Board Thread:Questions and answers/@comment-31076655-20180513162530/@comment-27306930-20180518011634

The Longstrike barrel extension would work too, it just adds a lot of heft to an already big blaster. You could definitely throw a laser or a light beam on that. So I guess you have three pretty good options; Recon, Retaliator, or Longstrike.

Now about the rifling. I posted a slo-mo video last year of a dart being fired out of a "rifled" barrel. I actually made several videos. There is no evidence of spin on the darts, which pretty much proves that the rifling is faux. It looks pretty, but it does nothing. Personally I prefer it, but only because it looks cool.

Okay, with respect to the Retaliator barrel extension, the jury is still out as to whether it decreases range. I'm not sure who collected the data posted on the wiki, but the chronograph evidence points toward no difference with or without. But there's more to range than just raw velocity. There's trajectory, stability, buffeting, and something called turbulence induced tailspin which is actually the main culprit in many duds, whirlybirds, and shots that head off into the weeds. There are also other performance characteristics that differ depending on whether a blaster is stock or modified.

So maybe you're right, your Retaliator might shoot farther without its barrel extension.