new here with a alpha black

hey guys im new here and was wondering what are some good mods for the alpha black. so far I only have the cyclone feeder and switched HPA. and I want a different barrel. which barrel will work best with the alpha black. thanks

Welsome. I have always been a proponent of a barrel kit. Allows you to size the barrel to whatever paint the fields have. 1st question would be what is your budget for a barrel? With that info we can make better suggestions.

Welcome aboard and i will leave that question to Tuf

Welcome aboard! Depending on your budget I would say a J&J ceramic, I have the 14inch and love it. But like Tuf said if you can a barrel kit helps a lot.

tuff my budget is around 40-60$. thanks guys for welcome.

Gramps wrote:

Welcome aboard! Depending on your budget I would say a J&J ceramic, I have the 14inch and love it. But like Tuf said if you can a barrel kit helps a lot.

I had a J&J ceramic for a while and loved it. But then a few years ago they started making paint smaller and smaller. Smaller paint doesn't break in your barrel as easy. Not a huge amount smaller, but enough to effect your accuracy. Went from average of .691 down to .678. Doesn't seem like much, but that's enough to drop your FPS by as much as 50 fps if you chronoed with larger paint. That's when I switched to a kit. That and using field paint, you never know what they are going to have at the FPO fields. You will waste more air with mismatched paint since it takes more air to get the ball moving the same speed due to bleed off of air around the ball.

J&J Edge starter kit. Awesome starter barrel kit , comes with 3 backs, and 1 front, with a zipper case. On sale for $50. I got mine for over $100 a couple years ago.
 
http://www.paintball-discounters.com/i/4538/j-j-ceramic-starter-edge-barrel-kit.htm
 
Best deal I could find with some Google Fu. That is what I would get. I don't think you will find a barrel kit anywere for anywere near that price. Just get the Model 98 kit.
 
Your handguard will be a little loose around it, but I used to wrap the barrel tip with electrical tape were it meets with the shroud and it will tighten it up. And you can't see the tape since it blends in.

Cool thanks. That might be the winner. I have also been looking at the apex barrel.

welcome to the forum


the apex barrel is ok, the barrel is crap the apex is cool
but you can get an adpator to mount the apex2 on your J&J barrel if you were looking to go that way

Apex2 takes some time to get use to but once you do its a fun little device
playing around with the curves

AЯЅфП wrote:

welcome to the forum


the apex barrel is ok, the barrel is crap the apex is cool
but you can get an adpator to mount the apex2 on your J&J barrel if you were looking to go that way

Apex2 takes some time to get use to but once you do its a fun little device
playing around with the curves

This is what I did. I had an Apex tip on my J&J kit.

I might just dO that.

Alpha I took care of the double posts for you, lol

Lol thanks

I have a CP Classic 12", .685" barrel now and it shoots absolutely fantastic with Draxxus Tournament or midnight paint.