Originally posted by DocsMachine
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My old boss/owner of the local proshop's first gun was a Desert Fox. He said it chewed thru bolts exceptionally fast. Apparently one time it even broke the bolt in-game and he gogg'ed someone with it. Accidentally, of course.
The Blade is a weird one for sure. Like you said, a lot of the features were cool, like the reversible feed you mentioned. IIRC the rear plug for the top tube doubled as a barrel plug. The detent was pretty cool too. I think you're right that the grip was a major turnoff for people. If it had rubber (or even plastic) grips it would be fine, but since it was a one piece gas-thru design in the CO2 days it would be incredibly hard to hold after a few minutes of shooting. From what I can tell the only difference from the Blade 1 and Blade 2 was that the Blade 2 had a VASA, which certainly would have helped the cold grip issue.
And you are correct that Andy played with Navarone.
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