Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-26431461-20171103015139

Most springers with a stock attachment point have a stick coming out of the stock attachment, like the Retaliator. This is to accomodate the plunger rod on the end of the plunger head. But why is this part nessasary?

Look at a Sharpfire. Look at its internals. It has a stand-alone plunger head with no plunger rod. If it did, it would have a giant stick coming out of the back. The plunger head is its own piece sitting in a tube, with nothing but the spring behind it. So why can't springers do this to eliminate the pesky sticks at the ends? Is there a reason for this?

EDIT: I've found some after-market plunger rods that make it much shorter like this one. Why can't nerf do this either?  