Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-3362895-20180630231916/@comment-27306930-20180710055345

Sorry gents, was off on a long weekend playing with antique steam engines. No internet service up in them thar hills. Good to be back in civilization.

For starters, I had a dozen misconceptions about SCAR barrels, starting with its very name. Multiple articles on the web claim SCAR stands for String-based Auto Centering and Rotating. But think about it, that would spell SACR. As best as I can determine, it actually stands for "String-based Centering and Auto Rotation". At the time, everyone in the NIC was talking about dart rotation and improved accuracy, and how great rifling was. Hence, the SCAR was born.

So I bought a SCAR for my Caliburn thinking it was a be-all end-all rifle attachment. WRONG. As our friend Captain Slug pointed out, SCAR barrels have nothing to do with rifling, or rotation, or any of the other things that "SCAR" implies. In reality it's a way to deal with Turbulence Induced Tailspin. (Yeah, you figure out the acronym)

Simply put, the a̶c̶c̶u̶r̶a̶c̶y̶  consistency of many blasters is affected by excess air slamming against the tail end of the darts as they exit the barrel. In other words, all that non-linear turbulent air bangs into the tail end of your darts, steering them off into the weeds. We've all experienced it, right ?

Slug's SCAR barrel is actually designed to vent all that random exhaust away from the dart so it can travel straight as it exits the barrel. The fishing lines cradle the darts and allow all the turbulent air to vent around it, allowing the dart to exit true with respect to the barrel. In reality, it has nothing to do with "auto" or "rotation", or "rifling". They should have just called it the "SC" barrel attachment, and left out the bogus "A" and the "R". Then again, it wouldn't have sounded so cool 😎