hi i'm luke today on auto darts we are checking out the xs
908 small steel cannon raptor power launcher let's get going
with the ever-changing toy regulations in china we are seeing a lot of airsoft toy manufacturers
and other paintball companies get into making more blasters and i think we are going to see
more blasters coming out of china than we have ever seen in the coming year or two
we've already got a couple aegs that have shown up on the market and we also have a lot of blasters
in this form factor this is another very similar blaster in form and function to the gecko or
the s 200 that monkey mods is carrying the blaster is a mag through grip seven round capacity
plus you can have one in the breech so you could technically hold eight
it's also worth noting that this is a proprietary mag well it is not compatible with the worker
angle talons and given the size of how large this grip that is that's a little bit disappointing
i guess it wouldn't fit in here but it's obviously a different company than worker the xs908 features
a loop prime back here which does hold two catch two of my fingers to prime and fire
prime and fire alternatively you could also kind of just grab this whole thing back here
especially if you actually take this sight off you can kind of just use it as you would
a normal blaster on the top we've got a picatinny rail along with two additional picatinny style
sized rails on the left and right overall the styling looks pretty good however i do think
that this loop feels a little goofy it is a very easy prime i can prime it relatively easily with
one finger and it's very very easy with two ergonomically is where this blaster definitely
suffers it uh feels just a little awkward there's a sharp notch back here that definitely digs into
the back webbing of my thumb and the grip texture and the spacing of where each grip
the grip shape here is just not it's not great i can't get three fingers in here i can get two and
then this part here is so thick i'm not entirely sure why this is so thick especially since
we don't have a flared magwell even with all of this space here i would have liked to have seen
that functionally this blaster works just like the gecko or the fire rat and there are a number
of other blasters coming out in this form factor i was interested to see this blaster because it is
so similar to the other blasters the price point is pretty similar i believe you can get this for
around fifty dollars we'll put the actual price up on screen because
pricing does change depending on where you're buying it from the mag release is on the side
here it is not ambidextrous so this is only really good for right-handed people however even with
my large adult hands i can't i can't reach it and maybe i'm i'm not exaggerating when i say
like if my hand is anywhere where i've got my finger near the trigger ready to fire i my thumb
literally does not touch that i have to choke up and around to get to it so if i was reloading
i almost have to i don't i can get it there but it is a lot of work i think if i got used to it
it would be a little better but it is really not a super comfortable uh magazine release especially
compared to the the fire rat that's where the comparisons really start to go south the fire
rat while it had the most comfortable through mag through grip this has one of the least comfortable
i think this is a really good example of a company making a similar design and the design just truly
not being as good as the competition now they sent me this for free and i'm sure they're not
going to send me another one because i don't really have a lot of other good things to say
about it because the grip isn't very comfortable i find that not very functional functional or usable
and while it could have been improved it hasn't been and so what i'm seeing in my hands is not
a blaster that i would like to play with i am going to try this out at the next game just to
see how it actually functions in an actual game but between the poor ergonomics the somewhat
awkward and unnecessary t-pull i just don't see the reason to do a t-pull on a blaster like this
when the prime is so easy uh it's just a little bit awkward i do think this could be modified to
just have a standard top slide fairly easily and we could lose this and that would actually improve
it dramatically however the ergonomics of the actual grip itself and the comfort are really a
huge detractors i do like their packaging i think that was quite it's quite good overall relatively
simple i got a manual that's in chinese and it did come with a little fake green dot sight which is
kind of cool actually it looks fun it's completely pointless in fact i can hardly hardly see through
it so i don't think we'll be using that in any way i will give this a shot out in the field
but at the end of the day i do not think this is a winner i'm gonna give this two out of five stars
it's not a piece of trash but it's definitely not as solid as say the fire rat especially when it
comes to that comfort level and given that you can get both of them for fairly similar prices
i really don't see the reason to purchase this over the other one unless you really like the body
style more for this blaster i'm hoping to get my hands on a lot of the other blasters coming out of
china because i think it's really interesting to see what they do they're definitely doing things
that are different than us and that gives us a lot more opportunities and a lot more variety
ultimately especially with the aeg's coming out aeg is a spring electric powered springer using a
gearbox the challenger is one and there's another one i believe as well i'm hoping to get my hands
on both of those as well because i do think that aegs are going to have a big place in the hobby
going forward and a lot of the airsoft companies are working hard to figure out the engineering
to make them work well with darts i know welcome had some content recently i'll link that down in
the description because i think he was one of the first to get a good video up on that here
in the us but we'll have lots more to come i like to keep up on what china's doing because
really at the end of the day what hasbro is doing is getting less and less interesting by the year
with some exceptions there have been some fun stuff over the past year like mega xl and some
of the hyper stuff i'd love to know what you think of the xs 908 power launcher soft bullet steels
small steel cannon raptor let me know in the comments and until next time i'm out of darts
you