The Maverick is a pistol style Nerf Gun with a revolving 6 shot barrel that comes packaged with 6 sucker darts.
Usability
The Maverick is solid feeling gun with a top mounted priming handle and one tactical rail to attach a scope. The gun is fired by pulling back the priming handle then pulling the trigger which in turn revolves the barrel leaving the next dart lined up for the next shot.
The Maverick feels very comfortable in your hand thanks to the pistol style grip, but much like the Spectre the gun becomes difficult to prime when an attachment is on the tactical rail. The Maverick fires fairly quickly particularly if fired quick draw cowboy styles.
The blaster also features a clip point on the rear making it an excellent side arm to hang from your tactical vest.
The gun has very few issues with jamming, but it is essential that the handle is fully primed and trigger pulled or else the dart seems to line up just off centre from the barrel.
Reloading is straight forward, the barrel is able to drop the side through by pushing the black button (pictured above) and darts can be inserted in each cylinder. Reloading isn't a quick process so this blaster needs to be used for emergency close quarter situations rather than a primary weapon.
Usability score - 6/10
Styling/Tacticool
The Maverick is a purists blaster with very little scope for additions due to only one tactical rail and no barrel mounts or stock mounts. The blaster features the usual colours of the N-Strike range with the yellow Nerf logo featuring on the grey priming handle and the N-Strike logo on the front.
I feel this blaster looks best when left stock but here are some loadouts with scopes fitted.
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| Nerf N-Strike Maverick with Recon Sight |
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| Nerf N-Strike Maverick with Longstrike Sight |
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| Nerf N-Strike Maverick with Elite Pinpoint Sight |
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| Nerf N-Strike Maverick with Nitron Scope |
Performance
The blaster performs really well it is super accurate able to land 6 sucker darts into a tight circle. For this test I performed the distance measurement outdoors on a calm day. Out of the 30 blasters I have tested this blaster came in at 22nd place for distance.
Dart Distance (Sucker Darts) - 9.6m (31feet)
This isn't a bad result with the blaster firing a minimum distance of 7.5m (24feet) and a maximum of 11m (36 feet) with the most common distance being 10m (33feet).
Darts Fired per second - 1.62 dps
Firing the blaster quick draw results in the best darts per second performance, through 3 tests the blaster didn't jam once. This rate would be significantly less with an attachment as this would slow priming speed.
Performance Score - 6/10
Overall
I would recommend this blaster to anyone wanting a solid dependable side arm, and they are reletively easy to modify if that is your interest. With second hand prices starting at $1 on Trade Me they are a bargain purchase.
Overall I give this blaster a score of 17/30
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