How Do You Get Into NERF In 2022?!?

Sometimes when you've been in the hobby for a while, you take for granted how much you've built up over the years. This is my take on how I would start from scratch in 2022.

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Thanks for watching!!! Much Love, Nerf On.

My fanmail address is:
Drac Thalassa
4426 Hugh Howell Rd.
Ste. B 192
Tucker, GA 30084

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[outofdarts]

Lol! Love the shout out. And for the record, Drac tagged quite a lot of us at the warehouse game with a stock Dart Zone Max Stryker he borrowed. When he says that's one of the best starter blasters, he means it.

[pokfan]

I started back in 2015. I had a Strongarm, Hammershot and Retaliator by the end of the year. Noawdays, I'd honestly suggest a Villainator, 6-SH or any X-Shot blaster for someone's first blaster.

My brother and I help my mom with babysitting and we've managed to get the kids we help her watch into Nerf to the point where one of them actively looks forward to it when we can go. It's a great thing to see.

[spiranomad]

As a resident airsoft tech, yea. When I was local, most of my weekend was spent working on someone else's BB Slinger. With Foam blasters, it's a lot of fun to see somebody's custom blaster that doesn't look like every other player's M4 on the airsoft field. Hell, just to stand out, I combine my love of Nerf and airsoft and use nerf shells with airsoft internals, mostly because it's different and a lot of fun to engineer something goofy.

[JoltKing]

I gotta be honest here
I'm not generally a huge fan of your content, but credit where credit is due, this video was excellent. It'll be a good resource to be able to link to interested people for years to come. Well done.

[galaxydog]

Me from Thailand, we struggle to get the hobby and community off the ground, good thing we have DARTZONE in our mall now however it's still a long long way to go

[alaeriia]

You buy a Dart Zone Villainator.

It's the perfect starter blaster: it hits nice and hard, holds a ton of darts for its size, and you can top it up on the fly. And it only costs $20.

[aidansmith]

One of my favorite things about Nerf as opposed to other shooting sports is simply that all the "toy level" stuff even exists. Its cheap, easy to work on (unless its Elite 2.0) and you can use it indoors and without equipment with much of an issue. Also: All those weird blasters can make good shells or parts packs, like the Deploy! Springs galore in that chunk of garbage, even if it was never worth actually firing.

[tafferinthedark]

A couple of months ago I was talking with a friend, reminiscing about childhood and Nerf blasters came up. Did some research, discovered how fun HvZ events look and decided that I was interested. Just yesterday I bought a kronos and 2 hammershots. A couple of weeks before, I got a Stryfe (And a rush40 but we don't talk about that one). Next on the list is a Takedown. I just love those designs. Guess I like secondaries haha. The Stryfe will get a whole new set of internals as soon as possible to be a primary-ish blaster though.

Thank you for providing so much useful information on the state of the hobby.

[GrimzNerfWorks]

Great job on the video, I really enjoyed this one, and I've heard many others do as well. I feel like more content like this would be a good idea. Your knowledge acquired from the length of time you've been in the hobby is well used here. :)

[C-Vite]

Man this is a great video to listen to. I've recently have just been modding a lot of my nerf guns from my childhood (5-7 years ago). As someone that lives in EU, nerf is a really vague topic and is difficult to acquire new blasters. Modding is highly recommended and is honestly one of the main parts of nerf hobbies and activities, tons of fun. Thank you Drac and others for these amazing mod guides.

[Seththenerfer]

I’ve been doing Nerf for almost two years now. I own around 49 blasters, and I just got an Alpha Trooper, and a military vest to carry my magazines. I still need a dump pouch though. I do plan on starting a Nerf group at my local park, as I have plenty of loaner blasters and darts. I’m only doing this because Pennsylvania has like no Nerf groups and I decided to start my own little “club”. Keep up the good work Drac. I’ll try to attend Endwar next year. I’m sad I had to miss it this year.

[runesrensen]

spot on drac! as i former airsoft and paintball player i agree with you 100% the community in foam dart flinging is just great.

[withaktv]

Hey man I just wanted to say 2023 was a big year for me learning about this hobby as a whole and you were for sure a big part of that! Just wanted you to know you’re reaching people for sure

[KeliGrubb]

I was kind of surprised you didn’t talk about the dzp mk3 for intro to fly wheelers. I mean gryphons are nicer for sure, but I think it’s an awesome “pro level” entry for the $400 budget

[skippyb.coyote]

Great hobby intro video, though I'm surprised you didn't mention the Dart Zone Pro MK-3 as an entry point into the flywheel space. For $140 you get a select fire semi-auto and full-auto hobby grade 150 FPS blaster that can run on AA batteries (preferably Eneloop rechargeables) and all it needs to feed perfectly with both full length darts and half length Talon magazines is a new pusher that you can pick up for $5 from Foamdemic on Etsy. Installing that new pusher is going to be way easier for a new hobbyist than trying to mod a stock class blaster with a new cage and flywheels, wiring harness, and all that jazz and the DZP MK-3 doesn't require you to invest in LiPo batteries and all the extra stuff they entail as well. So, the MK-3 with the new pusher, some Eneloop AAs, a belt pouch full of Talon magazines (I like the Maxpedition Mini Rollypoly myself), and a box of Dart Zone Max ruby darts from Target gets my pick for the best entry point to the hobby for someone with a $300 budget =)

[mitchelltravis]

'NERFING' is definitely one of the 'cheapest' cost-to-entry hobbies. Even making your own LARP gear is now similar or more expensive BEFORE event costs...

[dgresham]

I found the hobby through 3D printing. While working on my CAD degree, I built a 3d printer in a class, and bought another one. I had seen some things for nerf on thingiverse, but it wasn't until i saw 3D Printing Nerd's videos with Out of Darts, and Project FDL that I took the plunge. I started with flywheel modding, because I could print my own cages and motors and flywheels were relatively cheap.

[telekouti]

For all people commenting "don't buy Nerf blasters" or "just buy Dart Zone":
"Tell me you live in the US without telling me you live in US."

I have just watched a little kid looking for a toy for Christmas and he was showing interest in the Nerf Mantis. His dad, at first looked puzzled, thinking what the price would be judging from the size of the blaster. Only after he saw the price of 12, 98€, he replied to his kid: Nice choice!

In some countries this is the only way into nerf.

[mk]

My local group is The Fresh Darts of Bel Air. Cause we're in West Philly lol.

[carefulman]

My favorite part is ammo usage, with airsoft you can easily load hundreds into a mag/drum, outside of specific weapon usage, it's mostly automatic weapons. A bit more diversity with nerf loadouts, with different ammo mag capacity available.