Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-37595644-20190407175257/@comment-26431461-20190408013638

Elliottw wrote: FLATtheFISH wrote: Thought it only rotated on trigger pull. The Mav has an interesting cylinder rotation pattern. During the priming stroke, the cylinder rotates half of the distance to the next chamber. If you look down the barrel (with safety goggles of course) you can see the dart isn't actually aligned with the opening of the barrel.

The trigger pull then advances the cylinder another half rotation so the dart is aligned with the barrel just before letting go of the plunger. After the shot, the empty chamber remains aligned with the barrel.

Fun fact: the StrongArm works in reverse. The priming action does nothing with the cylinder. The trigger pull fires the shot, then fully advances the cylinder to the next chamber. I always thought that the trigger advances the cylinder (pull trigger, cylinder advances halfway, aligning chamber with barrel. Release trigger, cylinder advances halfway again making it not aligned) and the priming stroke had nothing to do with it. That's how mine works.

Then again, there could be variants. BigShock says that his can rotate on prime. My Mav's cylinder does absolutely nothing when primed. It's only the trigger that rotates the cylinder.