Brace yourselves for the shock, but no, I am not going to bash this one! AHHHH! The Pessimistic Paintballers Association will lose all faith in me, I know, but bear with me.
For those of you who aren't farmiliar with the Ramrod or it's concept, I will attempt a brief over view. This barrel is not a solid tube with small ports or none, it is, five (maybe six) small diameter rods, in a circle (paintball goes through the center) reenforced by three rings along it's length. The concept being that of porting, massive, huge amounts of porting. This makes it super easy for the paintball to push aside the air and whatever else is in front of it and exits the muzzle with very little air resistance to slow it down. While this does a few other things I won't get into for brevities sake, the main purpose is to make it very easy to clear jams, i.e: broken paint, dirt, leaves sticks, hats, Buicks, and coffee cups. And for this purpose it works extremely well. A few shots and it has removed the jame and is firing accurately again.
Now, there is a drawback, and a pretty big one. Accuracy. With so little to guide the paintball, accuracy will compare to a good stock barrel...
This does not render it useless however, actually quite useFUL for some people. It depends how you play. If you like to be crawling around all day, sneaking up close, getting down and dirty, you end up with a lot of debris in the barrel. A Ramrod is right up your alley if this is how you play. Just open up and in a few trigger pulls you are set. This is much quicker than taking a barrel off to squeegy it.
While it is a good scenario tool, it does not get my recommendation for your primary barrel, unless of course you use the above mentioned tactics more than anything else.
So, I wouldn't consider this a bash article, would you?
-Captain Clay
