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[Jimu RetroGuru]

From Help! Painting Stefans, coincidentally started by me.

If you make CS darts with white felt tips, then you can put glow in the dark paint on the tip. I color the tips of my CS darts with a yellow marker, so you should be able to use paint.

Now, if I hadn't been busy making my own darts, I wouldn't know he was talking about Captain Slug's variation of homebrew darts.

Am I the only one who thinks that his felt tip & washer design deserves its OWN name?

-the manufacturing process is SO MUCH easier than traditional stefans
-the weight distribution allows for more reliable darts
-converting stock darts is also SO MUCH easier

And, in the words of the good Captain:

(QUOTE)
- Significantly lower cost per dart. If purchased through mcmaster, the washers are $0.0074 each, and the felt discs are $0.01 each. The liquid nails cost is too low per-dart to calculate.
Fishing weights, even if purchased as low as $1 per bag of thirty, cost twice that amount ($0.03). And that cost is not including the hot glue you would need to attach them.
- Much easier to make with high consistency.
- Higher foward-loading since the weight is distributed even closer to the tip of the dart
- More unique and visually appealing. Felt discs are available in white, black, green, and brown.
- Does not require the application of hot glue
- Tips can dry in any orientation without affecting shape/performance of finished dart
- They hurt less. The felt is a much softer tip than hot glue, and personally I think these hurt less than streamline or dart tagger darts which tend to leave hickey marks because they deform on impact.
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Personally, I'm leaning towards "sluggos" or "slugs" over "CS darts."

[BritNerfMogul]

From Help! Painting Stefans, coincidentally started by me.

If you make CS darts with white felt tips, then you can put glow in the dark paint on the tip. I color the tips of my CS darts with a yellow marker, so you should be able to use paint.

Now, if I hadn't been busy making my own darts, I wouldn't know he was talking about Captain Slug's variation of homebrew darts.

Am I the only one who thinks that his felt tip & washer design deserves its OWN name?

-the manufacturing process is SO MUCH easier than traditional stefans
-the weight distribution allows for more reliable darts
-converting stock darts is also SO MUCH easier

And, in the words of the good Captain:

(QUOTE)
- Significantly lower cost per dart. If purchased through mcmaster, the washers are $0.0074 each, and the felt discs are $0.01 each. The liquid nails cost is too low per-dart to calculate.
Fishing weights, even if purchased as low as $1 per bag of thirty, cost twice that amount ($0.03). And that cost is not including the hot glue you would need to attach them.
- Much easier to make with high consistency.
- Higher foward-loading since the weight is distributed even closer to the tip of the dart
- More unique and visually appealing. Felt discs are available in white, black, green, and brown.
- Does not require the application of hot glue
- Tips can dry in any orientation without affecting shape/performance of finished dart
- They hurt less. The felt is a much softer tip than hot glue, and personally I think these hurt less than streamline or dart tagger darts which tend to leave hickey marks because they deform on impact.
(UNQUOTE)

Personally, I'm leaning towards "sluggos" or "slugs" over "CS darts."

CS Stefans. Done

[SchizophrenicMC]

If you insist, Captain Slugs.

Alternatively, since they follow the base requirements for being a Stefan, you can call them their name: CS Stefans.

[Split]

We've been calling them Slug darts for as long as I can remember. Months and months, at least. In the words of Ice9: Fuck this thread.

[Zorns Lemma]

Slug darts, CS-darts, they work. We use them.

Why do you exist?

[Galaxy613]

You say "if I didn't make my own darts, I wouldn't know that when the guy said "CS Darts" he was talking about Captain Slug-style darts" yet you go on to the bottom of your post and suggest the exact same name, why?

[CaptainSlug]

Personally, I'm leaning towards "sluggos" or "slugs" over "CS darts."

Why are you trying to come up with an official name for something I made?
To me they're just felt+washer stefans, but "Slug Darts" has been passed around at wars and works just as well.

[Hi Yah]

Why name them when they already have a name? Also these are CS's design so he should name them, which he already has done.

[Jimu RetroGuru]

Personally, I'm leaning towards "sluggos" or "slugs" over "CS darts."

Why are you trying to come up with an official name for something I made?
To me they're just felt+washer stefans, but "Slug Darts" has been passed around at wars and works just as well.

Sorry Captain, I'm kinda new here. I wasn't trying to name them myself. I was just suggesting that the design was different enough from Stefan Mohr's that it should justify a separate name, and perhaps a write-up that wasn't buried in two separate posts in the stefan-making discussion. (Hint, hint, a link on your homepage isn't enough.)

Also, did Stefan name his design after himself or did someone else do it?


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[Jimu RetroGuru]

Actually, now that I think about it, "slug darts" are rather fitting. One definition of "slug" is a disc of cheap metal, sometime used to cheat vending machines.