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The Nerf N-Strike Vulcan EBF-25 gives you the auto-blasting advantage when you're at foam-filled war with your friends and enemies. Children and adults ages 6 and up will love the EBF-25, the largest full auto blaster that Nerf makes. It lets you shoot 25 sonic micro darts at up to 3 darts per second for an offensive assault.
Full Auto Design Gives You a Quick-Firing Advantage
The first thing we noticed when we took the EBF-25 out of the box was how substantial it was. The gun itself was large, brightly colored in yellow and orange, and heavy enough for it to be a burden for quick missions; accessories included a tripod, ammobox, and ammobelt. The instruction booklet did a good job of describing the assembly process, which took about ten minutes. There is a handle that allows you to easily carry the gun around, but we would have appreciated a strap even more.
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 25-shot belt feeds through the gun for a rapid-fire onslaught. View larger. |
The first thing we noticed when we took the EBF-25 out of the box was how substantial it was. The gun itself was large, brightly colored in yellow and orange, and heavy enough for it to be a burden for quick missions; accessories included a tripod, ammobox, and ammobelt. The instruction booklet did a good job of describing the assembly process, which took about ten minutes. There is a handle that allows you to easily carry the gun around, but we would have appreciated a strap even more.
The darts are held inside an ammobox in a 25-shot belt, which is fed through the gun. You'll feel like Rambo when you carry the gun, or sit it on its tripod for taking out enemies by the bucketload. After we'd installed the required six D batteries (not included), we pulled the trigger to see the gun work methodically through our belt of darts. It took only 10 seconds to blast through the included 25 darts, flinging them thirty feet across the room. We wished there were more darts included in the box since it seemed a bit silly that we needed to spend a few minutes to pick up the ammo, and then reload them onto the belt, after shooting for only about ten seconds. A refill pack can be purchased separately, which, we think, would be a wise investment if you want to effectively beat your enemies.
The gun also has a single-shot mode that lets you shoot with extra precision. Rather than battery powered, you have to pull back on a spring-loaded lever, and then use the trigger release lever to shoot the dart. In our experience, you can achieve a little bit more distance this way than with the auto-fire mode.
Tactical Rail System Allows for Fun Additions
The Vulcan EBF-25 features the Nerf Tactical Rail System, allowing it to use most N-Strike accessories, such as the night vision Tactical light accessory for night-time missions.
For those interested in Nerf-fights, the Vulcan EBF-25 should be in everyone's artillery; the rapid-fire design gives players the advantage when engaging the enemy, and is ideal when it can be used on the back of a moving vehicle, or a stationary setting.
What's in the Box
Nerf Vulcan EBF-25 gun, tripod, ammobox, ammobelt.
Product Description
Complete your N-STRIKE arsenal and prepare for the ultimate in battery-powered blasting! Be ready for any battle with the N-STRIKE VULCAN EBF-25 blaster - an awesome, fully automatic dart cannon! Load the blaster with fresh batteries and fire at a rate of up to three darts per second! Watch as the belt feeds automatically through the blaster, letting the barrage of firepower continue as you battle your opponent. The piston-powered internal launching system makes it an unstoppable force! Switch to single-shot mode for precision blasting. The removable tripod folds for easy transport or a quick escape from enemy fire! Even your toughest opponent won't know what hit him when you unleash the power of the N-STRIKE VULCAN EBF-25 blaster!
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
183 of 190 people found the following review helpful
Durability:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Educational:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Fun:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Nerf Vulcan, the latest release in Nerf's "N-Strike" line of toys, is a fully automatic belt-fed Nerf gun. It retails for $40.00 and don't let anyone tell you differently. It requires six D-cell batteries to run the gun on full-auto, but single-fire mode requires no batteries.
When firing, the Vulcan is no louder than an electric shaver, and probably quieter than many of those. On fresh batteries, it does fire ~2-3 darts per second, taking around 8 seconds to empty an entire 25-round belt of darts.
Its ranges vary pretty wildly, but 20-30 feet is about average. If you've used the Nerf Maverick, its ranges are comparable to the Vulcan's. These ranges make the Vulcan well-suited to indoor fun, but rather ineffective outdoors when targets tend to be further away.
I find the gun bulky and unwieldy, and I'm speaking as a 5' 9" adult. For children, (ages 6 and up according to the box) they will have to rely on the handy detachable, folding tripod to use the Vulcan effectively. Running around with the gun is very difficult, made more so by the detachable ammunition box's tendency to fall off when jostled.
The valuepack edition of the Vulcan (identifiable by the green stripe on the right end of the box) includes an extra ammunition belt, 25 extra darts to fill the belt with, and a shoulder strap in addition to the Vulcan and its normal accessories. The valuepack is the same price as the regular Vulcan, so buying anything but the valuepack is silly. The shoulder strap is a good quality item, and widely adjustable to fit any person.
A word on the tripod: It's quite stiff, necessarily so because of the Vulcan's weight. When you move it by hand, it sounds as if you're breaking it; this isn't the case, relax.
The Vulcan uses sonic micro darts which are supposed to whistle as they fly through the air. My darts have thus far never whistled. They lack suction cups, so there won't be any neat forest-of-darts sticking to walls, televisions, etc.
The Vulcan features three N-strike accessory mounting rails. These will allow you to attach the Longshot's scope, the Recon's flip-up sight and red-dot sight, the green tactical light, or the N-Strike Unity system's scout blaster. NONE of these are included with the Vulcan, just to be clear. I also recommend *not* attaching the Longshot's scope to the top of the gun, because it's very difficult to remove due to how it wedges into place.
Refill packages including Vulcan ammo belts and darts will be available soon, if they aren't in stores already.
Here are the pros and cons for an at-a-glance evaluation.
Pros:
Rate-of-fire
Ammunition-capacity
Reload Time (Loading a fresh belt, not filling a belt with darts)
Handy tripod
Cons:
Weight
Unwieldy size
Reload time (filling a belt with darts)
Battery cost (Roughly $8.00 worth of batteries)
Ammo-box connection fails when jostled
When firing, the Vulcan is no louder than an electric shaver, and probably quieter than many of those. On fresh batteries, it does fire ~2-3 darts per second, taking around 8 seconds to empty an entire 25-round belt of darts.
Its ranges vary pretty wildly, but 20-30 feet is about average. If you've used the Nerf Maverick, its ranges are comparable to the Vulcan's. These ranges make the Vulcan well-suited to indoor fun, but rather ineffective outdoors when targets tend to be further away.
I find the gun bulky and unwieldy, and I'm speaking as a 5' 9" adult. For children, (ages 6 and up according to the box) they will have to rely on the handy detachable, folding tripod to use the Vulcan effectively. Running around with the gun is very difficult, made more so by the detachable ammunition box's tendency to fall off when jostled.
The valuepack edition of the Vulcan (identifiable by the green stripe on the right end of the box) includes an extra ammunition belt, 25 extra darts to fill the belt with, and a shoulder strap in addition to the Vulcan and its normal accessories. The valuepack is the same price as the regular Vulcan, so buying anything but the valuepack is silly. The shoulder strap is a good quality item, and widely adjustable to fit any person.
A word on the tripod: It's quite stiff, necessarily so because of the Vulcan's weight. When you move it by hand, it sounds as if you're breaking it; this isn't the case, relax.
The Vulcan uses sonic micro darts which are supposed to whistle as they fly through the air. My darts have thus far never whistled. They lack suction cups, so there won't be any neat forest-of-darts sticking to walls, televisions, etc.
The Vulcan features three N-strike accessory mounting rails. These will allow you to attach the Longshot's scope, the Recon's flip-up sight and red-dot sight, the green tactical light, or the N-Strike Unity system's scout blaster. NONE of these are included with the Vulcan, just to be clear. I also recommend *not* attaching the Longshot's scope to the top of the gun, because it's very difficult to remove due to how it wedges into place.
Refill packages including Vulcan ammo belts and darts will be available soon, if they aren't in stores already.
Here are the pros and cons for an at-a-glance evaluation.
Pros:
Rate-of-fire
Ammunition-capacity
Reload Time (Loading a fresh belt, not filling a belt with darts)
Handy tripod
Cons:
Weight
Unwieldy size
Reload time (filling a belt with darts)
Battery cost (Roughly $8.00 worth of batteries)
Ammo-box connection fails when jostled
164 of 191 people found the following review helpful
Durability:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Educational:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Fun:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I purchased this for my sons birthday. He is the youngest of 4 boys and they all like to play nerf dart wars. We were hoping that the machine gun would be a lot of fun, and he was hoping for 'flare and more of a fighting chance'. The gun worked fabulously for the first afternoon and evening. If I completed the review within the first 24 hours it would have been five stars. All of the boys loved it. Early the second day the gearing mechanism started failing to advance the belt and load the next "round". In addition, I noticed the cylinder that releases the compressed air and provides the energy to launch the nerf bullet was jammed and didn't return to recessed position. The cylinder must recess to allow advancing of ammo belt. I suspect it was the jamming of the compression chamber cylinder that caused belt advancement gear failure. I tried disassembling the gun to examine what was causing the jam. I learned there was no disassembling and the only choice was to completely break several plastic welds to learn what caused the issue.
Summary, a great gun for about 500 shots after that the manufacturing materials and quality of assembly failed at it is now in the dumpster for recycling.
Summary, a great gun for about 500 shots after that the manufacturing materials and quality of assembly failed at it is now in the dumpster for recycling.
71 of 81 people found the following review helpful
By P. Valentine
Durability:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Educational:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Fun:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Vulcan EBF-25 looks like it would be a blast for kids to play with, but unfortunately the toy is "JUNK" Quality.
I bought it for my son for his 8th birthday. He literally played with it for 2 hours. He went through about 6 reloads (it was a bit time consuming finding all the dispensed rounds and reloading the belt).
One of the first problems that he had with it was that the belt would not always advance after firing. I tried it and found that if I "gently" pulled on the belt, it would help it to advance to the next round. He tried it, pulled just a little too hard (nothing dramatic - just a bit harder than "gentle"), and that was it, it's broke!!!
Something internal broke or stripped. Now the gun just makes a horrible noise when trying to fire and it won't advance the belt at all. It won't even manually fire single shot rounds now.
I gave it to him at about 5:30, and between 7:00 - 7:30, it was done!
Conceptionally, it's a fun toy. But man, if it's made for young boys to play with, it needs to be tough enough for a scrawny kid to play with! For $35+, it needs to last a bit longer than a couple of hours.
I bought it for my son for his 8th birthday. He literally played with it for 2 hours. He went through about 6 reloads (it was a bit time consuming finding all the dispensed rounds and reloading the belt).
One of the first problems that he had with it was that the belt would not always advance after firing. I tried it and found that if I "gently" pulled on the belt, it would help it to advance to the next round. He tried it, pulled just a little too hard (nothing dramatic - just a bit harder than "gentle"), and that was it, it's broke!!!
Something internal broke or stripped. Now the gun just makes a horrible noise when trying to fire and it won't advance the belt at all. It won't even manually fire single shot rounds now.
I gave it to him at about 5:30, and between 7:00 - 7:30, it was done!
Conceptionally, it's a fun toy. But man, if it's made for young boys to play with, it needs to be tough enough for a scrawny kid to play with! For $35+, it needs to last a bit longer than a couple of hours.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
Jam free
Hold a lot of rounds, It is too heavy for carrying around in a long fight. It is a good gun from a stationary position.
Published 2 days ago by teresa jernigan
4.0 out of 5 stars
Christmas presant
my son loves playing with this, although sometimes the nerf darts tend to stick in the belt but its still fun to play with.
Published 3 days ago by stephanie chavez
2.0 out of 5 stars
Broke in 10 minutes
BOOOOO! Put the thing together, it worked great for about 10 minutes then just suddenly acted as though the batteries did not connect. Bought new batteries, still didnt work.
Published 5 months ago by Qnbeas
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fun
I purchased this blaster for my son when he was 8; he's now almost 13 and he still drags it out from time to time to play with. He has never used the tripod much. Read more
Published 13 months ago by J. Hocutt
5.0 out of 5 stars
Nerf Rain!
This thing is great! A belt fed automatic nerf gun. Time to own the battlefield! The cats love to chase the darts but they also love to chew on them.
Published 13 months ago by shagggs
5.0 out of 5 stars
dart belt is awesome
first of all i got this gun a the thrift store it did nit come with a battery compartment so i don't know what full auto is like. it took me a little to figure out how to use it. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Ciaran
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not for office warfare
I bought this as a gift for my husband. His office just started Nerf warfare at his office, and I even had it shipped there. Read more
Published 15 months ago by E. Grant
1.0 out of 5 stars
IT'S A POS !
Put batteries in both guns....1st gun worked 5 minutes before the 2nd broke/jammed 30 minutes later. Now we have 2 absolutely worthless toys !!!!
Published 16 months ago by koolkountry
5.0 out of 5 stars
One fun gun!!
When i got this gun for Christmas, i was so happy because it was a belt-fed machine gun and i have other Nerf guns. I tried it out on a brick wall and it fired like a beauty. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Zach
1.0 out of 5 stars
JAM JAM JAM JAM JAM JAM JAM JAM
This toy is rugged, fun, and cool. I bought one last year, my son and i used it maybe... 6 times. The dart jams happened so frequently that you spent more time swearing at the gun... Read more
Published 17 months ago by X
