Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27306930-20161224070925/@comment-27306930-20161229021305

So I did a little test tonight my friends.

I took a well-loved RadEagle and drew 14 fine lines about an 8th inch apart from head to tail down the body of the dart with a Sharpie, then fired it repeatedly out of my LongShot with a rifled barrel extension, and filmed it with the Slo-Mo feature on my iPhone. (And BTW,  Slo-Mo = friggin' AWESOME! )

The theory being, you should be able to visually detect any sign of rotational movement in the dart as it exits the barrel to determine if "rifling" is actually occurring. Keep in mind, the LongShot already has a substantial rifled barrel, and the Long Range Barrel Extension also has a decent rifled barrel. So if rifling was a factor, the effect should be doubled with twice the barrel.

So copy this video onto your iPhone 6 or 7 and replay in Slo-Mo mode. It's pretty clear there's no rotation. The lines I drew on the dart are perfectly parallel throughout the trajectory, with absolutely no evidence of spinning of any kind.

Conclusion: the faux rifling is um, well, faux.

Case closed.