Inception make, it’s polished to a nice
internal hone like the rest of the Stella
barrel line, and it’s compatible with Stella
peripherals. The Genesis barrel boasts
an eight-inch back section for control of
the paintball and the best combination of
accuracy consistency and efficiency and is
delivered in a .686 bore for a “jack of all
trades” fit to most paintballs compared to
stock barrels. Then there’s that “inexpensive
doesn’t mean cheap” thing I was referring
to: the Stella Genesis barrel is forty bucks.
Let me say that again: $40. Two crisp
twenties.
Two twenties (or four tens or a bunch of
fives) doesn’t mean a damned thing if the
barrel doesn’t shoot straight. So it’s a good
thing this one does. We ran Valken Graffiti
and Empire Marbalizer through an Eclipse
EMek with an Inception Stella Genesis barrel
threaded on, and we were pretty darn happy
with the results. The stock barrel delivered
on the EMek is just that – stock. It’s not a
bad barrel, it’s just short (I don’t want to
hear it) so groups at longer ranges tend to
open up and it’s there to shoot most any
paintball a player might pound through it.
The Stella is a big improvement – it features
a nice clean, sleek look, it’s long enough to
push through brush or stick bunkers, and
it absolutely keeps the groups tighter at
all ranges. We were one and two-shotting
chain link fence posts all afternoon with this
thing, with both brands of paint.
The Genesis offers a few holes drilled into the
tip of the barrel to act like a bit of a muzzle
break, but they don’t exactly muffle this
thing. It’s not as quiet as some other barrels,
and that’s literally my worst complaint. That
said, if you’re too busy shooting people in
the goggles because now your gun shoots
straight and groups tight, who’s worried
about a few decibels. The other side of that
coin, too, is that this thing would make a
great rain barrel – while other barrels are
curve-balling because water got into their
ports, you could be dialed in and making
pretty neck welts. So there’s that.
Bottom line – this is a lot of paintball gun
barrel for forty bucks. It’s well-made, looks
good, shoots straight and is upgradeable
and expandable to become a full-blown
barrel kit that can grow with a player on any
level of the game. If a simple, affordable
paintball gun barrel sounds like your next
upgrade, you’d better start with the Genesis.
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