Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27306930-20161106231437/@comment-27306930-20161107042600

Sounds like you know what you're doing Monsieur Eagle. I think the trick is several short dunks. Sometimes when I've got a bad one, I'll dunk it horizontally and let some of the boiling water travel up the center cavity. But never more than 5 or 6 seconds.

But "massively swollen" means they're boiled too long. And watch out for the outside corners of the tail. Often they'll curl inward and you'll wind up with severly rounded butt-end (for lack of a better word). They won't work right with many ARs. Just throw those out.

But generally, I've had really good luck salvaging darts with the boiling water method. Definitely more than 50% recoverability. Boil 'em baby, boil 'em 😉