A question for anyone who does own a LS, can the extended barrel on the pistol be removed? Also, what is the greatest OD of the barrel? Is it possible to remove the barrel and replace it with pvc with brass or 1/2" cpvc inside?
If you dissasemble the front blaster the barrel slides right out. The orange suports the barrel sits on are glued to one side of the front blaster. From within the larger blaster if you look at the front of it, there is that big orange adapter that slides inside the front blaster; right behind that is a short length of barrel (4-5inches) that comes right out. This piece is completely seperate from the "staging area" where the dart sits after the blaster is cocked. The outter diameter of the barrel itself is 3/4"; all you would need to do for a barrel mod would be to removed that barrel and dremel off the small lip on the large adapter piece.
Also I've noticed ranges that were posted for the longshot with the added BBB spring were between 60-99 feet.
The range for the longshot with air restrictors removed, a stretched longshot spring (stretched around 3 inches longer) and stock steamlined darts is ~42feet flat and ~62feet angled 30-degrees. This was tested on flat ground between two houses that share one long driveway, wind at 0-5mph.
Happy Modding
-LittleB