| Paintball gun barrels vary in size, color and design. In | | | | A vast majority of paintball markers use threaded |
| general, paintball gun barrels are twelve, fourteen, | | | | barrels. Angel, Shocker, Tippman, and Spyder are |
| sixteen, eighteen, and twenty inches. Some people also | | | | among the common threads to be found. The inner |
| make use of custom made barrels of about 48 inches. | | | | diameter of the barrel is called bore. Nowadays, |
| There are also barrels that are less than 8 inches but | | | | paintball gun barrels made of aluminum, stainless steel, |
| the accuracy rate of such barrels are very poor. The | | | | ceramic, and brass are available for purchase. |
| ideal gun barrel should be between 8 and 14 inches. | | | | One piece, two piece, and three piece barrels are |
| As the length of the barrel increases, the gas used | | | | some of the popular types of barrel. One piece barrels |
| also increases. A considerable amount of gas is used | | | | are made from a single material. The material used in |
| by barrels which are more than 14 inches. During warm | | | | this type of barrel is aluminum. Two piece barrels are |
| seasons, short barrel guns are better. A longer barrel is | | | | machined from two different materials. Usually, it |
| ideal during cold seasons. The advantages of longer | | | | contains a front and back. Instead of multiple backs, |
| paintball gun barrels over shorter barrels are that they | | | | three piece barrel features only a single back. The |
| make less noise. This is mainly because of the porting | | | | other types of barrel commonly found are flatline |
| that long barrels have. The term port refers to the | | | | barrel and apex barrel. |
| holes that long paintball gun barrels have on the sides. | | | | Paintball gun barrels made of aluminum are lightweight |
| Some people choose barrels which are ported to | | | | and not expensive. Stainless steel barrel are long |
| avoid sound. As the number of port increases the | | | | lasting and are scratch free. Barrels made of ceramic |
| sound made by the paintball gun reduces considerably. | | | | features low friction. Due to many disadvantages, |
| But it is found that ported barrels use more gas to | | | | brass barrels are not common nowadays. |
| reach the desired velocity. | | | | |