Why do dart shafts have holes

Deciding on the right grip for your style is a matter of experimentation. Shaft - similar to barrels, dart shafts also come in a variety of materials, lengths and styles.

The most common shaft materials are aluminum, plastic, nylon and titanium, aluminum being the most popular. Shaft lengths affect the stability of the dart in flight. Longer shafts may help reduce the effects of crowding, but they can also cause a dart to "fish-tail" in the air, destabilizing an otherwise accurate throw. If your darts "fish-tail" you may want to switch to shorter shafts. Specialty shaft styles include those with replaceable tops, adjustable lengths and spinning shafts.

Spinning shafts rotate at the flight, allowing incoming darts to slide past without bouncing off other darts or damaging other flights, creating the opportunity for tighter groupings. Occasionally, the fit between shaft and barrel may begin to loosen, causing unnecessary instability in the dart during flight. In this case, shafts can be kept tight in their barrels by putting a rubber o-ring sometimes called a "dart washer" between the the two to act as a sort of lock-washer. Flight - Dart flights come in different shapes and textures.

Flight textures include smooth, nylon, Dimplex, etc. Smaller, smoother flights will allow darts to cut through the air faster with less drag, yet they will be less forgiving to variations in angle of attack. Conversely, larger, more textured flights will make darts fly slower through the air with more drag and they will be more forgiving to variations in angle.

Actually, as the shafts do tend to crack more than the metal tips, I will keep the good tips to swap-out when I can't bend them back to shape after a robin-hood. Cheaper than buying a set of tips only. I once bought a set of the Titanium and promptly proceeded to robin-hood the tip within 15 minutes.

They are a bugger to try to bend back into shape. The titanium shafts are sort of guaranteed And he was supposedly Umberger's manager at the time. I don't consider it worth it. Things break That being so, I opted to get the most reliable shaft I can for the cheapest I can and write it off as a consumer expendable.

So what did I do, I called Cornhuskers and bought 50 sets at some really cheap price like maybe 50 cents a pop and I haven't run out yet.

It also helped that I got flights and other darts and even a set of plastic tips and steel screw-in tips and such. And they won't let you carry steel tips on board if they catch you at the metal detector x-ray inspection. But they will let soft-tips go through! So I just slip the plastics on and walk through but I have the metal screw-ins for real darts later on when I'm at my destination with my darts safely in hand rather than lost somewhere in baggage-handling.

All legal and safe. As to flights, from ae FreeNet. CA Bob Lanctot , one of our regulars, responds to langley dirac. It's been nice not having to replace flights, and they throw fine for me. Has anyone else tried these? Of the three, the turkey feather flights were by far the best and, in my opinion, still are.

The long arrow feather flights provided the smoothest, most stable flight for your darts. The feather flights fell into disuse mainly because players began buying tungsten darts with leatherette wallets which allowed them to carry their darts safely in a shirt or pants pocket. Feather flights are also easily damaged and spares are bulky and difficult to carry.

The darts must be carried in a box to protect the flights. Strangely enough, many players today, prefer not to remove their flights and carry them in a plastic holder which would be ideal for protecting the feather flights. But due to a shortage of suitable turkey feathers, the flights are pretty expensive.

Why is there a shortage of suitable turkey feathers when there is no shortage of turkeys? Metal shafts now come in a range of designs with some grooved and some painted all the colours of the rainbow and some of them even have replaceable lugs to hold the flights in.

One drawback is that metal shafts do not come in so many different lengths as plastic do. A big advantage of metal is that the lugs are very tight fitting on the flights so that once in a flight hardly ever comes out.

Indeed some of the thicker flights are almost impossible to get into the dart so it is better to leave the flights in all the time. Plastic shafts have a tendency to work loose and constantly need a quick twizzle to tighten them but as can be seen from the drawings metal shafts have a small hole in them into which a dart point can be inserted and used like a spanner to tighten them very securely.