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No modifications or nothing you can do this with it right out of the box (also please don’t do this with live shells i use trainer shells or fake shells)
It's more like Hasbro have made blasters that are good several years ago, but in the last few years, there's been a drop in quality. Now they made the Pilot, which shows they are still capable of making good blasters at fair prices, but they don't want to.
Like the breach system, but I also like that it's nicely proportioned. It doesn't feel... stubby, the way the Knockout does, despite being the same basic size.
I just realized; the blue and yellow colorscheme makes it look like those cheapo replica guns. You know, the catapult ones that fire plastic "bullets" with green rubber heads like 10 feet, but they have about the right proportions for C96 Mauser and 1911s and stuff?
honestly i love the look of the new line of rival guns. the old guns are obviously classics but the new line has a really nice defined look. and they don’t try to be anything more than functional
The huge cut-out in the cylinder is to allow the piston to accelerate before building air pressure, it is a common design for shorter profile blasters. If it pressurized the cylinder sooner when the piston is traveling slower, the ball would leave the barrel sooner in the piston travel with a slower velocity. This is a feature that really does improve the fps of the blaster. It gives it a higher pressure delivery when it makes instant air pressure because the piston already has significant momentum once its past the cutout.
a couple days ago i think i saw that someone made custom 3d printed shells that use half darts and just seats in the breach with no mods needed to the pilot, believe they're on thingiverse
Okay, I was gonna get this blaster for the hell of it but the fact that you can fire THREE rounds out of this thing is all the more reason for me to buy this! What a great blaster for a great price!
I’d love to see nerf make a double barrel shotgun with this same system, in rival too. However, we will sadly probably never get anything like that from Nerf themselves
I have had so much fun with this blaster. It feels infinitely more fun to shoot than the fate... and it fits nicely in my dump pouch with my spare rival rounds. I call it the "Single-shot Ocelot" because I love to reload it during battle.
@@AveryB.0 Changing to a more efficient barrel and a lighter ammo type, but still the same amount of force from the spring. Sort of like instead of throwing a bowling ball, you're throwing a marble.
huh, so hasbro does know what "break action" means ! they just weren't trying before.. I caught eyes of the fortnite flare pistol at the store a few days ago and wanted to buy it, until I remembered that it's not actually break action at all.. will definitely be buying and brass barreling that one to use short darts tho ! (well I'll probably be mostly using reusable paintball rounds, for the sheer fun factor of loading a bunch of them and going shotgun mode)
The barrel break actually has a 2 stage trigger I'd know because I took one apart and also you can see the 2 stage trigger mechanism on the transparent in the back
With a few mods it can actually work in the more competitive section of nerf, as the break action is justified thanks to the multiple rounds in one shot. Which when you think about it its pretty nice to get something else apart of these way too similar sniper-like blasters that cost a lot
Best pick up of 2023 so far. I much prefer it to the fate. It shoots double better than anything else in the rival line we own. I think pretty highly of the forerunner as well so Hasbro has even more room for error in my opinion in the 2023 year.
More thoughts on the pilot… The back sight could be more open. The angle take a little to get use to but I hit more often than not after spending time behind it. Best thing is no holster needed! It’s a great pistol to tuck in your abdominal region (crotch😅) and keep it safe till you need it.
I like that not only is it affordable and highly functional, it's also in a form factor that won't make finding a holster that works for it a nightmare. 👍
"Hasbro's perfectly capable of making quality nerf blasters... They just refuse too...." Wait till you see the gjallarhorn it fires like a foot of range :/
You should take a half inch copper pipe and take a Gatorade bottle cut of part of the top to make a funnel the electrical tape it on the copper pipe also you need about 2 ft of copper pipe then you will have a blow dart pipe thing for nerf darts and I just loaded about 14 half darts into it is is awesome the spear and the grouping you can load as many as you want it’s like a shotgun blow dart pipe or single shot which ever you want it is awesome you should try to build it and do a review
I have already seen a 3d printed shell to go in them that holds a variety of items from elite darts to sucker darts and even short darts etc. . Looks like great fun.
A lot a blaster LARPs I have looked into use single shot pistols as a universal weapon that anyone can use with no skill or class requirements. I thinks this will get a lot of use in these.
hell yeah, a good break-action blaster finally 🤩 the only other minor things i would've wanted from it is a manual lever for opening the break-action and maybe a longer/weightier barrel that you can flick closed, that would've been badass
I need to get this thing and figure out how to make it take bigger shells, eject them once spent, and be flip close-able. I need a nerf pistol shotgun so freaking bad. ;-; I'd use something like the breaking-wind, but 3d prints potentially melting or shattering when dropped scares me.
Taper Grip! Thank you for calling them out on this. It really bugs me on the Pilot and there is no reason they couldn't have made a narrow point at the top/rear. It's also really uncomfortable that they put an angular ridge at the back corners of the grip. -yes I did cut away that area of the shell on mine to make a narrow point; there *IS* room that they could have molded it with that area indented.
I love the pilot I added a bit of aluminum barrel to mine only like 2 inches with duct tape (couldn't find my electrical tape). And love the fact I can easily switch between rival and dart launching fun.
Nerf rival is the last stand of Hasbro. But i have to give them that they are slowly catch up where they fallen. Like elite 2.0 now less mediocre than it was when announced. I won’t expect performance jump on nerf because i know what’s their target but at least make a good decent built quality, cool concept, open to mod, and not overprice.
I have been shotgunning 5 pieces of ammo in my Knockouts since 2019 using three separate ammo types (HiR, quarter Megas, and Half Lengths) so nice, but not too surprising.
I have three of these and for some reason they make a loud noise and you can hear the spring “ringing”, I bought them from different Walmarts and can’t figure out why they are like that
So, I just got the knockout today, and, surprisingly, I got it at a winners for $8 CAD, I'd love to get the piolet as well, I'd have one of these backups for rival, one for half darts, aka the piolet for half darts since I don't have to open it up to fire half darts
I do love this, but I wish the priming rod could go back into the blaster after the prime like on the Knockout, it would make holstering it a little less clunky without a priming rod sticking out of the back just waiting to smack into to something while you're moving around.
So if you just use Std barrel material as you did with the orange translucent pipe will it just take a standard elite size dart without needing to use shells ?
So, I guess I shouldn't drop any money on a half-dart mod kit for the Knockout like I was think about doing. Because this seems like it is better and easier to get to that capability in ever single way imaginable and I should just wait for mod kits for the Pilot.
Question for you is you front a bit separate from the back? I have a bit of a separation on mine especially since i opened it and took out that spring air restricter thing.
@WalcomS7 do you think that this will eventually go on sale in different stores besides Walmart.I would like to pick one up but just not as Walmart, which one do you prefer the Knockout or pilot. I took you advice about the forerunner, thanks.
I want one of these! I just wish that the primer wasn't so... Ugly? It's not bad, I'm just not the biggest fan of the all-black t-pull when the rest of the blaster is electric-blue and neon yellow. XD Here's hoping the community comes up with some add-ons/replacements.
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Surprised to find at Wal Mart after our four days of TX icecapades and whoa- 1st Rival with no tac Rail at all😲. Already a good triple shot with ball and half darts too in stock configuration.
Looks really darn good, and that shotgun-loading barrel tech is actually quite neat. However, I'm not getting it myself because I did manage to snag a Rival Fate when it was on clearance. Just need to 3D print a small blaster-mounted 6-ball holder to justify its existence over the Pilot...
I love this gun, but you whip the barrel back into place by yanking the gun up after loading in the rounds or do you have to use your other hand to close it every time? I just feel like it’d be a pain to have to use your other hand every time
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The Sledgefire did break barrel quite well in my opinion.
I know this is 3 months late but fun fact the Rival can perfectly fit and even SEAT a 12 gauge shell and if you tilt the blaster back it even ejects
No modifications or nothing you can do this with it right out of the box (also please don’t do this with live shells i use trainer shells or fake shells)
sometimes i feel like nerf just ran the fuck out of ideas they need to go back to their roots
i wonder if you could shell it down enough that you could fire hyper rounds out of it...
Wait so the “huge problem” is that the pilot is good and makes other Hasbro offerings look bad?
Yep it shows they're capable of doing good but choose not to, even when inflation is going crazy.
@@WalcomS7 8% is not crazy, I'm at 98% and life continues
@@Bazztoner its at like 11% but ok
It's more like Hasbro have made blasters that are good several years ago, but in the last few years, there's been a drop in quality. Now they made the Pilot, which shows they are still capable of making good blasters at fair prices, but they don't want to.
I mean that's Capitalism. All companies in any field are incentivised to make crap and force consumers to pick between crap.
I’m pretty sure Hasbro just released this line to say “blue balls”
Ballin'
Baller
now put your two balls into the slot
Meanwhile in another world
Sunny: WTF!?
Like the breach system, but I also like that it's nicely proportioned. It doesn't feel... stubby, the way the Knockout does, despite being the same basic size.
Yeah I'm a big fan of how it looks.
@WalcomS7 ngl, there's some good shell design work going on right now in general... at least, outside the IP tie-ins.
I just realized; the blue and yellow colorscheme makes it look like those cheapo replica guns. You know, the catapult ones that fire plastic "bullets" with green rubber heads like 10 feet, but they have about the right proportions for C96 Mauser and 1911s and stuff?
honestly i love the look of the new line of rival guns. the old guns are obviously classics but the new line has a really nice defined look. and they don’t try to be anything more than functional
I think it feels less stubby cause it doesn't have a tumor sized priming bar
The huge cut-out in the cylinder is to allow the piston to accelerate before building air pressure, it is a common design for shorter profile blasters. If it pressurized the cylinder sooner when the piston is traveling slower, the ball would leave the barrel sooner in the piston travel with a slower velocity. This is a feature that really does improve the fps of the blaster. It gives it a higher pressure delivery when it makes instant air pressure because the piston already has significant momentum once its past the cutout.
Big brain
Knockout: Already have one Love the modding
Flex: another Knockout
Fate: Knockout but bigger
Pilot: Kno- *break action* SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!
I can't wait to see what the community does with this thing.
It would be cool if it could shoot half length darts
I have heard that yo can fit a shell from shellington blasters out of the box
a couple days ago i think i saw that someone made custom 3d printed shells that use half darts and just seats in the breach with no mods needed to the pilot, believe they're on thingiverse
@@slyninja7477 it can, go on Reddit, there's already been several mods done
I'm gonna convert it to half dart
Okay, I was gonna get this blaster for the hell of it but the fact that you can fire THREE rounds out of this thing is all the more reason for me to buy this! What a great blaster for a great price!
Which begs the question: why can't all of Hasbro's stuff be like this?
@@WalcomS7 I think it's like you said: they refuse to.
it’s like the takedown as a jolt
@@ofearghailthefearless6481 you can also mod it which is super easy
I’d love to see nerf make a double barrel shotgun with this same system, in rival too. However, we will sadly probably never get anything like that from Nerf themselves
The solution to this is another pilot and alot of duct tape
@@Infernex_14 I was thinking the same thing lol
Hear me out nerf lmtd doom super shotgun
@@rifted6765 that would be sick, but doom is definitely “too violent” for nerf deals
@@RED33Md yeah but a man can dream
Has nobody seriously mentioned how long, shiny and beautiful Walcom's hair is in this video? Stunning!
I keep talking myself out of cutting it off. I brush it so much and it still becomes a mess.
@@WalcomS7 how long have you been growing it?
I have had so much fun with this blaster. It feels infinitely more fun to shoot than the fate... and it fits nicely in my dump pouch with my spare rival rounds. I call it the "Single-shot Ocelot" because I love to reload it during battle.
"One shot. Enough to kill anything that moves."
This rival blaster is giving me straight up derringer pistol vibes like the short stop from TF2. Lovely video as always walcom!
Made me think of the wingman elite
Babe wake up, new Walcom vid just dropped
I picked one up at my local Walmart. Actually 3 of them. I put a brass barrel in with no other mods and I’m getting 180fps.
So just changing the barrel increased the speed? Interesting..
@@AveryB.0 absolutely! Shooting shot darts of coarse.
@@AveryB.0 Changing to a more efficient barrel and a lighter ammo type, but still the same amount of force from the spring. Sort of like instead of throwing a bowling ball, you're throwing a marble.
@@captsomeguy1 thanks for the insights!
@@Toweringcoin8 that's actually insanely impressive, what's the barrel length?
8:45 did this with the Fortnite Flare, tho this should be way easier with the Pilot. May have to get one.
Now all we need is a break action mega xl blaster
a pistol, shotgun, microshot. this just checks every box for you walcom 🤣
A rival jolt with only a 2 step reload instead of 4!
Wow, they were actually trying this time.
The music during the chronograph was really suspenseful, I kept looking behind me to see if there was anything there
huh, so hasbro does know what "break action" means ! they just weren't trying before..
I caught eyes of the fortnite flare pistol at the store a few days ago and wanted to buy it, until I remembered that it's not actually break action at all..
will definitely be buying and brass barreling that one to use short darts tho ! (well I'll probably be mostly using reusable paintball rounds, for the sheer fun factor of loading a bunch of them and going shotgun mode)
I really wish they kept the Knockout's feature that let you push the t-pull handle back in after priming it.
I cannot wait for the Gjallarhorn video
Whenever they freaking ship.
I’ve heard that people have already gotten theirs in the US, but I’m still waiting for mine.
This blaster looks like tons of fun. I'm a plinker and have been looking for something like this. Thanks for this video.
For 12 bucks you can't go wrong.
So I ended up 3D printing the half and full dart shells for the pilot. These things are stupid fun. Might try the in-line mag next!
The barrel break actually has a 2 stage trigger I'd know because I took one apart and also you can see the 2 stage trigger mechanism on the transparent in the back
Barrel break, jolt addition.
With a few mods it can actually work in the more competitive section of nerf, as the break action is justified thanks to the multiple rounds in one shot. Which when you think about it its pretty nice to get something else apart of these way too similar sniper-like blasters that cost a lot
Best pick up of 2023 so far. I much prefer it to the fate. It shoots double better than anything else in the rival line we own. I think pretty highly of the forerunner as well so Hasbro has even more room for error in my opinion in the 2023 year.
More thoughts on the pilot…
The back sight could be more open.
The angle take a little to get use to but I hit more often than not after spending time behind it. Best thing is no holster needed! It’s a great pistol to tuck in your abdominal region (crotch😅) and keep it safe till you need it.
I’m definitely interested in doing a shell mod. I really dig the cute break action pistol look.
I like that not only is it affordable and highly functional, it's also in a form factor that won't make finding a holster that works for it a nightmare. 👍
"Hasbro's perfectly capable of making quality nerf blasters... They just refuse too...."
Wait till you see the gjallarhorn it fires like a foot of range :/
But don't get me wrong I LOVE THIS THING it's just disappointing that at $200 it's range just sucks I just hope it can be modded
It would be sick if they made a double barrel version of this.
I love my knockout, might buy one of these...just cause it's a Blue Rival Pistol
2:45 the slegefire is the same (ish) break action blaster.
You should take a half inch copper pipe and take a Gatorade bottle cut of part of the top to make a funnel the electrical tape it on the copper pipe also you need about 2 ft of copper pipe then you will have a blow dart pipe thing for nerf darts and I just loaded about 14 half darts into it is is awesome the spear and the grouping you can load as many as you want it’s like a shotgun blow dart pipe or single shot which ever you want it is awesome you should try to build it and do a review
I have already seen a 3d printed shell to go in them that holds a variety of items from elite darts to sucker darts and even short darts etc. . Looks like great fun.
I have been watching you for like 4 years
This is genuinely the best review you've done in a while. Great work mate!
Totally grabbing one of these once I find one. Breach loading is so cool, especially on a small little package like that.
during the entire video, I was waiting for you to spin the blaster!!! Great review and I am excited to get one.
I'm dying on the inside know what your target board came from please send a link
I already saw someone on UA-cam designing a shell for half darts that you just insert and go and god DANG is it cool
A lot a blaster LARPs I have looked into use single shot pistols as a universal weapon that anyone can use with no skill or class requirements. I thinks this will get a lot of use in these.
High hopes for the future of Nerf. This blaster looks great!!
To use the shells do you have to have a barrel in it?
I wonder if its called the pilot because it functions like a survival flare gun that a pilot would have.
THE NERF RIVAL PILOT IS MY FAV, change my mind
It I easy to change my mind after I remembered that the VENOM PRO exists
Rival is my favorite Nerf line and products like this actually frustrates me because it’s so good yet Nerf barely even cares about it anymore
hell yeah, a good break-action blaster finally 🤩
the only other minor things i would've wanted from it is a manual lever for opening the break-action and maybe a longer/weightier barrel that you can flick closed, that would've been badass
Man I HAVE to get one of these! Thanks for the review!
I need to get this thing and figure out how to make it take bigger shells, eject them once spent, and be flip close-able. I need a nerf pistol shotgun so freaking bad. ;-;
I'd use something like the breaking-wind, but 3d prints potentially melting or shattering when dropped scares me.
I have several Knockouts, a TKO, a Flex, a Fate, and an inline Fate and still bought 2 of these. The break action is just too much fun lol.
Taper Grip!
Thank you for calling them out on this.
It really bugs me on the Pilot and there is no reason they couldn't have made a narrow point at the top/rear.
It's also really uncomfortable that they put an angular ridge at the back corners of the grip.
-yes I did cut away that area of the shell on mine to make a narrow point; there *IS* room that they could have molded it with that area indented.
I love this damn blaster. I have two. Made one of them take Colonel Wasp Firefly shells!
I love the pilot I added a bit of aluminum barrel to mine only like 2 inches with duct tape (couldn't find my electrical tape). And love the fact I can easily switch between rival and dart launching fun.
A very good review and your honesty and attention to detail amazes me😊
"Just load an extra couple balls "...
Nerf rival is the last stand of Hasbro. But i have to give them that they are slowly catch up where they fallen. Like elite 2.0 now less mediocre than it was when announced. I won’t expect performance jump on nerf because i know what’s their target but at least make a good decent built quality, cool concept, open to mod, and not overprice.
I just hope that along with the manual release we get a way to put the plunger rod back in the plunger for a smaller form factor when primed
wait..a shotgun pistol from nerf...this is too good to be true!
I ordered mine today and it came this evening.
Thanks for the review! I probably will pick one up.
And now I will be getting one. Good to see a video from you again 😊
I have been shotgunning 5 pieces of ammo in my Knockouts since 2019 using three separate ammo types (HiR, quarter Megas, and Half Lengths) so nice, but not too surprising.
I have three of these and for some reason they make a loud noise and you can hear the spring “ringing”, I bought them from different Walmarts and can’t figure out why they are like that
It looks pretty neat. This is something we have been needing for years.
So, I just got the knockout today, and, surprisingly, I got it at a winners for $8 CAD, I'd love to get the piolet as well, I'd have one of these backups for rival, one for half darts, aka the piolet for half darts since I don't have to open it up to fire half darts
I do love this, but I wish the priming rod could go back into the blaster after the prime like on the Knockout, it would make holstering it a little less clunky without a priming rod sticking out of the back just waiting to smack into to something while you're moving around.
Time to get my in line Clip out of the broken knockout and fit it into one of these.
So if you just use Std barrel material as you did with the orange translucent pipe will it just take a standard elite size dart without needing to use shells ?
i think AG1 would sell better if it didn't look like sewage water
something about break action is just soo satisfying
So, I guess I shouldn't drop any money on a half-dart mod kit for the Knockout like I was think about doing. Because this seems like it is better and easier to get to that capability in ever single way imaginable and I should just wait for mod kits for the Pilot.
Man, imagine getting 2 of them and making a double barrel pilot.
I love the pilot, I 3D printed a tube adaptor for normal nerf darts, its powerful!
Brass it for short darts, stick a stock on it, a LONG barrel, and I'll take it and be a happy bunny. Single shot carbines are just so cool.
Question for you is you front a bit separate from the back? I have a bit of a separation on mine especially since i opened it and took out that spring air restricter thing.
I love the new nerf rival sires. Almost all of the blasters have been amazing.
I can't wait to see this get the full breaking wind treatment
@WalcomS7 do you think that this will eventually go on sale in different stores besides Walmart.I would like to pick one up but just not as Walmart, which one do you prefer the Knockout or pilot. I took you advice about the forerunner, thanks.
Dude just bought this one the shotgun and the vision and they are veryVERY accurate highly recommend these guns
I'm definitely getting one of these!
I want one of these!
I just wish that the primer wasn't so... Ugly?
It's not bad, I'm just not the biggest fan of the all-black t-pull when the rest of the blaster is electric-blue and neon yellow. XD
Here's hoping the community comes up with some add-ons/replacements.
Hey walcom, I appreciate how much time and effort you put into these videos, my day always gets better when a new walcom video comes 8nto my notification box
Can I get this now or is this just exclusive to you before it comes out
There's a link in the description.
My eyes hurt looking at the contrast of the video. Blaster looks great tho
Sorry about that, I changed my lighting and it was awful and decided to change the brightness contrast in post to what I felt looked good to me.
I can't wait to inline clip this bad boy!
do they have a deal with walmart? I can't seem to find it anywhere else, sucks for us eu foam flingers, its such a cool blaster at such a nice price
In the US it's apparently Walmart exclusive.
I heard that you can also print shells to fire any type of amo
You can also 3d print dart shells so you don´t need a nstrike barrel (it then works just like a shotgun)
The best thing about this blaster is that it looks easy to find a holster for it.
Surprised to find at Wal Mart after our four days of TX icecapades and whoa- 1st Rival with no tac Rail at all😲. Already a good triple shot with ball and half darts too in stock configuration.
ive been waiting for this one for a while, super nice
Very cool blaster, now is just hope to it get into brazillian stores in at least 6 years for around 150 reais
I'm going to get one of these and do a comparison of this and the fate
I just wish it had a different priming mechanism, to feel a bit more like a Thompson Contender
could it be modified with a heavier spring and longer barrel?!
Looks really darn good, and that shotgun-loading barrel tech is actually quite neat. However, I'm not getting it myself because I did manage to snag a Rival Fate when it was on clearance. Just need to 3D print a small blaster-mounted 6-ball holder to justify its existence over the Pilot...
These Jolt re-skins are getting more crazy
I love this gun, but you whip the barrel back into place by yanking the gun up after loading in the rounds or do you have to use your other hand to close it every time? I just feel like it’d be a pain to have to use your other hand every time