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Best Dartboard for Light Thrower?

  • 04-06-2016 12:04am
    #1
    CUCINA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭


    Looking for some advice on the best dartboard to buy. In my case, not a serious player but I enjoy practising at home, going around the board in doubles, keeping records of different personal bests etc...
    The thing is, I would be quite a light thrower, so wondering if there is such a thing as a softer board, to minimise bounce-outs. Also, my darts tend to land at quite an upward angle, around 30 or 40 degrees. Sometimes when playing against others, you'd almost need a claw-hammer to remove their darts, so I assume there is no particular problem with my current board (or with the darts themselves).
    Finally, where is the best place to buy in the Dublin area? A couple of times I'd have bought a board, only to find that they'd develop a hard surface after only a short time. Maybe they would have been in storage in the shop for a long time? I would normally buy accessories etc. online, say from "Darts Corner", so would this be the best source?
    Any advice would be much appreciated...


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  • #2
    mackeire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭mackeire


    CUCINA wrote: »
    Looking for some advice on the best dartboard to buy. In my case, not a serious player but I enjoy practising at home, going around the board in doubles, keeping records of different personal bests etc...
    The thing is, I would be quite a light thrower, so wondering if there is such a thing as a softer board, to minimise bounce-outs. Also, my darts tend to land at quite an upward angle, around 30 or 40 degrees. Sometimes when playing against others, you'd almost need a claw-hammer to remove their darts, so I assume there is no particular problem with my current board (or with the darts themselves).
    Finally, where is the best place to buy in the Dublin area? A couple of times I'd have bought a board, only to find that they'd develop a hard surface after only a short time. Maybe they would have been in storage in the shop for a long time? I would normally buy accessories etc. online, say from "Darts Corner", so would this be the best source?
    Any advice would be much appreciated...

    What board are you using at the moment?
    I buy the blade 4 from argos. At the moment the Blade 4 is €30 and Blade 4 Dual Core is €42.
    If you don't play that much, go with the Blade 4 (purely to save the €12), turn it regularly and it will last you months/years, depending on how often you use it.


  • #3
    CUCINA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭CUCINA


    Thanks for your reply...
    I was using the PRO-ECLIPSE board, and this is the one where the surface hardened quite quickly. Bought it in Elvery's, in Fonthill Ind Est, so I suspect it may have been in their store a long time.
    The best, longest lasting board I had was an old NODOR board given to me by a work colleague which I've used up to recently and that was better than any previous new board I had!
    I play/practice about five hours a week, so it might be worth paying the extra for the board you suggested.
    Thanks again, cheers...


  • #4
    statto25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭statto25


    This is based on my own experience I find the boards you buy in the likes of Argos and Elverys to be a substandard quality. It's like they are seconds boards and don't wear well at all. I buy from dartscorner and I stick to the eclipse pro like yourself but they seem to be a way better quality.


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