DW moab or fibur x8?

[Quickling]

Debating on buying a DW barrel for my phantom, and I am stuck between the two.

It sounds like the fibur might shoot itself clean easier, but the moab looks pretty cool. Cost is close enough that I don't care. I have an undercocking kit on the primary phantom so that doesn't matter. I've never been a sneaky player so sound tone doesn't matter. Honestly I am just hung up on which one would handle todays crap paint better.

Why a new barrel? I have 3 phantoms and only one barrel cut for 5" inserts, and one complete set of 5". I should have had more barrels cut last year when I got quotes but less shops are responding these days.

I do have some 8" inserts laying around so I figured why not snag a barrel for them; after all, my wife runs a sterling using 5" inserts so this way we don't fight over them.

I briefly considered the 8" phantom freak style back that gets listed on ebay, but by the time I buy that and a front, I am still in the $110 price range anyways. At least with the DW I can grab a phantom adapter and one for AC and use the same barrel for all my needs.

[Lobo Fuerte 2.0]

Seems like you’ve already made up your mind I would recommend getting the fibur x8, like you said you just need to get different backs and you have pretty much a universal barrel. I have the fibur x8 with spyder a5 and cocker backs will be buying tippmann 98 back soon. Overall I’d say it’s worth buying.

[Trbo323]

X8

Understand though that I own a x8 so maybe I'm a little biased. I have handled a moab (not played on field with though) and honestly I wasn't impressed I felt like the double wall added so much mass that you basically lose the advantage of it being a carbon fiber barrel. I've heard they are not fun to clean out If you get barrel breaks. If you plan on shooting something like a EMF in the future I'm not sure if the moab will fit inside the shroud, x8 does.

I've really liked my x8, it's my go to outside of weird situations

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