Pics+Limited Stats: Storm 750
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 11:10 am
The Good:
This is THE pistol to own. It was on the selling power of this gun that Storm outsold all of Super Soaker's XP/MXD line, a worthy accomplishment indeed.
That said, this pistol is surprisingly mediocre. The stream it shoots isn't very big. The tank is fair sized. It doesn't have huge distance for a pistol. What does it have? In a word, dependability. I've only ever heard of one of these guns breaking. The 750 can take nearly any water fight abuse you can inflict upon it. Like a Timex, it takes a licking and keeps on shooting. Er, ticking. You know when you hold a fully pressurized Storm 750 in your hand, it WILL shoot. Every time. This gun is absolutely rock solid, the most durable piece of water weaponry I have yet seen.
The tank holds a fair amount of water for this sized pistol. Most XP/MXD soakers this size hold less, so you've got some staying power if you're going up against Super Soaker pistol wielding foes. Unless you're taking on upper eschelon Storms, namely the 2500 and 4000 (whatever the big orange gun with the tiny backpack is called) you can very easily take on ANY Storm-armed opponent.
Range is average or slightly above for a pistol. No sniping with this thing, but you can soak your opponent at the VERY edge of pistol combat range. I've seen rifles that shoot worse distance than this.
The Bad:
For a pistol this nice, the stream should really be bigger. 2x would be nice, heck, even 1.5x would be better. .75x just doesn't cut it. With a heavier blast, you could accomplish SO much more with this gun...
The Ugly:
This pistol is WAY too big. Granted, soakers need to be a little bigger to house all the internals. But even if it meant cutting back on the tank a little, this gun could easily have been of a more managable size.
There are several colorways available for the Storm 750. A standard red-body/black-tank colorway and a variant with silver trim is the most common. You can also find a blue-body/yellowish orange-tank version, and a green-body/black-tank colorway. By far the rarest and probably most valuable variant is the "Lilo And Stitch" 750, which was not even marketed as a Storm water gun. Rather, it was marketed directly through Disney. This gun features a yellow-body/pink or red-tank. I prefer the original red/black colorway. Much cooler looking.
The Gun Cabinet:
I've done this review before (for the record the prior review got corrupted when I put it in my other computer's disk drive), and I'm not quite as certain as I was last time as to which gun this most directly relates to. Part of me says Beretta 92, because its standard issue status with the US military and civilians equals the proliferation of this gun among serious water warriors as well as less enthusiastic water fighters in general. Also, the 92 fires the mid-sized 9mm cartridge, and the 750 also fires a rather small stream. On the other hand, this gun reminds me of the CZ 75, the most prolific police handgun in the world (er, it was until Glock came on the scene). Not only are they both extremely popular, relatively small caliber weapons, but they were both mildly revolutionary weapons for their time. I'll still stick with the Beretta though.
Overall:
You cannot afford to be without this gun. It is arguably one of the best water pistols ever produced, and its sales numbers reflect this. It's durable, with a larger than average tank, the range is probably farther than most other pistols, and you can easily take on most other Storms with it. DO NOT pass this pistol up if you see it.
Adrian
Edited By Adrian on 1102954385
This is THE pistol to own. It was on the selling power of this gun that Storm outsold all of Super Soaker's XP/MXD line, a worthy accomplishment indeed.
That said, this pistol is surprisingly mediocre. The stream it shoots isn't very big. The tank is fair sized. It doesn't have huge distance for a pistol. What does it have? In a word, dependability. I've only ever heard of one of these guns breaking. The 750 can take nearly any water fight abuse you can inflict upon it. Like a Timex, it takes a licking and keeps on shooting. Er, ticking. You know when you hold a fully pressurized Storm 750 in your hand, it WILL shoot. Every time. This gun is absolutely rock solid, the most durable piece of water weaponry I have yet seen.
The tank holds a fair amount of water for this sized pistol. Most XP/MXD soakers this size hold less, so you've got some staying power if you're going up against Super Soaker pistol wielding foes. Unless you're taking on upper eschelon Storms, namely the 2500 and 4000 (whatever the big orange gun with the tiny backpack is called) you can very easily take on ANY Storm-armed opponent.
Range is average or slightly above for a pistol. No sniping with this thing, but you can soak your opponent at the VERY edge of pistol combat range. I've seen rifles that shoot worse distance than this.
The Bad:
For a pistol this nice, the stream should really be bigger. 2x would be nice, heck, even 1.5x would be better. .75x just doesn't cut it. With a heavier blast, you could accomplish SO much more with this gun...
The Ugly:
This pistol is WAY too big. Granted, soakers need to be a little bigger to house all the internals. But even if it meant cutting back on the tank a little, this gun could easily have been of a more managable size.
There are several colorways available for the Storm 750. A standard red-body/black-tank colorway and a variant with silver trim is the most common. You can also find a blue-body/yellowish orange-tank version, and a green-body/black-tank colorway. By far the rarest and probably most valuable variant is the "Lilo And Stitch" 750, which was not even marketed as a Storm water gun. Rather, it was marketed directly through Disney. This gun features a yellow-body/pink or red-tank. I prefer the original red/black colorway. Much cooler looking.
The Gun Cabinet:
I've done this review before (for the record the prior review got corrupted when I put it in my other computer's disk drive), and I'm not quite as certain as I was last time as to which gun this most directly relates to. Part of me says Beretta 92, because its standard issue status with the US military and civilians equals the proliferation of this gun among serious water warriors as well as less enthusiastic water fighters in general. Also, the 92 fires the mid-sized 9mm cartridge, and the 750 also fires a rather small stream. On the other hand, this gun reminds me of the CZ 75, the most prolific police handgun in the world (er, it was until Glock came on the scene). Not only are they both extremely popular, relatively small caliber weapons, but they were both mildly revolutionary weapons for their time. I'll still stick with the Beretta though.
Overall:
You cannot afford to be without this gun. It is arguably one of the best water pistols ever produced, and its sales numbers reflect this. It's durable, with a larger than average tank, the range is probably farther than most other pistols, and you can easily take on most other Storms with it. DO NOT pass this pistol up if you see it.
Adrian
Edited By Adrian on 1102954385