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Okay, as it turns out, I think I just needed more padding. Also, I found that putting the padding in the end of the plunger itself rather than the rod made it easier to attach, had adequate sound-dampening results, and had no noticeable impact on range. Is there some drawback to putting the padding there that I should probably know about?

Also, I'm thinking about next doing an AR and possibly lock removal mod on my Recon. This gun needs to be safe for Humans vs. Zombies, though. Can anyone with experience modding Recons tell me A. will doing so cause the gun to make that cracking sound when dry-fired? and B. does firing the gun at yourself at point-blank cause any pain (this is the test they use to make sure mods are safe for the game)? I can post this in a separate topic, if need be.

Okay, I didn't find crafting foam, but I found some foam that seemed like it would work, some epoxy, and went at it. The gun still fires fine; I'm getting plenty of distance out of it. However, the cracking sound hasn't been diminished significantly if at all. I took a few pictures of what I did; I can take a video or a sound recording if you need to hear the cracking sound:





Did I do it wrong?

EDIT: Sorry, accidentally made the images huge.

Padding the plunger rod is very easy. You just take a piece of craft foam and glue it to the plunger rod. You really don't need that much thickness, maybe about a quarter of an inch.

Okay, that makes sense. Would it look something like this?:


(skip to ~30 seconds)

(I don't think that's the correct place on the plunger, so I apologize if this is an extraordinarily stupid question)

The darts are firing fine, it just makes that cracking sound firing empty, that's all. And sorry, wasn't really clear on that! I meant any videos demonstrating how to add padding to the plunger rod like cheyner mentioned. But thank you for those! The Firefly mod looks interesting and definitely within my capabilities; I might try that next.

Okay, that makes sense. Are there any tutorials online that explain how to do this? Or would be able to explain? Like I said, I'm new to Nerf modding and I'd rather not take a do-it-yourself approach only to find that I've broken the gun, haha.