Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27035444-20161030181113/@comment-30373083-20161031024912

Okay, fine, I WILL reveal myself!

Yes, I have been lurking on this forum for awhile now, and happily swiped the "RadEagle" and "DoubleX" names from here. I'm an old Nerfer from WAY back when (still have my original Kenner Bow N' Arrow with two of the three original arrows, and swear I have an NB-1 hiding somewhere else). But recently, my family and I started our journey down the modern Nerf rabbit hole when my daughter, out of the blue, got me the Zombie Strike FlipFury as a gift last Christmas. In turn, I got her a Rebelle Heartbreaker for her ninth birthday (though she accidentally cut off the elastic bow strings, thinking they were part of the packaging), she got me a non-deluxe Stormtrooper blaster for my birthday, and now we have about a dozen blasters in our "active" collection, plus a few more in storage.

We pretty regularly have shootouts around our house and backyard. She's still nine and her brother is only three (he has become extremely talented with the little Marvel Hawkeye bow), so safety is my number one priority. We're also in the process of planning massive indoor Nerf battle for the girl's tenth birthday party next spring. So we're testing all kinds of blasters and darts getting ready for that.

The solid-head generic replacement darts are completely unsuitable for small children. First time we had a family battle with them, by three-year-old had bruises that lasted about a day. So, while looking for better options that would still be cheaper than Elite darts, I discovered that this Wiki (that I had known about for years) happened to have a forum. Thanks to all of you, I managed to discover the Rad-Eagles (though I had to read five or six different threads to figure out what on earth you were talking about), and they were a definite improvement over the solid-heads. Then I managed to stumble across the Double-X darts just browsing Amazon, and ordered them as soon as I saw a positive thread about them on this site.

So without a doubt, we're going to use the Double-X darts at her party next year. They are also the only darts we allow to be used on each other in our household fights. Instead of being frightened (like he was from the solid-head darts), my little boy now begs me to shoot him any time he sees me idly pick up a blaster for target practice. Talk about "kid tested!"

Enough already of my life story. Glad to be here!