BuzzBee Pirate Flintlock Foam Dart Blaster

The media could not be loaded. Exactly what i needed. Was looking for a fake medieval looking pistol for my husband vampire slayer costume and this went beyond expectation! About forearm size, good weight, comes with darts but not why i bought it, great prop over all. Firs perfectly in the holster.

It's old for a nerf gunWill break

As a pirate in the Sargasso Sea, I frequently need me a trusty sidearm to fight off the deep ones. And as any salty dog kens, them's as invulnerable to lead or steel. But it just so happens that they be possessed of a terrible fierce allergy to foam-rubber, what does render them screechin' and flappin about on the deck like a halibut! This here trusty flintlock fulfills me need to fill them fish-men from the deep with the agony of foam, while maintainin me proper piratical look. It arrived in the nick o' time too, and shot me dead a particularly slimey bastard up outta down below. I gives it a full five "Aaaarrrrs!"

I loved the size and the range of this flintlock pistol it shoots very far and highly recommend

Alright. if you are looking for a costume prop, there are way better looking options than this. The brown plastic has no texture or paint/print application to simulate wood, it is simply smooth shiny plastic. And the hammer is too short when compared to the frizzen and powder pan. It also feels a little small in my hands, so if you are a fair sized adult, find a larger prop. It is a good size for kids, but as realism goes, these things were generally around .50 caliber and it does not look the size.If you are looking for a foam dart blaster, I do not recommend it. It workes "fairly well" for a BuzzBee. I actually enjoyed playing with it. But for $10 or less, you can get a much better blaster from Nerf. I recommend a Bigshock, Jolt, or Doubleshot.The priming hammer was finicky, if you didn't gently guide it back to the primed position, it would snap forward quickly and discharge the plunger without even touching the trigger. As for range, it's terrible, but it's a cheap BuzzBee blaster, so I wasn't expecting much out of it. If you want to get a couple of these for duels at 10 or 20 paces, you might want to do the duels at 5-7 paces.So, I edited this review, because when I first wrote it, I thought it had broken.I host foam wars at events and have about 100 blasters in my current collection, so I am used to having to fix them. I opened this up to find the problem. Could not find the problem. I thought it was the O-ring, but it turns out… it was the darts!This blaster is from 2007, and the foam in the darts has deteriorated while sitting on the shelf. After they have been fired a few times, the foam tears and then the air just escapes through the tear. I didn’t realize this until I had taken the blaster apart and reassembled it several times trying to figure out what was wrong. When on a whim, I just fired it with some new Nerf elite darts, and it worked fine.Now, if you are not terribly concerned about a performance foam blaster, and just want a pirate gun that shoots darts. It’s not that bad really.There are some simple modifications you can do to make it better. The first being: a stronger spring for the catch lever so that it doesn’t miss-fire during the priming action. Another easy modification is to ad another spring inside the main spring in the plunger assembly.As for aesthetic modifications, I would highly recommend sanding down the brown, and scoring it with a knife or Dremel to ad a bit of wood texture. And then giving the entire blaster a better paint job.

My 9yo loves this, he shoots it at our outside patio door until I make him stop. I didn't pay much for it so the price is fair, we have had it a few weeks and it is still working well. The gun is plastic and felt cheap and first but I am very happy with how it has held up, especially seeing how frequently it has been played with.

Neat little toy. I got it to go with a pirate costume and glad I did! Clearly a toy though, not an over abundance of detail to it. Also, it doesn't shoot darts very far at all (maybe 20 yards or so) so if you are looking to take this to your next nerf battle, you'll be disappointed. But the size of it is true to a real one, and the detail is enough to pass for a costume! I ended up getting a bit of model paint and some sandpaper to scuff if up a bit to make mine look a tad more believable, just for the shear fun of it :)

It worked like a charm my son had fun being a pirate for the day