Longshot Tips!
Glad to hear more people getting their Longshots!
Being a bolt-action magazine-fed nerf blaster, the Longshot is very similiar in operation to an actual rifle, so the same operating principles apply. Those of you who have done your NS will know what i mean.
Since there are now alot of nerfers with Longshots, for those of you who have not handled bolt-action mechanisms before, here are a few tips:
1) Load the streamline darts into each magazine properly, with all the dart bases touching against the back magazine wall.
2) Try not to use bent or damaged foam darts, these are guaranteed to cause even more jams and they wouldn't fly straight anyways.
3) When cocking the Longshot, pull the bolt handle backwards and the push it forwards fast, all the way to its full bolt travel (not slow and halfway), this will help ensure that each foam dart chambers into the barrel properly.
4) Remember to "check clear" your Longshot before keeping it, either by checking underneith the magazine port or via the sliding breech cover, then press the trigger to ensure that the spring is already released. (There is a practical reason for this, you wouldn't it to sit for days with the sping compressed resulting in deteriorated spring strength right?)
If you practice enough, you should be able to fire foam darts perfectly from your Longshot most of the time.
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