Mostly for my own reference, I wanted to assemble my collection of smooth barreled darts.
From top to bottom:
- Vintage brass dart of unknown make. The three really interesting aspects of this dart are that a) it has a hexagonal body which is uncommon to see, even in vintage darts; b)the barrel and the stem are all one piece of brass with the exception of the hairpin, of course; and c) it uses a hairpin style flight holder to hold paper flights. The downside to this system is that it bends easy and it almost impossible to get straight again, and the hair pin is flat, preventing the loaded flight from be a perfect "X".
- 17 gram Voks Javelin. These are not a tungsten dart, but rather steel, which makes it very light for its weight. To my knowledge, this is the only steel dart I have in my collection.
- 23 gram custom dart, designed by me, implemented by Jeff Pickup. This is the set that you will see throughout my blog referred to as the "Dagnabits".
- 23 gram bottelsen GT. This is an older set, and I know this because there is no 4ba threading in the back to take the modern screw-in GT stem.
- 25 gram Fansteel UFO. I believe they are Fansteel because the came in a Fansteel pouch, but this is not proof positive. What's interesting about these darts is that the barrel appears to be comprised of two different metals that are joined somehow. Either that, or the middle portion had a coating on it of some sort.
- 26 gram CT's. This is another Jeff Pickup implementation of my own design (although in this case it was less design and more specification, as it is an exact replica of a GT but in copper tungsten, and with a fixed point).
- 26 gram McCoy. This is another copper tungsten barrel.
- 28 gram Bottelsen "Black" GT. This was my first big dart purchase. They came with a black colored coating on them originally, but that has long since worn off, leaving a bit of a gray color.
- 23 gram Jenkins. I have no idea who made this dart or when, but I absolutely love it. It throws real nice. And I am only guessing that it is actually an official Terry Jenkins dart (as opposed to a custom dart).
- 23 gram UFO. The person who traded this to me years ago claimed (I think) that it was a custom dart, but it is strikingly similar to the Sleek model from Red Dragon.
- 30 gram Schofield. My guess is that this is the most modern of the Schofield dart line. I have only ever seen one other tungsten Schofield before and it sported the push-in cane stems. This one is threaded for 1/4" stems.
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