Talonclaw T4: The 300fps Close-Quarters Caliburn! 

It's fun to watch first hand when you pull the trigger

With injection molded blasters readily available, there's not really any monetary incentive to buy a pre-built printed blaster. If you have a printer though, it makes more sense. Out of curiosity what would it cost you to print one at home including hardware? Ignoring the price of the printer.

@@BradleyPhillipsYT It cost me about $170 to build something that Frontline foam would sell for about $350 (if they offered all the features that mine does, but they don't). Injection-molded blasters are displacing much of the market share previously occupied by printed blasters. They can also provide an excellent introduction to competitive Nerf (Nexus pro). They're readily available, tougher, just as upgradable, etc. Better in nearly every way. The only way they don't beat printed blasters is when it comes to customization. This goes for cosmetics AND performance. All the guys in my local group that have injection-molded blasters are using aftermarket parts (barrels, BCARs, springs, plunger tubes, etc) that my printed blasters have from the start. Every printed blaster I make is a high-performance, bespoke piece. Some of them look like cosplay props as well, but their internal performance matches their looks. This is a niche of our hobby that I don't think injection-molded blasters will displace. Printed and off-the-shelf blasters will always thrive side by side in our sport.

Bradley is 100% right but with a bit of care and attention to detail these blasters are unbelievably rugged and powerfull. Two totaly different parts of the hobby. Fun for all.

@@BradleyPhillipsYT Well if you have a printer and love to build this is a great blaster. But if you don't, off the shelf is the only way to go. $28 aud in my slicer with $38 a kg ABS filament. Made extra strong with files modded to tighten clearances, mine makes the injection molded blasters feel like thier made out of tissue paper. Thanks for the video i will look into posting the modified stls with slugs permision.

⁠@@BradleyPhillipsYT ignoring overseas shipping costs from the US (since I always go for premium shipping) a T4 hardware kit is like 75 USD with some options. Personally prefer the SBL but that’s also an option. Even for injection molded blasters I still use my printer, the convenience of printing replacement parts and sights without worrying about power tripping customs is invaluable.

It's a pretty good blaster

Compared to Airsoft, yes Nerf is not as accurate. However, Airsoft is illegal here.

Bullpup allows for a longer barrel, and thus more power in a smaller package. The Lynx or the Xshot Longshot are great for CQB.

Great to hear

The Nexus is pretty creaky when you up the spring load or put a spacer in it. I'll have to get my hands on an SBL.

One downside of 3D printer blasters

Sounds like it would be easy to prime too

@@BradleyPhillipsYT very much so. I was impressed about it and the power it packs is nice, used it in my vids from the competition at an event called boiler dome

If Gavin is interested in sending one I'd be happy to review it

Both good injection molded blasters

@@BradleyPhillipsYT true, I'm glad 3D printed blasterd appear around 2017 till today, give me choice / option other from Nerf blaster,

Likely due to the sear being a bit more loosely fitted then a Caliburn. Makes it so the sear can actually move backwards so depending on the spring compression, can make the last tiny bit of draw distance more difficult. A weaker/shorter spring wouldn’t have that problem. Really heavy Longshot springs in numerous builds can have that slam-back final prime problem. The Longshot Spring plunger also angles when primed since the sear is on the bottom causing the sear looseness+spring+plunger variables to stack up. I get 300 FPS from my T4 with just the non longshot Acetal Plunger and a cut down Pro25 spring without the need for slamming the prime.

Basically it was catching on the spring instead of the plunger. I mentioned this during the video.

SF25 should be equivalent to a K25. I think 300fps should be possible with the right barrel and darts.

Mine runs Acetal plunger and Pro25 for consistent 300FPS

@@BradleyPhillipsYT im running a 35 cm kurry barrel with worker he darts

@@FrontlineFoamBlasters im running a 35 cm kurry barrel with worker he dart i think my ram base might be smaller i might have tk reprint it to re do the seal

I find bamboos are more consistent in velocity and jam less than standard version of the same darts. Range is about equal between bamboo and standard of the same darts.

considering their weight and sturdier foam higher quality, they are simply the best you can get on the present market. By far. they does not artificially inflate fps like the DZ bamboos or the dragon EPP, they weight the same as the non bamboo HE version(1g). it gain fps by lowering friction area, unlike the shitty DZ bamboo who does it by lowering the weight (0.7g)

I’ve found the lower friction of the bamboo ribs do make a difference in performance. It’s probably most noticeable at higher FPS though since the variables seem to have a more exponential effect at those higher power levels, if that makes sense.

I haven't used one to be able to comment on it, but might get hold of one soon

Complete amputation

@@BradleyPhillipsYT ya nah

As much as I hate flex in blasters, if it returns to the same spot it shouldn't really affect accuracy.

@BradleyPhillipsYT well with as consistent as the blaster was, there shouldn't be that much vertical difference.

I don't know why people keep being shocked when a FLF print is floppy and crappy. They have the worst print QA in the entire hobby.

@EddyOfTheMaelstrom yep, but it's still so wild how terrible it is, and how stupid FLF acts whenever somebody brings up their problems.

I agree. Although I’ve seen similar problems in blasters built by several creators. Especially at ridiculously high spring loads.

I totally agree! Unless you want to 3D print and make your own, there may be cheaper options out there.

Aiming higher to shoot further, something I don't see enough people doing.

@@BradleyPhillipsYT yeah same here. Funny story in a nerf battle at my local group we did a match of “Pokémon battle” I was using a stock stryfe and ended up getting a 1 dart tag out the get go against a kitted out full auto stryfe. Just one good lob and that was the round.

​@@SivaExperimentthat is a fun gametype, I came up with the idea for it after seeing 4v4v4 arena duels in WoW.

@@BradleyPhillipsYT oh wow cool I didn’t know

I used it throughout the entire video, no one died.

are your opponent made of cotton candy or something?

@@mhebert350 yours aren’t???

awful? list any injection-molded brushless blaster that competes with the likes of momentum or sbf

@@bernardlau9781 yeah.. flywheels blaster are also awful, which makes them perfect for awful 3d printed blasters :) what a splendid coincidence !! :D

It's funny you say that - the competitive scene sees an awful lot more printed blasters than injection molded ones. Maybe you should tell them they don't know what they're doing

@@its_just_chance cause we just starting getting those more and more frequently?? Ever since the nexus pro released, I never saw a point to 3d prints. Was a good evolutionary tool until they started doing injection molded and with the kiryn type-a creating a precedent of producing an actual product from 3d printed prototype, we'll just see them coming more and more, making 3d printing what it was intended to do : "functioning" prototypes.

@@mhebert350 you clearly haven't used a brushless blaster, if you think all flywheelers are awful

Definitely a downside of 3D printed springers.