Ammo Test: Lififun "1.4g" (sub-cal solid dome) tip, as full length

I saw this dart on the Jungle Site and a random mention of it having glue issues on reddit. Ooooohh, 1.4g, as short? I bought some to refoam the tips as longs (and properly glued obviously) - unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be factory available with long foam, at least not under this brand (though it's a "Haosen Toys" OEM dart apparently and I THINK one of those Worker[whatever] reseller sites has this tip as a premade long, investigation pending on that and those).

 

The foam I used came from disassembling all of those left over crappy Nitroshot darts from the case I bought to test them in the last post. Nitroshit? Nitroshart. Either is more apt for them, lol. But the foam is fine, and the harvesting was easy. The color goes with the tips (Which are a color-code for mass with the Lififuns similar to Workers; whites are lights, purples are standards and pinks are heavies).

 

Whereas the harvesting was NOT easy for the Lififun tips out of the factory foam. The glue was not as insufficient as the reddit post suggested, though it was CA glue and applied only on the core yet again - with most dart tips you can just yank. With these, the compound and the core design mean that if you try that, the core snaps off flush in the foam just under the head. D'ohhh!! A well used razorblade proved the best tool (slit the foam, then peel it away from the core with the edge)

As-built masses as long:

1.55g

1.52g

1.52g

1.54g

1.55g

 

--Dude. That is SWEET.

Chrono, 9.0 T19, fps:

162
157
156
154
162
163
161
159
168
159
161

So yeah, that's quite low for ultrastock ...but that's just velocity. For energy, it's the same as 1.0g at 200fps, but it certainly has more range and retains more energy at range than that (say, same T19 shooting green tip Sureshots, or competitor's DC standard format super high crush daybreakoid blaster shooting something with a short foam) with all that sectional density.

Plus this like the Worker Gen3 test a while back is putting a sub-cal through an ammo agnostic 9.0mm gap system. With what I have coming, this issue of being concerned about the sub-cals losing a margin of grip over full-caliber tips is likely about to get obviated though. And no, the ammo-agnostic-ness is not changing to result in that. Dream bigger.

But overall the velocity tracks as expected. It's consistent, didn't have anything aberrant happen. I was probably overspeeding somewhat here given the lower critical velocity with the rebated tips and all the mass, this was at 25.5 and I didn't dial it in for this test. Might cut velocity spread down a bit and pick a few fps up.

 

Dispersion did OK. Shooting from farther away than my mark, I realized.

 

I like these, will definitely make more and am definitely hoping for them as a factory long, they run well, and damn do they retain energy downrange and hit hard. I really want to field these now, I know they will enable some crazy tags.