The Dart Ages

March, 1981

Next to chug a lug contests and chatting up the girl on the next stool, playing darts is probably a pub crawler's most popular pastime. Years ago, dartists would fling their missiles at the butt end of a wine cask. Today, the target is a bristle board housed in a cabinet with places for scoring, plus dart-storage racks. And here's another point--a serious darter carries his own set of arrows, often custom weighted and available in a variety of metals from brass to tungsten alloy. Shooters also h...