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#247953 Rf20 Problem
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on 21 August 2009 - 09:51 AM
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#247885 Raider Overhaul Write-up
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on 20 August 2009 - 07:22 PM
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If you remember correctly than Ice is a filthy liar. His raider was not hitting more than 15 feet stock. And thanks.Nice work Tantum. I'm admittedly a little sad at the 40 foot range. I thought it was going to be more as Ice's stock Raider I think got higher then that; I could be wrong though. Anyway, good to see someone got something up there for it; thanks.
Well, it was actually with AR's punched out and he got 34-68ft. Not too sure what that means for your 40, but at least it's more consistent
.Oh, and here's his video for it in case you were curious.
#247863 Raider Overhaul Write-up
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on 20 August 2009 - 06:05 PM
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#247837 Blaster Measurement Topic
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on 20 August 2009 - 04:21 PM
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#247780 Question For Winter
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on 20 August 2009 - 08:12 AM
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Also here's another topic you might have missed LINKY
Ah, thanks, I had tried key words winter and snow but not cold... my bad.
#247721 Question For Winter
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on 19 August 2009 - 09:16 PM
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Okay, you kids have a way of not listening to guys with alot of experience and listening to the random members who have been nerfing for less then a year. So let me tell you I've nerfed alot during the winter and I can say without a doubt that airguns are slightly effected. You see a bit less range and more wild shots. Spring guns don't seem to be effected at all. And honestly, that's the end of discussion. Anyone who's nerfed in cold climates more then a handful of times will say the same thing. The rest is pure speculation and bullshit.
Thanks, that's all I needed to know.
#247696 Question For Winter
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on 19 August 2009 - 07:03 PM
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Some foam doesn't vary too much with temperature
What's the likelihood that they will return to normal size if they do? I'd rather not waste a few hundred darts for one night.
#247673 Question For Winter
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on 19 August 2009 - 05:34 PM
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Contrary to what Icespartan said, air guns are a bad choice. the cold very quickly compromises the integrity of tubing in most guns. I would not even consider using anything with a bladder.
Yep, that's what I was afraid of. I don't plan on being out there too long at a crack so I figure the springers would at least be okay for that time.
As for the darts, I've shot them out in the winter before and haven't seen any shrinking. I use modified stock darts, could that have anything to do with it?
#247654 Question For Winter
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on 19 August 2009 - 04:34 PM
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#243432 Basic Stormfire Mod & Ctf Description And Overview
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on 23 July 2009 - 09:40 PM
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Nice mod and writeup. With a new spring this could be one heck of a sidearm. This looks the most like a real pistol other than the lnl.
Yep, people will just have to be smart and not minimize it, paint it black and bring it to a nerf war. You know someone will. I think the orange one is going to end up pink but I'm not sure...
#243421 Lanard Sawed-off Handcannon
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on 23 July 2009 - 09:09 PM
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#243414 Basic Stormfire Mod & Ctf Description And Overview
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on 23 July 2009 - 08:53 PM
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(ranges)
I don't mean to be Devil's Advocate, but if you're claiming those ranges flat, I'll have to call BS on that. The stock spring is puny, and with stock darts I wouldn't believe anything higher than 45' at the absolute most when fired flat.
Nope, completely understandable. I should have been more clear; those are angled. I'm not accustomed to taking ranges and when I do I go somewhere between 30 and 45 degree angled shots. I can go and do then flat first thing in the morning. My reasoning behind taking them angled is that there's no reason to shoot a dart flat in a war. But I guess I can also understand the need for a universal form of range taking. Anyway, I'll be more clear in the future.
#243386 Basic Stormfire Mod & Ctf Description And Overview
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on 23 July 2009 - 07:36 PM
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30-45 Degree Angled Shots
55ft
53ft
60ft
54ft
61ft
Bear in mind these are with stock darts (taggers to be exact; I figured I'd use something everyone's familiar with), with a stock spring. Overall, I'm rather satisfied with it. Take it how you will.
#243377 Basic Stormfire Mod & Ctf Description And Overview
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on 23 July 2009 - 06:27 PM
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By the way, the Stormfire set I purchased was $39.99 at my local Toys R Us. The also sell them on walmart.com for the same price.
And yes, I like the drum set... wanted it in red but only had silver... oh well, life goes on.
#243362 Basic Stormfire Mod & Ctf Description And Overview
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on 23 July 2009 - 05:01 PM
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#243353 Basic Stormfire Mod & Ctf Description And Overview
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on 23 July 2009 - 04:23 PM
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Now we'll cover the CTF unit and all the other various accessories included.
First off, the Dart Tag vest and glasses. The glasses are pretty much the same as the old ones (only with a slightly darker frame) and have 99.9% UV and UVB ray protection as according the box. Meh.
And then we have the vests. Which are made even more usless as they no longer have a back to them. Perhaps Hasbro wanted to discourage back stabbing(shooting)? Who knows, but here it is...
And now, we have the CTF unit. Originally, I thought it was going to be a little weak, but it turned out being really cool. It has two different modes (Seek and Disarm & Capture the Flag) as I will describe very shortly.
And a comparison to a Maverick...
The unit has four options on the front. As you probably can't tell from the picture, they're "Off", "5", "15 and "Flag" in descending order. The "Off" option is quite obvious, if you don't understand it, shoot me a pm and I'll send you a name a nice psychiatric doctor I know. The "5" and "15" refer to the "Seek and Disarm" mode as the number of minutes you have to complete the task. "Flag" just refers to Capture the Flag mode.
Now, on the back, there is a description of each of the game types. But, as I'm sure you once again can not read it, I'll summerize.
Seek and Disarm: After you select either "5" or "15" on the front of the unit, you have to press the Start/Stop button on the top to start the game. You have however many minutes you chose to seek and disarm it. As it is waiting for one team to disarm it, it flashes read from the light fixture on top. To disarm the unit, you simply press the Start/Stop button on top of it. There is a catch however. If the unit is moved more then a few centimeters, it will alarm. You can use this as you choose. For example, this could just prevent the defending team from moving the device or you could just have it so when it is moved, the alarm goes off alerting the attackers to it's position. Every time the unit hits the minute mark with the timer, it will beep one time for each minute that there is left in the round. In the last ten seconds it starts alarming like cow getting a hot branding tool shoved up its ass. Overall, it seems like a pretty sweet option which I will be promptly trying out at a local war I'm hosting next week.
Capture the Flag: This type is exceptionally more simple then Seek and Disarm. Once the unit is set to "Flag" and you press the "Start/Stop" button, the game begins. All that the unit does in this round is alarm whenever it is moved. I guess this purpose of this is to give the Defending team the advantage in finding the theft. And, that's about it. To stop the game, you actually have to turn the whole unit off. I imagine it would be a lot more amusing to have a unit for each team then just using the single one, but hey, whatever floats your boat.
And, here's what the unit looks like when it's blinking...
Also note the unit takes 3 AAA batteries.
Yep, so that's about it. I hope this has been helpful and influential in your decision if you want to spring the 40 bucks to get it. I believe it was worth it if nothing more then for the CTF unit. Thank you for your time! Questions comments and flames are welcome.
#243348 Basic Stormfire Mod & Ctf Description And Overview
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on 23 July 2009 - 03:49 PM
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We'll be working with the sexy "eye raping" green SF. Now, once you open this puppy up (18 screws that need to be removed), you'll get this...
Now, if you take the tube that the plunger is inserted through, you'll see this. Obviously a "wee" bit of air is being restricted.
From here, you need to remove the green barrel with the green connector piece from the white plunger tube. It's held together by this funky glue which came apart as shown after being held over a candle for a bit. Please be careful; I don't want anyone getting burnt on my behalf.
Now we're going to be working with the green piece we remove from the plunger tube.
From here, cut the piece off that connected the barrel to the plunger tube. Now using a dremel/file/scissors, shave off enough of the interior so that whatever type of barrel you are using will fit through. This is probably the most tedious part of the mod; which isn't really saying much.
Next, take the connector piece and reconnect it with the plunger tube and your new barrel giving you something like this...
Now, once again, you'll have to file/dremel/scissorify (verb form of scissor?) out the inside of the orange piece that goes on the front of your gun so that your barrel will fit through.
From this point, you have several options. You may choose to add some foam to silence the gun a bit (it needs it) or replace the spring or whatever else you can come up with. But basically, it will look like this when all together.
Here's a close up of the catch if you're curious...
And the gun altogether again.
Now, some size comparison.
The gun is approximately 29cm long.
Just a few notes... The SF is very light and has an excellent handle being larger then most guns that have come out recently. It, unfortunately, is very loud but's spring doesn't rattle like NF's sometimes do. In addition to the two main ammo slots, there is one right below the barrel and another in the handle much like the Recon. As predicted, it has an attachment rail on tome of the gun for all of your attachment needs.
As this is essentially a basic AR removal mod, I'm not going to give you ranges as they vary from person to person depending on their spring type, barrel and darts used. In comparison though, it performs very similarly to my NF's. Overall, I'm very happy with its performance thus far.
Part 1 is done, Part 2 will be finished in the next 20 minutes or so. Thank you for reading! Please hold all questions, comments or flames until Part 2 is done or may the evil gremlins of Nerf hunt you down, boil your internals, play racket ball with your head and make stylish necklaces with your various appendages.
Edit: So Banshee made a good point. For that, I took some measurements. With the 5 stock darts I fired at 30-45 Degree Angled shots (taggers if you're curious; used because everyone's familiar with them) I got...
55ft
53ft
60ft
54ft
61ft
Bear in mind these are with stock darts, with a stock spring. Overall, I'm rather satisfied with it.
#243329 Nerf Wars On Wikipedia
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on 23 July 2009 - 01:29 PM
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#243031 Stormfire Optimzation
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on 21 July 2009 - 05:25 PM
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#243030 Pistol Splat Holster
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on 21 July 2009 - 05:17 PM
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I made a thread almost exactly like this a little while back. I think the consensus ended up being to get the holster Groove uses for his NF. I'm a cheap son of a bitch so I made one out of ducktape. There's a thread about it in my sig.
Not to hijack the thread here, but when I tried clicking on the link for the "Drop Leg Holster" from the Homemade part of your sig, it just opened the page I was already on again.
#242871 Homemade Arrows
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on 20 July 2009 - 03:55 PM
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By the way tack66... a simple mod will make a Nitefinder fire 3 times as strong/far as a Maverick. That is all.
#240536 Titan/magstrike Integration
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on 06 July 2009 - 08:17 PM
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#239491 Trimav
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on 30 June 2009 - 08:45 PM
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Edit-Oh, just Split now?
#236822 Raider Preview
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on 16 June 2009 - 07:24 PM
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#229685 Code Name Serenity
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on 11 May 2009 - 09:11 PM
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#227685 X Men Origins: Wolverine
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on 02 May 2009 - 05:26 PM
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Even though I liked it, I think it was a cheap play to get more money. The first hour of the movie was just him being a lumber jack.
I think they may do the other X-men's origins, but I hope not.
There are plans for "X-Men Origins: Magneto" and "X-Men: First Class". The former is set to revolve around Magneto as a Jew in WWII with Xavier as a soldier. It is meant to deal with Magneto going all evil with anger towards the Nazis. First Class is supposed to be based off of Cyclops's, Jean's and Beast's time at Xavier's academy as kids.
#225298 The Brass Snapper
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on 23 April 2009 - 03:34 PM
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#213889 Vera, My Supermaxx 1500
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on 21 February 2009 - 10:24 AM
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Now, the "Vera" part wouldn't happen to be a Firefly reference would it?
#206620 The Gremlin
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on 26 January 2009 - 05:49 PM
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#202124 What The Fuck?
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on 09 January 2009 - 06:50 PM
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Edit: Whoops, already answered.
#198374 I Hate Some Employees
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on 23 December 2008 - 04:44 PM
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#198367 I Hate Some Employees
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on 23 December 2008 - 04:36 PM
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#190941 Etrl Pump Shot Gun
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on 20 November 2008 - 05:03 PM
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#190757 Nf Spring
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on 19 November 2008 - 05:03 PM
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Ok thanks, is that the same spring that comes with the gun or a better one?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why put the same spring in the gun? The point is to modify it by putting in a better spring!!!!
Yes, it was a completely valid question. He was just asking if they were exactly the same. Plus, even if it was exactly the same, its better than no spring like he said he has. Anywho, I believe the 49 is slightly longer so it doesn't rattle as much, but I could be wrong.
#190293 Dart Shooting Toy Guns
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on 17 November 2008 - 05:20 PM
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#188994 Maverick Strike Fire Intigration Mod
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on 11 November 2008 - 10:28 AM
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#188847 Made A L+l...
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on 10 November 2008 - 07:08 PM
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#188118 New Buzzbee: Pump Tek
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on 07 November 2008 - 08:14 PM
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this gun is one ugly thing.
This is why buzz bee isn't as good as nerf at all. Who would want to buy a gun which nerf has made a better version of in the 90's (ballzooka).
Umm... maybe because it was made in the 90's?
Back on topic, they had these at a KB Toys that was going out of business around here a little while ago. If anyone's really interested, that might be a good place to look (assuming they all haven't gone out of business).
#187311 Nitemav/mavfinder
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on 03 November 2008 - 08:57 PM
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#186894 Accessory: Sidearm Holster
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on 01 November 2008 - 07:29 PM
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