Why 16" I want it in 12"...

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Looks pretty good.

Kind of annoyed by the ad trying to sell people on rifling a barrel improving a balls accuracy by adding rotation.

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IF we have learned anything over the years about barrels is that a lot of hype
about is new barrel is just that all hype.

Simple physics tells us that a paint ball does not have the enough velocity for rifled barrels to work. Shot to shot consistency comes from constant paint to bore match and round unblemished paint.

Probably a decent barrel like all the bore kits.

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It may, as hammerhead is the producer of this barrel, I didn't see it mentioned here, but apparently Hammerhead and Tippmann have teamed up and created a new partnership, I am wondering if down the road, if this partnership goes good, these barrels will become a standard feature for their guns?

Oh would I love to see that! New A5's coming standard with a HH-produced 8" barrel. That would probably kick upgrading your barrel as the first and most important upgrade for a marker down a little bit. Plus, I love short, but real high quality barrels

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yo bros i found a half bottle of test in the locker room at the gym....can I stack it with some multivitamins, a little creatine, and a package of tic tacs? I cant really afford the $30 for some nolva so I jacked my moms menopause pills to help bring my boys back after my monster cycle. do you bros think this will get me jacked by the fourth of july??

WHAT!?! If that's the case they better be sending them out for a stock one in return! *insert war cry*

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You got a war face?!?LEMME SEE YOUR WAR FACE!!!

Hacksaw anyone?

But I think they chose to go with 16" since most woodsball newbs prefer longer barrels. (I have an 18" on my marker ATM)

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"The barrel length is 12”. I think because that was the easiest number to patent." -vanillaiceyupyup
http://cgi.ebay.com/VERY-UNIQUE-SP-AA-12-Angel-Thread-Barrel_W0QQitemZ260245161771QQihZ016QQcategoryZ160 46QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

If they do that, I'm going on eBay and buying up all the stock barrels I can!!

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yo bros i found a half bottle of test in the locker room at the gym....can I stack it with some multivitamins, a little creatine, and a package of tic tacs? I cant really afford the $30 for some nolva so I jacked my moms menopause pills to help bring my boys back after my monster cycle. do you bros think this will get me jacked by the fourth of july??

The velocity and twist rate surely would be fast enough to impart some spin to the ball. The twist rate seems very, very slow however. Whatever spin it may give the ball and weather is does anything useful is the question.

I don't understand how the .690 control bore can actually fully grab smaller paint to impart a spin effect. If the paint would roll out the control bore then one side of the ball wouldn't even be "grabbed" by the rifling.

I think Tippmann saw a good product that happens to also impart good marketing to public ignorance and is using it to make a boat load of cash. The average person on the street buying their first paintball gun don't know about how barrels affect a paintball and just use common knowledge of bullets and rifled barrels to make associations. People walk in, grab a gun, hear about this barrel, think it'll be great, and pick it up too. In a way, Tippmann is targeting the impulse buyer.

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