Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27306930-20200327051029/@comment-27306930-20200328045625

The typical problem with cheap accufakes is the glue. There just isn't enough. After you shoot them a few times, the heads just go flying off into the weeds. Other than that, most accufakes seem to be pretty good darts, in my experience.

Actually, there is another problem with cheap accufakes, and that's the bias of the foam. In really powerful springers like a Caliburn or my upgraded CycloneShock "Shredder", large wedges of foam peel off the end of cheap darts. The foam has a bias, similar to the way wood has a grain. And when that bias goes from front to back, the darts literally split apart or peel like an onion in high powered blasters. Ugh, I know, rich kid problems 🙄

But even in stock flywheel blasters, the main curve of acceleration (aka the "jerk") happens when the flywheels initially grab the tip of the darts. They accelerate at about 25 FPS2. That means the tip of the dart is being pulled hardest when it's starting from a dead standstill. And if the glue joint is the weakest point, that's where it's going to fail. The one thing I can definitely say about the Adventure Force darts is the heads are glued on pretty well.

Long answer to a short question - the Adventure Force darts seem to be higher quality than most accufakes in my experience. And by extension, they probably last longer too.