Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27306930-20170606234825/@comment-27306930-20170607223807

Okay, I think I've found something really interesting. There are four little "nubs" at the end of the flywheel cage, right before the joint with the barrel on the older Elite Stryfe. For the life of me, I can't figure out what their function is. In fact, the newer XD Stryfe does not have these nubs, which leads me to believe it was yet another improvement in the Stryfe design as it evolved from the Elite into its XD form.

The further down the road, the more I'm finding the differences between the Elite and the XD Stryfe go way beyond its paint scheme.

With higher RPM motors it's conceivable that the margins of error are greatly increased, and as a result the tolerances need to be relaxed a bit. I'm thinking the darts are grazing off the nubs first, which in turn causes them to ricochet off the inside wall of the barrel extension.

Tonight's mission: remove the offending nubs - aka Operation Protuberance