Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27306930-20180925063614

Tonight I got to mod an Air Warriors Extreme Blastzooka. In its stock form it's arguably one of the best Nerf missile launchers ever made. Modded, it's even better.

As it turns out, the internals are incredibly simple. In fact, other than the priming handle there's really only one other component - the air reservoir/barrel. The rest is just the shell.

To triple the range, you just drop a bit of hot glue in the cup of the plunger head. That's it, mod done. Okay, I smeared a drop of silicone lube on the O-ring before reassembling. But seriously, that's the extent of it.

So here's where this starts to get counterintuitive. In its stock form, the XBZ and its yellow missiles are way more accurate than the stock Nerf missiles, and they have better range. Can't hit a barnside with those Nerf missiles.

Flash forward to the now modded XBZ. When fully primed, it regularly rips the yellow missile off the black fin section. Target missed, missile destroyed, mission fail !

But those orange Nerf missiles are molded from a single foam piece. They stand up extremely well to the pressures generated by the modded XBZ. And they fly straighter and farther. Go figure.

Bottom line, two thumbs up for the modded XBZ,  plus original Nerf missiles. So watch your backs gents ! It's raining Nerf. 