My son's "Elite" Longshot CS-6 has been shelved for a long time because it started eating all darts, folding and crushing them. I've decided to try to fix it or get rid of it.
After taking it apart, I couldn't find anything mechanically wrong with it at first. However when I inserted a dart and moved the priming sled back and forward manually, I noticed the darts hit the dart tooth quite a bit before the sled reaches the point where it start moving the dart tooth down. I could not move the sled forward to the locked position without damaging the dart. I marked the distance in green in the first picture. This happens even with the slightly shorter suction cup darts.
When looking at the dart chamber more closely I noticed the dart rests against a black disk with a pin that is in the tube with some empty space behind it that seems about the distance I'm missing to fit darts. This is marked in the second picture. I'm wondering if it's possible that it got pushed forward somehow, as the blaster didn't eat darts from the start, though it jammed occasionally.
I hope someone can tell me how the darts are positioned in a working Longshot, to figure out if this is indeed the problem.
EDIT: After thinking about it some more, I put the spring assembly back and while holding only the dart chamber tried pulling the spring back and releasing. The dart didn't even budge and it doesn't feel like any air is coming out of the dart chamber.
It seems like something is completely blocking the airflow from the plunger into the dart chamber. Does anyone recognize this and/or have tips to fix it?
UPDATE: Thanks for the help gwr5538 and TheeWander, your info gave me the assurance I was on the right track.
I followed a youtube guide to remove the AR and... it did nothing. I wasn't able to see through the chamber at all. I took a screwdriver and pushed from the back where the AR had been and revealed the culprit.
The yellow dart had been squished into the back of the chamber, impaled on the dart post. Obviously, my son swears he has never seen a yellow dart in his life.
