Anyone messed with gel blasters?

[vijil]

MIne are no-brand, temu junk, $30 each. You can go much cheaper.

I don't care, it works great.

Very accurate too.

Honestly with the deals on alibaba, you could buy a bunch of bunkers, masks and dozens of guns for like $2k ALL UP and start yourself a business doing birthday parties at a $500 flat rate per group of 16 or so. You'd make bank, the balls are 10c a case so it's 99% profit if you charge, say, $10 for a thousand after the first hopperload. Just keep buying guns for when they go down and you trash the old ones. Not the most "sustainable" model, but honestly it would work.

[ChillswitchEngage]

Seconding getting them as cheap as possible. Not going to lie, the more expensive 1:1 sized ones look tempting & fun, but at that point id rather just play paintball lol. I got some mini MP5 and AR style ones with a bunch of colorful graphics all over them for like ~$15-20 each, and have still yet to shoot all the gel balls they pack with them. But yeah, they fire at like ~11-12bps or so and shoot up to ~150ft or so if you arc them. No idea on exact FPS, I want to say around ~120fps. Tip for the gel balls; Be careful about using water that is too hot to try and make them grow faster, it leads to a lot being deformed/chipped/etc that leads to more breaks inside the gun.

[markdem]

Got myself the Gel Blaster brand as recommended... awesome!

adjustable fps (different barrels)

Glowing balls (built in UV light)

Semi/auto switch

$30 at walmart

[Chuck E Ducky]

Hell yeah they are awesome. I got like 10 of them now they are cheap as dirt to shoot. Practicing our drive bys with the kids. One Easter my Grandmother was even out playing with the kids I filled up two 5 gal buckets full of the jellies and they played for like 3.5hrs. Had like 12 kids running around the yard just letting them loose. I do recommend the green ones if you shoot buckets full of them, they are bio degradable and break down eventually.

^How it started^
Epic Paintball training tool for the kiddos he’s on his 2nd young guns awarded.

how it’s going.

[flyweightnate]

Just got my son a Surge 2 for his birthday and a Barracuda (pump) for myself. He's 10, so I needed the handicap. Not sure I'd recommend the Barracuda otherwise. Shoots 6x per pump (shotgun style) but the grip and trigger are both awful.

The Surge 2 is just right for his age, about 150fps (with the fast barrel) and the full auto is maybe 8bps. He loved running around the house shooting it at me; he left it loaded and little sister turned it on and stitched him up. So now he knows why I said to keep it unloaded.

I'm looking forward to some nighttime play with the glow in the dark pellets.

[Cdn_Cuda]

The glow pellets look like a lot of fun. And just because of the name I may need to look up the Barracuda, as bad as it may be. - That rabbit hole hit hard. Now I want to buy Surge 2s and play some dusk gel ball!