Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27985798-20200503233516/@comment-27306930-20200620003405

Some folks might call this a circular conversation. But I'd be comfortable with a 7kg Retaliator spring. It's about three times as stiff as the stock spring, but we all know doubling the spring is perfectly safe. If you're leaving the AR in place, a 7kg spring will most assuredly work just fine - for a good long time.

Plus, you'll get a huge increase in performance with a 7kg spring. Many nerfers don't realize increasing the force of the spring isn't a linear function. If you double the spring, you won't necessarily get twice the FPS. Hypothetically you could put a 25kg spring in your Snipe, but you wouldn't get 10 times the stock velocity - or 700 FPS. It just doesn't work that way for a variety of reasons. (WARNING: Calculus is required to explain some of this behavior)

When you increase the strength of the spring, the darts accelerate out of the barrel faster. And once it leaves the end of the barrel, extra air no matter how fast it's moving isn't going to help. But the "barrel" in most nerf blasters is about 3" long. So the time that the dart is actually being accelerated gets shorter and shorter as you increase the strength of the spring and cause the darts to exit the barrel faster and faster. At some point you encounter the law of diminishing returns. I'm not sure where that line is with the Snipe, but realistically a 1000kg spring probably won't perform much better than a K26.

Bottom line, grab that 7kg Retaliator spring. Throw it in your Snipe. Test it. Take videos. Take pics. Then post your findings. Seriously, we're all dying to know 👍