Hi, I'm Luke. Today on Out of Darts, we are checking out what
might be my new favorite springer. This is the Lynx. Let's get right into it.
Longtime viewers of this channel know that a lot of my content has
revolved around rival blasters. That's not to say that I don't love
darts -- we recently made this 29-round magazine, which I am thrilled to have on
the store -- and this blaster this Lynx might just be my new favorite springer of all time.
This blaster was printed for me by Ryan over at SilverFox Industries. He did technically give
this to me as a trade. He got a proton pack, and I got a fully built Lynx, so let us know in the
comments who got the better deal. I think I did. I was very happy to get the current version of
the links with all the um nice accouterments that come with it; Ryan’s got some very cool springs
that are in different colors that you can use to accent your build. The Lynx is a bullpup
high-powered springer. This one is a very smooth, easy prime, yet it shoots [up to] 240 to 250 FPS
In basic function, it's a bullpup blaster. The nice thing about a bullpup in a springer is that
you've still got a fairly long barrel because the breach starts back here and goes all the
way to the tip with an integrated scar at the end now because of that long barrel you've,
of course, got very good accuracy this blaster is tuned absolutely perfectly
it performs very well with a very easy prime considering the power.
It also has one of the best air seals I have ever seen if I plug the end here despite that
u-channel design with the air going up and around and into the breach we have...
I’ve never seen an air seal that's good. This is just basically perfect air seal.
It will hold up for a long period of time. It is worth noting that Ryan did tell me not all
of them have quite this perfect of an air seal, but they are very good. This one just happens to
be exceptional. I mean, what are we 10 seconds in, and it's still holding pressure very impressive.
the Lynx blaster is designed by Dan over at Orion Blasters and it is a very innovative design in a
number of ways first the bullpup nature is really great the print orientation and the parts and
the designs themselves are very nice there's almost no support as far as I can tell maybe
zero at all and it is a very comfortable blaster it has a wonderful grip which is very welcomed on
3D-printed community blasters this just feels great in your hand it's a lightweight blaster
it's very compact you get that full-length barrel in a tiny form factor if I were to compare this to
a run-of-the-mill caliber and you know what let's not compare it to the caliber let's compare it to
apples to apples since this is also short dart this is my talon claw also built by SilverFox
Industries and you can just see the profile difference here when you're playing and in reality
I believe this actually has the same length it's actually a longer barrel because this barrel
starts about here so if I’m kind of lining them up as best I can let's see here we're about those
should be about lined up there so you can see I’ve actually got about a four inch longer barrel
and the overall distance you know the blaster is very short probably by about seven inches
and that's remarkable for close quarters stuff it's really nice when you're coming around cover
around a tree it's um really a comfortable blaster and the second I picked this up I could not stop
playing with it and it's been a while since I’ve picked up a blaster and been that excited at least
a blaster that somebody else made or you know a blaster that a company made because some of so
many of the releases over the last year have been a little sad from the Ultra and Elite 2.0 line
I hung out with some nerf friends for a day, and when I got this from Ryan at his place,
and I could not stop firing it and playing with it all day, I am really impressed with the design and
Ryan’s printing, of course, is second to none he's also printing on Prusa printers like we are and
dials in his profiles to make sure that everything is printing really well I’ve seen what some of his
I think they're calling them foxed up prints which are his b grades the equivalent of our b grades
and they are about what we do for b grades they're still quite good compared to other printers and
other makers in the hobby to some extent, and that really helps you know the Prusa helps that out
quite a bit because they are very good printers from the ground up we are going to do a review
video on the Prusa mark iii because we've been running them for about four and a half years now
and we have some pretty good insight on how well they work spoiler alert they're great printers.
so ergonomically this blaster feels just fantastic it's rock solid and I know this because I have
thrown one of these on the ground not going to get into that story but Dan I’m sorry I threw one of
Dan's blasters on the ground at some point and yeah it he then immediately told me oh it's fine
it's built like a tank and he's not wrong I feel like this is a little bit less finicky
than the talonclon kellenburn platforms one of the things I’ve I frequently have with the town
claws and the calibers is that over time there's a little bit of play front to back and you've got
to spend some time re-tightening some of those rods and kind of dialing those in and at times
that can be a little bit a little bit frustrating I had this one tightened up and it's sort of they
work themselves a little bit more loose the design of this is such that everything is a
little bit more rock-solid we're using extruded aluminum bars up front I believe Dan cuts all the
hardware for this blaster himself up front we've got an integrated scar barrel and this is key to
the next point which is this is the most accurate blaster I have ever fired
This is an actual 3D-printed scar; however, unlike most scars, this is printed in SLA resin, so the
layer lines are very small, so small that I can't really see them. They are there if you look close
enough, but it means that it's a really great use of printing and a really accurate blaster.
The blaster features two mag releases. It's got one in line here,
which I’m learning to use. I may actually end up removing that to just do the one in the back. The
second one in the back is just triggered by the one in the front, which is really cool.
The Lynx is, of course, talon compatible, which is great because, at this point, the talon mags
are pretty much the hobby standard that does mean it works with our Out of Darts 29-round
[Tachi] magazine that we just released (in theory. I’m actually shooting this video before
we've released it, so that'll be interesting). But we'll toss that in there take a few shots.
I’m smiling because I’m I have a dart catch here,
but I’m actually firing past it, which is way more fun.
The blaster also features slam fire which is a nice addition though I don't think I would
actually use it in a game because this thing is so accurate you're really going to want to
take your time and take those shots, but it's nice to know that if you want slam fire, you can do it,
I will say that with this spring while the spring is very easy to fire it's a
little bit difficult to slam fire because this blaster is performing and delivering the hits.
Right now, in this its current form, it shoots [up to] 240 to 250.
I’ll put up the actual chronograph numbers on the screen as always; the way we do our
chronograph numbers is we've got a competition Chrono with a dedicated lighting setup we've got
fabric draped around it to block out ambient light. We do a 20-shot average,
only throwing out misreads or extreme failures due to dart jam or something like that.
The bullpup design of the Lynx is honestly kind of perfect for our magazine, and I don't mean to make
this a plug for the [Tachi] magazine, but just the way that this fits it never interferes with your
body. It actually sticks out less than it would on a regular blaster. So I think that's kind of a
happy accident for us that this has kind of become my new favorite combo I’m going to try to take
this one step further and maybe do like a tri-mag setup, but we'll see how that all fits on my body.
I, for one, cannot wait to get back to games and be able to put this through its paces at
a field. We've done some little small warehouse battles with employees here,
but it's not exactly an indoor blaster with this spring. It's also worth noting, of course,
there are many springs available for this blaster. You can tune it all the way down to HvZ levels,
you know, 130 all the way up to the 250 mark, and I believe if you wanted to go higher, you probably
could do that as well. Though personally, I think this is about the sweet spot, so
I’ll use this spring for high FPS games and probably throw something else in for a lower cap
I’ll put all the links in the description on where you can purchase this blaster from SilverFox
Industries as well as the original creator Dan at Orion Blasters Dan; you're doing phenomenal work;
I am blown away by this blaster gets a 5 out of 5. it's one of the best things I’ve touched all year,
and I couldn't recommend it more highly we might consider offering them in the future
if Dan is interested I have not had this much fun with a 3D-printed blaster in a bit,
and I think it's a really solid platform so thank you to Dan and to silver fox I think
this is going to be one that sticks around for a while, and it also fills this nice niche where the
nexus pro and the dart zone pro mark 1 and those similar blasters haven't done a
bullpup design yet, so this is something new. until next time I’m out of darts.
I have nothing against darts, in fact...
as I hit the magazine release. (Perry: Let's try that again)