...or he can get a barrel off ebay or a paintball shop bargain bin for $5-10. and any marker is as good as any other, if you know how to use it, take care of it, and adjust it properly (sometimes involves some cutting/grinding, but it's all good)
and I have the right to talk as much as anyone else does... so no telling me, or anyone else on here to shut up unless they're flaming.. in which case you tell a mod. What if someone said to you "hey, your carbine isn't worth the cost of getting it to work right (god forbid that was possible...) so go get a new one."?
you wouldn't feel very good now, would you? I'm just saying that it's not a nice thing to do. this place is for new players... it's not somewhere to get new players to buy more expensive guns..
