Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-3362895-20160718210309

Drove an hour and a half each way in a borrowed car (with Bluetooth audio, aaaaaaaahh) to find a Kijiji deal. It seemed like a pretty good deal at the time, but only after I got home did I realize the true extent of damage inflicted on one of the blasters. Before coming home I accidentally dropped by a Value Village and decided to browse through. Thankfully enough, there were some uncommon pieces I picked up as ancient history.

At first, you can see a Vortex Diatron, quite a rare beast which I had never seen up-close until now. Next, an unrelated Simon variant called Swipe. Then an interesting piece called a Hyper Sight Expand-a-Blast, which although just another SSML is still unique enough to pique my interest, and then a Blast Fire DX500, considered a predecessor to the Hornet AS-6. I'm not really sure what shape this is in, but there was another Blast Fire that had an audible leak during pumping, so I chose to skip it.

In the Kijiji bundle, the  Stampede turned out to be really filthy, as well as cracked up in the side window. Actually the bottom sling rail was broken off and the front top tac rail was half busted. So it may well serve only as a parts donor. Next is a yellow  Longshot, which seems superficially to be working but was missing the front blaster and the scope. After that, two  Retaliators in blue and then white. Finally, a  Firefly, which I recently began to covet as a possible "stock attachment" for my Swarmfire. On top of these, there was a Raider stock, twelve-round half-translucent mags for the Retaliators, and (unpictured) a non-Nerf, sound-and-light toy gun that ejects shell casings. This last thing has no place in my armory...

VV bundle: cost $10.43 CAD including taxes (but not travel costs) Approximate total value: $35 Net value: pretty good AFAIK @ $2.60/item

Kijiji bundle: cost $30 CAD (not including travel) Approximate total value: $65 Net value: at least OK @ $6/item

These values may change during testing. 