Nerf N-Strike Vulcan EBF-25 Blaster – Yellow
Nerf N-Strike Vulcan EBF-25 Blaster – Yellow
Nerf N-Strike Vulcan EBF-25 Blaster – Yellow Reviews
The Nerf Vulcan, the latest release in Nerf’s “N-Strike” line of toys, is a fully automatic belt-fed Nerf gun. It retails for $40.00 and don’t let anyone tell you differently. It requires six D-cell batteries to run the gun on full-auto, but single-fire mode requires no batteries.
When firing, the Vulcan is no louder than an electric shaver, and probably quieter than many of those. On fresh batteries, it does fire ~2-3 darts per second, taking around 8 seconds to empty an entire 25-round belt of darts.
Its ranges vary pretty wildly, but 20-30 feet is about average. If you’ve used the Nerf Maverick, its ranges are comparable to the Vulcan’s. These ranges make the Vulcan well-suited to indoor fun, but rather ineffective outdoors when targets tend to be further away.
I find the gun bulky and unwieldy, and I’m speaking as a 5′ 9″ adult. For children, (ages 6 and up according to the box) they will have to rely on the handy detachable, folding tripod to use the Vulcan effectively. Running around with the gun is very difficult, made more so by the detachable ammunition box’s tendency to fall off when jostled.
The valuepack edition of the Vulcan (identifiable by the green stripe on the right end of the box) includes an extra ammunition belt, 25 extra darts to fill the belt with, and a shoulder strap in addition to the Vulcan and its normal accessories. The valuepack is the same price as the regular Vulcan, so buying anything but the valuepack is silly. The shoulder strap is a good quality item, and widely adjustable to fit any person.
A word on the tripod: It’s quite stiff, necessarily so because of the Vulcan’s weight. When you move it by hand, it sounds as if you’re breaking it; this isn’t the case, relax.
The Vulcan uses sonic micro darts which are supposed to whistle as they fly through the air. My darts have thus far never whistled. They lack suction cups, so there won’t be any neat forest-of-darts sticking to walls, televisions, etc.
The Vulcan features three N-strike accessory mounting rails. These will allow you to attach the Longshot’s scope, the Recon’s flip-up sight and red-dot sight, the green tactical light, or the N-Strike Unity system’s scout blaster. NONE of these are included with the Vulcan, just to be clear. I also recommend *not* attaching the Longshot’s scope to the top of the gun, because it’s very difficult to remove due to how it wedges into place.
Refill packages including Vulcan ammo belts and darts will be available soon, if they aren’t in stores already.
Here are the pros and cons for an at-a-glance evaluation.
Pros:
Rate-of-fire
Ammunition-capacity
Reload Time (Loading a fresh belt, not filling a belt with darts)
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