Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27306930-20191007182806

I feel very lucky to have bought two blasters this past month, and really liked both of them. The first was the Dart Zone Spin, and the second was the Dart Zone . At just $30 this is a really fun blaster !

The top carry handle and the position of the triggers are clearly designed for shooting from the hip, Rambo style. That's a personal fave, and I just love it. The blaster isn't huge, so it doesn't feel unwieldy. In fact older Nerfers can probably hold it up and shoot it like a pistol.

But one of the coolest features is the hopper system. It's very similar to the Commandfire. The whole top opens up and you just dump darts in it. It works best when you grab a handful of darts all pointed in the same direction, and just plop them in the hopper. It's actually harder to load individual darts than whole handfuls. There's a small door on the side for loading individual darts, but I found it clunky. Just open the top. It's so easy.

Amazingly, the Destructor shoots 4 dart per second on regular alkaline batteries. The box says 3 DPS, but my chrono consistently reads 4 DPS. It has a lot of inconsistency in the feeding mechanism, so the stream of darts if often temporarily interrupted, but it's really not a problem. In my opinion, 4 DPS is the ideal rate of fire. Too much faster and you're just wasting darts.

The other amazing thing is it shoots nearly 100 FPS. The first few darts in a salvo are consistently in the upper 90's, then it falls to the mid 70's during continuous fire. And that's on regular AA alkalines. If you're burst firing, almost all the shots are in the 90's ! Compared to Hasbro blasters that almost always shoot around 69 FPS, the Destructor will definitely, um, destruct your opponents.

And of course lastly it comes with 30 awesome DZ Darts. Maybe the best darts for the money in Nerf right now. I didn't count, but the hopper can clearly take more than 30 darts, so grab a box of 200 while you're at it.

Drac did a review of the Zone Destructor back in July. He liked it, but wasn't super impressed. I'm not sure why. There's very little to dislike about it. As far as I'm concerned, any time you can find an inexpensive bone stock blaster that shoots nearly 100 FPS at 4 DPS, just buy it.

Two thumbs up from me 👍👍 