Grizzly Rifle

Price : $26.91

Product Description

From the Manufacturer
Grizzly Rifle, Cowboy Collection, Fires Strip Caps
Realistic plastic and die-cast metal lever action toy western rifle that fires a strip of caps.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 12 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0007UO38I
• Item model number: 4602C
• Manufacturer recommended age: 6 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: 17,965 in Toys ; Games (See Top 100 in Toys ; Games)
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Product Features

• This rifle is designed after the original rifle of the Wild West era
• Constructed with quality plastic
• Looks like real antique metal
• Fires 915 strip caps

 

Grizzly Rifle

 

Customer Reviews

Ok, have two sons who wanted to play cowboy. So, I buy each one Paris rifle - after a tremendous amount of research. (As a side note, it's getting damn near impossible to find cap guns now-a-days. Nobody seems to be making them).
Anyhow, I picked up two (2) rifles and a case of caps (you have no idea how many caps kids can go through in ten minutes). The strip caps actually are placed into a detachable magazine on the bottom of the rifle. I found this fun for them to do. The action lever is used to cock the rifle after the trigger is pulled. A seven year old child would be able to do this. When it the toy does function properly, the used cap is ejected - launched into the air. Pretty cool!
The toy feels solid. It has nice weight and seems durable on the outside. But that is it. In fact the interior mechanism is poorly designed. Why? Well, after about a week of use, the caps often got jammed inside. They wouldn't discharge. Sometimes the cap wouldn't pop.
After the first one broke, I thought it was an anomaly (in that it was a 1 in 1,000,000 type of thing). But two days later the second toy exhibited the same exact problem. Was it the caps? No, I was using Paris caps made by the manufacture of the toy rifle. Was it the kids? No, because I supervised them when they were playing - and they weren't playing any different than normal seven year-olds do.
When the second one broke, I actually decided to see if I can fix the interior. It was easy opening the rifle, I think there were only two or three screws. I was careful not to let the spring get away from me. Once opened, I noticed some 'gunk' residue that came off the caps. (Think burnt cap powder). A small wire brush was used to clean things up - but in the end the gun just stopped working right.
Well, ticked off that two were bad - I sent them back to the merchant and asked for two more. What is the probability that two more would go bad? Well, to make a long story short, these two rifles exhibited the same jamming problem as the first two. (Caps got stuck or wouldn't load, etc.). Taking these two apart showed me that the whole internal level action was acting like before. I a nut shell it is a poor design. It is flawed.
I sent the second two back and got a credit to my charge card.
I really, really wanted the kids to have fund with these. But the rifles spent more time on my work-bench and in the mailbox than in their hands. Really unfortunate, especially since cap-guns are going extinct nowadays.
I hope this help.

So far my son has played with this for quite a few months and it's not broken yet! That's saying a lot about how durable this gun is...toys usually break pretty quickly with him. It was worth the purchase.