Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-28773666-20161001190749/@comment-27923854-20161004230851

Elliottw wrote: I think I've had this discussion before on this forum, but it seems that the larger the capacity of the drum, the more it tends to jam. CS-35s are notorious for jamming. CS-25s less so. CS-18 drums, rarely.

My theory is that the friction between the heads of the darts and the inside edge of the drum housing increases as you add more darts into the system. The reason I believe this is because when you switch from Nerf Elites that have a rubbery tip, to FVJs, or Voberries, or ECs (Elite Clones - thank you HM) with hard vinyl heads, you get less jams. In other words, the dart tips are less likely to grind on the wall of the drum. Less friction, smoother operation, fewer jams. Just a theory. I have come to pretty much the same conclusion on drum reliability. However I had 18 round drum that was pretty bad. using it in my AT, it would usually jam at least once if I fired through the whole thing. Then I completely ruined it trying to fix it. So I have now called myself an idiot by coming to the conclusion that only an idiot would try to mod a drum how I did: ).  But I guess learned quite bit from that experience.