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Is any spin being imparted to the ball as it leaves the launch tube? My thought is that it's possible some forespin is being applied, forcing the balls to fly down toward the ground. It would be the opposite of what airsoft arms try to achieve with their "hop-up" systems, which impart backspin onto their small 6mm ball rounds as they leave the barrels.

As a test you could sacrifice one of your quolf balls and make it a spin test ball -- mark some lines on it with a sharpie or something and watch how it flies out of the launch tube.

In looking at the detailed shots of the drum magazine, it looks like they engineered around the "spring will squish foam" issue by using that gray plastic tray to hold the darts, and then having the spring push on that. Brilliant! The black knob in the middle of the drum probably winds up a coil spring or something similar to keep the tension up on the mechanism.

Also it's great to see that it does have a normal longshot/recon style magazine header on it -- I would buy multiples of this blaster just for the drum mags alone.

Drum magazines of this style required some kind of advancement mechanism; either the ammunition is belted together so that it's dragged out by the action, or its pushed by a spring. The real MG42 relied on the former, modern C-style magazines for real-steel and airsoft the latter.

The problem with using a spring is that nerf ammo is squishy foam. Darts can't be pressed on like brass cartridges or airsoft pellets without deforming. Any spring that has enough tension to push the foam around the mag will crush the rounds.

So at best you'd have to make some kind of advancing wheel to hand turn and push new darts into the magazine well. At that point, however, you're probably better off using the normal clips and carrying a few spares to swap in and out of.

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JFB? JFB? JFB?


actually, I like it carry on.

Woops my bad Bob! JSB doesn't have that same ring to it...

Also here's an expensive Amazon link for the Dyson vac we're babbling about.

Smart and well-thought out design supported by a clear, concise, and excellent write-up. That blaster looks amazingly fun to shoot!

As for JFB's Dyson hand-vac recommendation, I second that. Dyson's clog-free vortex vacuum designs are ugly as sin sometimes but extremely effective at cleaning things up