The Soft Tip Darts Game
The electronic dartboard revolution has brought in a whole new set of equipment for the darts game, most notably soft tip darts. These are the darts you need to play on the electronic dart boards and they have special detachable plastic tips. These tips usually have a 2BA thread on them to screw them into the barrel. Being made of plastic they are liable to being bent or broken during normal play, so make sure you have plenty of spares. Fortunately these are really cheap. To replace the tips you will need a special dart tool that can come with the darts set, or you can buy one from around $10. It is very easy, the tips have a hole in them near the base where they screw into the barrel, and you simply push the pointed end of the dart tool into the hole to unscrew the tip and replace it with another.
All the major manufacturers now produce soft tip darts, with the famous black widow darts set from Laserdarts and the devastators from Bottelsen, just to name a couple and there are a lot of convertible darts sets around which give you a set of screw in steel tips as well as soft tips, like the skinnys from Bottelsen, so you can use the same darts for both the soft tip and the steel tip games, which is neat. The skinnys also have the famous hammerhead action steel tip inserts that reduce those infamous bounce outs on the wires of the bristle boards. Also the shafts and flights for the soft tip darts are just the same as for steel tip darts.
The black widow soft tips have the spider grip aluminium shafts which are supposed to grip the flights better; 4 wires made of steel are embedded into the aluminum and covered in rubber so that the wires grip hold of the flights tightly and you can choose from 16, 18 and 20 gram weights; so if you are in to arachnids, these are for you. They even have a set with a gold colored finish that look really cool called Gold Widow darts, (guess what color the black widow darts are?). Bottelsen have got some great soft tip darts as well, their devastators are very popular as well as the Nemesis set, which have the Bottelsen spinning shafts.
The most popular soft tip though is probably the Piranha, a mid to expensive priced dart that comes in all weights from 12 to the maximum 20 grams and now boasts their Razor grip, which is basically lots of small cuts in the barrel to give a rough surface to aid you in gripping the dart. They also come with “Top Spin” spinning shafts that can rotate so if hit by a dart whilst in the board it spins the flight out of the way so reducing the deflection of the dart coming in.
The darts that come with the dart board sets are err….. how can I put it, not very good, so even the cheaper Soft tip Darts at $20-$30 or so would be a great improvement on those, so if you get one of the all in dartboard sets it is definitely worth investing in a decent set of darts as well.
All the major manufacturers now produce soft tip darts, with the famous black widow darts set from Laserdarts and the devastators from Bottelsen, just to name a couple and there are a lot of convertible darts sets around which give you a set of screw in steel tips as well as soft tips, like the skinnys from Bottelsen, so you can use the same darts for both the soft tip and the steel tip games, which is neat. The skinnys also have the famous hammerhead action steel tip inserts that reduce those infamous bounce outs on the wires of the bristle boards. Also the shafts and flights for the soft tip darts are just the same as for steel tip darts.
The black widow soft tips have the spider grip aluminium shafts which are supposed to grip the flights better; 4 wires made of steel are embedded into the aluminum and covered in rubber so that the wires grip hold of the flights tightly and you can choose from 16, 18 and 20 gram weights; so if you are in to arachnids, these are for you. They even have a set with a gold colored finish that look really cool called Gold Widow darts, (guess what color the black widow darts are?). Bottelsen have got some great soft tip darts as well, their devastators are very popular as well as the Nemesis set, which have the Bottelsen spinning shafts.
The most popular soft tip though is probably the Piranha, a mid to expensive priced dart that comes in all weights from 12 to the maximum 20 grams and now boasts their Razor grip, which is basically lots of small cuts in the barrel to give a rough surface to aid you in gripping the dart. They also come with “Top Spin” spinning shafts that can rotate so if hit by a dart whilst in the board it spins the flight out of the way so reducing the deflection of the dart coming in.
The darts that come with the dart board sets are err….. how can I put it, not very good, so even the cheaper Soft tip Darts at $20-$30 or so would be a great improvement on those, so if you get one of the all in dartboard sets it is definitely worth investing in a decent set of darts as well.
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