Hey, I’m Luke with Out of Darts.
Today on Out of Darts, I am kind of upset.
We have a problem.
Let me tell you about it.
I am in the middle of a large project that we are doing for a
television build, and you'll probably see more about that on the channel soon.
We ran into a snag that really irked me, and that is Headshot Ammo.
We bought many bags of Headshot Ammo, all of which
are rock hard, terrible; worst ammo I’ve ever used.
This is a PSA:
You shouldn't buy this ammo.
You shouldn't buy this ammo ever.
This is Headshot; we've been recommending it for years.
They’ve been on the scene for a long time.
In fact, they basically drove us out of being able to sell our own
ammo because they dropped the price so low with import duties and shipping we
literally couldn't compete and keep a good price on the Proton Rounds.
Obviously, we're going to be revisiting that because this stuff is garbage.
When it first arrived, my employees already knew
it was going to be a problem because they had heard from a few customers.
So, to any of the customers that have been buying this ammo and had a problem:
A: you should return it to Amazon or whatever because
that's the only way the vendor is going to find out about it.
Here's the issue: this stuff is rock hard.
We ordered two different colors,
and we got eight bags of each because we needed to get a bunch of custom colors.
I'm squeezing these basically as hard as my fingers can possibly squeeze them,
and they are extremely [incompressible].
I'm going to do a couple of comparisons here.
We're going to talk about the weight and then the effect on your blaster.
First, I’m going to grab an authentic Nerf round.
The actual weight of this is the first part.
So, if I zero this out,
this one weighs 1.84 grams, and Hasbro still is the king of reliability.
Here these have always varied between about 1.83 and 1.88;
very tight tolerance because they throw out the other sizes.
These new rounds, however, come in at only 1.51 or 1.62
They're all over the place, and they're generally lighter.
I averaged a bunch of them, and they were weighing about 1.54, so considerably lighter,
meaning they're not going to work as well, but the compression is the bigger issue.
To show some other weights:
Here's an old Headshot round that's reading 2.0
That is a great weight; you actually want them heavier.
They fly straighter and function better, in my opinion.
Here's another old Headshot 1.83 right on the nose.
Here we've got an X-Shot round that's coming in at 1.80
Here we've got an authentic Nerf again 1.8—
Stop rolling off(!)
1.84
Here we've got another old Headshot again.
This one's squishier, and this one's coming in at 2.25
So that's on the heavier side, which, again, I actually like.
Here we've got the new “Accu-Rival” version, and that's coming in at 1.75
Lastly, I’ve got a Dart Zone round that's been abused a little bit; it still says 1.83
So, the weight is clearly off, but the worst part overall is how [less] squishy these things are.
So, what I’m going to do here is I’m going to zero this, and I’m going to try to get to
one kilogram, two kilograms, and three kilograms, and maybe a little bit further.
We'll see how much compression this takes.
So, I’m going slowly…
That's one kilogram…
Two kilograms…
Three kilograms of weight…
Four kilograms, and the scale will top out at five.
Now I’m going to take this pink round; this is one of the new Headshot rounds.
I'm going to make sure that's zeroed…
One kilogram…
Two kilograms -- two right there…
Three…
Four…
And there's the end of the scale.
So that's max compression there.
Real quick comparison to do that again.
If I go to max compression here, it's just a lot more squoosh.
Let's do one more thing.
I'm going to set them right on here,
and I’m just going to put as much force as I can with one arm trying to even out the force.
So, I’m just going to push as hard as I can, and you can see that…
Well, here, we'll do it with one arm leaning over it…
I can pretty much flatten that down, and we'll shoot a close-up
sideways of doing this, but I am applying the same amount of force here.
I just cannot get the compression.
You can just see it. They have nowhere near the compression.
The green ones are the same; they just do not compress.
These shouldn't be purchased by anybody.
They are awful.
They can destroy all the flywheelers, including the Zeus, the Hera, the Perses, the Nemesis,
the Prometheus, our Jupiter, and any other rival blaster that we have in the shop.
Don't buy them.
Pretty much end of story.
Leave a review if you bought them and they were bad;
and if you bought them and they were bad, return them.
Even if it's been months, try to return them because that's the only way they get them back.
Sorry for anybody that's got nailed by these things.
Hope that's been helpful.
We've updated our previous videos where we actually recommended this ammo,
and we've removed all links from it across our website and other places
on the internet where we've recommended them in the past.
Hopefully, Headshot will fix this, but I reached out to the previous contact I had with them, and
they didn't write me back, and the email bounced.
So, no idea what's going on there; hard to say, but don't buy them.
Zero out of five.
Until next time, I’m out of darts, and these are going back to amazon.