Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-26431461-20191124201418/@comment-27306930-20191125025557

Are you kidding, that's very exciting 😵  I would love to own another blaster with actual recoil. This design is really cool. It's very clever and deceptively simple. I'm just surprised no one has patented it till now.

After reading the embodiments, the only issue I can foresee is the trigger pull. The energy needed to pull the barrel back has to come directly from the trigger pull. Conservation of energy - the harder the recoil, the harder the trigger pull. And when your target market can be as young as 8, there are some practical limitations on how hard that can be.

Even if you picked a happy medium and went with a mild to moderate recoil, an SMG-ish blaster like this is going to tire your finger out in no time. It'd be cool, but probably not practical.

That being said, this would be AWESOME in a semi or auto ESC blaster. The energy of the recoil could come straight from the batteries. Obviously it wouldn't do crap for battery life, but hey that's a small price to pay for being EPIC 🤪

Thanks again FLAT. Highlight of my day !