Ordered these from Puredarts.co.uk on Sundays night and was delighted to receive them Tuesday morning, once again 1st class service from, in my opinion, the best online retailer.


So, the packaging. Another sturdy cardboard box with plastic front to allow you to see the darts (well the middle one anyway). Eye catching in gold with a couple of pictures of the 2 X PDC World Champion Adrian Lewis, the Lifetime barrel guarantee logo, 23g sticker plus information to state that these are 90% tungsten and the +/- 0.05g matched weight symbol, all quality stuff.
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So once opened here's what is inside the box. The usual Target foam insert containing the 3 made-up darts, 3 Zirconium and stone Barrels, 3 black (Laro on this occasion) shafts and 3 standard black Lewis flights, hole punched with Target slot rings inserted (note; these darts come with standard steel points).
On each dart is printed the Target logo as well as Adrian Lewis' name:
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OK, so I repointed the darts with Target Storm points and added my own stems and flights. First things I noticed is that the points went in very nicely, I have had problems in the past inserting Storm points and them being really tight including Target darts, however I had no such problem with these which was a relief. The darts are very nice looking, a pale gold colour with the rings buffed in silver, the stone grip between the rings is coloured gold too, very nice.
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A closer look at the grip. Nice buffed silver rings with the gold stone between the grooves. I would rate the grip at a level 3 personally as the stone is very subtle at this point and the grooves are quite shallow, others may disagree but I have had much, much more grippier darts than these. Also these have a nice taper that runs onto the Storm points and some nice (level 4) micro grip at the back end of the barrel (if thats where you hold the dart).
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Finally a comparison with my previous match darts, the Target Lewis Silica's, another very well made dart.
The Stone grips seem to have slightly more taper on the front end that meets with the Storm points better than the Silica's, other than that, the colour , and the stone grip, the darts are identical:
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So overall a very nice, well balanced dart, 50.5mm long, 6.4mm wide and 90% tungsten content with a stone grip.
Upside, the Zirconium coating looks stunning and the stone grip is very subtle.
Downside, once again no case or bar wallet, just the foam insert. As I have mentioned before this is not a massive issue as most people have their own case and the foam does a good job as far as packaging is concerned however if this was your first set of darts, at around £35-£40 to then have to spend another £5-£10 on a wallet or case may be a bit much for some.

All in all a very well made, hard wearing, well balanced dart from Target, who for me are making the best quality darts on the market.

Feel free to ask any question's that i may have missed,

Cheers

They are a very nice looking dart, nice one Rebel!

+1 from me. Nice darts and great review Saucy!

Nice review, I would have thought at least a level 4 grip though. Rules them out for me cuz level 4 the lowest I go. Thanks Rebel good job + 1 for ya

Cheers

To answer your question Larry, after playing with them last night for a few hours at practice I was finding after a few knocks and my hands warming up, they did start to feel more grippy, whereby I was hardly having to grip the darts and they were flying nicely.

However after picking them up for 20mins tonight the grip felt as subtle as when I first held them - maybe the stone grip feels grippier on warmer sweaty hands?

Its a nice grip either way.

I do like the look of these but would have liked to see a better taper on the end of the barrel so the storm point had a more natural looking flow to it. That obviously just my personal preference. These don't have a lot of taper on them by the looks of things and that surprised be having now seen them up close. So not so sure I want to get a set now.

The original Target Lewis' front end was more rounded and the Storm point didnt quite fit flush, held up to the light you could see a tiny gap where the barrel nose rounded off and the flat Storm base sat.
However with the new model Target have obviously taken this into account as, while not a very big taper, the front end tapers down to fit perfectly onto the storm point with no gap.

Ok talked me back in to it lol not that it would have taken much I will see how the finances are at the end of the month. Glad my wife doesn't come on here lol

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Ok talked me back in to it lol not that it would have taken much I will see how the finances are at the end of the month. Glad my wife doesn't come on here lol

Hmmm I think I will tweet her and grass on you LOL!

now you do need to get a grip Ha Ha

A well present and very detailed review there Rebel! Everthing someone pondering would need to know right there

Very very identical to my 24g Target Sports with the grip pattern especially your silica ones