Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-26431461-20190202194943

Hmm, on the back of this Stockade box, it refers to the act of priming as "cocking", under "Semi-Auto. No cocking! Just pull the trigger and fire!"

While "cocking" or "charging" is technically a more correct term than "priming", it isn't completely errenous to call the action of readying a blaster "priming", as priming the blaster usually generates the power required to fire the dart.

And usually nobody in the Nerf community refers to it as cocking, and instead say "priming" so we'll just leave it out to make stuff less complicated. If we listed every single alternative word for an action or a component, we will be here all day.

So yeah, I thought that was pretty interesting because I thought Hasbro only referred to it as a "priming handle". 