Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-38684270-20200206010234/@comment-27306930-20200219050133

Rskm1 wrote: ... This was basically just to accommodate the rather superfluous fins on the first generation of Sharpshooter Darts. No doubt 👍 The other inherent problem with Reverse Barrels (or Reverse Dart Posts as I like to call them) is the barrel is only effective for the internal length of the dart. In other words, once the dart leaves the dart post, the acceleration is over. More traditional barrels have the advantage of being able to accelerate a dart over many times its length.

That being said, few if any Nerf blasters take advantage of that. For instance a Jolt barrel only uses 80% of the length of the dart. Even blasters like the LongShot only leverage 90% of the dart's overall length.

So now that I'm thinking about it, maybe it's a moot point. For Hasbro stock blasters anyway. It probably isn't until you get to superstock that this even comes into play.

So, nevermind 😉