Optimum barrel length

[Hideous]

Hello all

I was wondering what you chaps reckon is the optimum barrel length ?

I have a standard freak back and a 8" AA front, but last weekend i was having issues with wrapping against the coke cans.

I dont want the shocker to be a garden stake, but i need a longer tip!

I have been told that as a back.... i should have at least 16" on the front of the shocker...

Any thoughts?

[ben@pbhub.de]

For paint flying straight it needs good paint and a matching 5" of paintball-leading barrel, which usually is your back. The rest is grey zone, you will get a million different opinions on things. Plus its guns, Angels shoot different to Cockers shoot different to a Matrix shoots different to a Timmy.

I found for myself, that if you sport a 14 or 16" barrel, you can move aside the supairbunker pretty well while having your body hiding behind the barricade. And sometimes, yes only sometimes I feel that the longer it is, the better I feel ;)

[Hideous]

I noticed Mike has All American fronts - 14, 16 and 18" fronts !!!

and 18" front would make it a 22" overall barrel length !!!

I would not have to leave the State with a barrel that long, <<okay maybe a little silly. >>

Imagine cleaning that sucker - I'd need a huge squeegy!!

Maybe a 14" - making it 18 overall "

[TRENT]

Hideous. The front is measured as overall length. They know ur back is 6 inch so the front will be 10 inches. Thus giving you 16' overall.

[ben@pbhub.de]

lol Hideous are you serious ? ;)

Get nothing longer than a 16", thats way enough love.

[Hideous]

Well i think the Tips are listed as 18" - but infact maybe only 12" tips

we might have a variation in description. time to ring i think

[Hardcore]

Bah, 21 inch barrel from Ebay will sort you right out.

[Jamie_Cracker]

i used to run a 18" freak on my old shocker and that was madness but no wi usually run a 16" and have been known to run a 14" every now and then depends on thefield marker iam using and what mood iam in

[Mike]

Smart Parts barrels go up to 18 inches (this includes the back up to the point touching the gun itself.) :armed:

[Hideous]

You have a red 16" somewhere up there ?

[Actionboy]

Do you really need a barrel that long ??????

[AGGS]

Got a 16" Freak kit from Mikey boy at action and im finding it a lot easier to wrap around bunkers and snap, even in my noob state.

I could see where having a slightly shorter barrel may come in handy(ie, the standard AA front that comes with the Shocker attached to a Freak back) but in most cases i think that the 16 is a good all rounder

[TRENT]

for sup-air i would have to say a 14" would be a minimum length. Its great for pushing bunkers outta the way thuis keeping your profile down. 16" is the way to go though.