Sorry for the lack of videos everybody. We got a lot more coming, but I'd really appreciate the support liking and sharing this one. I've been pretty sick these past few days, though I think it's completely unrelated to the current goings-ons.
Speaking as someone who also has that priming grip on their Takedown (with a near identical spring load), a major contributing factor of the difficulty you're having (besides it just being a heavy spring) stems from the bit where you reassembled your Takedown with ALL of the locks still in it - the partial prime lock in particular has a dramatic impact on the difficulty once you increase the spring load, I cannot recommend removing it highly enough. Essentially, you're getting a horrific spike in the difficulty because the placement of the lock requires you to compress that much heavier spring PAST the point where the Takedown has actually caught, which is already at near full compression. I tried running mine with the partial prime lock in place for all of a day, and it was absolute murder on my arm - open it back up and yank that nonsense out, with heavier than stock spring loads it's actively detrimental to your ability to operate a Takedown.
Are you talking about the little yellow piece that notches into the bolt sled thing? I tried to remove that thing and it wouldn't prime at all, I thought it was mandatory.
@@WalcomS7 No, the problematic lock in question is the one that sits over the screw post immediately behind the slot in the shell that the pump grip slides along (that is tripped by the molded notches along the back bottom section of the plunger tube). You don't need any of the pieces that slot into that bracket that resembles a bolt sled though, or even that bracket itself - those bits are just the automatic trigger override and double-prime locks: imgur.com/WTa18f2 - none of the circled components need to be there for the Takedown to function.
@@davitdavid7165 Just got my ProRx spring in the mail today, just finished putting it in. I did what Matthew said and left out all of the yellow pieces and works great. This thing was not that impressive before, but now it fucking SLAPS. I recommend this spring for sure. Only problem was having to cut the fins down on the plunger, but other than that it was pretty easy. And another thing is that it’s hard as hell to prime with the stock grip, but it’s doable if I use my right hand to prime with.
160 FPS nice - and added parts rock! Looks great and love that functionality - love firing it left handed with the double feed option using the jam release.
A full lenght mod would be pretty cool. A longstrike stock and a 10" barrel would make a somewhat futuristic feverdream- shotgun. Would have to remove the hop-up to get some performance back from the long barrel but it would look cool
I really need to get a couple speed loaders and the mounts. The Takedown might be my favorite Nerf blaster to date and I've been around since the Maverick/Recon days.
Probably the biggest thing I'd like to see for this gun would be for someone to make a stock extension that the handle fits into and hooks onto the tac rails. If done correctly, that would make the gun less front heavy as well as give it more carrying capacity. Imagine a full stock that can hold two speed loaders in the stock while the modded stock also has its own tac rails.
"I can't prime it." Well, maybe that is because you replaced the spring with a truck suspension coil. Lighten up on the spring strength (move down to K25) so you can actually use the blaster and so it fires straight. 165 fps is useless when you can barely use the thing and it doesnt hit what you are aiming at. 125fps is plenty for this blaster.
You can put a rival round inside of the chamber, and put a rock, a stick, a Buzzbee shell, and A SCREW, and it shoots. Imagine shooting sharp pieces of metal at people with a Nerf blaster...
It would be so cool to see somebody make a Takedown mod that incorporates a stock and more traditional grip, I just feel like that would be a great mod to see for a sawed-off style shotgun.
why not go with a forward pistol grip? you can prime it very easy with that since you pull back on a handle and not something you have to grasp horizontally. also, you can mod a roundhouse to hold 25 rounds which i still more than that takedown with the 2 magazines. if your talking aobut side loading the magazine keep in mind the extra time it takes you to pull off each magazine and then re-attach it to the gun is same time it would take to open a roundhouse magazine well and inject a round into it then reclose it. the only advantage is the bottom charger is much easier but a good 3D printer can make a side grip charging handle for the roundhouse and that would change the whole game since the roundhouse is more accurate than the takedown.
I don't go hog-wild with spring-upgrading Rival blasters... the accuracy, she takes a nose-dive with them higher spring-loads. Though the Takedown seems to be doing just fine... and who doesn't love speed-loaders?
How do you install the speed loader holders cause I’ve never modded a nerf gun in my life my entire collection is stock cause I’m scared of breaking things
I got that stock I put the short worker grip on it from out of darts I also got 18kg worker Kronos spring with the worker grip it’s way better now to prim I do want to try foam freaks spring see how fps is compared to Kronos 18kg mine is also hitting 160fps
Priming Difficulty See if adjusting your hand position helps? try rotating your hand down slightly so that your fingers wrap higher up on the far side of the blaster, thumb pointed upwards instead of forwards. slight dip in elbow, forearm angling more downwards below the blaster, instead of horizontal out to the side. (you might have to take off that angled grip thing to use this hand position, since the finger hook is going to block the palm of your hand) anyway see if it helps, subtly changes the angles of your arm muscles for better advantage.
thanks for making a video even though you been sick lately and you seen the Xero1tec kit for it? I am sure you have on the kit thing lol. still bummed we couldn't met in IRL tomorrow, but them's the brakes.
@@LepidoliteMica well I made a slight extension for the extra internal capacity. So its not the same shortness you exspect from the takedown but it's not a yard stick long either. I have a video if you may be interested in seeing in while it is currently being build. Almost finished of course.
I feel that Nerf missed out on an opportunity with the Rival blasters. Could the Kronos and Takedown not have been engineered to accept speed-loading from existing magazines? Not to take anything away from the third-party designers of 3-D printed loaders. That kind of ingenuity must still be encouraged.
I said it before and I'll say it again. It's UNCANNY how relevant your videos are to my current thoughts. I do wonder if the speedloader is actually faster than manually loading a handful of 8 rounds considering you have to take the speedloader off, click it in, push it down, and return it to its spot.
Short answer: YES. Longer answer: Whatever additional time is added to the process of reloading - due to wrangling the speed loaders themselves - is MORE than made up for by just how much faster it is to load an entire magazine's worth of rounds in a single action. Once your supply of speed loaders is empty... well then it's a wash.
all those loaders strapped on, Meh I'll just stick with my Artemis they come out to be the same size but the Artemis gets less frequent reloading, better pump grip by default. why waste the money shoehorning a Takedown to be an Artemis when the Artemis exists?
You haven't looked at the price of the Artemis recently, have you? Also with this being a Kronos platform it's going to hit harder; no gears, no BS. There's a few decent use reasons in there.
@@WalcomS7 These current scalper prices aren't relevant to me. I bought mine ages ago when it was still in production and cheap. Less than the cost of a new Takedown+Boutique 3d Print Upgrades. I'm not seeing enough of a Benefit to warrant buying into a whole new package, not when I already have an Artemis and can invest in upgrades for it instead.
@@adriansue8955 That's kind of a short-sighted way of looking at things. If you wanted this, it's an option. You have something that works perfectly fine and is similar, better in some ways even? Totally fine, but that doesn't diminish alternatives existing. That's like me saying every blaster is garbage compared to my FDL-3 so what's the point of me liking anything that's not my FDL-3? More options are always good.
...because I'm a nerd? The inability to breathe for the last few days probably had something to do with it. I also live in the PNW where sun rarely shines. Mostly the nerd thing, though.
Literally just bought the Takedown, and stumbled upon your video. Love this thing outta the box. Looking into the springs,grip, and speed loaders to make it that much sweeter. Thanks for the vid!
Sorry for the lack of videos everybody. We got a lot more coming, but I'd really appreciate the support liking and sharing this one. I've been pretty sick these past few days, though I think it's completely unrelated to the current goings-ons.
I'm glad you're still uploading at all. Hope you get better!
The hitmarker is such a good addition, as I could never see where the darts land
Ur getting smaller bro
Flames Fire this
Hope you're feeling better. Look after yourself!
It's hard to mess up a Kronos.
Hasbro: "Hold my beer"
Don't tempt them.
@@WalcomS7 already happened. Roundhouse, with its terrible sealing plunger. -that was your mod video...
That one with the ammo holder hand gaurd:
they already did the finisher
@@davitdavid7165 the heracles?
Speaking as someone who also has that priming grip on their Takedown (with a near identical spring load), a major contributing factor of the difficulty you're having (besides it just being a heavy spring) stems from the bit where you reassembled your Takedown with ALL of the locks still in it - the partial prime lock in particular has a dramatic impact on the difficulty once you increase the spring load, I cannot recommend removing it highly enough. Essentially, you're getting a horrific spike in the difficulty because the placement of the lock requires you to compress that much heavier spring PAST the point where the Takedown has actually caught, which is already at near full compression.
I tried running mine with the partial prime lock in place for all of a day, and it was absolute murder on my arm - open it back up and yank that nonsense out, with heavier than stock spring loads it's actively detrimental to your ability to operate a Takedown.
Are you talking about the little yellow piece that notches into the bolt sled thing? I tried to remove that thing and it wouldn't prime at all, I thought it was mandatory.
@@WalcomS7 No, the problematic lock in question is the one that sits over the screw post immediately behind the slot in the shell that the pump grip slides along (that is tripped by the molded notches along the back bottom section of the plunger tube).
You don't need any of the pieces that slot into that bracket that resembles a bolt sled though, or even that bracket itself - those bits are just the automatic trigger override and double-prime locks: imgur.com/WTa18f2 - none of the circled components need to be there for the Takedown to function.
@@matthewyoho5422 Guess I'll pull it apart and see what happens. Thanks.
@@WalcomS7 did it work?
@@davitdavid7165 Just got my ProRx spring in the mail today, just finished putting it in. I did what Matthew said and left out all of the yellow pieces and works great. This thing was not that impressive before, but now it fucking SLAPS. I recommend this spring for sure. Only problem was having to cut the fins down on the plunger, but other than that it was pretty easy.
And another thing is that it’s hard as hell to prime with the stock grip, but it’s doable if I use my right hand to prime with.
staring nonstop at his titanfall shirt. favorite fps.
Zoop yes!!!
Yasssss!!!!!
Love the game.
Yea titanfall is legendary
titanfall is hugely underrated
Nice. It's tempting to me to get double holders for speedloaders. FoamTechnician does some pretty sweet work.
that titanfall shirt just got you a sub, amazing game, hope it never dies (I'm referring to TF2) not the original
Love the titanfall shirt!
Same!
THEY TRYIN TO CORNER US!
Richer: GET TO THE DROPSHIP!!
for sure its usable, i was impressed with the performance of it
You might have just given me a reason to like the takedown more than my orbit
Damn it, now I want to build one of these for rival, and I don't even use rival. This thing is cool.
160 FPS nice - and added parts rock! Looks great and love that functionality - love firing it left handed with the double feed option using the jam release.
A full lenght mod would be pretty cool. A longstrike stock and a 10" barrel would make a somewhat futuristic feverdream- shotgun. Would have to remove the hop-up to get some performance back from the long barrel but it would look cool
Wished I could have watched this video sooner. Great video Walcom!
Omg I love Titanfall 2
I now need to see Saturn speed loaders
A quick load clip like that would be perfect for the charger
all i saw was the titan fall shirt and i new its worth even more to subscribe
you are wearing a Titanfall shirt. I like this one..
What a great secondary
I really wanted to make a Hercules primary where I extend the mag into the dart storage and slap a stock on it but this might be it
I really need to get a couple speed loaders and the mounts. The Takedown might be my favorite Nerf blaster to date and I've been around since the Maverick/Recon days.
I actually found 2 left on the shelf on walmart and they were priced at $14 so I picked them and were worth my money.
Probably the biggest thing I'd like to see for this gun would be for someone to make a stock extension that the handle fits into and hooks onto the tac rails. If done correctly, that would make the gun less front heavy as well as give it more carrying capacity. Imagine a full stock that can hold two speed loaders in the stock while the modded stock also has its own tac rails.
I was thinking "You could load the empty from the ground" and then you went ahead and said it
"I can't prime it." Well, maybe that is because you replaced the spring with a truck suspension coil. Lighten up on the spring strength (move down to K25) so you can actually use the blaster and so it fires straight. 165 fps is useless when you can barely use the thing and it doesnt hit what you are aiming at. 125fps is plenty for this blaster.
Great now I want one of these LOL great video bro!
I bought one of those on impulse as my first rival blaster, and holy hell I love it
TITANFALL!!!
Your talking about one of the best nerf blasters hasbro has made (the kronos) and your wearing a titanfall shirt. thats just great.
pretty rad. I really hope the roundhouse gets good 3rd party support for mods aswell,, i love its form factor / capacity
I think someone should create a stock for the Takedown to make it easier to prime with the pro rx spring
Pls make itfoldable or something to make it storable
@@davitdavid7165 well it would be a removable shoulder stock that comes in 3 lengths depending on the user's arm length
So, a Saturn?
Well the only problem with this is most of it cost more than the actual blaster other than the clips
You can put a rival round inside of the chamber, and put a rock, a stick, a Buzzbee shell, and A SCREW, and it shoots. Imagine shooting sharp pieces of metal at people with a Nerf blaster...
R u ok
@@hxd9321 no
It would be so cool to see somebody make a Takedown mod that incorporates a stock and more traditional grip, I just feel like that would be a great mod to see for a sawed-off style shotgun.
i have it in a shot gun holstet and then the speed loader on the side if the holster on the molly
why not go with a forward pistol grip? you can prime it very easy with that since you pull back on a handle and not something you have to grasp horizontally. also, you can mod a roundhouse to hold 25 rounds which i still more than that takedown with the 2 magazines. if your talking aobut side loading the magazine keep in mind the extra time it takes you to pull off each magazine and then re-attach it to the gun is same time it would take to open a roundhouse magazine well and inject a round into it then reclose it. the only advantage is the bottom charger is much easier but a good 3D printer can make a side grip charging handle for the roundhouse and that would change the whole game since the roundhouse is more accurate than the takedown.
Hellsender 2.0 baby.
Pls.
It makes the takedown cooler for sure, but not insane lol
I do the same thing but I use lego,works pretty well
At least you can see the balls in the shootingtest🤦♂️☠️
The speedloader costs as much as the stock blaster
This is a simmalar concept to Mr Nathan's atlas arena loadout
I don't go hog-wild with spring-upgrading Rival blasters... the accuracy, she takes a nose-dive with them higher spring-loads. Though the Takedown seems to be doing just fine... and who doesn't love speed-loaders?
Ooh, is that a new camera setup? The firing demo footage was looking really nice today.
Walcom!!! I have that exact same shirt. I love titanfall
I'm sure you probably know already but just incase o.o.d has a pump grip that looks like it may work better for u and speed loaders.
Its hard to mess up a kronos
Hasbro: Finisher
Great Video, I like your honest opinions on the product you review. Stay Safe.
Cool blaster, i hope rival charger have some mod to quick load like that
he looks interesting without the beard
SUPER SHOTGUN. 👏👏👏
SUPER SHOTGUN. 👏👏👏
SUPER SHOTGUN. 👏👏👏
RIP AND TEAR, UNTIL IT IS DONE!
Nice loot crate shirt! Pretty sure I saw ashens talk about the exact one in a lüte cräte video
How do you install the speed loader holders cause I’ve never modded a nerf gun in my life my entire collection is stock cause I’m scared of breaking things
Can the ammo holder mods that fit the Kronos fit the Takedown?
I wish they would make a speedloader for the saturn...
Takedown is best
Another great vid
I got that stock I put the short worker grip on it from out of darts I also got 18kg worker Kronos spring with the worker grip it’s way better now to prim I do want to try foam freaks spring see how fps is compared to Kronos 18kg mine is also hitting 160fps
Priming Difficulty
See if adjusting your hand position helps?
try rotating your hand down slightly so that your fingers wrap higher up on the far side of the blaster, thumb pointed upwards instead of forwards. slight dip in elbow, forearm angling more downwards below the blaster, instead of horizontal out to the side.
(you might have to take off that angled grip thing to use this hand position, since the finger hook is going to block the palm of your hand)
anyway see if it helps, subtly changes the angles of your arm muscles for better advantage.
thanks for making a video even though you been sick lately and you seen the Xero1tec kit for it? I am sure you have on the kit thing lol. still bummed we couldn't met in IRL tomorrow, but them's the brakes.
Hey Walcom, love the positive review of the video. My question is this, would a 16 shot takedown interested you? Because I'm currently building one.
Probably if it didn't make the overall blaster any bigger.
I'm gonna also tag a reply on here just cause if you can get 16 shots in that small package I most definitely want in.
@@LepidoliteMica well I made a slight extension for the extra internal capacity. So its not the same shortness you exspect from the takedown but it's not a yard stick long either. I have a video if you may be interested in seeing in while it is currently being build. Almost finished of course.
@@neoseeker7160 I'm a big fan of the triple-capacity Kronos shotgun that the Lord-Captain Xavier made, too, so show that thing off!
You could carry the speed loaders in an ammo pouch or a pocket or a belt those do have belt clips?
Forgrip man go old school
anybody know if these speedladers and holders will work with a saturn?
I kinda wonder if one could use the rival stick mags and have them front load under the barrel..
someone much stronger than you struggled?
who wifecom? XD
It needs a lotus adapter for the other side
Put the picatinny on it and a Worker angled grip.
I'm worried that'd lower the priming direction even more and cause more problems...
Love your content
Still wish it was a double barrel, still awesome tho.
I wonder if there would be a way to link two of them
@@Glenn-kc5eu He's already slammed two X-Shot Chaos Orbits together, I'm sure it's possible...
@@Glenn-kc5eu Possible, only problem I see would be the prime and the spring.
Next time put a resonable spring upgrade in it, instead of overdoing it
wym overdoing it? this is perfection
I just put this exact spring into mine & it fucking slaps. So its pretty much perfect.
No Friday stream but video yay!
I feel that Nerf missed out on an opportunity with the Rival blasters. Could the Kronos and Takedown not have been engineered to accept speed-loading from existing magazines?
Not to take anything away from the third-party designers of 3-D printed loaders. That kind of ingenuity must still be encouraged.
I like your hat
Nice mod!
#quad ambidextrous speedloader...
Do the magnet holster systems work with this? I was thinking of putting it on a leg holster and replacing my Kronos with it......
No they don’t because it was custom made for the Kronos
That little Titan Fall propaganda
I said it before and I'll say it again. It's UNCANNY how relevant your videos are to my current thoughts.
I do wonder if the speedloader is actually faster than manually loading a handful of 8 rounds considering you have to take the speedloader off, click it in, push it down, and return it to its spot.
Short answer: YES.
Longer answer: Whatever additional time is added to the process of reloading - due to wrangling the speed loaders themselves - is MORE than made up for by just how much faster it is to load an entire magazine's worth of rounds in a single action. Once your supply of speed loaders is empty... well then it's a wash.
@@matthewyoho5422 Want to time it? From empty to fully loaded and speedloader put away? I'll time myself if you do. Just curious.
How is the Coronavirus situation affecting public Nerf events?
timtam 2400 some events have been cancelled
I got my takedown for 14 bucks in target
Vs the Double Liberator? This thing looks pretty BA!!!
Your a great youtuber
Had a krons it broke
what is the minimum fps i should have for a nerf war
deskfan man depends where you’re nerfing
@@gaydolfhitqueer835 And who you're NERFing with.
all those loaders strapped on, Meh
I'll just stick with my Artemis
they come out to be the same size but the Artemis gets less frequent reloading, better pump grip by default.
why waste the money shoehorning a Takedown to be an Artemis when the Artemis exists?
You haven't looked at the price of the Artemis recently, have you? Also with this being a Kronos platform it's going to hit harder; no gears, no BS. There's a few decent use reasons in there.
@@WalcomS7 These current scalper prices aren't relevant to me.
I bought mine ages ago when it was still in production and cheap. Less than the cost of a new Takedown+Boutique 3d Print Upgrades.
I'm not seeing enough of a Benefit to warrant buying into a whole new package, not when I already have an Artemis and can invest in upgrades for it instead.
@@adriansue8955 That's kind of a short-sighted way of looking at things. If you wanted this, it's an option. You have something that works perfectly fine and is similar, better in some ways even? Totally fine, but that doesn't diminish alternatives existing. That's like me saying every blaster is garbage compared to my FDL-3 so what's the point of me liking anything that's not my FDL-3?
More options are always good.
Love the shirt :)
Bucket head
@@alejandromayorga7737 yes ;)
It´s a short barreled Shotgun.What a felony.When does the ATF come?Liberal-Screaming.
Its a Mossberg shockwave
I paid 15 for it 🤭
I hear bias lmao (i also have a takedown i mean no disrespect)
BTW I like your hat
Why in the hell is he as white as a ghost.
...because I'm a nerd? The inability to breathe for the last few days probably had something to do with it. I also live in the PNW where sun rarely shines. Mostly the nerd thing, though.
First
As🥳😟😕😩🥺
First?Idk why my keyboard keeps setting itself to Chinese lol
Hey big guy, why is your right arm so much stronger than your left?
Literally just bought the Takedown, and stumbled upon your video. Love this thing outta the box. Looking into the springs,grip, and speed loaders to make it that much sweeter. Thanks for the vid!