This gun STINKS! I recently bought this gun and was very dissapointed. I found jobs around the house and other random jobs for a week to get this gun. I immediately tore it open after purchasing it from target. I loaded it up and since I didn't have batteries tried to shoot it semi-auto. The record shot I have from it is a puny 6 feet. Most of the time the dart gets stuck in the barrel. The barrel is so big the dart bounces off of the barrel and gets stuck. The tripod is one of the worst ideas ever. The thing will just pop right off in the middle of combat. The breech is locked shut whenever you have the belt in the chamber so if it gets jammed you have to pull the belt all the way out to fix the jam. When I later tried automatic, the darts wouldn't get jammed as frequently but the darts went all of a foot before hitting the ground. DO NOT BUY THIS GUN UNLESS YOU ARE A MONEY WASTER!

I would say a Vulcan, though untested in combat, would far outweigh anything that the Recon has to offer. Being a Nerf warrior myself, I would say that the Recon stinks worse than a dead fish on a city bus. The rounds, for starters have to be in near pristene condition to fire. Six rounds of what I call Nerf .556 pales in comparison to 25 rounds of what I would say is equal to .50 caliber in Nerf. Anyone interested in Nerf strategy, doctrine and logistics from a kids' military point of view, please check out another one of my Vulcan comments (Nerf Vulcan EBF-25: Fully...) The Vulcan will come out on September 1st 2008, when Hasbro will have made enough of them to supply the huge initial demand. There is much more than a new gun design at stake here. Nerf's entire strategic and weapons reputation is on the line. Not to mention the whole idea of a belt-fed, fully automatic, electrically powered nerf machine-gun. If this weapon does not stand and deliver, nerf could be ruined, at almost $40.00 a piece, nerf warriors could be pretty steamed about any major problems such as weight, length, accuracy, rate of fire and fire rate to ammunition capacity ratio (number of shots/maximum rate of fire). But if the Vulcan turns out to be a sucess, Nerf could become famous across America.

is this relly worth it or would u have more fun with the nerf recon cs-6 i was thinking about buying one

This gun could probobly change the way nerf wars are fought forever. A belt-fed, fully automatic, battery operated, affordable nerf machinegun would allow a single kid to have the firepower of a 10 kid platoon. On the other hand though, that much firepower could put kids off from fighting in the intrest of of preserving their sportsmanship. Since a kid could waltz into a heavily fortified room and turn it into a nerf slaughter house. This would make nerf wars World War One all over again. The defense would far outweigh anything man-portable and the attackers would take extremely heavy casualties. 20, or maybe even thirty kids armed with regular N-Strike brand guns to take out a vulcan nest. The only thing that favors the attackers though is that you only have ONE belt and it takes almost a full minute to reload. Plus, it dosen't use the priciple of the disintegrating link chain ( meaning that you have two little bits of plastic that use the round to stay together and fall away "disitegrate" without the round. This kind of chain can be infinite, since the link is the same each time), and I don't see a little extra piece of cloth to attach another belt. Nor can you buy more belts to keep your Vulcan firing longer before reloading the belts with micro darts. All in all, it would change Nerf Warfare Offensive and Defensive Doctrines forever

Stealthy? I need this to setup a position outside my office door.

Are you kidding?? It would be hard to be stealthy with (like at work, for instance), but the shock and awe would be so worth it.

I found this little doozie thanks to chrisconnolly.