Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27546177-20160127053746/@comment-27306930-20160203042910

Touché ! You are a gentleman and a scholar Mr. Mojo, and an astute fellow at that ;-)

The only thing I have to add is that Flat is right on one point. When you take the same motors, and the same flywheels, and 4 AA batteries, mix them up and put them in six different blasters, you pretty much get the same performance out of each one. As the clever and flippant Mrs. ElliottW might say, "Beans and rice, or rice and beans, my dear ?" (I hate her sometimes)

But the point isn't lost on me. It's the same flywheel recipe for a number of Nerf products over the past 3 years. The only way to significantly upgrade these types of blasters is with a battery upgrade, or a flywheel replacement. Flywheel replacements have their advantages, I've discovered. But you can only go so far with battery upgrades before you need wiring upgrades. Next they'll be talking about switch upgrades.

Criminy, I'm wordy tonight, must be all the vodka. (Kids, ignore that last comment ... until you're 21 of course) But I'm coming to Mojo's defense. A Rampage is not a reshelled Alpha Trooper, despite the fact that they use nearly identical springs, hold exactly the same amount of ammo, and shoot the same kinds of darts the same distance. Sorry, Rampage <> Alpha Trooper, IMO

On that note I'm going to plink some targets and head to bed. Nerf on my brothers...