Best Sniper Markers

2 big a barrel can be deadly

I already have a long barrel on my WS66 so staying away from a long barrel on my A5 would be best.  Isn't the Sharktooth barrel that Hammerhead sells similar to the straightline just shorter?

thejudge wrote: one of the best guns in my arsenal for accuracy is my autococker trilogy.  Its not the best cocker on the block but its quiet, reliable, and accurate.  go get that with HPA and a J&J kit. If you are looking for something else then let us know.  I guess I am not really sure what you are asking anymore.  Do you just want to tell you exactly what tobuy even if you dont really like it?

I may have to try one of these hammerhead barrels on my A5.  Seems to me a lot of people really like them and they perform well.  Would be interested in checking one out.

Well it seams like this thread is starting to wrap up. Amen to Robotech's comment on enjoying the sport. Know what? I enjoy scaring people walking into the match. I've got a guy who plays with me who usually carries a gear bag: the team stashes most our air and balls with him, I figure he has got room to carry some extra barrels with him.

Every game is different, you never know what the other guys will do- It'll probobly be helpfull to have the flexibility of 9-20" barrels of various loudness. Not to mention, the hiding behind brush idea could have been useful in some matches I've been in.

It's interesting to see how my team has grown over the two years we've been doing this. We all started on your standard walley world <70 gun, and have since all moved into our little nitches. We have two guys on MR1's, one who is in love with his Victor, and one who is happy with his pump and his pistol. Not to mention one who is soon to own an A-5.

By the way- I didn't know that about the Barret: another interesting thing.

this is all but too long im not even going to try and read this

Thanks WD.

A-sock...no, I do move up.  How do I play?  Mainly a standup rifleman.  I'm not as young as I once was and am far better and putting people back in their bunkers than running up and pressing in tight in the forward bunkers.  I have no problem putting paint wherever I want it.  Through a 2" hole at 75', between branches, popping hoppers as they come up over a ridge like this last weekend, hitting people from 150' out with a copule well placed shots, or covering 2/3rds of a field and taking out people who thought they were safe.

I had people just this weekend comment on how straight the marker shot, how far it seemed to shoot, and it's accuracy at long range.  I never rack up huge elimination numbers but I do my part to keep the guys that rush forward safe when they move and I do it very well.  I can play the "marksman" role but generally speaking supporting the team does a lot more to winning a game than going solo...and it seems the only why out here to consistantly rack up those "Sniper" type shots outside the occasional opportunity would be to go solo.  I just don't do that. So whether I'm shooting the "Barrett" (which actually was built to be an Anti-Tank gun and hence the size) or the M4/M203...I guess you'd call me a support player.  Need accurate cover fire, I'm your guy.  Need that building or tank taken out...I'm on it.  Couple guys that are exposing a shoe 100' up...I'll take the shot.  That's me...support.  (note the picture of me playing in my sig with said 20" barrel)

All I was getting at was if the guy listens to all the advice and decides to play with a 20" barrel (which he hasn't) there is no need to ridicule him for his choice.  For me, I could probably have aspects of my game which would improve with a smaller, lighter marker but I wouldn't look forward to playing as much as I do now...It just wouldn't be as enjoyable for me.  In the end, I'm out here to have fun and if that means I go out with a 20" barrel and a marker that weighs in at 12lbs to do so then who is anyone to tell me it's "wrong".  To me, everything else about paintball comes second to me enjoying it.  When that stops being the case is the day I stop playing.

Edited by Robotech - 29 December 2008 at 2:15pm

Robotech wrote: If he wants to use a 20" what's wrong with that?  So long as he knows it really is only going to be for looks and he MIGHT get a little quieter shot but he will use more gas then what does it matter if he still chooses to use it.  I run a 20" barrel on one of my markers...I like the way it makes the marker look.  I get a ton of compliments on it.  Do I think it makes me an uber-sniper?  No.  Do other people think I am...I'm sure.  Do more experianced players think I'm a noob that thinks he's a sniper...I'm pretty positive there are some that do.  However, once people see how I play that kind of understand that I don't think myself as a "sniper".  This past weekend I did have a couple one ball kills from about 150-200 feet away (I was on top of a very tall hill...they were at the bottom...) but that doesn't make me a "sniper" any more than the 20" barrel does.  Maybe he'll hate how akward it is to manuver a barrel of that length or how it limits his play behind bunkers or maybe he'll love how he can push the barrel past cover and use brush for cover that most player's can't.  It's his call and in the end up to him.

Yeah but the title of the thread is best sniper marker, and hes asking for accuracy and performance not looks, so the whole 20" barrel thing is not going to fly. If your trying to snap, move, turn your marker to aim past 20 degrees in any direction, want to play tight, want to be able to walk past trees and bushes with ease hes not going to use a 20" barrel. It can alter the markers performance(both good and bad) but it mainly affects your own personal movements.

So how do you play that allows you to do well with a 20" barrel? are you one of those guys who camps or what? the way I play and the crazy shots I can pull off some people say damn your like a sniper with that(droid) because Ive shot peoples barrel tips sticking out, Ive shot 3 balls and had all of them land on a guys head while he was diving into snake, and I almost always get someone off the break. In the woods, Ive got the quietest gun out there, many have rushed on me because they thought i wasnt shooting paint or out of air, and ive put a ball on their face easy.  Many have thought there was no one holding an area but im belly down in thick grass pickign them off one by one without them hearing. At the local woodsball feild on scenario days they have turkey shoots, ive been chosen as a gunner among others while some guy wearing just boxers and a mask runs 100 feet to see if he can get less hits than others doing the event, and Ive actually stoped a guy from finishing because I put too many shots of his lens and he couldnt see anymore(I was using different fill color so I knew it was me), and they also have sniper competetions, basically  an average target, each ring worth points, 5 shots from 125' exactly. a lot of people with big sniper setups with 20" barrels enter, guys with normal sized barrels enter, tippmanns, ions, vices, egos, pretty much every type of gun and I get double the score of almost everyone(lol last event a guy with a spyder and an 18" beat a guy with an ego... i laughed my head off...)

This thread is under which gun is best, and he wants to know what setup will yeild the best accuracy and performance. Get air, a good regulator, and a decent barrel, preferably a kit, within the 12-16" average lenght range. an A5 will do alright for accuracy if you do this, but you have to remember the biggest factor in accuracy is the user, so as long as you can aim comfortably and move easily with whatever barrel you chose you will be fine. You dont want a huge barrel because it will hinder your personal accuracy in many situations(not all, but a large chunk) 

the snipers are a lie.

so you go through 2 thousand rounds? so basically a case. I kind of doubt your also doing 18-20 hours of paintball in 1 day... On a long day I might get 8 in.
Glad to hear your going to use your using barrels above and below the most beneficial range the majority of us hear have advised