DYE CARBON FIBER BOOMSTICK™ BARREL
Introduced late last year, the Dye Carbon Fiber Boomstick Barrel is a great choice for those wishing to upgrade their barrels to a high end barrel that is extremely lightweight yet still retains the durability of steel.
While paying a visit on Flagswipe Paintball, The Catshack Reports had opportunity to look over this high end barrel system and put a few rounds of paint through it to test it for accuracy.
The Dye Carbon Fiber Boomstick™ delivers that stainless steel precision and yet it is lightweight, perfect for those wanting gear that takes one to the top of their game. The new Carbon Fiber Boomstick™ features a solid stainless steel insert with a carbon fiber outer sleeve, the Carbon Fiber Boomstick™ definitely brings barrel technology to a whole new level.
The following is taken from the official Dye press release (announced on paintballX3.com among many other websites) issued 2009 regarding the Dye Carbon Fiber Boomstick
The stainless steel insert is built from gun drilled surgical grade 303 stainless steel and aircraft grade carbon fiber. The inside bore is honed to a 6 micron surface finish, giving you the smoothest and straightest barrel surface on the market. Carbon fiber provides a high strength-to-weight ratio, and the density of carbon fiber is considerably less than that of stainless steel, making it ideal for this barrel application resulting in an extremely light and accurate barrel. Combined with DYE’s trademark muzzle break design, the all new Carbon Fiber Boomstick™ is quiet, aesthetically appealing and will once again set the standard of high performance in the barrel market.
The all new Carbon Fiber Boomstick™ undergoes a unique process of combining a stainless steel micro honed insert with that of the highly acclaimed carbon fiber material. This process allows us to provide you with the most accurate and lightweight barrel on the market today.
Other barrels on the market use carbon fiber, but not in the way that we do. The surface the paintball travels on is actually micro honed surgical grade 303 stainless steel, wrapped in carbon fiber. This stainless steel surface is the most accurate of all materials available. It allows us to hone the surface so perfectly, it is comparable to 1/3 of a human hair. Unlike other carbon fiber barrels on the market where the paintball actually travels against the weave of the carbon fiber, ultimately leading to it’s degradation and decrease in accuracy over time, the Carbon Fiber Boomstick™ barrel provides you with long-term accuracy and consistency.
With the all new Carbon Fiber Boomstick™ you will have stainless steel precision with extremely light weight performance. Truly, the Choice of Champions™.
Here is the Catshack Reports video showing the Dye Carbon Fiber Boomstick in action…in short the claims made by Dye hold true as far as this piece of hardware is concerned as per The Catshack Reports opinion.
