The next year is an Aftermarket parts kit year!

 

Just when I thought it was going to be a dull year in Nerf.... well let's get back to that big news in a little bit....

First lets look at my prediction of the 4 Horsemen...  It would seem, yea, not all that interesting, however man, expensive, a Mastodon, a Rival Khaos, a Tristrike, you really have to shell some bucks....

Remember...remember when a Recon was $20, an AT was $20, an AS-10 Magstrike...$20 a AS-20....$20 a Raven...if I remember right... $20....

Wow...back in the day.. You could get every cool blaster, or at least worth having...for $20 except the Raider, Longshot and the 'Pede, but those had obvious value above $20... Obviously....

But now, every cool blaster is at least $40, and I don't like the trend of Bigger, face sized Mags, Turrets that are as big as Pizza's, Useless HAMP Gadgets that make you wonder why you paid so much...

I saw a Modulus rear stock pistol on a Rampage on FB, Holy Shit, It's huge!  The guy said that it's comfy... but shit man.. no wonder so expensive, using so much ABS plastic.......  Go small, My BoP Type L is less than a pound without a scope.

And I got to use the Mastodon, yea it works, much better than I thought it would work, but it's still heavier than one of those steel Tonka Toys I grew up with...especially the cement mixing truck.... Anyone remember that one....?  You really really might be able to sink a body in the East River in New York with one of these.... well I know it will work in Rio at least....... If a sofa will work........BUUUURRRNNNNN!

And the rebelle line, In serious trouble, the jewel/charmed/overly My little pony era of Rebelle, could it have sunk it... maybe...

Ok so your Longshot, elite colors, good move... now give it elite ranges.... better...

Blahhhhhh..... what can save this year..... SEALED BREECH BLASTERS BECOMING PRACTICAL....

When it started, you either were good with brass, or you had an Xplorer Breech and even me, good with brass, didn't like brass breeches.  I went Xplorer, I still don't regret it, wow!  Nothing like having a trooper spec Xplorer with a few touches....

But now... JET X Making the X Zeus Shell, for $150 USD "WITH" a Nylon Boltsled, only been badgering OMW to do Nylon parts for years.... well Jet X did it. 

Right now they just have the shell and the sled, but hey, they are making internals, they might actually make more, maybe an entire LS kit, I hope they do.....

But we have other sealed breech kits and darts... and IMO, they are so half massed...

Worker darts with head to foam gaps that you might be able to fit a quarter in....

Worker breeches, with plastic barrels, Remember... I brassed a OMW stage 3 because the plastic barrel attachment was crap, maybe these are better... maybe....  A lot of worker stuff looks solid, the stock, the barrel, but breech, i'll wait for V2.

Speaking of V2, the Artifact breech looks better, but you need all the way forward Stefan mags, pak-d/Xplorer/worker are center, so it means reinvestment on mags.   And then what about full draw spacing?   if your pusher is back...like an inch from the dart when you draw your Longshot? How does the dart not slip out.  

Still no dart finger, yes the breech on the Artifact/Worker breeches have tapers on the breeches and a bitchin seal.  Xplorer Tried that with V3 breeches, but V5 clearly better with the dart finger, which maintains control of the dart in the mag holding the rest of the magazines darts down while loading the one on the pusher into your dart gate.... You have to use/own an Xplorer to understand, the parts and the action is so on mine that I do not have the jam door on mine.  A trooper breech with a nylon pusher and a Hybred sled...Just looks that rad.... 

And it "could" get more inexpensive and easier for the public to get their hands on with the New Jet X company forming.

So the big news.... This is a thing now.....



That's right, Me, Drac, Justin Wilkes, Nerf Boy, Rob Poole of SBNC, PDK and some of the most well known Giants of Nerf, 8 of us in all, going to Singapore to review this....

This is unheard of, a guy with a little blog, a You tube chan of 330 subs and a Facebook chan with almost 1200 members.... Is Going to Singapore with 7 other Nerfers that can outview me on youtube.... in a day!

But I have knowledge of Xplorer, experience modding, Very popular and a wide Facebook reach..... Still can't believe it....

I'll Keep you all posted.... So Excited!!!!!


--Cartaya

Four Horsemen.

I want to give credit to who posted it first, the 4 sure to be dud blasters of 2016, but I couldn't find the FB post this morning, but it's all I thought of this morning, these are the 4 hoursemen of the Nerfpacolypse.....

Yes yes!  The 2016 Nerf lineup is not all that great.  I see a few promising blasters, a move to make the Sharpfire Blue, Double dealer looks alright as a double barrel pump action clipfed but all the others seem doomed in their own right.

 

Nerf Rival Khaos:

Coop772 said it best when he said that the magazines won't fit anywhere.  It uses a strange 4 chamber 10-12 round system that won't fit around anyones hands and/or anyone pouch. 

Something I thought of The rival Zeus and apollo mags are small and round, this avoids cracks and breakage, but what if your mag is now like....a big clear ABS.....aquarium....  Almost certain to have problems, just look at it...

There is another issue...what if... people knew a full auto mod for the Zeus (like Lord Drac)...and then...came up with a feeding device... that can be tube fed with a blower....that can in fact feed 100's of balls....

Luke Goodman did.  Now if I am a modder....which I am.... and I wanted high rof and unlimited ammo supply, would I fart around with clumsy huge mags....no.... I'de go tubefed....


Nerf Hyperfire:
Once again....I hope for a selective fire Rapidstrike the Size of an Ingram, once again Nerf put up an oversized pile of shit!   Hey, at least it's full auto, but it's weird looking....



...And not only weird looking there is one potentially devastating issue.   Sure it comes wih a 25 round drum, sure I like the grip/trigger/mag release setup,   But it shoots twice as fast as a rapidstrike, no not velocity ROF....

Hey wait?

What happens when we try to do a Voltage mod?   Oh shit?   Is it going to be too fast?.....Yes!

 

 

And we all know Drums don't do well with high RoF's, why the hell give it a drum?

Destine to fail, you now need 2 voltages to mod this and it doesn't come with 1 or even 2  of those cool flat 18's...no thanks!

Nerf Mega Mastodon

Nerf Rotofury, it's a hell of a blaster...10 rounds of slam, handy, decent velocity....but I knew it was only a matter of time till designers at Nerf lost their mind again and built something stooped...

Everyone knows me, big 6 foot tall guy still likes to battle with small pistols that can clear 50-60 yards flat and more.  I like blasters that aiming doesn't take much effort, accurate, and hauling around isn't a chore.... But then they showed us this....



This looks like it weighs 15 pounds, that huge drum must weigh at least 2-3 pounds of plastic and by god, you could throw it into the East river in New York to weigh down a body!  Forget cement shoes!

Lever action could be clumsy, just like some Hail-Fires and lo and behold...somehow...like the Hailfire....the Vulcan and the Rhino Fire....I'll end up with one collecting dust on my shelf. 

Why does everyone think bigger is better?  Longshot, roto fury, stampede, I can understand, but look at the BoP, I know many haven't fired one or seen one in play, but shit! Some times it's the sneaky little guys who win!



My complaint, one complaint and it's a dealbreaker, IT"S TOO BIG!  Rotofury is gonna be way more effective in battle and Cyclone shocks....well there you go, much better...

We have seen 3d printed Rotofury cylinders, Cyclonse shock cylinders, but this cylinder, if someone wanted to waste 10 pounds of ABS plastic filament, IS TOO BIG FOR THE CYLINDER TO POSSIBLY FIT IN A 3D PRINTER!!!!  That limits it's potential right there!

 

lastly...

The Nerf Modulus Tri-Strike:





Firstly, I hate the modulus line, in 2013 it would have been cool, but not 2016 when I mainly shoot X-Darts.  Overly gimicky, some attachments are cool, but the Ionfire is said to have less springs space than a Sharpfire.

....Sharpfire, a blaster I was able to clear 180 fps with....

The Recon MKII with the magbay incompatible with flat 18's and slow out of the box.  Sure they fixed it with new versions, but what if I get stuck with one.  the ECS 10, overpriced Rayven...and now this....

Once again a dodo blaster with neat attachment.  Air powered rocket launcher, I like that, the HAMP rocket launcher shooting a more universal ammo format, Mega darts, cool.

But the bolt action, any place for a shotgun grip?  Like a long barrel extention out of the box? no!

And what is this? like a longstrike?  how well did the longstrike shoot?

Now what would be cool is if this was a Direct Plunger longstrike mech, still it would only do 130 fps max modded.....Like a retaliator...only that you can't use a shotgun grip with...

--Cartaya

The Star Wars Nerf fad and it's dissapointing results......

 

I am NEVER amazed at the obsession Star Wars fans have for Star wars merchandise.  I can respect it, but when it is beyond practicality,  that's where I wonder....is this bordering insanity?

The new Star wars DL-44 blaster, AKA the Han Solo blaster, Nerf made a blaster out of one, and how is it?.....absolutely sucks.....  From friends who actually bought this blaster from FB forums....

*Uses a weird spring arrangement
*Has a weird  PT setup
*Shoots very poorly

Hasbro why?  why did you have to give this blaster little or no potential?  Here is what it would take to make the Nerf DL 44....decent...not great...great may not even be possible....  All of this...rebuilt from scratch.....

So....why may not great be possible?  First off, no room for a decent sized PT, even if I made one from scratch, I might get 40 cc's....at most out of a replica.  An interlocking breech could be done, yes, room for a Stefan mag, yes. But would it be worth it?

Even one made not from a Nerf blaster, the design for the DL 44 was built off a German C96 broomhandle.  It's actually a very interesting gun, selective fire and until the FBI wanted Smith and Wesson to develop the .357 magnum in 1935, it was the most powerful pistol in the world.

Why is this important?  Because this is a firearm cartridge, the design doesn't have room for a PT, best you could do is fit it in the frame, always makes for sucky Nerf blasters.

But could have Nerf built a better DL-44, hell yeah at least as good as a Retaliator.  I haven't been amused at the Star wars nerf gear,  The foam swords fall apart, the bow is awful, accurate, silent, I play with it with my sisters kids.......but awful.  The Nerf cannon in the falcon looks like it was designed by former Ukrainian Nuclear power plant workers.  What the shit man!

Nerf fans have been begging me to come up with a better design, but honestly I would need to gut it like a fish and I just don't have the resources to build a sealed breech for it.  After all...I have my hands full with the Sharpfire, can hardly keep up with demand.


--Cartaya