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I'm almost entirely sure the higher duro piece in the nitroshot tip is not the or a problem with their flywheelability, but rather the troublesome implications of making the hollow dome portion as long as it is, full-caliber, and cylindrical all at once That's a good point. IE: USCs that are basically a vinyl wad behind the suction cup, and they haven't caused the same problems. Having not just a hollow section of significant length in the tip, but also tacky material is a more complete explanation. Yeah; and/but: that's not to argue against constraint devices, or making them tighter in clearance being ideal as long as friction can be mitigated. so before anything else it's important to start with a projectile and flywheel system that wouldn't produce a great deal of garbage as an open bore or no post-contact constraint case, and then the control bore or BCAR can sweep up the scraps without any drama. Right, I was a bit brief in the last exchange. We've already touched on the ammo standpoint, but as for flywheel systems: it follows that more reasonable crush may play nicer with constraint. I've run into a few other people, including avid springer users, that suspect the same. Less deformation introduced in the shot, less mess to sweep up. Rollers - it would be tricky to get them into the places that are most critical of all, such as the transition from flywheel profiles to bore, or to create a proper dense rollerized wall that acts as a "non-frictional surface" to motion in the right direction (think one of those gravity conveyor things used to move boxes around in shipping facilities and warehouses) Now, that gets me thinking: how one could feasibly ramp up contact density significantly? Pins are obviously easier to pack in vs. bolts, for one. I have messed around with *6.2mm OD Nylon roller flanges and M2 pins, but didn’t really densify them or use more than how many bearings I might have run. I was inspired by a mention from you a while back that it was sensible to try to minimize inertia on rollers themselves and these definitely feel pretty free and light to spin to the touch. More points of contact and possibly for a longer distance (if it doesn’t have deleterious consistency or reliability ramifications) might not be revolutionary (vs. sensible wheel geo + good darts), but worth trying at the very least. The issue as I see it with EPP is that it's necessarily an entire solution of ammo PLUS totally dedicated flywheel system… That said, EPP is great. A shift to EPP flywheeling would be a revolution. I haven’t tried EPP flywheeling yet, but did figure as much about the flywheels system design ramifications. I believe the basic Ultra dart is still being sold on AliExpress but I’ve had a tougher time finding Ultra Accustrike. Being able to experiment and log shot plot data would be sweet. In fact ..."completely different caliber" - how about making it a roughly 0.40 inch or 10mm sorta thing? This would allow the low deformation to be accommodated more easily in all cases of existing .50 cal PE foam flywheel systems, and be a welcome capacity boost. That’d probably be the dream, yes. Feeding in 9.0, capacity going up, possibly easier double-stack compatibility (though this isn’t at all necessary). The 60~mm length on regular Ultra is probably fine, a little more compact than full-lengths but hopefully able to still push 200 critical on a single stage with the necessarily low deformation. And if they’re anywhere near 1g+, having 64% of the surface area is a sick BOOMco-esque sectional density boost. Snapping back to reality: to suggest "Just switching to" EPP dart foam and maybe a new caliber and instantly uprooting everything about prior PE foam .50 cal blasters, ammo and mags) is to me not even valid. Unfortunately true. The current EPP short dart offerings are mid and you also can’t just pull a high crush magic trick to get them to shoot 200. The bad impression that early-batch Ultra durability left has also seemed to stick. I get the impression that many people don’t see the potential and have already written EPP off. For one, while it was still solvent, MDFA (IIRC) banned EPP for the jam risk in most modern wheelers. Given the springer focus on all the current offerings too, I doubt we’d see any wide-tipped EPP shorts come onto the market, which is probably what we’d need for any flywheeler EPP adoption to get traction. As to Blu dart designer/flywheel darts rumors: any insight on dart foam availability or sourcing from that direction? I may have spoken too soon. The people I’ve heard from don’t really have that much more of an inside scoop or details than I do. The only additional info I’ve gotten since is that Blu 3.0 will behave better in flywheels. Unfortunately, this probably also means it's still a springer dart. You'd pay a premium for them being bamboo’d, and they'd probably come with a narrow tip and maybe short dart only. I do recall that early batches of Blu darts had excess glue application and the current production darts have overcorrected. I'd pray for a slightly wider subcal tip and less taper, maybe, but am not expecting anything more than just better tip glue.