Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-30086876-20161220005221/@comment-27923854-20161223005134

Alright folks, listen up. I will now explain rifling and nerf barrels, as I'm seeing that ya'll don't get it.

Barrels first.

If you add a barrel to any blaster (exluding homemade snipers, brass LS's, or a brass voltage modded Stryfe), it decreases the range for two reasons.

One, since the barrel is relatively narrow, and the only way for air to get out is out the muzzle, the dart has to displace all that air, slowing it down. Now that I explained the first reason in ever-so scientific terms, I will move on to the second.

There is a long standing debate over whether or not a dart touches the barrel, and the answer is, it does. There is no other way to explain the blue on the inside of my barrels. So obviously, the dart will be slowed down due to this thing called friction.

Note: the bouncing does not decrease accuracy unless your dart is made of flubber. Think about it. If the dart hits the barrel, it means it's not going straight. Inaccuracy can be defined as a dart not going straight. Never heard of flubber? Google it.

Now the rifling.

As we have already established, the dart does bump the barrel, so if the little ridges in the barrel are at an angle (Which they are in rifled nerf barrel), it knocks the dart off to the side. It won't cause the dart to spin nicely since it contacts only one side of the dart, so as a result, the dart will leave the barrel spinning slightly and at an angle. With no rifling, the dart hits the barrel, and when it bounces off, it straightens the dart's trajectory. With the fake rifling, it makes it worse. Each bounce messes it up more. Of course, the barrel is not very long, so it won't always mess it up very much.

I am not saying that rifling is bad, just the rifling in all the over-sized nerf barrels. If you made a barrel that had an inner diameter of about .52 inches (the outer diameter of a new dart), and hooked it up to real big plunger or air tank, then you would get a ridiculously  accurate blaster. The reason? Do some research on what real rifling does. (What, you want me to explain it?  Forget it.  I'm to lazy to do something to pander to your laziness)

Disagree with me? Go shoot thousands of darts from your fifty-odd modded blasters, then come argue with me. Or shoot ten darts from your new retaliator. Same thing, right?