My small son chose to 6 years for this nerf. Its big brother took the hammer shot. The big plus of this model is that the charging process is easier. As with a gun you have to stretch the loading lever to the rear. Taking the gun between his legs and takes one to two hands to help create the filigree and dwarves. The disadvantage of this system is, of course, that there is no automatic fire. You have to load lever clamp repeatedly, so that the individual shots will be issued. But that does not detract from the gameplay. Five shots fit into the drum. This can not be taken out. One can so she puts rotate the shots for reloading into it. When cocking the loading lever, the drum is then rotated automatically to the next shot. This works almost always and inhibitions as with the hammer shot we never had. The shot power is very neat for this size and without electrical assistance. Better than other models we could test so far. The bottom line of this magnitude a super Nerf, we can only recommend.