Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-37595644-20190407175257/@comment-27306930-20190409025527

Hogan the Milligan wrote:  ... If you take apart the Mav, you'll see that the priming handle is in no way connected to the rotation mech; rather, there's a little bar off the trigger to the clutch ... It's been so long since I was inside a Mav, I'd forgotten all about that. Blame it on time and a few gallons of vodka. But you are absolutely correct sir. The priming handle and the cylinder are not even connected.

What I was trying to point out was the cylinder advance mechanism is interesting in that the cylinder is not aligned with the barrel when primed. The trigger pull advances the barrel 1/12th rotation, fires when the cylinder is aligned, then the trigger return stroke advances it another 1/12throtation. It's really clever.

I think all Mavs work that way, along with dozens and dozens of knock-off blasters. I'm guessing it's popular because of its simplicity.

Thankfully we have resident Mav experts like yourself and Flat to keep the rest of us honest 😊