Category: (Toy)
5 new, starting at $19.99
This rifle is Italian made by Edison Giocattoli and is 29" long. Rifle is made with high grade plastic that looks similar to real wood. Shoots 13 shot strip Caps! (red tip is included)
Ok but has issuesReviewed by G. G. RIVAS, 2009-12-25
This was a gift for my 6 year old boy. It works ok, the strip caps
are acually very well done since the entire strip is inserted into
the rifle and once you've fired the ten shots the tip of the strip
emerges from the bottom and you pull it free. I was afraid that
they would stick out and feed like a machine gun which would be
totally unlike a lever action rifle.
The "working scope" is just a hollow plastic tube -- no lenses at
all. I find this misleading but cheap plastic lenses would probably
give you a worse sight picture than an empty tube anyway.
The major drawback is that the trigger is FAR too stiff. My boy
can't actually fire the gun! He uses both hands to pull the
trigger. After experimenting I realized that the trigger is double
action... if I press it it both advances the strip cap and drops
the hammer (hidden hammer, the one you see on the top of the gun is
decorative). This explains the stiff trigger. I am not sure what
the lever does -- the trigger pull is the same whether you activate
the lever or not. My "guess" is that it is also decorative... it is
also flimsy and is almost certainly where the rifle will eventually
break.
Lastly, the caps are not loud at all. That is either a blessing or
a curse, depending on your perspective, but in my opinion it is a
drawback. The clack sound of firing on an empty chamber is almost
as loud as the cap going off. I was hoping for more bang for my
buck.
But these are my thoughts and the important one is my boys'
verdict. After first use he declared this toy to be "sort of fun,
but not a lot of fun". Keep this in mind if you are buying.
Yup - Broke four (4) of them. Can you believe it?Reviewed by Johnny Taco, 2009-08-02
Ok, have two sons who wanted to play cowboy. So, I buy each one
Paris rifle - after a tremendous amount of research. (As a side
note, it's getting damn near impossible to find cap guns
now-a-days. Nobody seems to be making them).
Anyhow, I picked up two (2) rifles and a case of caps (you have no
idea how many caps kids can go through in ten minutes). The strip
caps actually are placed into a detachable magazine on the bottom
of the rifle. I found this fun for them to do. The action lever is
used to cock the rifle after the trigger is pulled. A seven year
old child would be able to do this. When it the toy does function
properly, the used cap is ejected - launched into the air. Pretty
cool!
The toy *feels* solid. It has nice weight and seems durable on the
outside. But that is it. In fact the interior mechanism is poorly
designed. Why? Well, after about a week of use, the caps often got
jammed inside. They wouldn't discharge. Sometimes the cap wouldn't
pop.
After the first one broke, I thought it was an anomaly (in that it
was a 1 in 1,000,000 type of thing). But two days later the second
toy exhibited the same exact problem. Was it the caps? No, I was
using Paris caps made by the manufacture of the toy rifle. Was it
the kids? No, because I supervised them when they were playing -
and they weren't playing any different than normal seven year-olds
do.
When the second one broke, I actually decided to see if I can fix
the interior. It was easy opening the rifle, I think there were
only two or three screws. I was careful not to let the spring get
away from me. Once opened, I noticed some 'gunk' residue that came
off the caps. (Think burnt cap powder). A small wire brush was used
to clean things up - but in the end the gun just stopped working
right.
Well, ticked off that two were bad - I sent them back to the
merchant and asked for two more. What is the probability that two
more would go bad? Well, to make a long story short, these two
rifles exhibited the same jamming problem as the first two. (Caps
got stuck or wouldn't load, etc.). Taking these two apart showed me
that the whole internal level action was acting like before. I a
nut shell it is a poor design. It is flawed.
I sent the second two back and got a credit to my charge
card.
I really, really wanted the kids to have fund with these. But the
rifles spent more time on my work-bench and in the mailbox than in
their hands. Really unfortunate, especially since cap-guns are
going extinct nowadays.
I hope this help.
Substitute for the real thingReviewed by Herb & Anna, 2009-06-22
My son, 9, wanted a real gun. This is what he got instead. I guess
he was happy with it. He wore it out.
We bought this one so he wouldn't shoot his eye out.
9 year olds don't need a real gun.
A Fine CraftReviewed by Dire Honesty, 2009-04-27
I have one and so does my bro.
Pros-
-Looks cool. Fake scope included!
-Takes strip caps which is good.
-Sounds good.
Cons-
-Mine jammed, but my brother's works well.
-Butt broke after I meleed with it. That was my bad though.
4/5 Buy it? Yes, but play nice.
Made wellReviewed by J. Collura, 2009-01-07
So far my son has played with this for quite a few months and it's not broken yet! That's saying a lot about how durable this gun is...toys usually break pretty quickly with him. It was worth the purchase.
