I bought the Shell Lock Punch a few months ago from Dartswarehous.com it had only just came out at the time and was over £30 delivered, I cant remember the exact price but I believe it was more than the current price which is now £30.93 and it also now comes with an extra 4 bags of rings, I only got one bag. Click here
I had not tried the Champagne style lock rings before but I had tried the standard slot ring L Flights and thought I would just go for this and give it a try.
The package was delivered surprisingly fast from New Zealand, only 3 or 4 days if I remember and it came with a little L Style enamel badge:
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There is so many flight punches available now that I thought this one should be special for such a premium price.
The attributes associated with the Shell Lock rings made it sound promising so I was eager to see if it lived up to this.
As you can see from the comparison pic below it is bigger than the Target slot punch:
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The punch itself is quite substantial and as well made as something like this can be I guess:
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To use the punch you open out your flight and then insert in the groove in the punch and press down firmly, very easy to do:
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After that you are left with a neatly cut shape to insert the shell lock ring in to:
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Then you just place over the top of your stems:
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I did find that some stems work better than others but was a little disappointed that the flights were not perfectly 90 degree although they are very close:
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The selling point for the system is that it keeps your flights secured, prevents robin hooding and keeps the flight at 90 degrees.
Will for me it lives up to two of those claims and almost the third claim but not quite.
I used the darts with the shell locked flights for a few hours and have used them for a few more since and not had any robin hoods or flights pop off, so its good in that respect.
The system overall works well enough but I think the price of the punch is a little excessive and would prefer to see it at the £15 mark.
Also the flights were not truly 90 degrees and the biggest issue for most is that the punch only seems to work with standard flights.
For that reason I am only going to award it 6 out of 10.
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