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If you haven't seen or heard about this marker yet, this is as good a place as any to start
Now for my take on this interesting marker.
I won't buy it. That's putting it as bluntly as I can. To me, it's not a good value marker... to me. Someone else would find it a good value marker, but I'm not someone else. I like the marker, it seems solidly built and has some concepts I like and am attracted to, but it's not worth $999 to me. Why? Allow me to elaborate...
What I like about this marker is the solid construction, the concern for detail on the ergonomics, and just how cool it looks and how fun (I think) it would be to play with a bolt action marker. What I don't like is the bolt handle and the price tag that comes with it, and what is essentially a six round magazine. First, when I watch him playing with the bolt handle on the marker, what I notice is how it just... flops around in the housing like a chime in the wind (exaggeration, but you get my point). I understand that this isn't an actual rifle and that it doesn't require the bolt to lock in there solidly, but the whole point of the bolt action is the milsim aspect in the first place, and I'm not going to pay $1000 for a milsim gun that doesn't even lock the bolt in when I could have a really good bolt action FIREARM for $75o. Second, the "12" round magazine is really a six round magazine, because you have to take it out of the housing and flip it to use all twelve rounds. Sure, you might shave a couple seconds when in comparison to pulling out another magazine from your vest, but not much. I guess that point is really more of a nitpick, but at $1000 dollars for this gun, I'll nitpick all I want.
All that being said, I still like the marker, but not enough to drop a grand on it, especially when I could have essentially the same thing in a Tac 9 for $400, minus the bolt action of course. But, since when was cool packaging and a bolt action worth an additional $600? Not in my head,it ain't.
