Sunday, October 3, 2010  Maintaining your Nerf..  It's important
to get in between the cracks.   My general take is to store your
blasters in manner similar to how they arrived in the box- ie
dart, clips and any blaster attachments removed. It just makes
sense to me, but some people have actually given thought to this
and given rationales as to why this is good practice:) 
Recently, I've heard you shouldn't load your clips until you're
actually going to play with them. This NEVER occurred to me
until I thought about it and realised that it made a whole lot
of sense. They clips are spring loaded, and therefore having
darts in them means the spring is compressed.. and the longer
they are kept in that state, the less "spring" they'd have when
the spring is released. In theory this would affect the 35 round
drums more than a 6 round clip.. but either way.. it makes sense
to empty them.  The spring issue is also with the blasters
themselves. It probably makes sense to ensure your blasters are
unprimed when storin