This must be the year of sidearms because I am just drowning in them! Let's check out the Gecko!
This Gecko was sent to me by CYardNerf, so it's worth mentioning that I didn't pay for the blaster
itself, so keep that in mind with my review. My opinions are always my own regardless of who sends
stuff to me, but ultimately this is not like a fully review channel, so take that as you will.
The Gecko is designed by Ehdrien, and I’m not familiar with Ehdrien,
but I’m assuming he must be Canadian because there's a little maple leaf here and a
"Eh." Coming from Minnesota that's pretty close to Canada. I love the Canadians that I’ve met,
and I know they've got quite a blooming nerf scene up there as well because we do
ship quite a few packages; I think they're our number one destination
after the US. I’m not sure what else Ehdrien has designed, but I really do love the aesthetic and
sort of almost like cyberpunk feel a little bit if you went a little different with the colors.
It's a neat blaster and a very cool design, so I’m looking forward to seeing what they do next.
The Gecko is a sidearm blaster. It is essentially a pistol. It is a top slide prime mag-thru grip,
and it uses standard worker geometry angled mag, which I think is a really great choice.
This is one of my favorite sidearms I’ve seen so far. It is quite comfortable given that you
do have to have the grip through the mag. It's got a very easy prime, and it has been kind of,
I think, really well thought out from start to finish. There's this sort of like peek-through
effect that happens in a couple places, and on this blaster, I really like it.
The barrel itself is ported. I assume that's to help with dispersion of the error for
venturi effect or some other thing someone can tell me down in the comments because that's
actually something I don't know a whole lot about, but given that that barrel is covered,
I’m trying to understand why when the barrel is covered it's like that, but I assume it's
something about air volume to the length of the barrel, but you can correct me if I’m wrong.
The Gecko has a great sidearm. I actually really like that there's no mag release on this blaster,
so you can simply just pull the mag, and it's got a nice snap. It feels very good in there.
I believe they're just using a standard spring and a piece of 3D-printed plastic, but it has a
very good feel to it. The trigger itself is also very snappy, one of my biggest complaints with a
blaster like the zinc, which is much smaller. It's worth noting overall, it is a lot smaller profile,
so this would be a lot easier to holster and hold, but the trigger pull on this guy is pretty
massive, and it's been a little bit difficult for me to use in comparison to the Gecko.
However, the Gecko performance is around 113 FPS. I will put the actual numbers up on the screen
as with all the videos. I’ll do a rough chronograph before the video,
and then we'll shoot a 20-shot average under a controlled lighting situation to make sure
that we're giving you an accurate number so if I ever say something on-screen and
it's different than what I’m saying, you can't say something on-screen if we put
something on-screen and it's different than what I’m saying you'll know why this specific
unit has the hold-ster magnets integrated which is great because that's my mounting
point of choice for a variety of blasters, so it makes it really interchangeable for my setup.
It's really just a satisfying blaster it fires reliably it's easy to prime and overall I
think it's just a really solid piece it's got nice styling it kind of has like a kind of an
aggressive look to it I guess and I like that there's a lot of bright colors on it so it's
very clearly a toy when you're out running around in a public space they do sell magazines that I
believe are possibly included I’ll of course have all the links in the description but the magazines
themselves are nice if you want a nice small flush one but let's be real you're probably going
to grab a worker mag because the capacity alone unless you're using it as just a dedicated sidearm
the capacity is really going to be nice being able to hold 18 or 20 rounds in a single magazine we
also thought we would test out the short worker magazines and they do indeed work now that these
are available separate we do have these on the shop we'll have them in a couple different colors
coming up as well and it's just long enough that it fits there and you can still grab it out pretty
easily without having to fuss too much so that's a nice welcomed addition there's nothing wrong with
a printed magazine though from a cost perspective it's hard to it's hard to compete in injection
mold as far as quality and durability and reliability from to a magazine here this I believe
uses one of the foam blast drum springs or a very similar style spring if it's not the exact one
but it's nice to see that this it works with the existing magazines that people already have
It's kind of hard sometimes when you've got a proprietary mag like the zinc has
or I guess in the in the case of the dart zone pro mark ii we've got an integrated mag which
is also I guess acceptable but it's a different kind of thing now from a size perspective I don't
know that I would run like a long HvZ with this blaster due to the size and weight I really like
having a minimalist loadout if you'd like to see a video on my current loadout let me know
in the comments and we'll do that as a video coming up as well I have a new HvZ loadout I’m
gonna run and probably some other different loadouts I’m gonna kind of mix and match but
from a weight and size perspective I could definitely see taking the mark
ii over the Gecko however the Gecko is going to act a lot better as an actual primary given
that you can reload it with magazines and throw a 20-round mag on the blaster -- or rather an
18 with a bumper is what we've got here it's just going to be a lot more formidable than six shots
out of this blaster and then having to reload so it's kind of they're different purposes for sure
You know, all these pistols that have come out these sidearms are kind of blowing my
mind because when I started it in the hobby, this was a sidearm or you know a HammerShot obviously,
but that was pretty much it's like the offerings that we had at that point were
really weak nobody was 3D printing anything, and I think where it's come now where we have just
a slew of different you know sidearm options, and I don't even have them all I mean there's
more and more coming each week the reviews for these 3D-printed blasters
The blasters are coming out so fast that I can't even keep up with them anymore so another thing I
really want to hear from all of you is we've been doing a lot of reviews recently and part of it is
just spring comes around and the new blasters like hyper come out and there's a lot of new
content from Dart Zone and whatnot and a lot of 3D-printed makers producing more content but I
want to hear from you do you want us to keep doing reviews or should we shift and do less content
overall and do more mod guides and more content that no one else is doing or isn't doing as well
I love giving my insight on blasters and I love seeing all these different blasters and playing
with them but I do feel like we're getting a little review heavy so I would love your
opinion on that might throw up a poll on YouTube as well regarding that to see where we go moving
forward thank you so much to see yarner for sending me this blaster I will do a Breaking
Wind video in the future as well because that is the funkiest little blaster I’ve seen in a while
This Gecko is a great blaster. I’m gonna give it five out of five. I think it's very well executed,
and it's a really solid platform. All the links in the description to buy the blaster from
CYard directly -- I believe they're over on Esty, but I’ll correct myself in the description.
Thank you so much for watching! Until next time, I’m out of darts.