Sometimes that disc you click with is not your first disc of that mold, so lurking around you have THE disc. That one you threw to death and loved every second of. This is that Comet, THE Comet in my stash.




It's a Z Comet I got between Thanksgiving and Christmas from Sun King in '08. It's part of the run they did for the Player's Cup that year; Z Comets were not in regular production at that point and were hard to find. My kids were eight and five and Hell hath no fury like a wife who catches her husband spending money on himself right before Christmas when you have eight and five year-old kids, but I REALLY wanted some Z Comets. Buy the time I got online, all the heavies were gone; the discs I ordered were 173g and 171g. The discs I got were this green one and another red one (Merry Christmas to me!). The lighter weight was probably a good thing, as this disc really didn't have a lot of fade really. It was just a $ Comet out of the box.

It really didn't beat in for years. It developed some turn in 2015 but it was still in the bag. I hurt my back in 2016 and my arm in 2017, so at some point in there I didn't have a bag. When I tried to start throwing again, I threw X Comets. Then I picked up MJ Comets and lost my marbles; this disc just never went back in the bag.

Now we shall geek out for a bit. At this point, the tooling on the Comet was still the old Walled lake tooling on the underside of the flight plate.




It lines up really well with the circle around the stamp, which kept it from showing through when you looked at the disc. The plastic itself was very translucent. These discs didn't have stickers. Stickers were in use by then, but these discs had the weights written in pen on the wing.

This is the 171g twin to the green Comet. It was also $, but it wasn't THE Comet.





Also translucent, also has Walled Lake tooling with penned weight on the wing.

I'm a disc golfer, though. No matter how well these discs flew, I NEEDED a heavier Comet. No real man throws a 173g Comet! As soon as Z Comets went into regular production and were restocked later in 2009, I ordered a 177+ one.




This run was much more opaque. It still had the Walled Lake tooling, but this run had stickers.



Of course it's an 11-year-old disc and the sticker is long gone, but it was there. There is no weight penned on the wing.

All of which I had never really noticed before. I'm thinking if you have a relatively translucent Z Comet with the old Walled Lake tooling and the weight penned on the wing, it's probably from that Player's Cup run in late '08. It doesn't make them any more special or valuable than any other old Z Comet, it's just a fun thing to geek out on.

Seeing those three discs reminded me that for a long time that was the midrange set-up; from '09-'15 those three Z Comets and an X Comet were the discs in my bag. I felt bad for the X Comet not getting a picture, so here it is for the Hell of it.




I always found it funny that the disc has the current Discraft logo but the stamp still has the old Discraft logo; all of the other X Comets I have with this stamp have the old logo dropped out of the stamp.

I'm only on day two of quarantine, folks! I've got at least three more weeks to go; this thread is going to get ugly.

Rough Comet tooling timeline: the Comets with the Walled Lake tooling and the patent number blocked out were around 2011ish. I have a tournament-stamped Comet with a 2011 date that has the weird marbled thing over the patent number. I have a 2012 tournament-stamped Comet with no tooling.

There are old-stamp/no tooling X Comets; the new X stamp showed up around 2013, so there was a brief old stamp/no tooling overlap. Anecdotally, those X stamps had the old Discraft logo removed from the stamp. Prior to that the X Comets had the new logo above the stamp and the old logo as part of the stamp.

No tooling Comets were around until about 2014; Big Z came out in 2014 and every Big Z Comet I've seen has the inner rim tooling.

My very unscientific calendar for Z Comets is 2008-2010: Walled Lake/patent number on the underside of the flight plate; 2011: Walled Lake/patent number obscured on the underside of the flight plate; 2012-2013: No tooling; 2014- Tooling on the rim.

Of course the 3rd run ESP Comets came out in the Summer of 2011 and they had no tooling, so none of this is perfect. It's not like they went "we should wait until January to do this so the years will line up."

My 'original' Z Comet is from one of the Walled Lake runs - can't remember if I got it in 2008 or 2009 but your timeline fits perfectly. There was a DGLO run with the small D logo on it from either 2006 or 2007 - I can't quite remember either but I had one at one point before losing it in a private course lake

I need that orange X comet. I've had one almost identical for a long time. Throws sweet lines, and I'm always on the lookout for beat up EliteX with that stamp.

I forget when I got that X Comet, but it was late '00's. I had so many Tournament Pro Comets that I didn't have to worry about buying any for a long time after I stopped selling discs, but by '06 or '07 I decided to try a "new" Comet. I bagged that for a long time. It still ends up in the bag from time to time, but it used to be a staple.

Drift: I don't know why, but most of my discs have fairly intact stamps. I've got some really, really old discs that spent a lot of time in my bag that I threw a lot that have stamps with not very much wear. I see guys who have discs that are only a few years old where the stamp is really damaged and worn down and I wonder what they are doing that I am not that accounts for all that stamp damage.