The Joy of Darts

[coburn]

Not the late 70's Do group but those feathered things you used to shoot as a kid at an old dartboard out of your Gat or Webley Junior if you were posh.

Does anyone still shoot them, I found a few in a tin the other week but until a smoothbore pistol comes along its an old pleasure thats denied to me.

[blooregard]

I still shoot them 6 at a time out of my Dan Wesson.

Great fun

[gingernut]

The received wisdom is that darts and steel BBs damage your rifling.
According to my Rfd thats nonsense because they are not travelling fast enough to do damage.

Discuss please.

[blooregard]

Personally I wouldn't shoot either out of a rifled barrel.

It may or may not damage the rifling but it doesn't seem right to me.

[coburn]

I think I'd avoid in a rifled barrel so it gives me an excuse for buying a smoothbore air pistol.

I am hoping there will be a Record Model 1 for sale at Bisley this weekend!

Apart from my Umarex Makarov of course I dont have any smoothbores.

[ratgunner]

Ask around for an old Webley Junior they came with a smoothbore in the old days,

Be around 70 notes for a reasonable runner,

HTH, Bernard.

[grantb]

I shoot darts out of my two smoothbore Webley Juniors. Great fun having shooting competition with the grandkids.

I don't shoot darts in any airgun having a rifled barrel.