Rifled Barrel

[TippmanUsr4lyfe]

this question comes from lazyness cuz i dont feel liek searching but what compants or brands make a rifled barrel for a 98c?

[pbmike1888]

1. prepare to get flamed and/or closed thread. openly admitting lazyness isnt a good way to keep a repetitive thread going.

2. to answer your question...the only company ive found on pbr was hammerhead. they make 2 or 3 i believe. others may list more. there arent too many though...not favored by alot of people over higher end barrels.

3.(some info on rifled barrles.....since u didnt search). rifled barrels have in no way been proven to be more accurate. the properties of a spinnign paintball are similar to when u spin a cup of water with ice in it. the paint does not move and the shell does....and from what ive SEEN, the paintball seems to wobble. IMO there is no difference in accuracy between rifled and non rifled. paintballs just arent aerodynamic enough so benefit from spinning.

also, it has been questioned...at least amongst my friends and probly some on pbreview, how much a rifled barrel actually spins a paintball. a paintball is for the most part squishy. too squishy to be forced into a spin by a rifled barrel.

this is just my opinion and a little bit of what has been discussed on this forum.

[TippmanUsr4lyfe]

coo fear paintball.net on google videos have a vid on one and it looks like it makes it accurateand the dude even says so but thanks

[m98sniper15]

I use the CMI Tru-flight barrel. It has very good accuracy.


m98sniper15

[pbmike1888]

coo fear paintball.net on google videos have a vid on one and it looks like it makes it accurateand the dude even says so but thanks

yea...and they also have a video of them shooting an apex at 300 feet. it took him like 2 dozen shots to gert a hit(which didnt break), and he still said it was accurate. so i question them alot. inever sai rifled barrels were innacurate. i said they were not proven to be more accurate than ...say...the same barrel that is unrifled.

[Zakushark]

1. prepare to get flamed and/or closed thread. openly admitting lazyness isnt a good way to keep a repetitive thread going.

2. to answer your question...the only company ive found on pbr was hammerhead. they make 2 or 3 i believe. others may list more. there arent too many though...not favored by alot of people over higher end barrels.

3.(some info on rifled barrles.....since u didnt search). rifled barrels have in no way been proven to be more accurate. the properties of a spinnign paintball are similar to when u spin a cup of water with ice in it. the paint does not move and the shell does....and from what ive SEEN, the paintball seems to wobble. IMO there is no difference in accuracy between rifled and non rifled. paintballs just arent aerodynamic enough so benefit from spinning.

also, it has been questioned...at least amongst my friends and probly some on pbreview, how much a rifled barrel actually spins a paintball. a paintball is for the most part squishy. too squishy to be forced into a spin by a rifled barrel.

this is just my opinion and a little bit of what has been discussed on this forum.

Angular momentum says that a spinning object is always more stable in flight then an object moving without a spin. Think of a gyroscope. The problem with paintballs are that they are not perfect spheres, and won’t fit the barrel quite right to get the full effect of the rifling. Not to mention the issue of a paintball’s fragility (is ‘fragility’ a real word?...).
I have been to Hammerhead’s website before in curiosity. They say they have made tests that prove a rifled barrel is more accurate and consistent that a smooth bore one. However, I never trust tests put out by a product’s manufacturer…

[dukedude4evr]

yea, when u say rifled, i hope u mean - accurate and shoots far. Well if so, the BT Apex is your best bet to lay some money down for.

ALSO, i am with zakushark.

[pbmike1888]

as much as i sont like apexs......id go with one of those over a "rifled" barrel.

zakushark im also with you. with a bullet, its hard and doesn conform to the shape of the inside of a barrel, which is why a bullet spins. if paintballs were solid then rifled barrels would be golden.