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** If you're going to play on a bristle dartboard, you will need to throw steel tip darts.
** If you are a recreational player, the dart weight may not be important to you. Steel tip darts usually weigh between 17 and 31 grams.
** The dart barrel can be smooth or knurled. The various knurling techniques offer you the choice of feel and control.
** The heavier darts need larger flights, while the lighter tungsten darts fly well with slimmer flights. The slimmer flights will allow for tighter dart placement and therefore, you get a higher score.
** You may want to consider spinning shafts on your darts. When these shafts make contact, the shafts spin allowing the flights to slide by each other. This action effectively makes room for more darts in a small area.
** Steel tip darts have either a fixed point or a moveable point.
On a fixed point dart, whether you're using darts made of brass, nickel/silver, tungsten or wood, the point is fixed into the barrel of the dart and does not move.
The object behind the movable point is that when the point hits the dartboard, the weight of the barrel will now thrust against the back of the point, making the point go deeper into the dartboard, which gives you less of a possibility that the dart will 'bounce out', resulting in a higher score for you.
Discover, on our darts composition page, how a Laserdart Black Widow Tungsten Steel Tip Movable Point Dart is made thinner to allow three darts in the treble 20 and hit the elusive maximum 180.
