The dirt on Cartaya.

Many questions are abound about this one, so here are a few answers from what I can tell about this Nerfer. Even in this pic, what shocks me the most is that where everyone else has a Milsim loadout while he's being different.  Waving a scoped Firestrike with a penloaded brass barrel, long hair and a getup that makes him look something like a Jedi.  He represnts a new way of playing, a new focus of Nerf battle where one tries to pick off other players from relatively vast distances and defensive tactics like one would use in playing chess. Unlike a camper like most people would play with his armament, he is mobile at the same time boxing in the opponent closing in for the kill.  If the Flywheel players are the rooks, the Rampage/Retaliator/EAT players are the bishops, the large ammo format player are the Knights then Chris is definitely the Queen on the board when he plays modded stock or milsim.  

Lets start with the most asked Questions first based off of my research.



Question #1. "Do Chris Cartaya's blasters Really shoot that far?"

Answer- Within reasonably 10 feet or so yes.  He, like everyone else, is reporting peak averages with new darts and little or no wind and the best possible conditions to fire a Nerf Gun. 

His velocities however, are lower than your average NIC blasters, Only the Bird Of Prey can possibly cross 200 fps.  He uses a method of better ballistics rather than homemade ammo slugs with flat felt heads.  The results are blasters with better effective range and better use of power.  But they may be easier to dodge @ 100' than an air-blaster for the simple reason that at firing #6 slugs though an airblaster go faster but die off around 90 feet rather than chris's system slower, but single prime-able, smaller, lighter and have a father die off at 130-150 feet away because of less air resistance of domed dart heads and light aerofoam.

Question #2 "Why doesn't Chris use a tape measure while range testing?"

Answer- He "claims" that neighbors and HMA's fuss about him laying down tape but I believe it more these reasons.

*Stubbornness.  When your parents for example shove carrots down your throat when you are a kid, you tend to not eat carrots later in life. 

The same I think, goes for Chris, he got picked on hard by the NIC about his Retaliator and people shoved "tape measure", "levels", "elites are too wild" and everything else conceivable to try to defeat his claims that he just doesn't give a shit anymore.  I measured his new sharpfire, He does sincerely pull around 120's-130's. I happened to have saw him fire one the other night at an Indoor war, clear across an auditorium, so why not buy a tape? a level? or a chrony then?  I did, 131 feet! Why Chris WHY? 

IMO? Because "nothing he feels is good enough", "why bother", "people will always crap on it", as the NIC is known to do when they hate a modders direction.  But how he says it is more like, "I'de rather a person fire one in person when they buy one so that they know what they are getting."




Question #3 "Why are his video's so bad about such decent content to do a video about?"

For example, a sharpfire (that sucks right out of the box) doing over 150 fps, that with no doubt deserves better coverage, better use of online reach and attention, has gotten very little explanation on Chris's YouTube how to do it.  Why?

Answer- Self esteem.  He claims he simply does not have enough money coming in to invest in equipment is his excuse, but I feel it is far deeper than that. He just doesn't feel that he can make a run with it. 

*Very little confidence, disenchanted and disenfranchised from good YouTube practices and video standards.  It's surprising and to a degree worry some because from such a visual engineer/problem solver type person, you would expect him to just climb right on.  I want to convince him that it is not as far off as making music demo's.  He has spent thousands of dollars on Guitar, amps, mixers ect, but won't spend $120 on a decent camera.  He loved music productions, laying down tracks and editing them for weeks on end, but when It comes to video, I feel he just gets frustrated too fast and settles.





Question #4 "Does Chris Cartaya work at Plant 42 or the Dugway Proving Grounds?"

Answer - Not sure, Chris is secretive about may things, and he has consulted about things requiring an NDA for him to know about.  Personally I believe he just has a lose knit group of friends that happen to work on black budget projects.

What I do know is that Chris's former employer, his dad's company PB Fiberglass products was a vendor formerly of The Walt Disney Company which many of their works can be seen at California Adventures, Disneyland, Disneyseas, Epcot Center and the Magic Kingdom as well as other Production work on automotive and RV parts seen on the road everyday.  The company closed it's doors in 2006 and Chris has not had an official job since.




Question #5 "Is Chris Cartaya an Alcoholic"

Answer - I hope not, he's a heavy drinker that is for sure however.



I will end with this, There will never EVER be another Chris Cartaya, just like there will never be another Jack Kerouac Or Dean Martin.  Whom I more associate Chris as rather than a Steve Mcqueen or a Hunter S. Thompson or James Dean as most people that have met him associate him as since he has a rebel/drifter/loner type lifestyle.  He's just not a "King of cool" enough, more a "King of Character." 

Hang in there Nerfers, he is a good man, a great modder, a true and wise friend, he's just complicated. 


Do not tell them who I am Cartaya.


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