Hi, I’m Luke. Today on Out of Darts, we are checking out a brand-new product for Out of
Darts. So, do know that this is a product video; I just wanted to warn you upfront.
This is the 29-round Tachi Magazine. Let's get going.
I’ve been running this nerf mod shop and 3D printing business for about five and a half
years now, and about three years of those, I have been full-time. I love doing this,
and one of my ultimate goals has been to get into injection molding. Now, 3D printing is
amazing. You can make some incredible pieces of mod parts, and accessories, and blasters,
and I love all of that, but it doesn't scale very well, and there are some designs that
just are not printable. My buddy Eli approached me about eight months ago with a magazine design
that he wanted to execute on, and I jumped at the opportunity to work with him on it.
[Short dart] magazines have been out for a while. We started with the Katana mags, of course,
then we were given the standard Talons, we made bumpers for our Talons to extend their capacity,
and we got the talon 18s. We also have the slanted talons,
but ultimately short darts have really become the core of this hobby,
and more is always better, in my opinion, so this magazine is a combination of more. And
that's really about it; there's not a whole lot else to say, really specifically. It's sort of a
Magpul-style styling; we've got Eli Wu’s nice logo on the side here and out of darts on the other.
The designer Eli is a good friend of mine in the nerf world, and for those of you who don't know
him, you should definitely watch the video down in the description. He did a blaster it's got to
be almost five years ago, or so that's called Hex, and it was a six-flywheel, three-stage,
all brushless Rayven. And it was a bonkers mod at the time. I mean, not even just a little
crazy -- it was over-the-top, [the] highest performing blaster for a flywheeler that I
had ever seen (and, I think, that existed) in the flywheel category. So, his work is
pretty legendary, and I’m really excited to have got to work with him on this project.
I hope that this magazine will be one of many future injection-molded products on the shop.
Injection molding is the way to manufacture a lot of products, especially when you're talking about
something this large. This literally wouldn't fit on a print bed. And the print orientation,
such as some of the designs by my buddy Thanh -- he's done some magazine designs, which are great,
but they just don't print that well, and they require a lot of print time and a large print bed,
and they're ultimately not as strong as an injection-molded counterpart.
This [magazine] is compatible with most blasters that are Talon [magwell], such as this Talon Claw.
Talon Claw is one of my favorites. That hits hard! This is, of course, my Talon Claw from SilverFox
Industries. Shout out to Ryan and Jesse. They do awesome work; if you're looking for 3D-printed
blasters, I can't recommend them highly enough because we're going to get more into 3D-printed
blasters on our own shop, but it's taken some time to kind of ramp that side of things up.
It also does work in the Lynx. This is my other new favorite blaster.
Depending on when this video posts, you may not have seen it yet.
It, of course, works in a Nexus Pro; we think that's gonna be one of the most common
uses. While the magazine is large, in actual gameplay, I really don't find it gets in the way.
Now, this could be different depending on your playstyle. If you like to go prone and get down
on your belly, you might find that you bump this in. but if you're just kneeling or standing,
I never have a problem with this getting in my way.
I’m also gonna be working on a tri-mag connector to put three of these together. I think that will
be a pretty substantial loadout where you can have essentially 100 rounds -- nearly
100 rounds -- on a single blaster. I guess if I could actually do the math, it's 87,
but that's still a pretty substantial load for not having any carry.
Ultimately, while this is a Talon magwell style, it is slightly different,
the feed lips are actually a little bit more like the Adventure Force Pro
line, and the reason I love that is that you can top load them. Now loading preference is different
for everybody. Some people like to do the method where you hold the darts down and slide in from
the front, and this is actually essential in a magazine like a Talon because [on] the Talon,
the slot up top is actually too small to actually get them in this way. This allows you to do
either, but I like the press down from the top method. It's pretty easy, and it's much quicker
to do in the field just by feel, though if you have practiced more, you can do it either way.
The mags are compatible with the Kestrel from Timmym, though I did have some issues working with
the Hummingbird. It's just the magwell design, and the catch are slightly different, so it
didn't want to behave quite properly. Not entirely sure why that is, but since it is a less common
blaster, we didn't design around it specifically since it does work with all the major adapters.
You can throw in a Stryfe with an adapter, you can throw it in a Nexus Pro, the Dart Zone Pro,
and it should work with the upcoming [Max] Stryker pro as well since that magwell will be identical.
We recently built a Lepus in-house here and a really funky little blaster -- kind of as
minimal as you could possibly make a blaster. Unfortunately, the design of the feed lip here
is not wide enough up at the top like the talon magwell, so it will not actually hold and retain
the magazine. Fun fact about the Lepus when you put this in here, it's not the retention
tab -- there's a little tiny retention tab -- that's actually not what's keeping the magazine
in there. What's keeping the magazine in there is the little bit of flex on these little feed
lips here. They actually sort of compress and then expand at the top, so they actually fit properly.
Really cool little blaster. Unfortunately, it just doesn't function perfectly with this.
We very frequently get comments on YouTube or emails saying, “why don't you just injection
mold your blasters,” and it really comes down to scale. The shop has only recently been
large enough where we feel like we can move enough product to warrant getting a mold made. Anytime
you're going to get an injection mold made, you have a large upfront cost of tooling -- that's to
make the actual metal, CNC’d mold to produce your item, and that has a large upfront cost that's got
to be paid back over the lifespan of the product and selling the product. So, we finally hit that
point where the volume of things have gone up, and we feel like we can do more of this.
Thank you so much for watching! I hope you enjoyed a look at this magazine.
I hope this is just one of many future injection molded products; I have dozens of designs in
process and in my head or concepts, but we have to be really careful that we don't do something
exactly like Worker because Worker can do it cheaper than we're ever going to be able to do it.
I would love to hear other things you'd like to see us make that don't exist already. If you leave
them down in the comments, we're going to consider that free advice, so just keep that in mind too.
Until next time… I’m not out of darts, but I’m still Out of Darts.