Make Your Marker More Accurate With an Upgraded Barrel

In our last blog, we talked about how important paintball size is for the accuracy of your marker. Paintball size is the first part of the puzzle, the second part is the Paintball barrel. To recap, if your Paintballs are too small or too large for your barrel, you'll get a lot of wobble (too big of a barrel) and air blowing around the ball. Meaning you won't be able to get as accurate a shot. Too small of a barrel and the paint might get stuck and then you have a barrel break. Paintball size is one and the barrel is the other when you have those 2 working together you see much better accuracy. The  last part of accuracy comes down to your paintball gun and the valve system it uses. But that doesn't matter as much as the paintball size and barrel size matching.

There is a very good reason as to why many paintball players decide to upgrade their marker's barrel. It will actually make a huge difference, especially if you are currently using a lower quality or larger bore barrel. Trust us, upgrading your barrel will be an upgrade that will make a noticeable difference each and every time you shoot your marker! The exciting part about getting a new barrel, is that you can purchase inserts or barrel backs. Inserts or a barrel back will allow you to use smaller paintball sizes than you would normally be able to use. 

Here's where the rubber meets the road, so to speak. How to test and see if you have the right sized insert or barrel back. This is something you need to do every time you play, sometimes you might even have to check again midday to see if the paint changed. Grab a few, 4 or 5, paintballs from each bag of paintballs. Start with a larger sized insert or barrel back then you think you need, .689 is a good size to start with. One by one drop, or shoot ,the paintballs through the barrel, if they all fall out or don't get stuck, it's too large a bore. Go to the next size down and do the same thing. Once they start to get stuck, hold the barrel up to the light, if you can see light around the paintball you're ok, that means it has room to move. If the light is blocked that means the paintball would have exploded.

So if you want more accuracy and consistency when you shoot your marker, a great place to start is by upgrading the barrel. There is no reason for you to go out and purchase a whole new marker, when purchasing a new barrel can make such a huge difference for you! We have a wide variety of quality barrels for you to choose from, and we even have many used options that can help you save even more! Shop with us today!