Ruff Stuff Air Blasters Tek 6 Dart Blaster

by Buzz Bee

Product Features

• Six-shot dart blaster launches soft foam darts in rotating chamber
• Air Zone blasters are sleekly designed high-powered indoor and outdoor blasters
• Single-handed, automatic rapid fire action, battle-ready multi-foam dart cylinders, gatling style launchers are available in different styles
• Recommended for 6 years and up

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000096QWJ
• Item model number: 04080
• Manufacturer recommended age: 6 - 12 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,241 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Brand new in factory sealed box

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love it!, January 5, 2009

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John B. Goode "JBG" (Earth) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Ruff Stuff Air Blasters Tek 6 Dart Blaster (Toy)

This little 6 shooter is excellent, what is there not to like?

Let's look at my nerf gun criteria for this gun.

1) Power, despite being such a small gun, it's got plenty of power and distance. It's spring is more powerful than the Maverick's.

2) Speed, it's auto-rotate, you can get off 6 shots as quickly as you can pull the spring back 6 times.

3) Jamming - none at all. This is a simple gun and simple is good, no bells and whistles to jam your bullets in.

4) Price - lastly, it's cheap. You can buy a couple as back up for next to nothing.

Pros and cons - There are no cons that I can see. In nerf wars, you can always use an extra gun in awkward situations where you are loading or your main gun is jammed. This is a nice back up or main gun with plenty of speed, power and ease of use. A 10/10 for me.

Postscript/100 shot review:
Here are my notes after taking more than 100 shots.

Speed: It's fast to load. You don't need to pull anything out to load it, just insert 6 darts from the front.

Accuracy: Sadly, it's the only one fault I find with this gun. It tends to shoot high and not be very accurate. Only a problem when we're shooting at targets. In nerf wars, accuracy doesn't matter that much.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy locally, April 5, 2010

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Anonymous "Anonymous" - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Ruff Stuff Air Blasters Tek 6 Dart Blaster (Toy)

The children that I bought this for love it. However, I later found it locally for less than one-half of the price (six vs fourteen, and it looks like it just went up to over seventeen now). If your thinking about buying this product, it's one you should try to get locally.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For an off-brand, very good, March 11, 2011

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Dominick C. Pastore - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Ruff Stuff Air Blasters Tek 6 Dart Blaster (Toy)

I am a college student. We have a game on our campus called "Humans vs. Zombies" (it's at many campuses across the U.S.). It's a sort of moderated tag. Essentially, a group of students gets together and labels themselves with bandanas (humans around the arm, zombies around the head). At the start of the game, a player is chosen at random to be the "original zombie". All other players begin as "humans". Zombies have to tag a human (turning the human into a zombie) to "feed" every 48 hours or they starve, but humans can stun zombies for 10 minutes with a Nerf dart or a sock. This continues for a few days (outside of class) until either all zombies starve or all humans become zombies.

This game makes Nerf blasters (and look-alikes) quite popular at my campus, and as a player of the game, I purchased a couple myself, including this one (at the recommendation of my peers). This blaster is Buzz Bee's version of the Nerf Maverick. Both are six-shot revolvers, and each have their pros and cons, but overall I probably prefer this one.

This blaster loads in the front. There is no barrel to slide out. This is a HUGE advantage for Humans vs. Zombies, and makes loading and checking ammo much faster. This also has the advantage that if one dart jams, it doesn't stop you from firing the other darts before you unjam it. Although, I haven't had a single dart jam in this blaster ever, as opposed to the Maverick, where jams are uncommon if you load it well, but still not rare.

Possibly the one disadvantage of this blaster is that it can be difficult to cock. The Maverick is not. I don't have a huge problem with it, but, of course, I am college-age. Younger kids may possibly have trouble.

As far as range goes, I haven't measured, but it doesn't seem to be any better or worse than the Maverick. I haven't modded it and can't really speak for how possible modding is for this blaster.

Both the Nerf and the Buzz Bee blaster will shoot any dart of either brand without complaint. This isn't an advantage of this brand over Nerf, but it could be a good reason to buy one of these over some other style of blaster.

This seems like it will take more of a beating than the Maverick, but both seem pretty hardy, so it's hard to say. I think I'd have trouble breaking it unless I decided to hit it with a hammer or something though.

Overall, I'd definitely recommend this blaster.