Rival Hera Mxvii 1200 White Combat Blaster

So after moving out of my parent's house several years ago, my nerf collection has mostly gone into storage. I keep Rival series guns for housebug deterrence. The Kronos has been the most reliable, with the Saturn being the most accurate I've ever had. The Hera is a gamechanger. If you, like me, have arachnophobia, then you don't want to get *close* to your house spiders to deal with them. Again, the aforementioned Rival guns have been reliable for this. However, on the rare occasions where you get a wasp, bee, or an incredibly fast spider in your house, maybe pump-action isn't good enough anymore; you need to fling rounds at them very rapidly or they disappear and give you anxiety for the entire day. The Hera is the very comfortable middle ground. You might miss a shot or two now and then, but the included magazine comes with 12 rounds and can empty them in about 4 seconds if you're fast. I have one-shotted a roach with this beast, even if i had to wash the round afterwards. Gross. Anyway, i took to eeeeebayyyyy to grab three 7 round tubes and two more 12 rounders at the same time, and the 7 round magazines actually feel way better. They only stick downward far enough to grab them to pull them out, and are easier to carry around. This blaster is highly recommended. It is very comfortable to carry, wield, fire, and reload, in both hands. I am a tall dude with large hands, and I have no issues holding this beast one-handed, so I don't mind the weight of the C-cells it requires, but you might. It makes it slightly back-heavy, but the way the blaster is designed, it makes using the stock comfy as well. I'm still debating picking up rechargeable C-cells, or the Nerf rechargeable pack.

This thing is awesome! I own the Helios, Hades, Chaos, Nemesis, Atlas, Kronos, Prometheus, and the Perses. The Hera shoots beautifully! SO much power for a little thing. Shoots super straight. Small enough my five year old wields it easily and comfortably. the thing that stands out most is that its significantly more quiet than other fly wheel rivals. This blaster DOES in fact take the rival rechargeable battery pack. It's well worth it for decreasing weight alone. I feel it operates better and faster with it as well. My only gripe is it only takes 12 rounds. This thing is so awesome that you just wish it would hold more. I really wish rival would release separately, the rival drum mag that was super limited and only sold with another blaster. 25 round capacity would make this thing PERFECT. It looks cool, feels cool, runs great, and is a fantastic addition to any nerf collection. If anyone was wondering, for my personal ranking, its number 3 and only beat out by the perses and prometheus

This is a fun blaster at a very good price. Trigger is basically a ball lifter that shoves a ball into the flywheels but I have felt worse triggers on other blasters. Big thing is the noise, it's a lot more quiet than people say. It's actually more quiet than my Helios. If I'm up late night the spring on the Helios can be heard clearly going "PANG" through the walls. The flywheel gets drowned out by the fans everyone sleeps with and is not loud enough to be heard with my door closed. In fact when standing in the hallway with my door closed all I could hear was a barely audible "thud" whenever an HIR ball would hit one of my pillows I line up on my bed as targets. Make sure to get the official Nerf NiMH rechargeable battery pack, it spins up the flywheels faster than D or C battery trays and lasts much longer. Not to mention only being $15 and being rechargable instead of dumping lots of money on alkalines. Also make sure you buy at least four extra magazines. I priced the local walmart at $7 for the official 12rd magazines that come with 18 rounds of spare Nerf name brand ammo, that is a steal when off-brand magazines go for ~$6 each by themselves on Amazon. Soon the Rival Edge series will come with a 30rd drum magazine that will work in this blaster and that will be a game changer, 12 rounds seem to disappear way too fast because of how fun it is to shoot the Hera.

Had been looking at this for awhile and waited for the price to drop. I like the idea of mag fed blasters, and figured this would be a good blaster for my 6yo to bring to some of the local 'Dart Wars' places we have. He's a smaller guy and sometimes struggles with priming other Rival blasters, and since you are limited to 'stock' blasters, and the ammo they have available at these places you pretty much need to use Rival blasters to have a bit of fun. This blaster though is almost to big for him. I know these are designed for teenagers and above, but man the grip and geometry of this thing is just large. I'm still happy with it, I think it's fun and he enjoys it as well. It may be a bit awkward for him to carry around in a game but it will still be good i think. The rechargable NiMH battery for this I think is a must, although it's $15 the C batteries this thing takes aren't cheap, and are heavy. The NiMH will last a fair amount of game play and you simply charge it and you're good to go.... but it's also great to still have the option to drop regular C cells in at anytime if you need to.

Just got this Blaster for an up and coming Humans Vs Zombies Invitational event after my old stryfes started to become a bit too aged. This blaster is fantastic. You can take shots before it is even fully revved. It takes shots further than any of the nerf darts of the past, they stay more accurate at distance than the darts used to. The ammo travels at a much faster speed and definitely has more of an impact so the zombies know they were definitely hit, but it doesnt hurt thankfully. Unlike the darts, once these are shot out of the blaster, there is a good chance that you will say goodbye to that round. They bounce and roll away so much. The blaster was about 2-3x the weight of my old stryfe (i used the battery pack in this blaster) but i didnt find it too cumbersome and it felt great in my hands when handling it. This is definitely going to be my new main.

This blaster is very fun to use and is one of my favorites because of its slim lightweight body, the safety is really easy to swotch on and off the battery it comes with last long and reliable. After a couple years off use it shows how durable this thing is there is not a single scratch on this blaster, also the mag release is ambidextrous and is easy to use overall this is a amazing nerf blaster to get somebody if they want a nice and easy to use blaster.

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We have the Nemesis and Perses, and while the Nemesis is amazing (still), the Perses is a little finicky when it comes to the feeding mechanism. We don't experience jams with the Perses, we just end up having to shake the gun a bit in order for it to continue feeding. That said, those are both autos, while this Hera is a semi auto. The latter of which allows better accuracy, and sustained play time IMO. The ultimate is being able to carry the Hera in your hand with the Nemesis strapped to your back. When providing cover or advancing rapidly, swing the Nemesis around and unload the fury. Then step back and use the Hera for articulate firing.

This series has the most accurate shots. The ammo used is very accurate and fast. Highly recommend

Came on time and exactly as described.

Brought this for my friend as he mad on nerfs guns and this one didn't come out in the UK so wanted to surprise him and he said it was the best Rivel ever!

Excelente lanzador nerf rival. Llevo un tiempo coleccionando esta línea de productos y me parece un buen lanzador, la única cosa que me gustaría es una mayor capacidad para los proyectiles, es muy divertida de usar pero yo recomendaría tener más cargadores disponibles para una mejor experiencia y también recomiendo la batería recargable.

Overall product was great. Works out of the box. For a stock rival blaster ranges are average. I also purchased the battery pack and it makes the world of difference. The handle is large to accommodate the magazine and would be a little hard for a kid to hold. Even as an adult I find it a little big. A side from that great blaster.