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#140486 What Was Your First Nerf Gun?

Posted by wardrive on 15 February 2008 - 06:30 PM in General Nerf

A RatchetBlast, I loved that gun. The little sight on it. I even practiced with it until I could prime it with a single hand, I was about 8 or 9.

#258692 Van Helsing Revolver Crossbow

Posted by wardrive on 12 December 2009 - 03:12 AM in General Nerf

Wow, this looks interesting. Unfortunately, movie guns usually aren't too easy to acquire well after the movie is out..

#272595 Turrets Info

Posted by wardrive on 18 April 2010 - 04:26 PM in Homemades

I bought a Maverick for a a buck fifty, at the local goodwill. It shot a little sharp (less "oohmpfff" and more "shhnkk"), but other than that it worked fine. You can also fin "spare parts" in the form of other toy guns that are handy if you're doing cosmetic mods or you need plastic..

#263752 Turning The Nerf Bandolier Into A Belt.

Posted by wardrive on 30 January 2010 - 01:30 AM in Modifications

All too often we have people like "Nerfchild" who seem to vomit whatever idea is on their mind. I hope you don't take offense, sometimes people get a little tired of dealing with kids posting stuff like this..

All too often we get things like this..

#140537 The Vulcan

Posted by wardrive on 16 February 2008 - 01:53 AM in General Nerf

Let's hope not, As much as I like the sound of a 4 foot long Nerf gun than takes about 7 Seconds ( 7 Very Long Seconds) to fire, maybe this thing will be good.

As for Modding, I heard plenty of stories about mods to that electric abomination of buzzbee's. The stories usually ended with the Gun catching on fire, melting, making loud popping noises followed by a small explosion and puff of very black smoke. So moding the motor system would be a risky proposition. I hope the Vulcan Doesn't turn out to be "Tommy 20 Vers 2.0- Twice as likely to give your position away, and useless if you actually intend to shoot more than 3 feet."

I'm withholding judgment for now..
Edit: I found a Photo Guys..
Posted Image

Not bad, not bad at all...

#275324 The Reconbow

Posted by wardrive on 19 May 2010 - 03:49 PM in Modifications

Would replacing the broken part with aluminum be possible?

#268033 Straw <-dart Possibility?

Posted by wardrive on 04 March 2010 - 04:45 PM in Modifications

The Straw design means that you'd have to use "inferior" darts, one of the things that makes Stefans so useful is their toughness. They usually don't have an inner channel which means that they have overall thicker diameter than stock nerf darts.

A straw would require that the darts have an opening inside them, that opening means that the dart has weaker/thinner walls. That's one of the reasons stock darts rupture when used in high power blasters.

That channel also causes the dart to "flex" when airpressure is first applied/released. The flexing movement reduces affects the seal of the dart (particularly in spring guns), and the slightly warped shape affects the accuracy and range of the dart as the flexing motion causes a tumbling/wobbling as the dart leaves the barrel and goes through the air

The Yellow text is speculative, I'm trying to test that.

So to summarzie: Channel=Weak, Solid=Stong.

#290475 Spider-man 3 Foam Missile Launcher

Posted by wardrive on 08 December 2010 - 08:59 PM in General Nerf

Wait, they put a stomp rocket on top of a blaster? Isn't that like building a whack a mole machine, and using an Ipad as a hammer?

#257480 Shotgun Stefans

Posted by wardrive on 28 November 2009 - 09:56 PM in Homemades

You know what would really help? Pictures!

Question 1:

Are you suggesting NIC members use airsoft pellets as a prjectile? Or simply as a weight? The "spread" comment made that kind of difficult to tell.

Question 2:

I don't think I've ever seen anyone use a doubleshot twice (at least not anyone I had any respect for), they usually buy a better gun once they realize how uncompetitive it is at most games.
*So why are you using one?

Question 3:

How are you stacking the darts? Side by side, or top to bottom (if you have short length stefans?).

-Not trying to rain on your parade here, but if you're introducing a "new" concept then it's customary to have lots of pictures..

*Edit, and yes I realize question 2 is not exactly a question...

#257485 Shotgun Stefans

Posted by wardrive on 28 November 2009 - 10:14 PM in Homemades

I know they use shells, which is another reason I don't like Doubleshots. Your description gave the impression that they were quite different from orthodox stefans, hence I felt compelled to ask.

So, your basically just stacking flat headed stefans on top of each other?

What kind of ranges are you getting?

#270798 Scorpion Ldr

Posted by wardrive on 30 March 2010 - 05:20 PM in Homemades

I think what a lot of us are interested in seeing is how you made the thing. Its a nice gun, so how did you make it?

#275980 Rsp-skeleton

Posted by wardrive on 25 May 2010 - 08:29 PM in Homemades

Wow, nice work.. ranges?

#140485 Rolling Mag

Posted by wardrive on 15 February 2008 - 06:20 PM in Homemades

The Spring resides in the center of most drums and using a spinning or rotating motion instead of pushing or compressing the spring, which is what happens in a magazine. You would be Twisting it as opposed to pulling of pushing. The spring would wear out as all springs naturally do, but you'd only need a spring slightly long than a dart. The spring probably ought be a little thicker than the usual spring used in Nerf If you get one as short as a dart though.

-Edit.
You could use gears to rotate the Mag, with a toothed bar attached to the cocking/pumping mechanism, and a series of gears placed on the mag, with a toothed exterior which would eliminate the need for a spring in the mag at all. This would eliminate the possibility of your spring crushing bare ammo. The biggest problem would be in the event that your Mag was damaged, repairs to the exterior or the gears could be time consuming depending on the damage.

Pros: No Spring, No threat of crushing ammo. No Jams due to deformation of dart due to spring.

Cons: Gears Must be aligned properly or you're in for a tough game. Repairs could be difficult.

#140003 Rolling Mag

Posted by wardrive on 13 February 2008 - 05:48 PM in Homemades

A Drum Magazine. Your rolling mag seems to be a primitive drum magazine.
the rolling mag should be in a spiraling design. Not a circular drop, which is what your design appears to be.
A spiraling drum might be a lot more efficient, if you want to increase capacity, but you'd need to choose your spring carefully, too strong and your ammo will smoosh, too weak and you won't be able to fire.

#205059 Recon Attack

Posted by wardrive on 20 January 2009 - 10:38 PM in General Nerf

First of all, this is nerf- Accuracy & Range don't usally go hand in hand..

If you're going for precise accuracy within the lower end of the medium range (35 to 45 feet), the [] Mega darts with fins[ (far left in mega darts section) were supposed to be very very accurate.

If you're going for a super long distance weapon, mod a titan to do mico darts.

Secondly, if you take care of your weapon and respect it's limitations, recons aren't great but if abuse them they're really terrible..

#190883 Rapid Fire 20 Question

Posted by wardrive on 20 November 2008 - 12:26 AM in General Nerf

I tired something like this once on my rf20. It'll just leak all that presure out.

Edit- Apparently this question was already answered.

#191021 Over-hand Cocking Mechanism

Posted by wardrive on 20 November 2008 - 09:35 PM in Modifications

Good job, this slide is almost 100% likely to be used similar to the recon or the mav or the 8 barreled abandoned child of the n-strike family.
The NF doesn't have the multiple capaicty of the others so cocking isn't really a huge deal I guess, but it's good work and if your mod works for you then that's probably the best measure of success.

#190955 Newb Needs Some Schoolin - Arm-brace Mounted Blaster

Posted by wardrive on 20 November 2008 - 05:37 PM in Homemades

I've never been a big fan of arm blasters; mainly because using an arm blaster denies the use of a perfectly good hand for other things, and if you have a blaster on your arm you're more likely to break the gun when you dive for cover or try to do something without realizing you've got a blaster that will catch the abuse instead of your body.

Go for the solenoid, you should go down to your local home depot, they'll probably be able to help you out.

#230707 New Raider CS-35 Speculation Thread

Posted by wardrive on 16 May 2009 - 10:52 PM in General Nerf

there have been weird rumors that the cs-35 is going to cost $66.89. Mostly because some genius on Youtube put a caption saying that a childs toy would cost 65 bucks .

I was under the impression this would be in the usual $30 to $40 range..

#304375 New Nerf Series!

Posted by wardrive on 06 September 2011 - 08:12 AM in General Nerf

Ok, time for me to predict the future, based on the past.

The past: Stock dart blasters firing semi expensive ammo - we mod the blasters - we begin making primitive homemade ammo - we build homemades - ammo goes far and hurts - new safe ammo is created.

The future: Stock Vortex blasters firing very expensive disks - we add new springs, without too much advancement - begin making primitive but working disks - build homemade disk launchers - finally say "screw it" and make homemades that shoot actual mini frisbees bought in bulk online - people complain and we make "slug disks"

Then Nerf releases vortex mini football launchers to troll us, and we all live happily ever after, the end.

Mini Frisbees, particularly ones with names like wham-o wright look painful. I really don't see darts being pushed out by discs (I haven't seen too much of their performance though, except hasbro's propaganda). Example: The Nerf Recon, on NH a lot of people extrapolated that the Recon was a longshot in pistol form based on a photo of the Recon, by doing size comparisons of the CS-5 magazine to the rest of the blaster. As we all know now, the Longshot was the odd one out of the bunch in that in that it could hit 85-100 when given modest modifications.

Discs will have a place in wars, but I predict that they'll be relegated to a secondary/integrated blaster status- something a nerfer can use to shoot back discs that come their way. Most nerfers I've seen carry a spring blaster and an Air blaster, in spite of predictions that one system would eventually wipe out the other. We had N-Strike, a series that lasted a decade and brought us blasters that we incredibly advanced compared to so many blasters of the 90's. Discs will be more complex yet, in that a disc and be pushed and shoved around in ways that a dart cannot. N-Strike was also almost entire comprised of springers (Since both the Magstrike and the RF-20 were added to N-Strike as a marketing move) and yet, go to any war and air blasters are still here..

#190882 New Buzzbee: Pump Tek

Posted by wardrive on 20 November 2008 - 12:23 AM in General Nerf

It looks more than a little shitty in terms of it's look. Seeing as how it's a ball shooter, it'd be pretty hard to mess that up though-even for buzzbee. If it's cheap and buzzbee's influence ended at the outside of the acid-trip inspired shape; this gun could be a nice bargin.

#307190 Nerfers in North California

Posted by wardrive on 09 November 2011 - 07:52 PM in Nerf Wars

I completely agree. I live in the fresno area and the members on here who I have tried to contact haven't responded. I have decided to make the most of a group of friends to play with instead of trying to find random people to play with.

I also live in Fresno, I've had the same issue with organizing.

#289034 Nerf Q&a

Posted by wardrive on 27 November 2010 - 12:43 AM in General Nerf

I'd like to see some Air piston blasters, the Rf20 is ~10 years old and that's the most recent piston blaster. Springers are great, but they're not the only type of blaster in town..

#281459 Nerf Guns/unusual Conditions

Posted by wardrive on 28 July 2010 - 03:40 AM in General Nerf

As long as you keep the mud, sand, dirt, and water out of your internals you should be fine..

Highly technical blasters (the Vulcan comes to mind) are more vulnerable due to the complexity, highly robust blasters (such as the Homemade SNAP-Series) can shoot even if you fill them with water.

#323595 Nerf Elite Pinpoint Sight

Posted by wardrive on 15 November 2012 - 03:00 AM in General Nerf

The elite pinpoint sight is supposed to be a wide release, Singapore has a developed economy and is geographically closer to the factories in china than most of Hasbro's other markets; so Singapore gets a lot of the new nerf products before they're ready for distribution elsewhere.

#275210 N-strike Alpha Trooper Cs-18

Posted by wardrive on 18 May 2010 - 06:09 PM in General Nerf

I think the over emphasis on range can be unhealthy for nerfing, two masses of player standing 120 feet apart from each other (with their 30 round plusbows) on a wide open field just seems wrong to me.
The Alpha trooper looks like it'll be plenty fun to run around with. On one other note, we got first call.. yay!

#237131 My New Ls Mod

Posted by wardrive on 18 June 2009 - 12:35 PM in Modifications

Not the cleanest job ever, but still pretty impressive. I look forward to reading the updated thread.

#275525 My Firefly Won't Fire

Posted by wardrive on 21 May 2010 - 09:14 PM in Modifications

Re-size the picture, you have a problem with your seal..

#191096 Modding Styles

Posted by wardrive on 21 November 2008 - 01:53 PM in Modifications

Think about what I want..
Make a drawing/Work things out on paper.
Repeat 1&2 several time over..
3. Make it
4. Redesign it, because it usually doesn't work right the first time.
5. Painting/cosmetics- so it fits with the rest of the gun.

#306702 Mav Paintjob Issues

Posted by wardrive on 30 October 2011 - 04:38 AM in Modifications

To answer your question, yes prepare your material before applying primer. You should always sand or whatever is appropriate for your material. Give it a sanding, and try again. Your results should be more along the lines of what you were aiming for.

#276173 Marshmallow Mforcer

Posted by wardrive on 27 May 2010 - 01:52 PM in Modifications

I think the piston would be the area you'd want to look into for your next mod, especially if your aiming to improve range.

#327786 Making Mongos- Where can I get 1" FBR?

Posted by wardrive on 08 March 2013 - 05:27 AM in Darts and Barrels

I've been trying to find information about weights for Mongo sized darts, but it's pretty scarce. Does anyone have any information on weights for mongos?

#289680 Longshot Cs6 X-ii "shattershot"

Posted by wardrive on 01 December 2010 - 09:10 PM in Modifications

Doesn't this belong in the "Show me your pictures" thread?

#257487 Join The Legacy!

Posted by wardrive on 28 November 2009 - 10:26 PM in Off Topic

Maybe allowing people to look at things without being members would be a nice idea.. So we'd know what we're signing on to beforehand..

#191027 Is A Realistic loser Rifle Possible?

Posted by wardrive on 20 November 2008 - 09:48 PM in Modifications

I was wondering what the heck he was talking about for a minute there. Thanks mystefansdontflystraight.
Nerfchild, don't use lasers- they can be dangerous and most games take palce at daytime, where lasers don't really do anything but pose a safety risk. If you're able to use(see) them during the day then they are of the dangerous variety; the kind that can set your opponent on fire with a little luck/stupidity.
As most games take place in a park, you're advice would probably lead to confrontations with law enforcement, it's one thing to make a cool gun or piece of gear; it's another to be dressed like an assasin with an intimidation factor that's off the scale in a park where children are likely to show up.

Edit Disclosure- My spelling isn't great, sometimes I notice it. Usually not.

#140540 Iq Score

Posted by wardrive on 16 February 2008 - 02:00 AM in Off Topic

When I was little, I did pretty crappy in school, but just about every teacher I'd ever had said "I was very bright" and things to that effect.
They took me to a psycholigist or specialist, he did a battery of tests, simple things. Mainly to see if I had learning disabilities. He told my Dad my IQ at the end of the tests. I was 138, 135+ is usually considered genius by most standards, I've heard 160 for some others.
138, It's not how big your box is, it's how full it is...

#235139 Ideal Barrel Length

Posted by wardrive on 09 June 2009 - 01:30 AM in Modifications

Please refer to This thread..
You might find it an interesting read; I certainly did when I first got here..

#229523 Human Vs. Zombie Help

Posted by wardrive on 10 May 2009 - 11:51 PM in Nerf Wars

Look, in this sort of game firepower matters most followed by accuracy and then by range. You want weapons whcih can crank out plenty of shots very fast, and reload very fast.

Primary(s):
Longshot (pump action mod reccomended)
Vulcan
RF20
SuperMaxx 2500/3000

Secondaries:
Maverick (can be bought very cheap)
Recon
Hornet

Extra Gear:
Backpack
-lots of ammo/clips
-Water
Hydration Pack/Backpack
-(see backpack)
Flashlights (if nightime)
*attach carrying straps/lanards to weapons if possible

You want to have a doctrine that focuses heavily on being able to shoot your way out of any situation. I highly recommend getting investing in a Vulcan with lots (at least 200+) of extra ammo. Assign one person to use the vulcan and another with a decent gun of their own to help carry the extra ammo, and fend off the zombies when the vulcan is being reloaded. A good vulcan team takes practice so neither member is reloading at the same time. The longshot( AR removed, and enhanced sping) w/pump action is a good general weapon for any situation.
I highly reccomend the Maverick as a sidearm, it's cocking method makes it easily one of the fastest (ROF) spring pistols. It's cheap (usually less than 7$ USD). Just make sure you count your shots, sometimes 6 seems like 5.
You can't carry (or shouldn't) tons of ammo in your pockets, a backpack is perfect for storing the tons of ammo you're sure to go through. It's recommended that you carry 75% of the ammo you'd need if you didn't reuse any darts (if I would theoretically use 100 darts, I would pack 75-ish). Water is also strongly advised since all the extra gear you carrying might start being cumbersome after 30 mins depending on your load. If you can afford a hydration pack w/ cargo capacity, buy it!

#321427 Homemade SuperMaxx 5000: The VenoMaxx

Posted by wardrive on 06 September 2012 - 07:39 PM in Homemades

Out of curiousity, what is the balance like on the blaster? Most blasters are a little front heavy so the balance is roughly in the middle when the blaster is held with two hands.
I don't see a barrel or any other mass that looks like it would outweigh the airtank- is the handling affected by this?

#261902 Helping Air Seal On Revolving Barrel Guns

Posted by wardrive on 15 January 2010 - 12:45 PM in Modifications

That's a good picture, and a nice idea.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to apply the maverick. The maverick has something like this, but the maverick has two rotations. The cylinder rotates halfway between each other (that is, it rotates a distance halfway between the barrels) when you pull the trigger, and halfway again when the trigger is released.

The Maverick has a seal that does "sorta" engage when the spring is compressed, however the seal is weak as the gun still has to rotate with a pull of the tigger.. It would make a lot of sense to use the cocking action to also rotate the barrle, but the designers decided that the trigger would rotate the barrel (and only half-at-a-time)

Don't get me wrong, you're idea is good.. Perhaps it could be applied to front of the gun? This would allow more range while cutting down equivalent weight (basically, a 6 barreled gun with one long barrel instead of 6 long barrels).

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