I bought this when I was 15 (I'm 28 now). I don't have it anymore (it broke 14 years ago), but I remember that I had a lot of fun with it. I bought it in a blister pack, and it said it can shoot BB's, pellets, and mowhair steel darts, and it did.

This is a spring-driven pistol. It looks like an M1911 handgun and weighs almost as much thanks to it's all metal construction. The only plastic part I could see is the barrel/breech assembly at the front where you load the BB's, pellets, or darts. It's also durable. I dropped it, kicked it, threw it, and used the heck out of it and it never skipped a beat.

To fire, you have to release the cocking slide by pushing down the slide release on the side (like the slide release on a real handgun, except it works in reverse), then pull back on the handle until it clicks, and push it back to lock it in place. Give it a shake to load a BB, and fire (of course take the safety off first). 90 percent of the time a BB came out, other times it didn't load a BB into the breech. The breech/barrel assembly is one piece. You push in the bottom where the guide rod would be, and it tilts up so you can load BB's in the magazine under the barrel (it will hold 18, but I managed to shoe horn in 20), or insert a dart or pellet into the barrel (don't load BB's before doing this! or you might get a stuck pellet or dart and make the breech hard to open).

This isn't very powerful. The Red Ryder BB rifle is much more powerful. You get about 175-200 FPS, less with pellets and darts, but it's still powerful enough to hurt like the dickens if you get hit and enough to seriously damage your eye. It's not accurate either. The barrel is smooth and only about 2.5 inches long, so it's good out to maybe 15 feet at the most. Even from that range it has trouble penetrating a paper target, and puts a mean dent in a soda can. Firing pellets and darts is fun. Firing pellets makes it a little more accurate, but not much and the tighter fit in the barrel kills velocity. The darts are the best part. You can play darts with this and it's loads of fun! You can fire a dart much more accurately than you can throw it (with practice). My friends and I would play for hours with this!

I liked it so much that I wore it out from using it so much!
I bought this when I was 15 (I'm 28 now). I don't have it anymore (it broke 14 years ago), but I remember that I had a lot of fun with it. I bought it in a blister pack, and it said it can shoot BB's, pellets, and mowhair steel darts, and it did. This is a spring-driven pistol. It looks like an M1911 handgun and weighs almost as much thanks to it's all metal construction. The only plastic part I could see is the barrel/breech assembly at the front where you load the BB's, pellets, or darts. It's also durable. I dropped it, kicked it, threw it, and used the heck out of it and it never skipped a beat. To fire, you have to release the cocking slide by pushing down the slide release on the side (like the slide release on a real handgun, except it works in reverse), then pull back on the handle until it clicks, and push it back to lock it in place. Give it a shake to load a BB, and fire (of course take the safety off first). 90 percent of the time a BB came out, other times it didn't load a BB into the breech. The breech/barrel assembly is one piece. You push in the bottom where the guide rod would be, and it tilts up so you can load BB's in the magazine under the barrel (it will hold 18, but I managed to shoe horn in 20), or insert a dart or pellet into the barrel (don't load BB's before doing this! or you might get a stuck pellet or dart and make the breech hard to open). This isn't very powerful. The Red Ryder BB rifle is much more powerful. You get about 175-200 FPS, less with pellets and darts, but it's still powerful enough to hurt like the dickens if you get hit and enough to seriously damage your eye. It's not accurate either. The barrel is smooth and only about 2. 5 inches long, so it's good out to maybe 15 feet at the most. Even from that range it has trouble penetrating a paper target, and puts a mean dent in a soda can. Firing pellets and darts is fun. Firing pellets makes it a little more accurate, but not much and the tighter fit in the barrel kills velocity. The darts are the best part. You can play darts with this and it's loads of fun! You can fire a dart much more accurately than you can throw it (with practice). My friends and I would play for hours with this! I liked it so much that I wore it out from using it so much!