Toy Review: NERF N-Strike Maverick Rev-6

After reviewing the NERF N-Strike Raider CS-35 and the Vulcan EBF-25 for the upcoming company NERF War, it became time to recommend a workhorse blaster for my department. We needed an easy to use blaster that was cheap and had a decent rate of fire. Out of the many NERF toy blasters, I opted for the N-Strike Maverick Rev-6.

At less than 12 inches long and selling for less than $10 at retail stores, the Maverick is a NERF blaster shaped like a revolver with a pistol slide in the rear. The current color scheme is primarily yellow with a black cylinder, orange trigger, orange muzzle, gray slide, and gray handle. Included with the Maverick are six foam micro darts with suction cup tips and a tactical rail on top of the slide to mount accessory sights that are cosmetically pleasing but functionally useless.

Operating the Maverick is phenomenally simple. To load the blaster, push the black button on the left side of the blaster to open the cylinder. Insert a foam dart inside each of the six chambers and push the cylinder back inside the blaster until it clicks. Pull the trigger a couple of times to make sure the cylinder spins with each pull. Pull the pistol slide until it clicks and release it back into position to cock the gun. Now aim at the target and pull the trigger to launch one dart. Reload after six shots.

Being a simple single shot revolver, the Maverick is not prone to jamming compared to its larger blasters. With the six shot cylinder, shooters can quickly pump and shoot six times without reloading in contrast to the older blasters that require shooters to insert a dart inside the muzzle after every shot. For such a light blaster, the range is decent at about 30 feet and only requires one hand to aim and fire. One of the best features is that it can accept almost every NERF foam dart like the Streamline, the micro darts, and the sonic micro. So shooters will not have to be picky when scavenging for previously shot darts when reloading their blasters. Probably the only improvement to recommend for the Maverick is to get more chambers to be exposed when releasing the cylinder. It would allow faster reloading than the current two chambers at a time set up.

So with charging into a NERF War with a Maverick in hand, we'll have the advantage in firepower. Unless Sales decides to issue Raiders to their members.