That’s awesome news mate!
Will crack a tinny while I’m camped out by the river under the shade of a tree at 40° on Xmas day for ya!
Thinking that you will be having a great time with your family building Snowmen and playing boom booms with your US “Xmas toys”! 
That’s killer I want pics playing with your toys over there 
Has anyone noticed that we are getting more and more dart based blasters
Xforce has a Mauser now which is dart based.
Are the manufacturers getting lazy
Or are the retailer’s realising that not everyone can afford to drop a grand on a blaster.
when you can get one for a quarter of that price that shoots darts .
This also keeps the interest of the public going to buy more.
Which inturn keeps the business afloat.
And the sport moving even if it is in a slightly different direction.
Don’t you just hate it when you answer your own question.
I suppose it’s like talking to yourself
Anyway I am rambling now
Now we’re did I put my meds
I’d guess it is a bigger market if it is a dart blaster also. TBH I would purchase the 1887 shotgun in nerf form, as the shell ejecting is cool, and something that shell ejects aint goin on a field anyway so doesnt matter if it isnt gel. Also I have a printer so would likely try to get some gel shells printed for shiggles.
There was a time when everything was a cheap plastic toy, and it was cool as you had to put work into them to get them performing and feeling good (gen8/9 times).
Then the market kind of shifted to $500-$600 metal beasts as people want something nice out of the box, as most already had heaps of plastic toys…
My point of rambling is that if you fill all niches business is good.
You are correct
I have quite a few nerf stuff or what I call adult nerf.
All mine have been heavily modified
Most shoot over 300fps.
I do have two which are just standard for the grandkids to shoot around the house .
We also do nerf in the park.
As for going to gel Blasters game days .
I am to old, grumpy ,and tired to run around.
That’s why God invented shooting ranges for us old war veterans to still have fun
A lot of the gel gear is being sold now with foam darts as an additional option as a way of getting around China’s regulation on manufacturing.
Case in point, all of the KELe blasters are sold with foam darts included…
You start out with ten…
Then nine…
Then eight…
And so on, ad nauseum 
Yeah, its really all about the “model of blaster” being sold.
I grabbed a glock 26, as they are a solidly built model, cheap, and looked / felt the part.
The fact they fire darts, is irrelevant.
Gimme a well built luger, and i’d be all over it…
its really all about “do you want this model…”
The spas was a no brainer, particularly at that price point…
That little 26 springer fires Ultra Elites at around 170FPS… not too shabby for a manual. And you’re right, they do look the business and feel pretty solid.
We’ve come a long way from the old ABS STD 1911 manuals. 
Only ever had one of these classic manual pistols, which I never paid for, because was a “bonus” free gift that was thrown into the box of some other brand new blaster
To be honest, this was the very first Gelblaster Pistol that I had ever owned, and was a great fun gift for myself and my kids to play around with 
The only other Gelblaster pistol I ever owned was the FB GLOCK G18C that I was sent to review, which was actually a bloody awesome and extremely reliable product!
Would have loved to been able to purchase better quality pistols in the future, but the WA Bans put an end to that pretty quickly 
I’ve still got one of those old STD 1911s on the wall. 
It’s had the molded slide stamping filled in and painted matt black with mission brown grips to go with my M16A1 in my Vietnam era display.
I made the mistake of commenting on a US based video where a guy upgrades a Gen 8 M4A1… just an alloy barrel and spring but he glued the barrel in backwards.
I was polite, complimented him on the vid, and in a diplomatic way pointed out that the grooves on the inner barrel go into the t piece to help with air seal and retention. I wasn’t quite prepared for the reply, which in a very condescending tone, pointed out I was wrong, the grooves are there for aesthetics, and if I ever dared to attempt this mind-blowingly difficult mod myself I’d know that…
I pointed out to him that here in Oz we’ve been modifying blasters for about six years, and maybe, just maybe, we might have something of value to contribute? 
Recipe for narcissistic bullying compliance….
always assume you are always right, and project that level of implied confidence
convince as many others as possible, of step 1).
if challenged by someone with superior knowledge, display superiority, brandish anger and refuse to concede.
begin personal attacks to devalue/ discredit other person. Maintain air of superiority at all costs. Enlist support of people from step 2.
wash, rinse , repeat. Serve to everyone you encounter, and viola, you will never be wrong again , for the rest of your life…!!
Enjoy the state of masterful superiority, that exists within your own mind…!!
Sound like anyone you know…??
Where’s the link, we should bombard en mass with backwards comments or even better…
Ah they wouldn’t get that being an Oz show… no fun
Have you had a TaccyToys/GBU Warranty issue lately?
Can you point to where the bad person hurt you?
I’ll ask you first mate, seeing as though you’re online and have a lot of Gelblaster knowledge……
Following on from my previous comment about my idea for a proper Shotgun Blaster, I would like to throw my thoughts here out of the public domain and see what you think about my possible mad plans?
I can’t talk in first person yet…it’s too soon…
Bring out the nerf blaster, and I’ll point out , where the bad man, told the person in the story, was wrong…
Oh right, sure thing. What you got in mind. 
How do you think that non-hydrated gels could be adapted into a Shotgun Cartridge for either AEG/Springer/Gas or other methods like the one below.
Has been an idea of mine for a couple of years, and figured that could still use a single/double 7.5mm inner barrel inside the normal Gelblaster Shotguns on the market, but adapt either a cartridge to fire a certain amount of dry gels, or my original plan was to use the HANKE M97 Shotgun which is a hopper fed springer……… thinking that it wouldn’t take too much work to figure something out
Would be pretty cool being able to give a good hard pellet spray in close quarters range, but obviously not effective over long distances I am only guessing…… but who knows how well light, smooth, hard round dry gels might fly compared with heavy soft gelly balls?
Am I insane or maybe on the path to something different?
I originally wanted to simply get the cheap HANKE blaster and start from there testing dry gels, then if I got any decent enough results, was going to move onto the Shell/Cartridge type Shotguns to further improve air pressure and CFM/FPS.
Worth a shot?
Yeah nah or Nah yeah
