Hi, it's Luke with Out of Darts. Today I'm going to run you through
everything you'd want to know about short dart magazines. Let's get going.
Those of you who have been in the hobby for any length of time probably have realized
that short darts are the future of the hobby. When I joined this hobby about six years ago
the only short darts that were out there were what you would call a stefan and there's essentially
two ways to make a step and one is to take foam back a rod or used foam from another dart and put
your own head on it and the other is to essentially cut an existing dart in half
now the reason you'd want to do this is because the aerodynamics of a short dart with a shorter
tail with more of the weight in the front are much better than a full length dart short darts
fly farther at the same fps and they are far far more accurate once you've gone to a short
dart you probably won't ever want to fire a full length again really quick on the dart types there
are quite a few out but right now in front of me I've got probably the most popular we've got the
Worker gen 1 and 2. we've got the Worker gen 3 which have a different glue and a different
tip we've got the bamboo darts which are from Dart Zone Pro they come with the mark 1 and you can buy
these I believe at target still and then you've got the Jet quick darts which come in red and blue
and feature a tpu different kind of dome tip and these are probably the hardest tip of them all
and then finally we've got the adventure force pro darts and these have very quickly become the gold
standard of darts and I say this while not even being able to retail these as a normal retailer
you may find these on my website but we are really only selling these for our international customers
to check them out so please don't email me asking me to discount and match walmart's price because
we are literally buying these at walmart to resell just to those specific customers that
are really excited to test out these darts where they can't get them in their own country and
they're willing to have them shipped around the world to check them out that should be
an obvious cue to Dart Zone to hurry up and get the stuff in all the other countries they want it
um but these have become the industry or hobby standard and I'm really really overall just
very impressed they're extremely durable the tips last a long time and they perform
very well and they're very accurate in the time that I've been in the hobby short darts
have now taken over just about everything to the point where we now have a blaster on the
shelf at walmart that comes with a short dart magazine and an adapter that's the Nexus Pro
and the Aeon Pro first I'm going to talk about the major releases as far as the actual magazines
themselves we started off with the Katana Katana is made by a company called Jet out of Singapore
they're manufactured I believe in China of course and this is a complementary product
to the Jet Ceda this is the ceta s the most recent version we do sell these on the shop
this is a pretty standard magazine but it's not proven to be not as popular as the Talons and this
was largely Jet's fault Jet beat everybody to this by at least a year and a half and the supply chain
was horrible they were unavailable they were out of stock I was one of the few limited
u.s sellers and we constantly had a problem getting more of them and getting them here in
any reasonable amount of time now one advantage of the ceta magazines the Katanas are that you
do have access to this follower which can be nice if you ever get something in the magazine
or need to reshift it or whatever but these are traditionally and typically only compatible with
the magwell that comes with one of the Jet products or third-party community blasters
that are 3d printed and we'll talk a little bit more about that later
next on the scene were the Worker Talon mags these are a 15 round magazine
that are readily available we carry them in six different colors including clear
glow-in-the-dark transparent black transparent blue transparent purple and transparent red now
these two colors here are actually custom for our shop we're the only shop that will carry these
and these magazines have proved to be extremely extremely popular
over the past few years they're very durably made they've got a nice sort of brushed finish to them
and I really like these these are my personal go-to magazine Worker followed these up with the
18 round curved mag so there's a slight curve at the bottom if you compare them for length you get
about an extra uh three and a half centimeters or inch and a quarter of length maybe inch and a half
of length these are very similar except they've gone with a Worker logo and they also show they
do not have the brushed look they've got just a standard high gloss finish like the 15 round
magazines the 18 round magazines can actually hold about 20 but again do be careful with how
many load because you are eventually going to squish your darts and cause performance issues
next up worker then released very recently these angled magazines these Talon 18 round angled
magazines feature a 15 degree angle and they just kind of have a cool look when they're sticking
out of a blaster because of their angle they're especially nice with things like the chris vector
kit on the strife where it really matches the look of the real steel counterparts so these are kind
of a new offering worker also has a new blaster called the phoenix that will use these exclusively
it's worth noting that these magazines all three versions of the Talon are not intercompatible
you've got two sides you've got angled and you've got regular and these require different mag well
adapters these two are compatible with each other they're cross-compatible while the angled
needs a special adapter and we're going to get to that in just a minute one other little product I
do want to mention is this 3d printed extra edge Talon extension that is designed by my buddy Thanh
we sell these on the shop they're 3d printed and they're either five rounds or six rounds
to turn your straight 15 into a straight 20 or 21 round magazine
kind of a nice little adapter option that he came up with to extend the capacity uses the same
spring super easy to install and kind of a lot of fun lastly we have the Dart Zone Pro magazines
and the Nexuse Pro magazines which look very similar but are surprisingly not cross-compatible
now the reason they did this was I believe to make their adapter compatible with the Talon magazine
so that they could have a much wider appeal and it was probably a wise decision considering the
tens of thousands of these talon mags that already exist out there so the adapter for the 1.1 well
will work just fine with the short darts will not work with the any of the other magazines that are
out they are just sized to incorrectly to work however the Nexus Pro adapter features a unique
double mag release inside of the magazine allowing it to work with both the included
Nexus Pro mags and a Talon mag so these are directly compatible with Talons right out of the
box so if you've got a Nexus Pro and Aeon Pro all of the worker magazines are compatible right out
of the box except for the angled one which will require a special adapter I think this decision
was really great on Dart Zone's part so I'm really happy to see that it just gives us more options
and makes it easier to find more magazines and in more colors ultimately moving on to the adapters
adapters are where a lot of the confusion can happen because there are specific adapters for
flywheel blasters such as the strife and there are specific adapters for springers now some of
these are cross-compatible you can generally use the springer version in a flywheeler but
it's really going to depend on your blaster so I would recommend choosing the one that is directly
intended for it starting with a standard adapter this is a standard Talon adapter that works in
just about any standard nerf mag and this will take either the 18 rounds or the 15 rounds
and it will allow you to put them inside a blaster like say the Nexus Pro it will also let you put it
inside of a blaster like the seda if you wanted to replace the magwell to instead use Talon mags
now where you would not want to use that adapter would be for a blaster like the strife
because of where this dart sits it actually can cause feeding issues and this is where
we a lot of customers run into issues which is one of the reasons we're making this video
also of note we are making little individual videos for every single one of these product
that will not be on my main channel they'll be on my secondary channel and they'll be on the product
listing we're hoping this will really help people make better decisions and make sure that they're
getting exactly what they were hoping to get now it's worth noting too that this is a detent based
system a little bit like our jupiter so when you put this in here you're simply pulling out and
that is probably my personal preference because I never find that I actually need the mag release
these magazines are not very heavy darts don't weigh very much and there's no real danger or
risk of this falling out so I like just being able to have this in my blaster no mag release
you know shoot you're firing and you just pull it out and it's pretty easy to just
pop out pop a new one in and I found that to be pretty useful now that's ultimately all personal
preference so if you prefer a mag release we do offer that version as well next I want to talk
about the flywheel variant of the same unit and these are two versions one with a mag release
one without and this is for a flywheel blaster and we call these forward-facing mag adapters because
the magazine sits physically farther forward than it does on the standard one and what this allows
is for the extended strife pusher to push that dart into the flywheel since the magazine is
sitting far enough forward to allow that to happen so it is important to choose the correct one again
with this one we've got a version with a mag release and a version that is just a
pull ultra release so you've got options there as far as your personal preference which I think is
fantastic now again the angled magazine is not compatible with any of those adapters out there
that have been seen so far so the angled magazines from worker have their own adapters again there
are two variants one is a forward facing which has this missing space here that's for your strife
I think these are kind of fun because uh especially with a blaster like the
chris vector you get that feel like the real steel equivalent and uh
that's kind of a fun fun look overall worker has a new blaster called the phoenix that will be coming
out soon that will use exclusively these with a grip through grip feel and I think that should
be actually a really good use of this magazine I expect we'll also see quite a few community-based
blasters that will work with this magazine and that'll be nice because I think in a grip you get
the better angle rather than trying to correct the angle either by having a vertical grip or having a
change in direction inside of the mag well which can cause more inaccuracies overall as far as
your actual blaster performance and accuracy currently the angled magwell adapter doesn't
come with a mag release version but I do expect worker will probably release this eventually
that said I wouldn't wait for it because I don't know when and it might be that they wait to see
how popular the magazines are before offering that version when it comes to community blasters
Talons are clearly the king this is the Kestrel from my buddy Timmy over at Ansuzalgiz on
etsy he makes quite a few really really neat little blasters and this is out of the box
Talon-compatible again it will not work with the angled version of course because
it doesn't go into the magwell correctly I'm currently building a Lepus and that's another
example of a Talon-compatible magwell this one is a little different it actually doesn't use
a standard mag release it's just got a little tab inside that sort of uses just
friction more or less to hold this in place and given that this is an itty-bitty little blaster
uh that with a grip through mag that you know it makes sense that the they've done this this
way so they don't have to add any more bulk to get that mag release in there there are also examples
of community blasters such as this TalonClaw this TalonClaw was built for me by Ryan over
at Silverfox Industries I'll link that video down in the description we covered his build process
this is a neat version of the TalonClaw because it's got a dual paddle design for the mag release
where one holds the Katana mag and the other holds the Talon so this is interchangeable your
buddy could hand you a different mag and you can switch back and forth between either magazine type
and then of course as expected we're not going to be able to fit
the Dart Zone mag because it wasn't designed for it and it wasn't designed for this so
that wouldn't function either another interesting point that I thought of while looking at different
various blasters I've got is the hummingbird now the hummingbird was a really cool blaster also by
Timmy same guy who did the Kestrel Ansuzalgiz he's over on Etsy you can find his stuff there
I don't know if he's still up and selling but he's got some tremendously cool blasters
this actually has an angled mag wheel but it only takes a standard Talon mag
I don't know if he'll eventually consider updating this because I'm sure this blaster
was an insane amount of work but it looks very cool with whatever mag you put in it but
these came out later and I really think that the hobby is probably going to embrace
having these angled mag wells because it would make his feeding mechanism in here so much easier
to deal with because the dart would already be in the right orientation rather than having it at a
15-degree angle and then needing correction as the dart goes into the flywheels which can cause
some inaccuracies I hope this video has been helpful for you I love short darts I'm getting
more and more into dart blasters a lot of people say I only like rival but that is just not true
I'm very interested in everything all things nerf modding I think this is very much not only the
future of nerf modding but it is the presence of nerf modding because if you're firing long
darts at a short dart and you both have the same blaster you are not going to win that exchange
if all other things are equal I'd love to hear from you in the comments anything I missed any
questions any feedback. Like I've said in the last couple videos, I've got a video editor now,
and between Perry and I, we are working really hard to make sure that we're actually in there
responding to your comments and listening to what you all want for future videos. So
let us know if we missed anything. If you have any other questions about these, like I said,
each of these is a product on the website, and we have individual videos for literally every one of
these magwell adapters that are on the product listing. So, if you're still not sure which is
which and what one you need, just check out the product listing and you'll see all of the info
there that you need. Thank you so much for watching. Until next time, I'm out of darts.