Board Thread:Questions and answers/@comment-27306930-20160211031722

Let me entertain you with a tale of two blasters.

I have two StrongArms, one direct from OMW with the preinstalled Unleashed kit (metal trigger, 7k spring, O-rings, and POM plunger), and another that I modded myself with the same kit, but also removed the air restrictors. Let it be said that I did a really nice job removing the AR, dart posts, and went so far as to reshape the stanchions so that darts slide down the barrel to the exact right depth.

So here’s the kicker. The OMW blaster outperforms my StrongArm without its air restrictors, using regular darts. And when I say “regular” darts I mean Nerfs, FVJs, Gen-3s, knockoffs, and a variety of other darts I’ve collected over time. But since my StrongArm has no dart posts, I can use Stefan darts. And when I use stefans, OMG, it is a beast. I don’t think I’ve ever seen darts come out faster from a Nerf gun than this modified StrongArm. It's blazingly fast. And the sound is awesome.

So my question is … WTF ??? You’d think the StrongArm without the AR would outperform the same blaster with its AR intact. There is clearly something counterintuitive going on here. It's late and I’ve just had too much vodka to make sense of it all ;-)

Comments welcome. 