly customize the stock barrel. My friend wants to spiral it... I do not know how he would do that. I was thinking you could seal up that nasty porting in the mid section of the barrel and add some to the front. Polish the inside and etc and see what it does for accuracy. These two stock barrels are already crap... i figure they can't get any worse... Is there anyother suggestions as to customizing the barrel.

Here's an idea, Port the hell out of it, get some PVC 1/2 bigger in diameter, fill it with steel wool and attach it to the barrel over the ports you made so there are no leaks. Attach and.....well you'll see!!
As for being able to spiral the barrel. Are you just talking about spiral porting or like a firearm spiral? You can't spiral a paintball barrel post-manufacture. I'm sure 1 or 2 will say you can but that consists of several tracks inside of the barrel causing the PB to spin on a center axis. http://rap4.com/paintball/os/barrel-systems-68cal-rifled-barrel-c-22_220_238.html This site will explain how it works and why you can't do it post-manufacture.

[Sleepykat]

I have a good idea. Get another stock barrel and make nin-chucks. Or better yet, throw them away. That's what I did.

[robspar1]

Yes, silencing it is illegal... And no, the cops wont give you crap about it because its technically a federal crime (BATF). Its unlikely anyone will care, but lets be smart about it... If its illegal, don't do it.

When I get another barrel, I'm gonna cut the stock one off right before the ports and polish the inside.

[Cpt. Morgan]

Thats what I thought that you can't spiral a barrel after production and that the idea of a firearm type spiral does not work with paint-balls. These barrels are crap anyway so there is nothing to loose. I like the idea of cutting the barrel just short of its porting so that it is like 3-4 inches. I think at first i'll polish and see if it becomes any more accurate and then maybe plug up the manufactured porting in it and create some other. I will try the cutting slit idea but my bet is it will mess it up.

Also Ness mentioned a interesting idea. He said you could heat up the barrel and make it into the shape of a flat-line barrel... I'm wondering how you could go about that???... I think you would probably just make a paint-grinder...

[tippyjack]

I like the idea of the bottle over the barrel... would that be considered a form of suppresser and therefore illegal?


That works with REAL guns, but I am not sure if it would work on a paintball maker, but it might

[Cpt. Morgan]

It should work... the idea behind a silencer is it provides the gas room to expand and dissipate while at the same time the material (Sillencer or etc) absorbs the sound and muffles it... with anything using gas (weather it be CO2, HPA or a explosive reaction such as a bolt being fired down a barrel) it is the same idea, thus WILL work with paintball guns... Am I Wrong?

[Ness]

Also Ness mentioned a interesting idea. He said you could heat up the barrel and make it into the shape of a flat-line barrel... I'm wondering how you could go about that???... I think you would probably just make a paint-grinder...

Mmmm, I would seriously avoid that idea, unless you have a pro to do it for you, and it's been trial and tested. I was just joking around when I said that. :crazy:
The barrel is probably too short to do anything like THAT. Plus you'd have to roughen up the inside like the flatline so the balls would catch a backspin. It just doesn't seem possible unless you really want to spend A LOT of time and effort into it. Even then, you're going to need a heafty dose of luck.

[robspar1]

Assuming you had a method to heat the barrel to the point where it would bend, you would need to mandrel bend it to maintain the inner diameter of the barrel. Er, actually, you'd need to actually increase the inner diameter (or use really small bore paint) to allow the paintball to roll uninhibited.

[slaminator3323]

You could get a silencer but it takes $200 and a few months.

[robspar1]

You could get a silencer but it takes $200 and a few months.
I doubt your average paintballer is going to wait the six months for his Form 4's to clear, much less be able to get the Chief of Police to sign off on the paperwork. For our intents and purposes, any sound supressor (that is, anything with baffles or a cavity large enough to affect the report of the marker) is going to be illegal.

On kind of a side note, I seriously doubt the mods will let this thread live if we keep talking about supressors.

[Cpt. Morgan]

I agree, if anyone has anything to say about the stock A-5 barrel and how to make it better or worse etc then please tell as-long as it does not have to do with suppressors. Anyways when my friend is done messing around with the barrel i'll post the results etc here on this thread.

[pbfreak8675309]

btw it is put a potoe on the end of a .22 and shoot it 2 out comes
1 urber cool silenced gun
2 good by hands and ur face :dodgy:

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