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| Originally Posted by Arcizzy people have been saying barrel and others palmer.
i don't know if this will help but a barrel only increses accuracy up to 14" after that it oesn't help performance at all.
will a palmer make the paintball fly further at all? |
I don’t know exactly what you are saying, but I will give it a shot….
The optimal control boar for accuracy is 8-10 inches of unported barrel. And the only way a barrel will help “performance” is if it is optimal size around for the paint and no longer than needed to have the ball travel that 8-10 inches without porting. Porting before that reduces efficiency meaning that it takes more gas to propel the ball at a given speed. Longer than that reduces efficiency in the same way since it has to push the ball farther down the barrel than need be and normally this caused a bit of drag on the ball from any contact it makes.
As for the Palmer Regulator, it does not make the ball fly farther. It makes the ball shoot out of the marker consistently. This increases accuracy. Normally unregulated CO2 will show a FPS fluctuation between shots. How bad this fluctuation is depends on many factors, and can be from minimal to quite drastic. The more difference in ball speed between shots, the less accurate you will be since the balls will not fly the same. So for example, a marker chronoed at 280 but has a fluctuation of + or – 1 to 2 FPS between shots will be more accurate than a marker chornoed at 280 but has a fluctuation of + or – 5 to 10 FPS or more.