It turns out nerf blaster performance depends heavily on the darts you are firing. Who knew? 🙂 After spending some time on Nerfhaven and poking around on the interweb, I decided to take on a profiling project for my collection of Stefan / cut down darts to see if we could gain some insight into dart performance. This page walks you through my process of profiling the types of darts I’ve been experimenting with.
Weighing darts
I used a Sunbeam SP5 scale to weigh 50 stefan darts in grams to obtain an average weight for a dart from a specific vendor. Here are the weights from a variety of darts.
Worker stefan darts
50 dart sample
53 gram total weight
1.06 grams per dart
Gen2 hard tip stefans
50 dart sample
46 gram total weight
0.92 grams per dart
Gen2 soft tip stefans
50 dart sample
55 gram total weight
1.1 grams per dart
Artifact FVJ stefans
50 dart sample
55 gram total weight
1.1 grams per dart