Today I am reviewing the Fun Crossbow by Petron supplied by TKCSales. I was really interested in this product as my 10 year old Cub Scout named archery is his number one favourite activity on a recent adventure trip with the school. He already loved to shoot with his range of Nerf guns, and even had a pair of shoes that carried his bullets in the bottom! Crossbows are of course not only great fun, but help with hand-eye coordination. The difference with a Nerf gun and this Fun Crossbow by Petron is that the latter is able to shoot further, and more accurately. As a parent I would really recommend this product, not only does it encourage your child to develop greater accuracy but this is best achieved in relative silence.
When you first get the Fun Crossbow out of the box it does need building. I have to admit I am absolutely useless at building things, even with clear visual aids. The Fun Crossbow was so simple and straightforward though, and was quickly put together. The only slightly frustrating thing was it needed a screw tightening (so I needed to find something to tighten it with, ideally a screwdriver but honestly I just used a kitchen knife). I can see the importance of this of course, as it was to keep the bow in place, and you would not want it to fall apart in mid use. The Fun Crossbow looks just like its professional gun, and I found the lining up of the target guides made the accuracy of my shooting much better. With the gun 3 darts are provided (one yellow, one orange, and one blue) and the option to buy further packs. There is also space on the gun (below the firing line) to carry a further 5 extra bullets. They are simple to push into the holes but don’t worry about being firm with them too.
This Fun Crossbow was designed with my boys in mind I think, you see it only takes the bullets provided, so they cannot stuff pencils down it and fire them at each other. There are visual aids on the box telling you how to do it, plus a safety lock guide. Both the string must be pulled right back until it fits in the lowest slot and the dart pushed right back, before it will fire.
On the back of the box was a target circle which I cut out and secured to our patio window with blue-tac. There are many varieties of target circle online that you could print out to use. It was really easy to use (even if my aim is not that great), light weight and good grips to hold it securely (making it easier to aim). I would advise that you make sure that the person firing the Fun Crossbow stands well back, as it is really powerful and I believe can shooting up to 12m – let’s say it bounced back off my patio door quite fiercely. This is a good quality piece of kit and the string is able to be pulled quite forcibly.
This was a product fun for the entire family (in our house ranging from 4-adult) and it was good that it captured everyone’s interest. I think it is a great investment. When the weather is better we can take it outside and stick it to the other side of our patio door.
I received a FREE Fun Crossbow in order to review it. All words and opinions are my own.
my son would love this he is good at archery and loves playing with toy guns. Thankfully he’s a loving child 🙂
Am jealous this looks AWESOME!
I can imagine myself getting really competitive with this, if I had it!
Things have come a long way since the bows and arrows of my childhood!
This is exactly the sort of thing Papasaurus would buy and then fire at me from the stairs!
My boy would have totally loved this when he was younger!
My boys would love it! And if we had a bigger house, or a less-blind child, I would buy this for sure! Am not really in the mood to start seeing my stuff flying around the house 😉
This looks amazing! I had something similar when i was younger and was forever shooting my siblings 😉 x
I know this might be silly but we do not allow any toys which resemble weapons… this said, I can see it being tons of fun
I really like the fact that you can’t use your own ‘bullets’ with this one. Whoever designed it clearly knows children, as this is just the kind of ‘inventiveness’ my little boy would try!
How much fun would this be!
Looks like fun although it will be some years before I let my son have one. Would be useful for firing at the OH when he’s annoying me.
My boys would love this, but I would have to hide the dog!
I want to say my kids would have liked this when they were younger – but I think they’d like them now! Scratch that – I’d like one now! Can I come over any play please? 🙂
My 3 year old already wants a Nerf gun but it’s going to be a while before he gets his hands on any kind of gun!
Now that looks like fun – I’ve always wondered what it would be like to fire a crossbow but to scared to use a real one a toy one now that might just work lol x
Lovely review Joy – it looks brilliant too. I bet you had lots of fun with it. I suspect I’d start to get competitive (did archery at school!) x
Oh Aaron would love this. He likes any gun, or any implement that shoots anything, be it water, pellets, whatever.
I am very anti-guns, but slowly one by one he seems to be accumulating things that shoot things.
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Great review x
We have a wooden one and the boys love it – it is spring loaded though so best not to get your fingers in the way! It’s a challenge not to get them to shoot each other lol
My eldest would have like this when he was younger. He used to go to scouts and archery was one of his favourite activities too! 🙂
this looks loads of fun! I remember my little brother having a similar one! x
Oooh you’re brave 😉 looks fun.