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