Shell (Buzz Bee)

A shell is a Buzz Bee dart shell that was released in 2005.

Shells come packaged with several blasters; refill packs can also be purchased on the Buzz Bee website.

Details
A Buzz Bee shell is a piece of plastic with a molded slot for darts to be placed in, and acts as if a regular shell would in a real weapon. The shell uses an orange molded appearance, becoming skinnier about half way through the shell's body. These have been used in many Buzz Bee blasters since their introduction with the Rapid Fire Rifle and Double Shot Dart Blaster in 2005. They are very sturdy and unlikely to break from being dropped or stepped on, mostly due to the fact the shell is meant to be ejected from a blaster at a relatively quick speed.

A very large air restrictor is found inside every shell which can be difficult to remove. Removing the air restrictor vastly improves shell performance in most blasters. Though Buzz Bee darts have been released in a variety of different colours, the shell has always remained orange in nearly every international release; in only a select amount of markets where Buzz Bee ammunition is marketed in the color green, shells match this green color scheme.

Reputation
The shell is much maligned and has an extremely poor taste in the dart blaster community. The vast majority of blasters designed to use shells cannot fire in excess of thirty feet and modifying blasters to reject the use of shells is very common. The shell also carries little to no value whatsoever market-wise, as the only point to these shells are realism. It is an additional point of difficulty for the shell's popularity.

Buzz Bee themselves seem to be drifting away from shells as of late, with shells only being used in shotgun-esque blasters; newer blasters, unlike older, shell-fed blasters such as the Clip Tek, have ignored shells in favor of cross-compatibility with other brand platforms.

Color schemes
The shell has been released in the following color schemes:


 * Standard (orange)
 * Overseas variant (green)

Compatible blasters

 * Clip Tek
 * Double Shot
 * GunSmoke
 * Hawk
 * Mustang 6
 * Predator
 * Rapid Fire Tek
 * Rick's Shotgun
 * Torrent

Trivia

 * As the air restrictor is located in the shell itself, dry-firing their patron blasters without shells loaded will still damage the blaster's plunger head.