Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-3362895-20151227044830

Tonight I grabbed a small bundle off Kijiji, consisting of:

- a Hail-Fire, something I had been looking for all summer;

- a Sonic Barrel Break; and

- a Sonic Vortex Praxis with a Nitron scope.

The Hail-Fire turned out to be something of a disappointment due to its frequent jamming and low muzzle velocity, but as with many flywheel blasters, I suspect that the extreme wear of its included darts affected performance significantly. I've allocated a fresh batch of thirty-six darts for continued testing, and will try to use both eight 6-round mags (#rolleyes) and some 18/35-round mags. But the weak flywheels will eventually have to be punished with some IMR's, as shown successfully by LordDrac on YouTube.

The Barrel Break is quite pretty, and visually matches the Sonic Maverick and Sonic Recon I got myself for Christmas (also via Kijiji). And like its newer cousin the Sledgefire, it's oddly quite fun to play with for casual plinking - albeit outside of combat, due to poor ROF. However, its range is downright pitiful! Apparently OMW used to carry upgrade springs for it and does no longer. :-( Perhaps I can substitute or add a similar one; research must begin.

The Praxis is the true jewel in this bunch. Previously I had gotten a Proton and Nitron from the Vortex disc series. The Proton was pretty neat for a single-shooter, but the Nitron was big, bulky, ugly, cumbersome and stubbornly committed to firing 10-15 degrees rightward!! Praxis fixes all that and also doesn't require batteries. The discs don't fly very fast and in fact reach their range by gliding, but for the moment I don't mind that.

Hope you all have had some enjoyable Christmas Nerfing! 