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At one point I played a lot and also got a single 180. Probably several dozen bounce-backs from the wire but not a single split dart. Always found it strange th

• lonelappde 7y ago
  Split dart happens when the board is higher quality than the dart.
  • Jupe 7y ago
    Interesting... I never thought about that. I guess if the bristles board were very tight packed, the force of the incoming dart wouldn't be enough to move the dart out of the way? I had a good bristle board, but I recall spending much more on darts (weighted, various shaft materials, and an uncountable number of flights, etc.)
• Jupe 7y ago
  It happened often enough that I had to purchase new back shafts (the part that holds the flights). The aluminum proved to be the best, as I could bend them back into place and still get some use out of them. My first few were plastic, and were effectively useless afterwards. The valley created by the two fins of the flight basically made a path right to the join point. Of course, maybe it was my throwing style that caused it to happen more to me than others? Only had a few that actually stayed stuck into the already landed dart, but it was quite funny when it happened the first few times. After that it was just a bother. Probably happened ~10-15 times IIRC. (It was ~30 years ago).