Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-30049823-20190906060611

So I've got a big dumb Thunderhawk now, and I'm sitting here looking at it with a disapproving scowl and a furrowed brow.

It's big in so many dimensions. And it's dumb in so many ways.

But let's start with the short list of good things:

- At least it still has a clip, unlike most [expletives deleted] Battlescouts, because you need to use a Post-it Note or paperclip to remove it, it doesn't just pull out without any thinking.

- The bolt throw is slightly longer than a Mega dart. As compared to the Centurion, which requires you to hook up a pickup truck to the bolt handle and drive it across the street to prime it.

- The end.

Stuff like "the bipod isn't removable" is kind of a wash, because that has pros AND cons to it.

Now for the dumb stuff:

- It's ambidextrous and has an enormous buttplug-sized handle on BOTH sides of the bolt, which is probably great if you have tiny greasy hands or something, but mostly just gets in the way.

- The giant sliding part is an aesthetic gimmick and nothing more. The sides are open so you can't even argue that it stops the wind from blowing the dart off course for the first foot of travel.after leaving the clip.

- The lone rail you might be tempted to put a scope on is ON THE SLIDING PART, so when you extend it forward you'll also need to pull one of your eyeballs out of its socket and stretch your optic nerves about a foot further than they're designed to stretch.

So, how do we make this thing less dumb? 