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| | | Product Details: | | | Package Length:
| 34.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.2 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 8 reviews |
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2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Disappointed my son...Jul 15, 2010
Well when I did the search on amazon I entered "wooden gun". This gun came up and so I thought it was made of wood. It's not...it's plastic and my son is very disappointed. He thought he was getting a wooden gun and he spent his own money to buy this. I feel bad for him because I helped him pick it out. It's very light weight and I am sure it will be broken in no time. I(my son) wouldn't have purchased if we had know it was plastic. =(((
 Cap gun....? not reallyJun 11, 2010
Bought this for my 6 yr old grandson. I think the gun itself is ok but the strip caps purchased along with it really don't go off...the occasional cap that does go off from the strip simply makes a very, very low, muffled pop..You have to listen carefully and you might hear the one to two that do go off the entire strip....the sound of pulling the trigger is actually louder than the cap itself. He enjoys playing with the gun itself but would be happier if the caps worked. Purchasing the caps were a waste of money. If you want an actual "cap gun" where you hear the caps, this isn't it.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Ok but has issuesDec 25, 2009
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.
12 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Yup - Broke four (4) of them. Can you believe it?Aug 02, 2009
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.
3 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Substitute for the real thingJun 22, 2009
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.
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