Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-26431461-20200614204406

A few years ago I had the dumb idea of removing the dart posts from my SledgeFire shells. I did this by making two cuts with a pair of pliers on the plastic bars the attach the post to the shell.

Picture to the left. This isn't my image, but I made 2 cuts where the blue bars are in the picture (except with all 3 chambers).

I didn't think it would do any damage, but when I used the shells in the SledgeFire, the darts would only go a few feet.

I suspect that the portion of the bar that I cut off somewhat engages the air restrictor, or at least keeps it in line. I guess when the darts are loaded in a normal shell, the air restrictors get pushed down due to the back of the darts. But with my modified shells, now that there is a gap in the bar, the pin of the ARs slip into the back hole of the dart and do not get engaged fully.

Is there any way around this?

I don't want to pin the ARs down permanently because of dry fire issues. Also with stock ARs, if only 1 dart is loaded, then it goes farther. But with the ARs pinned down, it only goes as far as if there were 3 loaded. 