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| Gotta love macro lenses and Nerf blasters... |
In all honesty, I was one of the ones really amped about a fully automatic, clip fed, easily portable blaster. While "full auto" Nerf and Buzz Bee blasters have already been done in the form of the Vulcan and the Auto Tommy 20 respectively, The Stampede promised to be much more portable than the Vulcan, and a lot meaner looking than the tommy 20. So what came in the box? You actually get a fair bit, you receive the blaster, a clip on front shield thing, a really awesome fore grip that turns into a bipod at the press of a button, THREE 18 dart clips, and for some reason, a six dart clip. But not batteries. It requires 6 D-cell 1.5v batteries.
The blaster on it's own is killer, it features a sight built in to the top rail/handle, so if you want to you can add your own scope, 2 side rails to fit lights or ammo holders, another rail on top for the shield (though nothing else fits there, other than a flip up sight which is a bit counter productive...) and 2 rails below the barrel for different positions of the grip/bipod. To turn it on, it has a number of safety features, first it has a switch which looks like a fire select switch on a real gun. then, it will not fire unless both the jam door is closed, and a clip is inserted properly. Once the trigger is pulled, it has a rate of fire of about 3 darts per second max at a range of 30 to 35 feet, which isn't bad. The strange thing is the way it operates. the bolt is open when not firing, when the trigger is pulled it moves forward, loading a dart, then releases the piston and fires the dart once bolt reaches the closed position, then retracts back open and repeats.
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| The standard setup. |
