Win.Max 24-Piece Brass Steel Tip Darts Set - 21g

Bars, clubs, offices, schools, compounds - anywhere several people play and darts get lost, dropped or borrowed. Eight players with three darts each, or a large stock of spares for a single board.

For a shared board, no - it is better suited. Brass is fatter at a given weight so it groups less tightly, which matters to a league player and not at all to a casual one. What you get instead is durability, a price that makes a lost dart irrelevant, and no reason to worry about who is throwing them.

Brass is the right starting point for casual play and it is what most house darts are. 80 percent tungsten is the first properly serious step. 90 percent is the standard for league and professional play. Above 90 the gains get small and the price does not, so most players are better served by a well-shaped 90 percent barrel than by chasing 95.

Steel tip darts have a metal point and go into a sisal bristle board. Soft tip darts have a flexible plastic point and go into an electronic board. Never throw steel tips at an electronic board: the point punches through the plastic segments and can wreck the sensors underneath, and that is not repairable. Soft tips on a bristle board simply bounce out.

2BA is the standard dart thread - 4.7 mm major diameter - and virtually every modern barrel, shaft and point uses it. The older alternative is a 1/4 inch thread, noticeably fatter and coarser, found on some cheap brass and house darts. They are not interchangeable and forcing one into the other strips the thread. Flights are not threaded at all, so any standard-shape flight fits any standard-shape shaft.

You are conditioning the point, not making it pointy. Roll the tip on the stone at a shallow angle, turning the dart as you go, until the burrs and flat spots from hitting wires are gone - ten or fifteen seconds is plenty. Leave it smooth and slightly rounded. A needle point is worse in every way: it skids off wires and bounces out, and it cuts sisal fibres instead of parting them, which puts permanent holes in the board.

The bullseye goes 1.73 m from the floor, and the throwing line sits 2.37 m horizontally from the face of the board - measured to the board face, not the wall, because a board with a surround stands proud of it. Cross-check with the diagonal: 2.93 m from the centre of the bull to the back of the oche. If the diagonal does not match, one of your other two measurements is wrong.

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