Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-26431461-20180125011445

I've had a Nerf magazine design in mind for a long time, but never really shared it because I don't know how practical it is.

So, as you all know, magazines in most springers can only be removed and inserted with the bolt sled in the back position, since the mag release on most blasters is locked when the bolt is forward, and the bolt catches onto the magazine lips, and makes it impossible to take it out (you can rip out magazines if you've removed the magazine release locks, but this can damage them). On Rival and Vortex springers, you can remove the magazine whenever you want since the bolt is not in the way, but it is different with dart-fed springers.

Enough explaining. Here's the design. It's a bit hard to explain.

So, what if magazines had lips that could fold outward? (magazine lips are the curved plastic parts on the top of a magazine that stop ammuntion from coming out). Here are a few advantages.

1. This would make it easier to remove and insert the magazine from a blaster with its bolt forward since instead of the solid pieces of plastic bending to overcome the bolt. This way, you can insert and remove magazines without having to pull the boltsled back.

2.  With this, you can perform what is known in real life as a "wet reload", when you reload mid-magazine with 1 round in the chamber (there are some flaws with wet reloads, since you would be left with partial magazines, but that is not due to this design, since you can do wet reloads with empty chambers with regular magazines, as explained in Fuzzy Walrus7's video ). So if you had an 18 round magazine, you could have 19 rounds. Not very practical in a Nerf war setting to have 1 extra dart, but it would be pretty handy.

3. You can fold the mag lips outward manually with your hands to eject all the rounds in a magazine.

That's all I could think of. If you think this is a dumb idea, feel free to say it. But even if it is dumb, I don't see many disadvantages with this design, other than it being more costly to produce. 