Product Description

Perfect for any little Western gunslinger, this double-barrel single shot shooter fires foam darts one after another in rapid succession. It's so real that it even releases the shells after each blast. It includes six safe, foam darts and it measures 28 long.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1947 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Buzz Bee
• Model: 04630
• Released on: 2006-09-09
• Dimensions: 29.00" h x 9.00" w x 2.50" l, 2.05 pounds

Customer Reviews

an engineer's marvel and fun to play with
It's a remarkable little toy, one which is not only fun to play with, but just fun to marvel at how the designers managed to duplicate the real-life mechanisms in a level-action rifle and the box magazine. This is not "pump action" as the forestock does not move; all the compressive force required to launch the dart comes from the lever action (forward pull compresses the spring). The designers faced a compromise, more power would have required a harder pull, which might make it difficult for kids less than 8-9. An easier pull would limit its range, which is decent but not outstanding. As it is, the action requires sufficient force that the designers wisely made the lever out of metal, not plastic. Loading the cartridges one by one against the spring tension into the box magazine, sliding it into the receiver, cycling the action and having the empty shell forcefully eject, followed by the smooth loading of the new cartridge, is all quite satisfying. In a pinch you can be shooting like John Wayne in Rio Bravo.

It rivals the 6-shot maverick for fun-factor (they also use the same type of darts), and the only caveat I can offer is that smaller kids younger than 8 or 9 might find the lever action hard.

Best Dart Rifle
This is by far the best dart gun ever. Here is why, with nerf products you don't get any realism. They are great for just shooting and that is it and usually if you want realism then you have to spend 200+ dollar on a pellet gun and then buy the Co2 tanks. You can buy a cap gun for around 50$ and get realism but you lose out on shooting factor. This gives you both a realistic weapon and the ability to shoot it instead of just making noise or having to pay out your jag hole for the weapon and it's needed extras.

The pros:
A fun dart gun
Good design
Real world gun design and firing
Good distance (with good darts)

The cons:
If you aren't carful you can either loose the darts or the shells that holds the darts

It can get jammed (but not a real serious problem usually you just have to take out the clip and fix it no big deal)

It has bad distance
(based on if you have a bad dart. I found this out one day when firing off my clip. 5 of my six darts went a good 15 feet then the last dart would only go 1 foot or less. It was actually the dart itself because I switched shells and got the same result. This can be easily fixed if you buy the dart refill pack, as long as the whole refill pack isn't filled with bad darts)

It can break due to the fact that when it was made they made the spring air mechanisim out of plastic. In other words if you cock the weapon and leave it cocked too long or cock it and drop it on the floor the strong metal spring will shatter the plastic part.
The upside to this is if this does happen you can email the buzzbee toy company and get a replacement part for free. It is also easy to fix. Just open it up take out the broken part and add the new one. Then just screw it back together and it is as good as new.

The gun would have been a 5 out of 5 if it weren't for that little issue. Maybe in the future the buzzbee people will figure out to make it out of a better plastic or make it out of metal

not enough blast
I bought this rifle for my son on his birthday. He's got a collection of the various models and was excited to finally get this one. Unfortunately he was dissapointed after he loaded it up and fired off a few darts. The range was pitiful, in some cases between three and five feet. We were going to send it back but my son wasn't willing to give up on it so easily. He substituted some of the lighter darts from one of his other guns and was pleasantly surprised when he was able to shoot over 15 feet. Now it's his favorite.
I was really surprised at the poor performance of this particular rifle. Hopefully it was just a bad unit.