I finally made my mind about my new barrel to replace the stock barrel on my Salvo.. Thinking about a Bigshot 14'' .690 bore to be big enough to use with medium grade paint and still fly right..

My choice was between apex2 14 inches and the lapco.. I would have to modify a bit the apex to fit on a salvo shroud anyway and i read about the apex barrel, wasnt that great, Bigshot would give me a better overall result since im not really the kind of guy who will curve it out :P

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IDK about paint sizes where you're from, but .690 is way, way, WAAAAY too big for paint these days. The biggest paint I've seen in the last year was .685, and I've seen some that'll roll thru a .678!! I'd suggest something smaller. And FYI, a tiny bore barrel will shoot large paint just as accurately as a large bore barrel. Bore size doesn't affect accuracy at all.

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kk, so .687 should be fine then?

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Yeah, totally.

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Yeah, most paint is pretty small these days, unless you're shooting crap. even that isn't that big though. I've seen .687 over here, but that's only occasionally.

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and now again some dude named StormShadowz on alpha black forum showed me how a 14 inches apex2 would be sooooo badass and easy to mod to fit on my salvo... my brain is all over the place again..

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You can get a Bigshot that's Apex ready.

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I have a bigshot that is Apex ready. I love it. It is big, but I have good accuracy with it.

I've found that a lot of mid-grade paint up here (western Canada/B.C.) is around .685 to .687. Once in a while, depending on temperature and humidity, it's .693.
I used an 8" Bigshot on an A5 and wasn't all that impressed with it. Started the day with a Flatline, switched to the Bigshot after the FL chewed up too much paint. Got frustrated with the "wingers", and switched to my Freak kit. No issues at all... I think I'm one of the only people here that doesn't like the Bigshot.

ouch, that thread was old... i ended up buying a 16 inch smart part from a friend :P then sold the salvo to another friend :P

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