Hi, I'm Luke. Today on Out of Darts, we're going to get riggity riggity-REKT!
I've been sitting on this box for a while. This is a box from a company called REKT,
who is making CO2-powered blasters aimed at the hobby community.
Obviously, this has already been opened. I've got their initial offering which is a pistol-shaped
blaster as they're calling it OpSix, and
I'm not sure why we're calling it OpSix maybe it's "OverpoweredSix." either way, let's dive right in.
I've held off on making this video for over a year; these were sent to me a while back. So
I did receive these for free, so keep that in mind. However, my opinions are my own
no matter what, and we're going to dive right in. this blaster is powered by 12-gram CO2 cartridges.
Now, these are very familiar to me because I come from the paintball world, and when I first started
playing paintball, we used a considerable number of blasters that relied on these heavily. You'll
also find these in the whipped cream dispensers at places like Starbucks, and a few other
uses like carbonation machines and things like that like the -- what are those things called?
The SodaStream! That's it. Inside the box, this OpSix package comes with a red and a blue blaster,
darts (we'll get to those); it comes with four cartridges, and it comes with some nifty eye
protection, which, as usual, does not fit my massive head. That is not a fault of the
eye protection itself. it's really just I have a massive head
Side note when I was in high school, some students were doing tree core samples and circumference,
and they charted out the entire school. Guess who had the largest head right here.
These glasses seem to be actually pretty well made. They say they're impact resistant;
they're polycarbonate lenses, and they actually would be pretty comfortable and
offer very good production if my head wasn't so wide that it just wants to
rip these off. On that note, I literally can't wear a single face mask that's out there that
that does this. If it goes behind the ears, it just makes my ears burn all day long.
So this is a lot of packaging. Let's start off with that. It is a kind of a massive little
drawer system here. If you followed my shop and shopped with us, you'll know that I am not a fan
of the packaging. We try to use as little as possible and as much recyclable and recycled
material as possible. This is a bit excessive. It's like Apple in the early days versus now;
Apple's sort of going much more minimalist with it. I guess it's all cardboard, but honestly,
you're not going to use this after you get going, so I'm not super excited about that.
So the OpSix blaster is relatively simple to use. I'm going to just run over the features. it
is obviously shaped very much like a pistol (we're going to get on that in a minute).
There is a safety on the right side of the blaster -- it is not ambidextrous. The blaster can be
recharged by replacing the cylinder in the bottom; you're just going to unscrew this,
pop this open, you're going to insert a cartridge fully, and you're going to close this,
and you're going to pierce it as quickly as you can. So now we are charged, and we're ready to
fire our blasters. This blaster is essentially a Jolt. I'm going to fire out some standard elite
darts, but one trigger pull -- one broken one trigger pull with the safety *not* on (that was
not the direction I thought it would work) -- and we fire. So it is basically a Jolt.
The operation; couldn't be simpler; it's not excessively loud, pretty easy to use,
so nothing wrong there. Overall, generally,
it functions, it fires, it works with elite darts, and that's about all there is.
It's very comfortable to hold. It's got a good grip. The trigger well feels well-shaped,
and that should be the case because it pretty much looks like a firearm. And that kind of leads to
some of my negative points on this blaster. Number one is that this looks like a G-U-N.
No matter how you say it or how you hack it -- these are, of course, brighter colors-ish,
but in mixed lighting conditions, at a distance, this is going to look like a firearm; it's not
going to look like a toy. I don't think these have a place at our games, and I don't think this is
a great blaster to play outside in public parks. We play in schools, we play in college campuses,
we play in public parks. Those three venues really are not a good use case for this. Now on your own
property, or at an arena, or in your backyard, or even in your house, this is fine. Why not? It's a
fun, simple operation. It's a little difficult to reload because of this sharp muzzle piece. I
wish they would have opened this up, made it a little larger, and flared it so it'd be easier
to get your dart in. I find that I do spend some time getting that dart in there. It's
a little more difficult than even say like a Jolt because the front of the Jolt's just
a little bit easier to access than this. that said, be very careful with blasters like these.
consider strongly wherever you use them, and make sure that if you do bring them to an actual game,
that they are allowed by your admin. Given that this is powered by CO2, there are restrictions
on that depending on where you live and depending on the groups you play with.
My next big complaint is these darts. Now while you can easily just put in elite darts,
or bamboo darts, or whatever type of dart you want to throw in there
(such as the great adventure force arts or waffle darts), these are basically FVJs they're a
really -- or "Full Vinyl Jackets," as people have started calling them. It's a vinyl-style tip. It's
really hard. I definitely think that if you're playing with these, you better be wearing these,
so it's good that they are at least included. That said, I would not recommend using these
types of darts. They've got a very tough hard tip. They definitely don't give and compress as much
as the normal ones, so they're going to cause a little more pain when you're getting hit by them.
And that leads me to the next issue, which is the performance.
one would think that if you get a CO2-powered blaster, you will get a more powerful blaster.
That does not seem to be the case with the OpSix. And I, for the life of me, cannot figure out why.
It seems like it's a very inefficient design, but these do not perform well. I'm going to put
the chronograph numbers up here on the screen rather than guessing at them now, but they are
really underperformers being outperformed by virtually any modded blaster. And that
includes things like the obvious Dart Zone Pro Mark-II, of course, which only fires short darts.
Obviously, this is going to massively beat it out in performance, but even things like our little
rocket are going to be faster. And I think you could probably even modify a Jolt to get it above
the performance of these blasters, which is a little bit disappointing because
you have to pay to play now. It's not a free prime; it's not a, you know, every time you fire,
there's a cost associated -- and waste associated with having these cartridges. So if you're not
gaining a performance gain, I'm not really sure what you're getting, especially with a single shot
blaster. Now, REKT does offer some other blasters that are magazine-fed and are repeating blasters
so they can fire more rounds, but the performance numbers on those have not been great either,
and I think part of this is probably due to efficiency: they want a certain number of shots.
I will say it's a little finicky getting at this compartment. It's not as easy as some of the
paintball markers I've seen. It would be a little obnoxious to do this in the middle of a game,
but what we're going to do is we're going to take elite darts here, and we're going to see how many
shots we get out of a single cartridge here. And I'm going to try to do my best to pierce
this quickly, so we get the minimum amount of air leak possible when closing this up.
There we go. that sounded better than my last one, where a little more air escaped. So we
are going to just fire normal shots until we run out of ammo. Now I did drop this one
while playing with it, so the end's a little mangled. I don't believe that there should be
any difference in performance, whether you've got darts in or not, but just for the sake of
honest comparison, we're going to put darts in it. So here's one shot -- again, one-shot, 2, 2...
30, 31... 79, 80... 134, 135 (just checking the range there) 198, 199, 200.
So at 200 -- [To Perry] so, I'm going to shoot...
So at 200 shots, I'm going to stop there because, at this point, a level shot is going only about 10
feet, so I think your usability and the efficiency are going to depend on how far you want to shoot.
In my initial testing, I actually got much lower than I did in the test now, and I think it's how
I got that 12-gram in there as quickly as possible to avoid wasting any of the liquid
CO2. If that escapes, you're obviously wasting your air pressure, but I think you're looking at
maybe 100 shots that are really usable at the effective range,
and then more if you want to keep playing where you're barely getting to target. Obviously,
they have prioritized efficiency over performance because the performance is quite bad,
but the number of shots per 12-gram is quite good. At least when you compare it to, say,
your average paintball marker that would run on these. and that comes clearly due to the
much smaller barrel size in the blaster and the much lighter ammo weight compared to a paintball.
Next, I wanted to talk about the price. These come in around $40 apiece. There are a couple
different options, I believe. I'm not sure if this dual option is still sold; they're sold as singles
for $40. It really, to me, does not seem like a bargain. There's definitely a place for this. I
think if you say we're someone that wanted to play with these types of blasters -- nerf blasters,
dart blasters -- and you couldn't handle a prime, and you didn't like flywheels,
this might be a great option. I could see it being a fun sidearm,
but when it comes to our hobby, I think we have far better options available to us.
Most recently, I covered the ZINC, which has got, I believe, a seven-round magazine built right in,
or you can use larger. And the sizing is not much bigger. This blaster, of course, needs to
be primed each time you use it, but you're going to get much, much higher performance out of it as
well. The [DZP] Mark-II at $80 is also going to be a lot more competitive, in my opinion, especially
(again), considering it has a six-round internal magazine and can hit 130ish on short darts,
which are more accurate considerably to this in my testing. These are also fairly inaccurate,
mostly due to that, just like a Jolt, you've got very little barrel there to
actually align the dart. And then, of course, you're firing elite darts or, even worse, FVJs.
In the end, I cannot recommend these other than for very specific purposes. Again,
if that's playing with your friend in your house, or in your backyard, or at a field,
that seems like a good option. Though personally, I would choose something else.
I'm gonna give these two out of five stars. It's not that it's a bad product. It just doesn't meet
the needs of our hobby, in my opinion, and it doesn't really have a place in our hobby.
Now, this is an open discussion. I am not anti-HPA or anti-CO2-powered blasters by any means. I'm
interested in everything that could come around. Everybody likes to play differently, and I think
that's the coolest thing about nerf is that there are so many different ways to enjoy this hobby,
whether it's the DIY PVC tinkering of the classic NIC community or the 3D-printed
hobby that has taken off like crazy or the traditional modding
of electrical blasters like the Stryfe and spring blasters like the Recon and Retaliator.
There's a huge range of ways to play nerf, ways to modify the blasters, ways to create your own,
and that has always fascinated me because I love seeing what other people come up with. Let me know
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Oh my gosh. I literally don't know what this thing is for. This is where we read the manual.