Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-3362895-20181204135458

According to the easy-to-follow assembly sheet, CEDA stands for "Close Engagement Dart Assault." This unit was bought new from the factory, and tested with included branded, nipple-tip, full-length darts, then Adventure Force full-length, and finally Worker 2nd-gen half-length stefans/slugs with a Katana magazine. It's winter and I don't have anywhere to fling darts very far, unless I take the CEDA to one of my work places and generate suspicious stares in the process. So in the meantime, I'm using my indoor dart trap at a distance of merely ten feet at most.

1. Nipple-tips achieved disappointing power and accuracy. (Later: they actually seemed comparable to Nerf's own Elite darts.)

2. Adventure Force darts couldn't even leave the barrel. AccuStrike and AccuClone darts were kind of 50/50: half would fire normally but the other half would get caught and only fly short distances. The head diameter comes close to the overall shaft diameter, so that sort of explains barrel drag... but not fully.

3. Half-length slugs showed consistent power AND accuracy. Also, the Katana instant-swap conversion between half- and full-length is awesome.

4. Modularity and ease of disassembly/reassembly are great. I look forward to field-stripping this unit at my next Nerf war, just to be able to say that I could open and close it in around two minutes or less. Not even to swap out springs or other internals.

5. Due to an injury, my left-hand grip strength is poorer than in my right hand and so I have ordered a 3D-printed Picatinny adaptor for attaching a Worker extended foregrip. Until then, I must switch temporarily to left-handed operation and pump with my stronger right.

IN CONCLUSION:

I was finally able to get this rather expensive blaster to perform to expectations, but only because I happened to have alternative ammo on hand as well as a matching magazine and adaptor, all acquired at extra cost. So is the CEDA a good value? I hesitate to answer that; in fact, I would prefer to delay until I had had a chance to shoot short darts from one of my Nerf-branded springer blasters. This would also require a conversion kit at extra cost, but this is necessary before I could compare performance and cost. 