Blasters

  • Boring safety and rule stuff

    • FPS

    • One trigger pull, one dart

    • No gas powered blasters

    • Orange tip

  • Ammo

  • Types

    • Springer

    • Flywheel

  • Vendors

    • Online

    • Brick and mortar

  • Form Factors

  • Modding

Safety & Rules

There’s a few limitations for blasters:

  • Must be semi-auto (one trigger pull fires one dart)

  • Cannot exceed 130 FPS (subject to change)

  • Must fire darts via spring or flywheels

  • Must have an orange tip

Darts also have a few rules too:

  • Must be labeled with your player number

  • Cannot be physically modified in any way (e.g. cutting full darts into short darts)

Firing Mechanisms

There’s 2 firing mechanisms you’ll see at game. Spring blasters which require you to compress a spring until it locks then pull the trigger to release and fire a dart. And there’s flywheel blasters which feed darts through a pair of spinning wheels to fling darts.

They each have their pros and cons

Spring Blasters

Pros

  • More affordable

  • Simple to use

  • Lots of different styles

Cons

  • Slow firing

  • Bulky

  • More effort to use

Flywheel Blasters

Pros

  • Faster firing

  • More compact

  • Less effort to use

Cons

  • More expensive

  • Rely on batteries

  • Not as much variety

Form Factors

  • Handguns

  • Shotguns

  • Rifles

  • many more

Where to get them

Online

Out of Darts, Frontline Foam, Etsy, Ebay, Amazon

Physical

Target, Walmart, garage sales, thrift stores

Modding

new internals, body kits, spring swaps, barrels

sky’s the limit