Just curious, where is this "Winding River"? Im in GA, going to college at GCSU in BFE. I don't know what my schedule will be like, but Im just getting back to nerf and now that Im old enough to drive I would love to actually make it to a large war. I used to have wet dreams of LANO and its ilk.

I'm wondering if you have any plans for retreiving the shells. It looks like they just fall out, which is fine, and I'd imagine they aren't hard to find, but I would still hate to loose 'em. Maybe you could make a little box or sack that would hang just next to and under the ejection port to catch the ejecting shells? Just thinking.

Anyways, great mod. Very nice idea, excellent execution.

Oh, one other question, why is the handle so long? Maybe it isn't bad with the clip on, but right now it looks kinda goofy, at least in pictures. I don't think you would even need it to be as long as the grips, you could make it super short like the bolt on a rifle and not grip it with your entire hand. Just my thoughts on perfecting an already truly righteous mod.

I just ordered 12' off of mcmaster. Its not expensive and is sold in 6' instead of 100' Lets hope is decent product, tho I won't terribly miss an hour's pay if it is crap (I get paid crumbs working at college).

I have a warthog back home that broke after years of use (it was my favorite pistol, so small and strong, always caught people by surprise!) that I intend to pick up while Im there. I want to try to fix good old "Bertha" as she was called, but it won't be till next weekend. If no one else gets photos up before that I'll take some pics for you.

Vintage, just judging by the way they sit I'd say they left it with three. Having only two arranged like that wouldn't make much sense anyways.

I don't want to hijack here, but I'm a bit rusty on the nerf news and since this is a barrel topic I figured it would be ok to ask here.

What happened to PVC? I only see it used to reinforce weaker brass and PETG nowadays, even on plunger guns. I understand the advantage of brass and PETG having lower friction, but last I knew the theory was that the added friction of the PVC as opposed to brass on a plunger gun was that since the plunger takes longer to release all its air then the PVC would hold the dart longer and allow for the pressure to build up better before setting the dart in motion. It was believed that letting the friction keep the pressure building a bit longer would increase the range better than a slick brass barrel (we didnt have PETG back then).

Has this been disproven or something? I was just wondering. I feel like an old geezer trying to program a new VCR or something.

All right, I did this in my dorm, without access to most of my old gear like goop, bondo, hot-glue, or any barrel material. I’m going home next weekend to get my old stuff and buy some new materials (I just ordered some PETG, which I had never heard of in the old days). I plan on making this a bit prettier and replace the barrels on both the NF and SSPB portion of the gun. I also want to use bondo to clean up the hole where the light used to be, leave just enough room for the darts.

My goal was to put a SSPB in the front of my NS, and put ammo storage in the grip and old light cavity. Not really that hard, though all I had was a knife, no dremel or glue of any kind. I war in daylight and know how to aim, so that LED was useless and weighty.

What I did was simple, but I wanted to share this so people know it’s easy and do-able. Besides, this is my first mod in a couple years, so I want to show others. First you open the case and take out the air restrictors and such, all the standard plunger gun mods. Remove the light assembly; it’s a simple matter of undoing a few screws. The trickier part is cutting the gun down to fit the black pieces.



I cut off the front bracket for the ammo holder, and trimmed the sides of the back bracket so that the SSPB fit snugly. There was no way to make it fit in the front half due to the angled cap on the plunger tube. I’m sure I could replace the tube or something to make it fit, but like I said I didn’t have the gear. I plan on modding the SSPB so it will fit better and put it in one of my other NFs and just trim this one down completely (PPK I think people are calling it), maybe put the LED back in - the lense.

You also need to trim down the ribs in the battery compartment. Cut them so that the black piece from the ammo slots in the front fits in at the back of the compartment. Just snug it up against the back piece that used to hold the contacts. You will also need to trim the black piece down some. If you look it’s thicker in the middle, just trim the thicker areas off with a knife and definitely cut off the little black pegs. The plastic is a bit heftier than most of the gun, but it’s not too bad. Slide it into the area you trimmed from the battery compartment and it should stay fine on its own. The trimming wasn’t an exact science, just keep trimming till it fits, there is a lot of extra plastic you don’t need because it’s not going to take much of a beating inside the gun.



Here I have highlighted the areas I had to cut down. I know you can't see much detail; I just wanted to point out the areas. You should be able to figure how exactly what to trim on your own. One of the black ammo holder pieces is still whole in this pic while the other is fully trimmed to go in the grip of the gun. The one that is whole will be halved and trimmed slightly for the front ammo holder.

I haven’t gotten the ammo holder in the front yet because I don’t have any adhesive with me, but I've trimmed the hole so that I know it will work. If you just take the thin half of the other black dart-holder piece (not the one you put in the grip, that one I left whole) and trim the rounded edges it should fit horizontally in the area that used to hold the light. The entire piece won’t fit due to the rounded section between the two brackets. You will also need to cut out the peg that the light was screwed in to or the darts will hit it. Anyways, you should be able to glue the thin half of the black piece right in the front of the gun and trim the hole the light came out of just a bit too either side. I've already tested it and it works, I just need glue.



It’s not the prettiest, but it works, and in my day that was what really mattered (I've seen a lot of shots taken at people with mods that don’t look purdy in my recent browsing). You now have two shots and 4 extra darts. The SSPB's firing button can comfortably be depressed with either your trigger finger or your middle finger (my preference). It fits very snugly in the back bracket (obviously since I had to trim the edges a bit) and doesn’t wiggle at all, either when pumping or firing. Very solid feel to it. I’m not even sure the duct tape is necessary, but Id rather not risk breaking the back bracket.

So that’s it. Sorry it's not perfect or 100%, but you get the idea. Like I said, I mainly was just proud that I got it to work as I had hoped. When I first saw the NF in Target I thought, "Hey, I don’t really Nerf anymore, but I should still get a gun to take to college for kicks, and this looks like a solid plunger design." Then I saw the SSPB on the rack above it and immediately knew I had to try to combine them, even though I hadn’t touched a gun recently. I’m glad to see both lived up to my expectations, especially since I bought 4 NFs because they were cheap. One for each suitemate was the plan... I got greedy.

Hey guys, whats up? Im just getting back into Nerf after a bit of a hiatus. Most of my old guns were breaking and I was tired of fixing them, then NerfOnline went down, then my main Nerf buddy moved, so I just dropped the hobby. Well I get to college and find nerf alive and well in a campus-wide nerf tournament. Now I have 4 Nite Finders and a N-Strike kit coming and I'm loving it. Ive missed this hobby so much.

I dont recognize most of these names, but I remember a few of you from NerfOnline (Lemmy, CXWQ, VACC, maybe a couple others) and its nice to see some of the more experienced guys I used to respect are still active. (Spoon still around?) You guys may remember me as "Viron_X", but likely not. Anyways, just saying hello. Ive got a NF/SSPB splice Im going to post later tonight, its my first time opening a gun in a couple years and Im pleased to say I didnt mess up anywhere.