Whats good about the hammerhead? I'm not the most knowlegeble here.>>been playing 2 years.>

It will break paint on your opponents about 25 feet further than other>> barrels.>>

http://www.hammerhe­adpaintball.com/main­/barrels.htm>>

Mike Smith>

Shooting a paintball through a regular barrel gets it downrange in>> about the same shape as when it was loaded. Shooting a paintball>> through a rifled barrel imparts some spin on the ball, creating some>> slight improvement in accuracy...>

It also puts little microcuts in the gelcoat of the paintball as it>> gets launched through the rifled barrel, giving you an effective range>> advantage. The shell is weaker, so it breaks easier.>

Ok, smart guy, explain to me how air ESCAPING from a barrel at specific> >points will impart spin on a ball that has already past the hole in the> >barrel that the air escapes from. I'm listening...>

And, not to relish in poking fun at you mercilessly(and it really is fun

do, honest!),>

but even if spin WAS somehow imparted to the ball by rifling,> >please explain how this spin could POSSIBLY tighten up the path of a> >relatively spherical object like a paintball? Spin on a bullet or

Even if you could guarantee that a paintball would spin in a predictable> >direction(that's a laugh),>

you'd be spinning an object without so much of a> >hint of a longitudinal axis around which to spin. That means that, at

Ummm.. You do know that I was allowed to try it {for free} before I>> bought it, right? It is definitely more accurate than my Lapco, Dye,>> or original Mag barrel, according to me.>>

Why? I don't know.... I didn't spend $1000's of dollars trying to find>> out.>>

Ummm.... Are you attempting to state that the balls are not sliced, or>> they do not break easier when they are sliced or because they are>> sliced, they break in the barrel? Or are you stating that the metal in>> a rifled barrel will not "scratch" the paintball's gelcoat?>>

direction(that's a laugh), you'd be spinning an object without so much of> a>> hint of a longitudinal axis around which to spin. That means that, at> best,>> it would have NO impact. At worst, the ball HAS somewhat of an axis, and>> the ball is rotating so much that it puts the ball off course by way of>> rotational momentum, so much so that accuracy is actually NEGATIVELY>> impacted.>

Not even close. If that was true, we'd be trying everything before we>> buy it, cars, lawyers, deer rifles, etc. In fact, try it before you>> buy it is relatively rare.>

I used to have an armson>>rifled barrel (yes, the one with internal rifling, not spiral porting,>>which, I'm sorry Jeff, I've never heard referred to as rifling), and it >>shot>>pretty much identical to the rest of my barrels but was notably less>>efficient. The only time I've seen a noticeable accuracy difference in a>>rifled barrel was when there's broken paint in it, and the paint fills up>>the grooves against the ball. Then you can actually watch the paint>>corkscrew instead of just arc . . . still doesn't hit anything though.>

OK.... Practice, practice, practice... or dump that barrel....You're> > choice...>

Read "used to" the barrel was dumped long ago, in favour of a BOA SS>> snakebite, which, I must say, outperformed the stealth with every paint I>

What? Go back and re-read my posts...>

<begin quote>>> Hammerhead pumps their engineering, but I have actual field use of the>> barrel.>>

Shooting a paintball through a regular barrel gets it downrange in>> about the same shape as when it was loaded. Shooting a paintball>> through a rifled barrel imparts some spin on the ball, creating some>> slight improvement in accuracy...>>

However>>

It also puts little microcuts in the gelcoat of the paintball as it>> gets launched through the rifled barrel, giving you an effective range>> advantage. The shell is weaker, so it breaks easier.>> <end quote>>>

The "however" is where my opinion and Hammerhead's opinion separated.>

"Aaron Reimer" <strongwilledchild@­hotmail.com> wrote in message> > news:tXpXd.9478$RM2­.5063@read1.cgocable­.net...> >> >

Doesn't make much difference but, BOA never made a SS barrel. Common> > misconception.> >

"Matt" <MathU41@aol.com> wrote in message> >news:39chbvF606ce0­U2@individual.net...­> >> Doesn't seem like it'd be too hard. Make a football or bullet-shaped> >> paintball, put it in a spring-fed or gravity-fed clip just like a

Here's the thing. If it wasn't too hard to do, someone would already be> >rich because of it. The problem is that accomplishing the goal as

impact on the flight of the ball, but I can sure do some bench rest>> comparisons with a variety of other barrels.>

From my hubby's notes.>