The Nerf BattleScout: The Truth About Why It’s So Bad.
Seriously. It's tacky and I hate it. Please don't buy this thing.

Hey guys, what’s going on? This is Blee from NerfGunAttachments Bleenga.com. Here today, we’ll be going over the brand new Nerf BattleScout! The latest Nerf Modulus blaster from Hasbro toys division and the newest blaster in the Nerf Modulus series of Nerf blasters. It includes a 720p HD Action Cam attachment, a 10 round clip, and a glorious angled pump-action foregrip. But do all the parts equal something greater than we could hope to imagine?

The Dreaded Nerf BattleScout Review

Let me be clear: The Nerf BattleScout sucks. I am not going to be very objective here, because the suck is high with this one. It’s impossible to ignore. The Nerf BattleScout is irredeemably bad. Unforgivable.

What’s In The Box?

Alright, so in the box you’ll find the BattleScout itself, the little “HD” 720p camera attachment, ten white Modulus Elite darts and the new 10 dart clip. Yes, this is a clip and not a mag. Also, they included a rather large instruction booklet and I’m still not going to read it…

Nerf BattleScout External Features

Going over the external features, starting from the front, as always.: At the front, you’ll find the muzzle. The muzzle has a full fledged N-Strike attachment nozzle, which means you can put any kind of extended barrel on here, no problem. It even has room for the little nub on most bigger attachments to click into underneath the muzzle.

Moving back from that, YES this is a clip. It goes through the blaster, that’s a clip, guys. No spring, no follower, nothing like that.

So underneath that is a glorious angled pump-action foregrip right there. That’s beautiful.

Coming to the top you have an ABS sight that is clearly too low to see through the rear sight unless you angle the blaster slightly upwards. This is actually fine, because you’ll want to do that with the Nerf Battlescout if you ever want to shoot further than 23 feet.

Behind the front ABS sight, you’ll find a good sized Nerf tacti-cool rail that you can attach another optical attachment to after you realize how “good” the camera attachment really is. Just behind the tact rail is the rear ABS sight and a sling mount.

At the rear of the blaster, you’ll find a shoulder stock attachment point, which is good because you really need a stock with this blaster.

Down below that is the pistol grip. The grip cuts off a bit too early on the back to accommodate the Nerf BattleScout’s second sling mount at the bottom of the grip. The pistol grip handle is sporting that cool skeletal design that’s frequently in the Modulus line of blasters. The trigger itself also sports a similar skeletal design.

Nothing else really to speak of functionally on this blaster. That’s it. N-Strike attachment nozzle, tactical rail, two sling mounts, stock attachment point, trigger, grip, and the glorious pump-action foregrip. That’s it, guys.

Aesthetics with Modular Sensibilities

One thing that’s actually a positive with this blaster, besides the pump grip, is how it looks. The Nerf BattleScout is a really cool looking Nerf blaster. The Modulus Series paint and design formula really works well here. I love pretty much everything about the way this blaster looks, from the white and green Modulus paint to the safety orange accents, to the skeletal grip and trigger, to the faux air vent holes on top. I love it.

Scouting The Battle Ergonomics

The Nerf BattleScout is actually a fairly comfortable blaster. The pistol grip area is mucked up a bit by the short cut off on the back of it, but this didn’t affect me too much. The reason why is because I wear gloves. So shout out Mechanix for saving me here.

The angled pump grip on this thing may look a bit undersized at first glance, but trust me: it’s glorious. Holding it, pumping it back and forth, whatever. It’s great. The actual feel of the pump-action isn’t the smoothest, but the grip makes up for it.

How-To Operate The Nerf BattleScout

To operate the BattleScout, load up the 10 included Modulus Elite darts into the 10-dart clip. This is an indexing clip that travels through the blaster as you shoot. Insert it from the right side until it is flush with the left side of the blaster.

Hold the blaster and pump the angled foregrip back and forth. When it’s back in its forward position, pull the trigger to fire a single dart. The clip will poke out a little bit with each dart that you fire. Every time you pump the grip, the clip will advance through the blaster like the head of a typewriter as you type.

Nerf BattleScout underPerformance

I ran a couple of clips worth of darts through this thing and the best thing I can say about this blaster is that it didn’t jam once. That’s it. Otherwise, the BattleScout is terrible. No slam-fire, which kinda makes sense because why even slam fire when your ammo capacity is only 10? Garbage.

The range and power of this thing is pathetic. They must not have been able to get a good enough seal between the blaster and the indexing clip. OR something, I don’t know. All I know is that it struggled to clear darts past 20 feet during my firing test. And I know you saw that one dart that misfired and fell out of the blaster and only went about 5 feet away.

Why The NERF BattleScout is SO BAD

Can you guess? Well, in the beginning I asked “do all the parts equal something greater than we could hope to imagine?” And now, if it wasn’t obvious enough already, let me answer that for you: No. No, they don’t. The parts equal up to a steaming hot pile of garbage.

The Good

The only good thing about the blaster is that glorious pump-action angled foregrip. It’s amazing. I absolutely love that thing. I was actually planning to remove it from the BattleScout and adding it to another blaster. It looks cool and holding it and using it is great. Any way you want to hold it, it just works.

And that’s it. The Nerf BattleScout looks very cool and has some good tacti-cool points for connectivity. But it all comes back to the grip. That grip is everything. I love a good angled pump-action foregrip and this one does not disappoint.

The Bad

Now, on to the bad. What’s bad about this? EVERYTHING ELSE. First of all, why Nerf, why do you use a clip? Why are we going back to a clip? Terrible idea, bad idea.

Another thing that’s missing from this blaster, and that goes back to the pump grip again, is how do you have such an amazing pump-action angled foregrip and you don’t have Slam-Fire? Awesome, Nerf. Make the best pump grip you’ve ever manufactured and don’t put slam-fire on it. C’mon, guys.

The performance is absolute garbage, it’s terrible. It’s bad, it’s dog water. You can not hit anything further than 25 feet away. And even at 20-25 feet, you’re going to be hitting them in the knee, in the shin, in the ankle, in the pinky toe.

The Ugly (Camera)

Oh boy. I’ve been avoiding talking about this camera attachment for the whole review, but I realize it might be the selling point for some of you guys. So let’s talk about it. This camera is garbage. Click the video above to skip straight to the video footage I took with this camera attachment. It’s bad and turn your volume down a bit if you’re wearing headphones. You’d be better duck taping your old cell phone to your blaster.

The camera attachment is one only Paul Greengrass could love. It’s shaky AF and it looks like the camera he might have used when filming the fight scenes in The Bourne Supremacy. It’s mid. And don’t get me started on the deafening sound of the pump action grip and the cranking of the indexing clip going through the blaster. It’s LOUD.

What makes the mediocre camera attachment even worse is that they charged so much more for this blaster because of it including an “HD” camera. The Nerf BattleScout easily costs 3-4 times as much as it really should.

The Competition

The competition is endless. Any pump-action Nerf blaster with a decent pump grip will completely destroy this blaster. Staying in the same series, I can think of a few options off the top of my head. Check out the Nerf Modulus Recon Mk3, the Nerf Modulus Mediator, or even the Nerf Modulus Tri-Strike. All better blasters.

Should I Buy?

Heck no. In my video review, I say you should pass on the Nerf BattleScout unless it’s on sale for more than 50% off. In this written review, I’m going to say, NO. Don’t do it to yourself. Just skip this thing. There are SO many better blasters out. But, if for some reason you just want to see for yourself, at least buy the Core Version. Yeah, they released another cheaper version of the Nerf BattleScout without the mid-arse camera. Check it out:

Featured MOD

Am I going to mod this thing? Nope. I might just remove the pump grip from the Nerf BattleScout and throw the rest of the blaster in the trash. That’s what this blaster deserves. Hahah. If I ever put the pump grip on another, more deserving blaster, then I’ll come back and put that pic here.

Last update on 2024-11-22 / Affiliate links / Images from Amazon Product Advertising API