| Heh, if you've ever played
the role of a sniper in a Nerf®™ war -- heck, if you've ever even thought
of snipering someone -- buy the Koosh® Vortex®
FireStorm™. Seriously,
this gun rocks. It really doesn't have any major problems, and
drastically improves over its predecessors, the Koosh® Vortex® Tornado™
and Tornado X/2™.
The FireStorm holds six Spinfire™ rings
ready to fire, which makes it the first semi-automatic Vortex®
weapon. There goes one of the problems with the Tornado - only
having one shot ready to go.
To load the gun (yeah, I know the gun
looks a little hard to load, and it is) you pull back the firing
handle, which disengages the rotating chamber in the gun (the thing
that makes the front of the weapon so large). You then can spin
the chamber freely, loading up all six Spinfire rings. Each
firing chamber has little "teeth" which hold onto the rings
so they don't fall out. (While you might be tempted to try to
get each ring in-between the front teeth and back teeth of each
chamber, the ring only needs to pass the front teeth to be ready to
fire. Knowing this really cuts down the loading time for this
gun. Once you get your hands on one of these puppies, you'll see
what I mean.) A quick solution to the loading time: get
the gun loaded before the Nerf war, and carry a sidearm. You
really don't need to worry about this though, as a sniper usually
isn't in the heat of battle for the most part, anyway.
Also, the standard Vortex
"thick-end-out" rule still applies when loading up the
rings. Put 'em in the wrong way and the rings don't work so
well.
The gun shoots almost the same as the
Vortex Tornado; the FireStorm actually performs a bit better than the Tornado
in some areas. (The Tornado's review is over
here, for those who
care.)
For those of you who whined about the Spinfire
rings' tendencies to fly out of control in windy conditions, this gun
allows to to quickly fire off a few rings in somebody's
direction. You've got a good chance that a least one of those
rings will hit your target. Really, there's no reason not to get
this gun.
The Tornado and Tornado X/2 have abruptly
become outdated. This is the sniper weapon to get.
-Andy Grau
AGrau@NerfCenter.com |
