GI 3-star breaking in T2

[drewkroeker]

Today I pulled out my T2 for a few games. I tested one paintball and put in my 681 FL back. During the game I had a barrel break. I swapped to the 685 back thinking it would be large enough (paintballs felt a little loose). I still got barrel breaks. At that point I gave up and pulled out my etha 3 with 693 bore and had no issues. This GI 3-star seemed pretty brittle and was breaking quite well on soft targets. I will be testing a few barrel and paint combinations in the next few days.

How brittle is too brittle? Does anyone else shoot GI 3-star with a pump? Just curious what i should be doing differently.

[SniperPedik]

Shouldn't be breaking anything out of a pump 😵💫

[drewkroeker]

That's what I thought. Unless I really aggressively underbored, which I don't think I was with the 685.

[Ecapnation]

Paintball quality has been abysmal at best lately.

[NONOBLITUS]

Is your detent shot ? that will cause an issue

[ChuckLove]

I second this. I've been using an o-ring one size larger than the manual says due to how small pain has been.

[drewkroeker]

Thank you for commenting because I didn't think to check the detent at all. Out of sight out of mind I guess.

[Chuck E Ducky]

Are you using a force fed hopper on your T2? I’m guessing you had double feeds since it shot fine out of a Etha.

Slightly Overbore and use these and never have paint issues again.

https://mcarterbrown.com/forum/buy-s...barrel-detents

[StaticShocked]

Are you using a force fed hopper on your T2? I’m guessing you had double feeds since it shot fine out of a Etha.

Slightly Overbore and use these and never have paint issues again.

https://mcarterbrown.com/forum/buy-s...barrel-detents

I second these. I have to comment whenever these get mentioned because they are just so good. I use them both on my autococker and pump and they work extremely well. It is a perfect solution to a problem and the material choice and the design is spot on.

[drewkroeker]

So I got an update for you guys. As per NONOBLITUS recommendation, I swapped out my o-ring detent. And that seemed to do the trick. It shot fine with no issues, although I haven't used it in a game yet. But so far it's looking good!

Thanks again for the help

[NONOBLITUS]

Glad it helped you out. Happened to me as well previously

[Chuck E Ducky]

What hopper are you using?

[drewkroeker]

I use an invert halo too. I figured sound activated would be better than force fed like a rotor.

[Chuck E Ducky]

Try one of these.

https://paintballdna.com/product/jol...ntball-loader/