If you have recently chosen to take up the sport of dart throwing then you might be in for a surprise when you go to purchase your first set of darts; namely, how many different types of darts there are. There are hundreds of different types of darts that can be segregated any number of ways into diverse categories; however, you will usually find that there are two main types of darts, soft tip and steel tip darts. The board used will even vary and often the game will have different rules in which to adhere to. If you are playing darts in a tournament or perhaps a bar then you will need to make sure of the type of dart board used and any rules that the establishment may have on types of tips allowed.

The differences between types of darts is weight, nevertheless other differences will be the tips, the costs, and the styles. Steel tip and soft tips darts will obviously have a different weight but there are also variations in materials that the darts are created in. Steel tips are going to be heavier than soft tips and darts created from tungsten or nickel-silver will be heavier than those made from wood or brass. Many different factors are involved when determining the weight of the dart you would like to throw such as, the material you would like the darts to be made of, the board that is being utilized to play on, how heavy you like the dart to be and the type of tip you would like. For the beginning dart player you might have to do some searching to find out which weight and sort of dart you will want to use. If you have friends who are dart gamers, if you can find a local dart store, or if your local playing establishment will allow you to try out some darts, then you will have an easier time identifying which darts to use. Guides and tutorials can certainly be aquired online where they will offer suggestions to help you figure out which will work best for you.

In addition to being heavier than other types of darts, steel tip darts can also have two kinds of tips, fixed and moveable. The most frequent kind of steel tip is the fixed-point tip. As the name suggests these tips are rigid and fixed in their placement. With tips that move you will have a little more help reducing the propensity for the dart to bounce back out of the board. The dart tip will be fully extended as you throw the dart therefore if you hit a wire, the back end will keep moving forward, forcing the tip to stick to the board rather than bounce back. Moveable tips are usually more expensive than fixed tips and can be simpler to replace.

Generally lighter in weight, the soft tip darts will have different tips based on the width of the barrel opening and not based on the dart construction itself. There are two various sizes of soft tips, quarter-inch and 2ba. More often used is the 2ba size tip which is narrower of these two. The narrower your dart tip, the easier it is to get to stay in between the wires on the board which is why these are generally favored more than the other type of dart.