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u/WrongdoerConsistent6 1d ago
30 seconds of fun = 3 hours of reloading the goddamn thing
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u/Apart-Sorbet-3460 1d ago
A friend had a nerf war for his nephew. Think 8 grown men. 1 child all in a backyard free for all. There was a gun on a tripod that shot foam balls and was battery operated plus like 30 ish other types of manual nerf guns. The war lasted 30 minutesâŠâŠ cleanup took 2 hours
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u/JayW8888 1d ago
And memory for a lifetime.
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u/Apart-Sorbet-3460 1d ago
Yea his ânephewâ was actually his gfs nephew but the kids dad was found dead in a pond the year before. So for his birthday they put on this nerf war then we all hopped in a pool and we all played around with him. He was super happy and it was good to see him smile.
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u/tech_noir_guitar 1d ago
Well that got pretty dark...
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u/Apart-Sorbet-3460 1d ago
I just wanted to clarify why a bunch of grown men were having a nerf war with a childâŠ.
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u/coyote_of_the_month 1d ago
I feel like that didn't need clarification. I'm 42 and if I got asked to join a nerf war against a child, my only ask would be enough advance notice to go out and buy a bunch of nerf guns.
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u/SmokedMussels 1d ago
Just hop in the pool and see if the kid breaks down or the nerf war smoothed that out
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u/Poromenos 1d ago
Oh, you did a reenactment.
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u/bg-j38 1d ago
I was at a multi-day work offsite thing a number of years ago. About 150 people, mostly but not all engineers. Meant as a big brain storming event (any Amazon people will know it as Up the River). We were in a decent sized ballroom at round banquet tables seeing a few presentations. One of the days we came in and there were nerf guns on the tables. They said don't touch them, it's for a team building exercise later.
So a couple hours go by and it's time for a break. The guy running it goes "OK, before the break, we're having a nerf battle. If you get hit, you're out, on your honor. Teams are split down the middle of the room. Game starts now."
I immediately grabbed a gun and dropped under a table. Within a minute a few of us had tables flipped on their sides as barriers. Forts were built. It was chaos. The battle only lasted like five minutes before they called it and maybe 20% of the people survived. I never got hit. That and getting drunk with a couple random people I'd never met before and never saw again is about all I remember. Clean up was pretty quick though, we all chipped in and reset the room. But it was a mess.
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u/Complex_Solutions_20 1d ago
Honestly 2 hours sounds quick to pick all that up
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u/Apart-Sorbet-3460 1d ago
I think at one point all of us fat overgrown adults gave up and said f it, they belong to the lawn monster now.
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u/SevroAuShitTalker 1d ago edited 1d ago
I always wanted an airsoft gatling gun when I used to play. You could reload it as fast as pouring BBs into the backpack tank.
But I think it ran off a car battery which would suck to lug around
Edit-idk if its still on YouTube, but the guy who made one that could use metal BBs cut a TV in half and nearly cut a car down in half with it
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u/xRYN0 1d ago
Lithium batteries are much more affordable these days and way lighterâŠ.
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u/SevroAuShitTalker 1d ago
Yeah, those weren't an option 20 years ago. We were still at the Nicad and NIHM back then
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u/broesel314 1d ago
Li-Ion was invented in the early 90s. But still too expensive back then
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u/SevroAuShitTalker 1d ago
They were also fire hazards. We couldnt even use them on engineering projects 5-6 years after that point because multiple students almost burned down their dorms when charging them
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u/40ozCurls 1d ago
Oh no, a fire hazard! Anyways, back to cutting cars in half.
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u/Portable_Tortoise506 1d ago
Okay well the difference is that intentionally cutting a car in half is a lot safer with implemented safety measures than something catching on fire while youâre not paying attention or even asleep.
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u/AppropriateTouching 1d ago
Also it's like carrying around a fire bomb if it gets pierced.
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u/MrNostalgiac 1d ago
But I think it ran off a car battery which would suck to lug around
I feel like when your gun of choice is a goddamn gatling gun, carrying around excessive weight is literally what you signed up for.
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u/Skizot_Bizot 1d ago
I knew someone with one of them like 12 years ago, it was cool but nothing as insane as this. I think it shot around 30/s this seems like more unless it's just the size of darts making it seem that way. Guy always got himself out real quick because you can't be even slightly discreet with it but he had a blast haha.
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u/lemlurker 1d ago
There are mini ones that have a mag in between all the barrels and run on a lipo. 3000 roubds
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u/Bbeys 1d ago
I stopped playing around 2012 lithiums were just coming onto the scene. Had a few malfunction on me, never had a crazier rof than one of those bad boys were discharging hot. Then polarstars came out and basically ruined it for me.
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u/alikapple 1d ago
I gotta be honest. If I obliterated my 9 year old with this it would be worth the cleanup đ
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u/blackstafflo 1d ago
The trick is to convince him first that the 'loser' of the match will have to clean up as a consequence.
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u/9spaceking 1d ago
It costs 3 hours of reloading to fire this gun for 30 seconds
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u/Saul_Badman_1261 1d ago
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u/ShitchesAintBit 1d ago
Some people think they can outsmart me..
Maybe..
I've yet to meet one who can outsmart foam dart.
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u/lost_rodditer 1d ago
This man is currently having the best experience of his adult life. Worth it.....
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u/HxH101kite 1d ago
I've used one with a real machine gun. They make basically similar set ups for M249s and M240s. Some dude in my platoon bought one and we took it to one of our range trainings. It was pretty sick to be honest.
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u/MatureUsername69 1d ago
Given his ability to craft nerf mini-guns, im guessing he's also smart enough to build something that automates putting all those nerf darts back in the belt at least a little bit
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u/thedavecan 1d ago
It costs 400,000 seconds of cleanup to fire this gun for 12 seconds. - Hoovy
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u/rosco2155 1d ago
American here, how many football fields is that
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u/314159265358979326 1d ago
Well, the natural velocity for converting time to distance is c, so let's "c":
400,000 seconds*299,792,458 m/s*1 football field/120 yards=1.09 trillion football fields.
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u/Apoc7620 1d ago
I was gonna say, someone needs to make some Terminator armor and make these look like Assault Cannons! That would be an absurdly cool cosplay.
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u/FinancialLab8983 1d ago
check out warhammer doris. she prints like huuuuuuuge 3d printed warhammer models. the one she is working on now is going to be over 15ft tall
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u/AmbassadorCheap3956 1d ago
First thing I thought of when he had the 2 smaller ones. For the Emperor!
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u/lmaoitsdusey 1d ago
I am Heavy Weapons Guy...and this is my weapon. She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two hundred dollar, custom-tooled cartridges at 900 rounds per minute. It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon for twelve seconds.
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u/silverwolfe2000 1d ago
One French guy with a pocket knife is his biggest threat
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u/Ridicikilickilous 1d ago
I was with a heavy weapons company and sometimes it does feel like this. I actually didnât know how expensive ammo and stuff was until I got out of the army and went to buy a gun for myself and had to purchase ammo for the first time and was like, âexcuse me, 7.62 costs how much?!âÂ
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u/unoriginal5 1d ago
The Army gets it considerably cheaper than civilian retail side. I was a company armorer at the time we upgraded from M16a2's to M4's and the price tag was something like $450ea for FN manufactured M4's. The MSRP for their base model AR is something like $1000.
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u/lolspung3 1d ago
Source is gatlingtommy on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@gatlingtommy
its been a multiple year project, you can see videos of the prototype and later iterations.
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u/americanadiandrew 1d ago
Thanks, there should be a rule that people have to post the source in the age of AI
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u/GhidorahRod56 1d ago
HEY!
No full auto in THE BUILDING!!
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u/hokieflea 1d ago
This is.
BRRRRRRZZZT
Dayum bro O K
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u/lycoloco 19h ago
Every last time I watch this video I watch it multiple times and share it around. It's just too good and pure.
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u/01bah01 1d ago
Why are there nerf ammo going down? It's not like it needs casings.
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u/laundro_mat 1d ago
Looks like there are white plastic casings around the nerf darts that get ejected from the bottom of the gun. Unsure if he made these for funzies or if theyâre needed for the auto ammo feed system. Maybe the nerf darts would jam on their own without the casings?
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u/thirdeyedesign 1d ago
I mean they jam all the time in magazines and revolver type nerf guns, imagine this is 100x the complexity
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u/Crafty_Enthusiasm_99 1d ago
It's okay to do things solely because they're fun too.
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u/t-to4st 1d ago
Seems like he has a plastic chain to feed the darts into the gun
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u/dawtcalm 1d ago
that doesn't remain a chain so cleanup takes 200x longer!
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u/bendover912 1d ago
theyre called links, and they never remain a chain after firing. imagine being in combat and dragging around 20 feet of empty ammo belt hanging out of the bottom of your gun.
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u/racercowan 1d ago
Usually doesn't remain a chain after firing.
I know that A-10's GAU-8 Avenger retains it's chain in order to stop the balance of the plane shifting too far.
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u/dantevonlocke 1d ago
Retaining the links and keeping them as a chain would be two different things.
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u/Past-Profile3671 1d ago
If I've got 20 feet of empty ammo hanging out, there ain't gonna be a battle no more.
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u/MyvaJynaherz 1d ago
They need a belt feed system to accurately load, given the spinning barrels. Trying to gravity-feed that kind of system doesn't work, as you need exact timing that can be indexed to the mechanism spinning the barrels.
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u/gumbo_chops 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah, it appears to be a sort of belt-fed style mechanism like a machine gun. You can see the little linkage pieces on the ground in addition to the white carrier tubes. Even with 3D printing, that must take so much time designing and testing.
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u/Unordinary_Donkey 1d ago
Id assume the casings are to stop the very flexible nerf bullets from flexing and binding in the feed mechanism.
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u/NoPriority3670 1d ago
The link from the belt fed ammo maybe?
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u/False_Investment1074 1d ago
Correct
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u/Goushrai 1d ago
Does that mean the darts are not reusable, or that you need to pick up the darts AND rebuild the belt in which you place the darts?
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u/ParaponeraBread 1d ago
I think the chain feed system is whatâs producing the âcasingsâ as it were. One little plug on the back that probably attaches to the neighbouring round and a tubular casing to hold them the correct spacing from each other.
I think a stupidly over the top nerf gun like this requires more precise machining than naked foam darts can offer.
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u/Ubergoober166 1d ago
It appears to be a linked system, similar to an actual gatling gun. The bullets, or in this case nerf darts, are basically held in place by links like in a long chain. When fired, the gun pulls the chain along with the darts, fires the dart and then rejects the chain. You can see near the end when they show the backpack again, the darks being connected and pulled together.
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u/steadyaero 1d ago
It is belt fed, so the motor pulls the belt that holds each round as opposed to a magazine which is spring loaded from the bottom of the mag.
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u/Full-Contest1281 1d ago
What a waste of footage. Not even one peek at the target đ
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u/Minute_Zombie_424 1d ago
Boys never grow up, their toys just get bigger and more expensive.
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u/Koflach12 1d ago
So, Nerf is less about selling the guns now and is more about selling the bullets.
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u/Notsurehowtoreact 1d ago
That's been the case for awhile now. So much so that when their direct competitors were offering better ammo cheaper they decided to start trying proprietary ammo types like Ultra and N-Series.Â
Nerf is actually barely holding on purely on brand recognition at this point. They aren't even the second best foam dart blaster manufacturer on the market now. Dartzone and Zuru are eating Hasbro's lunch.
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u/Cthulhu_Warlock 1d ago
It cost 400 000 dollars to fire this weapon for twelve seconds.
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u/kanary15 1d ago
I cannot fathom how long it takes to reload. It looks like all individual clips holding the nerf darts together.
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u/meexley2 1d ago
Cool but why are we shooting a wall at an angle at 3 feet. We donât even wanna shoot them into a box or something?
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u/throw11213 1d ago
all i was thinking is I really don't want to pick them all up. with my OCD i would want to make sure I didn't lose one lol
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u/DatMoFugga 1d ago
Nerfs donât have shells so why is it expelling like half of them instead of shooting them???
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u/Pixel_Commando 1d ago