Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-30373083-20170123003156

 We were doing some target practice this weekend, mostly playing a game that we invented that uses the little foam cans you find on Amazon, eBay, and Aliexpress. After playing for awhile, I realized this was the perfect test range to finally do a dart-vs-dart comparison using a few of our favorite blasters. I tried out Whistler Darts, Elite Darts (technically Doomlands, since they seemed to be in the best shape), Double-Xs, RadEagles, and the new Accustrike darts.



 I also have a set of FVJs, but this seemed like enough. I enjoyed this enough the first time around but could see how this could pretty quickly cross the line between “fun” and “chore.” :)



Here’s a glimpse of my Test Range, along with the rules I used for the tests. Hopefully this is clearly written...



And here are the results. I started with the simplest blaster in our collection - a Jolt. Here are the results:
 * 1)  The target box was set up 10 feet away from the firing line, at a height of about 4 feet
 * 2)  The same stance and grip were used every time I fired. I won’t pretend the results were scientific by any means, but it’s at least Mythbusters-level experimentation and consistency
 * 3)  The target cans were stacked in a 1-2-3 pyramid (25 on top, 25 and 25 in middle, 50, 100, and 50 on bottom)
 * 4)  Each weapon fired three Rounds of three darts each (nine darts total)
 * 5)  Each can was worth “face value” (25, 50, or 100 points per can)
 * 6)  A 25 point bonus was awarded if all six cans were hit during a Round (a score of 300 points for a complete pyramid knockdown)
 * 7) <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> If all the cans were knocked down by the first or second dart in a round, they were reset. So potentially, a Round had a maximum value of 900 points if each of the three darts could knock down all six cans.
 * 8) <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> Once a Round was complete, the score was recorded and the cans were reset for the next Round
 * 9) <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> Once three Rounds were finished with one dart type, another dart type was loaded and three new Rounds were fired



<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"DroidSerif";font-size:16px;font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Like most of you suspect, RadEagles were the big winner. But in a twist I wasn’t expecting, Accustrikes did score higher than Double-Xs. Whistler Darts were also surprisingly effective. Elite Darts were a joke; I was lucky if they even hit inside the target box, let alone if they struck any of the foam cans.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"DroidSerif";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">Oh, I expect to see more single-Round scores of 175 points. It’s what my daughter calls the “50/50 split.” It’s when all of the 25-point cans and the 100-point can are hit by the first dart, but both of the 50-point cans are left standing (with a huge gap in the middle). Trying to shoot that felt exactly like trying to deal with a 7/10 split on a bowling alley.

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"DroidSerif";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">More results to follow! <ac_metadata title="CLKEagle&#039;s Great Dart Shootout"> </ac_metadata>