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[telekinetic]

So, as I was taking pictures for one of the million larpers who have tried to buy my Scout (this one sucessfully), I noticed that the scout's barrel stub has a reverse bayonet fitting on it.



Have there every been any official Nerf Scout barrel accessories?

I think I might make a short run of purely aesthetic easy-on silencers to sell to LARPers, since these pistols seem to be popular with them.

[CaptainSlug]

It's a molding detail meant for aesthetics. You're reading too much into it.

[supercraft99]

We can always hope, can't we?

Maybe it is something, maybe it's not. Either way, it's inspiration for you to go do something about it. You could make your own cosmetic silencer. Or heck, maybe even a barrel extension.

[Direct Threat]

HEY. Being one of those larpers I had a lot of back and forth with you to no avail.

At any rate, neet find. The closest I've seen is a cosmetic silencer that was tooled to utilize the fitting there. Which is pretty much what you and the poster above me suggested. It looked ok, if a bit out of place on a scout. I'm not sure what practical applications you could use the grove for other than a cosmetic mod.

Edited by Direct Threat, 22 August 2007 - 02:07 AM.

[CaptainSlug]

This gun is out of production.

No it's not, but it is a fairly annoying and pointless gun to obtain because of it's poor performance. You can still buy the N-Strike set and most Toys R' Us locations.

[lionhead333]

The Disk shot also has vertical grooves.
For some sort of clamp, perhaps.

[bored kid93]

Yah, I noticed the same on my Disk Shot, but I think it's for aesthetics, like Captain Slug said. I don't think that Hasbro's gonna be making nerf bayonets anytime soon, but it doesn't mean we can't, haha.

[SHADOW HUNTER ALPHA]

Scouts can still be found with the N-Strike Unity Power System (the three-gun kit with the Titan, Hornet, and Scout all in one box). I have thought about adding a barrel shroud for cosmetic reasons, but other projects are consuming my time. That, and my Scout has a pitiful muzzle velocity, so it won't be seeing much use at wars.

[telekinetic]

Yah, I noticed the same on my Disk Shot, but I think it's for aesthetics, like Captain Slug said. I don't think that Hasbro's gonna be making nerf bayonets anytime soon, but it doesn't mean we can't, haha.

Who said anything about nerf bayonets? This thread is about bayonet mounts, not knives mounted on guns.

http://en.wikipedia....i/Bayonet_mount

Can anyone with a disk shot take a closeup of the 'slots' for me?

[SHADOW HUNTER ALPHA]

The slots on the Scout barrel do not look like a bayonet mount. If I understand the Wikipedia article, and it's actually true and not edited by vandals or idiots, it wouldn't work like that. Or are there different kinds of bayonet mounts?

There are different kinds, depending on the bayonet you want to mount. The muskets of the American Revolution had a slotted shroud over the muzzle that a bayonet would slip into and then lock, much like how one attaches the front gun the Longshot. M4s have a mount under the front sight and perpendicular to the barrel that looks like a tab woth grooves cut into it. In Nerf, it doesn't really matter, because you can just make a shroud that slips over the muzzle, and then has tabs that can snap into the existing grooves to hold it in place. It is completely up to the owner. Just remember to make the shroud with an inner diameter larger than that of your barrel so it doesn't catch the dart after the gun is fired.

Edited by SHADOW HUNTER ALPHA, 22 August 2007 - 03:05 PM.

[telekinetic]

The slots on the Scout barrel do not look like a bayonet mount. If I understand the Wikipedia article, and it's actually true and not edited by vandals or idiots, it wouldn't work like that. Or are there different kinds of bayonet mounts?

It isn't a bayonet mount, it's a reverse bayonet mount. IE, you have two pins that face in on the inside whatever you're attaching, and those engage the slots, and lock with a 10° (or whatever) turn.

Bayonet mounts have very little to do with actual bayonets anymore, it's just a name! For example, a lot of automotive bulbs (turn signals, etc) have bayonet mounts.

[shadowkid33]

Heck, why not? Give me 5 minutes. I'll edit it into this post.


Edit: Here ya go.

Edited by shadowkid33, 22 August 2007 - 05:21 PM.