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I've never been serious about darts but always enjoyed them, and got vaguely amateur good-ish while playing a lot on my last Afghanistan deployment. Darts would also travel much easier than my gun shooting hobby, so something I can take with me next time I move overseas. I'm moving back to my house in Austin, and my small living-room opens to a hallway leading to the bedroom door, so I think that area lines up perfectly for a dart lane, where I have elbow-room in the living room and then a narrow funnel to shoot down. For an overall budget, I'd like to spend under $200 for a board, darts, case, and any other accessories, if that's reasonable. I'm mainly torn on steel vs soft tips. I have no interest in an electronic board, but I see they make non-elec soft tip boards too. I was thinking soft tip so I don't leave my bedroom door, hallways walls, and floors covered in pockmarks. Then again, I own the house, and I'm tearing it down and rebuilding in like 5-10 years (though may re-use some of the wood, but it'd be refinished anyway), though since I may let it out I'm probably don't need massive damage to wood. I know there are roll-out mats and rubber floor panels and stuff, but that seems kinda non-spontaneous for playing around. I also understand that soft-tip darts aren't markless, just leave smaller/shallower dings than steel. I'll also have a downstairs tenant so I'd like to keep the *thud* down. I understand that soft-tip isn't just a chump nerf deal, and that in some parts of the world soft-tip leagues are way more prevalent (mainland Europe, parts of the US and Canada?). I don't plan to seriously compete, but I suppose I'd be up to casual matches in the Austin area in whichever category. In my circumstance, should I get a non-elec soft board and darts, or a steel board and darts? Or should I hedge my bets and get darts set up for changeable steel/soft tips (though afaik soft tip darts run really light so as not to damage the e-scorer). Or should I definitively pick one school or the other? Brands, models, suppliers? Thanks for any advice on hurling my mini-spears at non-mammoths.
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May 25, 2016 22:06
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Huh, looks like this might be much more affordable than expected. As a UK guy, steel-point really dominates in the Isles, yes? I'm tempted by soft-point but I don't want to be all Babby's First Game with it.
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May 26, 2016 14:05
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Do I need a different backboard for soft-tip than I do for steel, or same-same? Rather than the formal backboard, I think I'd just get some wood or composite material to hang behind it, do some artsy painting stuff on it. The "wall" behind the backboard will probably be an old hardwood bedroom door so I'll put some padding behind the board so as not to make the door a drum-head on impact. Not totally decided, but think I'll go softpoints with swappable tips for now, though that means I need much lighter darts than my old brass-barreled steel tips I had shipped to Afghanistan.
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May 28, 2016 15:50
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