My Dart Board Collection

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Dartoball Snooker Board


Harrows Quadro 240


Winmau Casino 301


Unicorn Blade MX


Euroboard


Fairway Darts


Nodor Par-Darts


Club House Golf


Unicorn Eclipse


DMI Bandit


Common Paper Baseball Board

Set Up

A Goodly Showing of Darts

A few nice darts:

Above pic, left to right.  I consider these few darts to be my "vintage" collection.  I have others in my collection that date back to the 70s and 80s, but really they do not have the vintage feel the way these do.

1. 12 gram Unicorn Aluminum Torpedo.  This is my only entirely aluminum dart.
2. 20 gram Unicorn Satinlux Torpedo. This is a chrome plated brass dart, and my only in their vast Satinlux line.
3. 21 gram Unicorn 185.  Brass, and sporting the "Sweeper Long Lasting Flight". You can see these in the 1970 Unicorn Book of Darts.
4. 20 gram UFO.  This is a hex unibody dart that used to have a rusty hairpin that held the flight in, but I swapped it out with some Voks stems that fit in there quite nicely. 
5. 20 gram UFO.  This brass torpedo style dart has longitudinal striations all along the barrel giving it a very unique feel. 
6. 17 gram Unicorn Bullet.  This dart is unique in that it has a 3BA threaded stem hole. Once upon a time I had a tungsten replica of this dart made by the mast craftsman Jeff Pickup.  Last I knew they are in Getagrip's collection. :)
7. 19 gram UFO. This brass dart has an unusual color making me wonder if it isn't actually brass.  It is the shortest torpedo style dart I have ever seen.  It came in a Unicorn case that fit them like a glove but I really do not think it is a Unicorn creation as I have never seen its like in any Unicorn Book of Darts.
8. 26 gram UFO.  This short, fat brass torpedo has a similar look to many darts of its day.  Unicorn torpedos look a little different, so I suspect this one was made by someone else.
9. 15 gram UFO. This little beauty is one of my favorite darts to have, and to throw. It is a mix-material barrel.  The nose is brass and the rest of the body is aluminum. I have dubbed them 'Aviators' because they remind me of 50's aviation for some reason.
10. 38 gram Unicorn 182.  What's interesting about this dart is that it came with a molded stem-flight that actually had five wings.  That is the only one I have ever seen.

Above pic, left to right.  These are basically all my brass darts, and you will notice some overlap with the top photo.  The last four in this pic are my mixed material darts.

1. 21 gram Unicorn Ringed Brass.  This is the dart that came for free with a Unicorn dartboard I got one year for Christmas. Like all natural brass darts they feel warm in your hand and are a joy to throw.
2. See first pic.
3. See first pic.
4. See first pic.
5. See first pic.
6. See first pic.
7. See first pic.
8. See first pic.
9. 18 gram UFO.  I love this dart.  I took it to league one night and did very, very well with it. It looks a little Lloydesque to me but that could just be a coincidence.
10. 25 gram UFO. This brass dart takes a 0BA stem (what most people call a 1/4" stem).  I have never thrown this dart.  Maybe its good, maybe its not.  I do not know.
11. 11 gram UFO. This brass unibody dart takes a tiny screw-in flight holed that looks like it is the top piece from a two-part stem. As they are currently configured they are wearing Reflex conversion points which are perfect for them, aesthetically, and throwingly.
12. 24 gram New World Darts prototype.  This unique dart has a tungsten core and a brass sleeve.  I have thrown them before but I do not get them out very often. They are literally one of a kind.
13. 25 gram Accudart 301's. Another mixed material barrel. Front half is tungsten and the back half brass.  This is also a 0BA threaded dart.
14. See first pic.
15. 21 gram Harrows Rhinos. Tungsten nose, brass body.  I won these darts years ago in a consolation tournament. All the players who did the absolute worst in B League were invited and I happened to get 2nd place there.  This was the prize.  I value them highly.

Above pic, left to right.  This is my "smooth" collection, although I realize there were a couple I inadvertently left out.  I should have included the Pickup singleton (which you will see below), as well as the early Widows from Fansteel.

1. See second pic.
2. See first pic.
3. 17 gram Voks Javalin.  This is actually a steel dart.  I know this because a magnet will attract to the body of the dart, and also it is quite light for its size. The Voks push-in stem is one of my favorite push-in stems of all time.
4. 23 gram Bottelsen GT.  This dart has been retrofitted with a Voks stem. That makes it look like a Voks dart but it is actually a GT.
5. 28 gram Bottelsen GT.  This is the first expensive dart I ever bought.  I bought it brand new and paid over $100 for it!  I loved it but I could not hit the red side of a barn with it.
6. 26 gram Custom. I commissioned these darts with Jeff Pickup.  They are a copper tungsten, fixed point replica of the Bottelsen GT. 
7. 21 gram UFO smooth copper tungsten bullet style dart.
8. 23 gram Red Dragon Sleek.
9. 22 gram UFO Terry Jenkins copper tungsten replica.  
10. 24 gram Custom. I commissioned these darts through Jeff Pickup years ago.  When I had them made I was unaware of any completely smooth darts on the market.  Although my awareness of the darting world was smaller than it is now.
11. 26 gram McCoy copper tungsten smoothies.
12. 30 gram Schofield 0BA threaded dart.  This is the only tungsten Schofield I have ever seen.

These are all of my non-Nickel-Tungsten, non-Brass darts.  The first six are various materials, but the last six are all copper tungsten.  Above pic, left to right:

1. See pic one.
2. See pic three.
3. 22 gram Nickel-Silver UFO
4. 25 gram Nickel-Silver UFO
5. 20 gram Bottelsen Nickel-Silver Hammerhead.
6. 17 gram Bottelsen "Super-alloy" GT3. Love, love, love these darts.
7. 29 gram copper tungsten UFO.  These are 0BA threaded, so this makes me think it was made in the 70's sometime.
8. 21 gram copper tungsten UFO
9. thru 12.  See pic 3.

Above pic, left to right:

1. 16 gram UFO.  This is a coated brass dart, and like all soft-tip-born darts in my collection, wears a conversion point. In this case, a hammerhead point.
2. 17 gram Halex Matchplay.  One of the first darts I ever bought.  Back when my buddies and I were first getting into darts, we had a soft tip board in our office.  But it was too loud for our workmates' comfort so we switched to steel tip and never looked back.
3. 18 gram Halex, unknown model. They are wearing "Fancy" conversion points.  Back in 2004 when I bought them, this is actually what they were called!
4. 18 gram UFO, wearing Lip conversion points.
5. 16 gram Bottelsen Gap hammerheads,
6. 16 gram Harrows Magnum wearing one of the best moving conversion points I ever bought. It is called the US Darts Balancepoint Ace Point.
7. 16 gram DMI Radart, also wearing Balancepoint MPs.
8. 17 gram UFO.  This is one of the most beautiful darts I have ever seen.
9. 18 gram Freeflight Maverick
10. 19 gram Jeff Pickup singleton.  I only have one of these (as opposed to the whole set) because a long time ago Jeff Pickup sent it to me as a sample.
11. 19 gram Accudart Cricket
12. 19 gram Laserdarts Nightmare, wearing Balancepoint MPs.
13. 19 gram Voks Nobu, El-C variation
14. 20 gram Halex tungsten dart.  I do not believe these actually have a model name.
15. 20 gram Monster Hades

Above pic, left to right:

1. 17 gram P.E.N. Netherlands Range
2. 20 gram UFO.  This sweet little dart is 100% covered with a fine, yet grippy knurling.
3. 20 gram Voks "Item 931".
4. 21 gram Datadart Steve "Magic" Coote siganture dart
5. 21 gram Mission Kronos
6. 21 gram Harrows Boxer
7. 22 gram Dartworld Pro Point 80.  This dart have a very sluggishly moving point, and for the life of me I cannot figure out how to get at it.  It might be a permanent installation.
8. 22 gram Halex tungsten dart.  Like the 20 gram version in the previous picture I do not believe this dart has a model name.
9. 22 gram Harrows Eric Bristow Power Point
10. 22 gram Nodor
11. 22 gram Red Dragon Hexocet
12. 22 gram SmartDarts Generation 2.  I fucking love this dart.  
13. 22 gram UFO.  I'd sure love to know what these are.
14. 22 gram UFO.  These might have been "Camel" darts.  No idea who made them.

Above pic, left to right:

1. 22 gram Voks Bandit.  I bought them because they were colorful but I cannot throw them for shit.
2. 22 gram One80 Revenge.  My one and only set of One80 Revolution darts.
3. 23 gram Bottelsen Great White
4. 23 gram Bottelsen GT Plus
5. 23 gram GLD "County Corks". My wife bought these for me at a swap meet in Pittsburgh :)
6. 23 gram Tru-Lon, unknown model.  Has a fairly slippy knurling on the entire body.
7. 23 gram UFO Dennis Priestly
8. 23 gram Monster Helios
9. 24 gram Bottelsen "Vintage Line" Hammerheads
10. 24 gram GLD Viper Blitz
11. 24 gram Harrows Dimplex Powerpoints.
12. 24 gram A-Z Darts Colonial
13. 24 gram Mission Quadrant.  I cannot throw this dart. It sticks to my fingers like glue.
14. 24 gram Laserdarts Black Eagle
15. 24 gram Muellers 20/20
16. 24 gram Nodor STT-900
17. 24 gram Red Dragon SEWA
18. 24 gram UFO John Part

Above pic, left to right:

1. 24 gram Designa Dark Thunders
2. 24 gram UFO "Bobble" darts
3. 24 gram Freeflight Maverick
4. 25 gram GLD Crossfire
5. 25 gram UFO Peter Evinson
6. 25 gram UFO Robert Wagner.  I really like this dart, I find it very thoughtfully designed.  I like the slight forward taper and the finger shelf before the point.  Nice work!
7. 25 gram Elkadart Steve Beaton Spring Loaded
8. 26 gram Laserdarts Black Widow
9. 26 gram UFO.  These are the darts that started my blog 16 years ago :)
10. 26 gram Dart World Scoundrel.  These darts have a skinny threaded stem.
11. 26 gram Designa Dark Thunders
12. 27 gram UFO.  These might be "King Cobra" darts.
13. 27 gram UFO
14. 28 gram Bottelsen Hammerheads
15. 29 gram Fansteel unknown model.  I believe this to be the forerunner to the Widow.
16. 32 gram UFO
17. 36 gram UFO

r/Darts Weekly Challenge #17

This week's challenge is as follows:

Easy Challenge: Checkout 72 in three or fewer darts.
Medium Challenge: Checkout 98 in three or fewer darts.
Hard Challenge:  Checkout 131 in 3 darts.

As with most of the challenges, the easy came to me quickly, and in the first practice session of the week.  My plan was to go T20, D6 for a nice, atypical 2-dart finish, with the backup plan of staying on the 20's should I miss into the single.  As it happens, after a few tries I did just that: S20, S20, D16.  I was throwing my 22 gram One80 Revenges wearing medium-shape glitter red Condors:

The medium was a similar strategy:  My plan was to go T20, S20, D9.  That way, I basically had two shots at the triple and could still finish.  However, as Mike Tyson says, "everyone has a plan until you get hit in the face".  My face hit was a miss into the single 1, leaving 97.  Happily, I was able to hit T19, D20 for the finish (using my Durro MMA's):

The Hard Challenge this week is, well, hard.  It requires all three darts, and none of them can be a single.  There are a couple of decent triple-double-double options (T17, D20, D20, or T19, D19, D18) and a plethora of triple-triple-double options.  My strategy thus far has been to chuck my first dart at the T17 and then if I hit it try for a D20 (or two), and if I miss spend my last one or two darts marching around the board on doubles practice.

If I eventually hit it I'll update :)

r/Darts Weekly Challenge #15

This week's challenge is as follows:

Easy Challenge: Checkout 64 without using the 8 or 16 wedges.
Medium Challenge: Score a Shanghai in the 6 wedge.
Hard Challenge:  Checkout 133 in 3 darts.

This weeks challenges seem harder than usual (and that's cool by me :)  The easy one was gotten fairly quickly.  I wanted to go T20, D2, but ended up missing into the S20 with the first dart then followed that up with another S20 and a D12:

The medium challenge was trickier to get and took me a couple of sessions.  I found myself spending the second and third darts on the RMD routine frequently.  The RMD routine is a terrific companion to the weekly challenges.  Once you bust your medium or hard challenge you can continue doubling your way around the board, chasing those pins!  I did eventually get it, tho:

The hard challenge was quite the bear.  I decided to eschew the pro's favored route of 60, 57, D8, and up my chances slightly by needing one treble and two doubles, instead of two trebles and one double by going: T19, D19, D19.  Finally nailed it:

I have been favoring the 22 gram One80 Revenges wearing medium Condor Shapes (in glitter red).  A nice looking set up that throws well for me.  The easy challenge was gotten with the Voks Item 931s (also wearing Condors, but medium standard in black).  The hard challenge was finally got with the 26 gram McCoy smooth copper tungstens.

r/Darts Weekly Challenge #14

This week's challenge is as follows:

Easy Challenge: Checkout 54 in 3 darts or less.
Medium Challenge: Checkout 74 in 3 darts or less.
Hard Challenge:  Checkout 121 in 3 darts or less.

This week I did my darnedest to incorporate the 14 segment in each of the challenges.  I was only able to do so with the first two, but I was so happy with my route to the hard challenge that I don't mind at all.  Here is how it all went down:

The easy challenge was a typical S14, S20 (missing the D20 inside), D10.  I was throwing my 20 gram Halex tungsten darts.  I like them a lot and do not throw them enough, for sure:

The medium challenge started with a miss.  I was going for the 42, but hit the 14 instead with the first dart, leaving 60, which I took out in a pleasing enough manner with S20, D20. I was throwing my 15 gram Aviators:

The Hard challenge came within a few minutes of hitting the medium and I could not be happier.  I wanted to go 42, 51, D14, incorporating the 14-wedge not once, but twice.  However, my first dart missed into the 27, leaving 94, which I took out with 54, D20, for a treble-treble-double finish.  Could not be more pleased. I was throwing the 18 gram brass Lloydesque darts that I have no idea what they really are:

r/Darts Weekly Challenge #13

This week's challenge is as follows:

Easy Challenge: Checkout 65 without using bull.
Medium Challenge: Checkout 98, using the 18 segment at least once.
Hard Challenge:  Checkout 129 any how you can!

The easy challenge was easily gotten in a typical boring fashion: 45, D10 with one dart left in my hand.  When faced with 65 remaining and three darts I almost always go for the T15 anyway so this was not much of a departure for me.  I was throwing the 24 gram Vintage Hammerheads.

The Medium challenge ostensibly was a much more difficult chore but I achieved it easily enough during the first part of the week, maybe even in the first session, but it has been long enough that I do not remember the deets.  However, I do recall going for the T18 pretty exclusively first dart and then spending a lot of time trying for a D20, D20 with the last two darts after missing into the single 18.  After a while I decided that the better strategy was to go for the T18 with my second dart as well if I missed the first into the S18 and then go for D13 with my last dart for the checkout.  This worked well because on those few occasions where I did actually hit the T18 first dart, I just went for a S18 anyway and kept with the 26 checkout option.  It didn't take long for that strategy to pay off.  I believe I was throwing the 26 gram smooth copper tungsten McCoys.

The hard challenge was a doozy and I was convinced I was not going to get it (but I did).  So convinced in fact that I took a couple of pics of darts just barely missing the inner bull to illustrate how agonizingly close I came (more than once).  I took a long time to get this one.  My strategy during the first session was to go bull first dart.  My thinking was that 25 would leave 104, a two-dart out, and a 50 would leave 79, also doable in two darts.  This did not pan out so starting with the second session, and continuing for several days I decided to go T19 first dart, with a miss into the S19 leaving 110, which is still doable in 2 darts (60, DB).  After most of the week going that route, and missing, I finally decided that a first dart 60 would leave me 69 with 2 darts, and a miss into the S20 or anywhere else would give me two extra darts to practice doubles with following my RMD routine.

I eventually got it with 60, 19, DB.  I felt a strong sense of triumph when I finally hit it!

r/Darts Weekly Challenge #12

This week's challenge is as follows:

Easy Challenge: Checkout 55 using the 1 segment at least once.
Medium Challenge: Checkout 77, using only doubles and triples.
Hard Challenge:  Score 100 points in the bulls.

This week's challenges all came to me very quickly.  I pounded them out within a single practice session, and all within, literally, about 15 minutes.  I don't know why exactly other than to say that I was "on".

The easy challenge went S20, S1, D17.  I was aiming for the 1 segment first but missed into the 20 bed, leaving 35.  Then I decided to try for the T1 to leave 32 but hit a single one instead, and hit the remaining 34 with my last dart.  The few rounds I attempted before this looked quite different.  I went for (and hit) the 1 first, leaving 54, which I tried to take out with S18, D18, but missed the double every time. Such is life.

The medium also came with a few rounds.  I started trying for the T15 to leave 32 but after a few misses there I thought about the rules of the medium challenge a bit and decided to shift my strategy a bit.  The 15 is surrounded by even numbers whereas the 19 is surrounded by odd numbers so I figured if I missed the 57 into the T7 or the T9 I'd still be pretty well set for a triple double finish.  As it happens though, I hit the T19 leaving 20, which missed outside on the first dart, and then hit with the third:

The hard challenge I git with my very first attempt at it, and hit 125 points in the bull no less.  Sometimes you're hot on bulls, sometimes your not.   Or to borrow a different idiom: Sometimes you get the bull, sometimes the bull gets you."  Today, I got the bull.

Each of these challenges was gotten using different sets of darts.  Easy: 23 gram Sleex wearing medium slim Condors; Medium: 26 gram Scoundrels; Hard: 24 gram Bottelsen Vintage Hammerheads.

r/Darts Weekly Challenge #11

This week's challenge is as follows:

Easy Challenge: Hit the S12, S9, and S11.
Medium Challenge: Hit the D12, D9, and D11.
Hard Challenge:  Hit the T12, T9, and T11.

I got the easy quickly, though two of the shots were squirrely.  I was using my 23 gram Steve Beaton spring-point Elkadarts wearing medium red-glitter Condor onesies:

The medium challenge was surprisingly quickly gotten. I figured I'd be happy if I only got the easy one this week with a hundred or so near misses on the medium and hards, but as it happens, I hit the doubles within my first few attempts at it.  These are the smooth 21 gram copper UFO's wearing medium pear shaped Condors:

The hard challenge this week eluded me to the very end and I never hit it, although I did have half a dozen or more very near misses, like this one, where my third dart hit the wrong triple just on the other side of the wire:

Incidentally, these r/Darts weekly challenges are a perfect companion to the RMD routine.  If my first dart misses its target making the hard (or even the medium) challenge ungettable, then the other two darts are easily (and productively) spent chasing those map pins around the board.

r/Darts Weekly Challenge #10

This week's challenge is as follows:

Easy Challenge: Checkout 50 using any 18 segment.
Medium Challenge: Checkout 84 using any 18 segment.
Hard Challenge:  Checkout 122 using any 18 segment.

I got the easy and medium challenges this week and as happens more often than not for me with these r/Darts challenges, I came agonizingly close on the hard... many times!

Here I went S18, and then missed inside going for the D16, and happily hit the D8 with my last dart.  The darts themselves, incidentally, are a nice looking (I think Durro) mixed material dart.  Tungsten up front, and brass in the back half the dart.  They are wearing #4 Cosmo Carbon stems which I think are a few millimeters too long for them.  I'll pick up some #3's at some point and see if that improves their configuration.

The medium challenge came in my first two darts trying for it.  I hit the T18, D15 like a boss.  I must have been channelling a bit of Peter Wright on this one :)  The darts are an 18 gram brass Lloyd style barrel that I favor sometimes, wearing medium nylon stems and standard poly flights:

The hard was frustrating this week.  I never got it.  The closest I came was the below shot where the third dart is literally touching the wire of the inner bull.  I missed into the single bull probably 20 times total during my attempts.  I also hit maybe half a dozen instances of T18, T18, and then a miss at the D7.  More often than not that third dart at the double was a choke (a wide miss).  The darts below are 24 gram Designa Dark Thunders wearing medium-standard Condors.

r/Darts Weekly Challenge #9

This week's challenge is as follows:

Easy Challenge: Checkout 71.
Medium Challenge: hit the skinny single segments for 4, 7, and 12.
Hard Challenge:  Checkout 142.

Happily I had a quite a successful session just now, and hit all three challenges for this week.  The hardest one to get for me, was the medium.  My darts just did not want to find that skinny single 7!

The easy was quickly gotten and it felt nice.  I hit the 39 and then the 32, and I still had one dart left in my hand:

The medium challenge took me the longest.  I hit the single 4 and the single 7 several times but then choked on the single 12 probably a dozen times.  Then I started trying for it in reverse, and hit the skinny single 12, skinny single 7, and finally the skinny single 4:

The hard felt good to hit, especially since it is sorely tempting to chuck that third dart at the 60 after hitting it twice already.  I only went 60, 60 with my first two darts about three or four times in tonights session, and finally nailed that D11 on the last attempt.

All the challenges were hit using the same darts tonight, and what's more, unusually, with the same stem and flight combo.  I was throwing my 20 gram Durro UFO's that I am dubbing the "MMA's" (which stands for "Mixed Material Arrow" since they are a combo of tungsten and brass!).

I also noticed that all the challenges this week are numerically connected.  142 is twice 71, and all three challenges only use four digits: 1, 4, 7, and 2.  Coincidence?

r/Darts Weekly Challenge #8

This week's challenge is as follows:

Easy Challenge: hit at least 3 marks in the 15 wedge.
Medium Challenge: hit at least 5 marks in the 5 wedge.
Hard Challenge:  hit at least 7 marks in the 3 wedge.

Despite my recent trend of only being able to get the easy and medium challenges, this week I hit all three, and in a single session to boot.  All three were gotten using my 18 gram Accudart Revolvers, a fluted, stainless steel offering from the once-great dart maker.  Below you can see I hit my 3 marks in the 15's with a single triple, and missing the other two (into the 2).

And below, I sunk the first two darts into the triple five before I completely choked on the third, landing it in the 20 bed not far from the bull.  You can barely see it in the lower right of the pic.

And finally, a seven mark in the 3's with a T3, T3, S3:

All three of these shots were hit with the Revolvers, but each has a different stem and flight configuration as I was experimenting with them, looking for the best set up.  In the first pic they are wearing short standard Condors, and in the second and third pics they are wearing short Gear Fit Stems, but different flights.  The blue ones are standard Fit Flights, while the green ones are slim Fit Flight Airs.  I continued throwing the darts for quite a while after hitting these three challenges and decided the best config for these darts is the short Gear Fit Stems and Shape Fit Flight Airs.