Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-26431461-20171103015139/@comment-27306930-20171109234011

Precisely ! The FireStrike is an excellent contemporary example of the beauty of the plunger rod system. It couldn't be more straightforward. The plunger rod acts as the priming mechanism, the restraining device for the spring, and the stabilizer, allowing a single O-ring to glide straight down the plunger tube converting almost all of the potential energy into kinetic energy.

It couldn't be more effective or efficient, and by extension more elegant from a design perspective. I can think of 15 different ways to make it more complex. But it wouldn't be better.