I purchased a standard set of Target 150 micron Rhino flights and as expected from Target they looked and felt top quality, when folded opposite direction all edges lined up perfectly unlike some other brands.
When I get a new flight I like to what I call "set them". Rather than opening them up and giving them a little squeeze and bobs your uncle I will find a flat hard surface and run the back of my finger nail to crease it on the opposite side then continue to fold it back a forth till you can feel it getting slightly easier to bend. This makes the blades completely flat with no twist like a boat prop so to speak.
Now these flights are TOUGH they feel like they are made of steel like a four way battleaxe and with my combo of storm points I was ready to never bye another set if flights again.
All was going good until I noticed that I was getting these weird deflections. The incoming dart was literally springing of the flight of the embedded dart like a trampoline, you could definitely notice the extra deflection that these stiffer flights gave.
Too make matters worse after only half an hours use i noticed that one of my flights had split down one of the blades. On closer inspection there seems to be an added layer of material to make these flights the 150 micron's that they advertise, I am assuming that this material is 25 microns thick. I managed to pull this material of the flight quite easily.
I purchased four sets of these flights in total and within side of a week I had peeled a layer off three flights all up and I hadn't even been throwing many darts.
The extra thickness of the flight seemed to open up the top of the nylon stems quite allot aswell and popped out quite easily but wizlocks caps fixed this problem. And they were near on impossible to get into an alloy stem which i tried out of curiosity.
In conclusion I will not be buying these 150 micron flights again be it target or any other brand not so much for the fact that a layer peels off of them quite regular (you can peel the offending layer off quite clean if need be) but the extra deflection caused by an ultra stiff flight is quite extreme.
I hope this saves some of you some money and doesn't offend Target too much lol
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When I get a new flight I like to what I call "set them". Rather than opening them up and giving them a little squeeze and bobs your uncle I will find a flat hard surface and run the back of my finger nail to crease it on the opposite side then continue to fold it back a forth till you can feel it getting slightly easier to bend. This makes the blades completely flat with no twist like a boat prop so to speak.
Now these flights are TOUGH they feel like they are made of steel like a four way battleaxe and with my combo of storm points I was ready to never bye another set if flights again.
All was going good until I noticed that I was getting these weird deflections. The incoming dart was literally springing of the flight of the embedded dart like a trampoline, you could definitely notice the extra deflection that these stiffer flights gave.
Too make matters worse after only half an hours use i noticed that one of my flights had split down one of the blades. On closer inspection there seems to be an added layer of material to make these flights the 150 micron's that they advertise, I am assuming that this material is 25 microns thick. I managed to pull this material of the flight quite easily.
I purchased four sets of these flights in total and within side of a week I had peeled a layer off three flights all up and I hadn't even been throwing many darts.
The extra thickness of the flight seemed to open up the top of the nylon stems quite allot aswell and popped out quite easily but wizlocks caps fixed this problem. And they were near on impossible to get into an alloy stem which i tried out of curiosity.
In conclusion I will not be buying these 150 micron flights again be it target or any other brand not so much for the fact that a layer peels off of them quite regular (you can peel the offending layer off quite clean if need be) but the extra deflection caused by an ultra stiff flight is quite extreme.
I hope this saves some of you some money and doesn't offend Target too much lol
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