Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-28773666-20190719181311/@comment-29595756-20190720030408

The old Magstrike used a really weird system, it was sort of a reverse plunger and a direct plunger combined. It's actually quite interesting.

The plunger was fixed and had a hole in the head for air which would fill the tube and the tube would move forward, a lot like a reverse plunger. When the tube is full, a valve opens and the air is shot out by the power of the compressed spring (which fires the dart). This also rams a lever to advance the clip upwards.

I don't know how they could really improve it. Sure you could add a stiffer spring or a larger plunger tube, but that would mean less rate of fire, or more pumping to make up for the higher pressure needed. Maybe they just redesigned the clip to have a better seal with Elite Darts (the old one was pretty loose) and left the internals pretty much the same.