bvdave
03-26-2010, 12:33 PM
Im posting up a few of the barrel tests ive done over the past year or so for anyone who is interested, Ive been doing quite a large number of tests with various factors over the past year and ive started making some of the results public to help explain why I made my kits the way i did, I would rather show that I made them because of where the data led me rather then just telling my customers (or at least those whom care enough to research for themselves) that it works simply because I say it does. I have been prototyping barrels like crazy for many of these, if anyone has any comments or ideas please post them up, Im always looking to learn more so insight or even ideas for new tests is highly appreciated as is criticism. many of these I have already made public so I figured there was no need to stash em away in the insider forums. most of the tests I run I will run again several times later to double check the results against itself and ensure my data did not come from chance also, but I generally wont post the same test more then once.
First a quick bit of info about my barrel system. First off, my barrels are designed for scenario players, woodballers etc etc, not for speedball, they will work just fine for speedball and I think in some case perform better due to the types of valves traditionally used in speedball markers over woods ball markers (explain that later in one of the tests) but they will probably look odd on most speedball markers, they are a 2+ piece barrel system, consisting of the barrel, a barrel tip, and in many cases a barrel extension. Unlike most barrel kits I don’t use backs and fronts, no front is required if you want to keep the barrel shorter. Also the barrels are male threaded on both sides, (where most are female threaded on the front) this gives a longer control bore and it allows more versatility which comes in handy when testing. all tips are female threaded in the back and all extensions are female threaded in the back and male in the front. which means I can take a 9" barrel, put a 5" extension on the front, then another 3" extension on the front and have a 17" barrel, and then go again and put a barrel tip on the front of it all. my extensions also have various porting methods which also comes in handy with testing because its so modular I can make many different patterns for testing without needing entirely new barrels.
First a quick bit of info about my barrel system. First off, my barrels are designed for scenario players, woodballers etc etc, not for speedball, they will work just fine for speedball and I think in some case perform better due to the types of valves traditionally used in speedball markers over woods ball markers (explain that later in one of the tests) but they will probably look odd on most speedball markers, they are a 2+ piece barrel system, consisting of the barrel, a barrel tip, and in many cases a barrel extension. Unlike most barrel kits I don’t use backs and fronts, no front is required if you want to keep the barrel shorter. Also the barrels are male threaded on both sides, (where most are female threaded on the front) this gives a longer control bore and it allows more versatility which comes in handy when testing. all tips are female threaded in the back and all extensions are female threaded in the back and male in the front. which means I can take a 9" barrel, put a 5" extension on the front, then another 3" extension on the front and have a 17" barrel, and then go again and put a barrel tip on the front of it all. my extensions also have various porting methods which also comes in handy with testing because its so modular I can make many different patterns for testing without needing entirely new barrels.