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As our thermometers peek past 90 degrees, we've started to ramp up our summer gear. Not only our clothes, either—all our gear: grills, air conditioners, shades, whatever helps us get through and enjoy the dog days of summer. Things like water guns. Yeah, water guns. If you haven't shot a water gun since Since Michael Jackson said the Super Soaker was one of his favorite toys, we feel for you. Here's what you do: Check out the 10 Dope Water Guns Available This Summer, get one or three (they're all under $30), head to the beach, then write us and tell us how much fun you had. You're welcome.
Super Soaker Thunderstorm
Price: $15
This isn't the biggest or baddest Super Soaker available. However, this is, in our opinion, the coolest water gun it currently sells. A, battery-powered, fully automatic water pistol, the Thunderstorm is small enough to easily wield and can fire water shots up to 25-feet away. It uses a refillable water cartridge that negates the need for the old school pump action. Sure, you can go for the bigger Tornado Strike model that uses the same water cartridge, but you'll be sacrificing five-feet of range just for a detachable stock and rotating barrel. Not worth it. Save some dough and get the pistol.
Stream Machine Water Gun
Price: $18.50
The Stream Machine is an updated version to the ever-popular Aquablaster water gun. Like the Aquablaster, you load up by pulling water into a long cylinder and fire by pushing it back out, but this time you get a pistol grip to help improve your aim. Simple, but effective.
Water Gun Super Aqua Blaster Soaker 1200
Price: $20
Super Soaker may have moved on to battery powered handhelds, but if you want that old-school feel back, this is the water gun for you. Resembling the good ol' soakers of yesteryear (in name and build), the Super Aqua Blaster sports a large water tank and a pump at the front. Nice, simple, and effective. Just what you need during a water fight.
Water Warriors Ultimate Vanquisher
Price: $30
If you don't mind lugging around 10 pounds of artillery, the Ultimate Vanquisher is for you. Why is it so heavy? Because you can load this heavy-hitter with 108-ounces of water. When all your boys are heading back to refill, you'll still be poppin' off. The Vanquisher gives you an option of five nozzle settings so you can cater how you shoot depending on how powerful or direct you want the shot to be. Also sick: If you buy another Water Warriors water gun, you can connect it to this one to build a crazy hybrid shooter.
Banzai Aqua Tech Transmorpher
Price: $19
Depending on what type of water fight you find yourself in, the Aqua Tech Transmorpher will get the job done. Extremely customizable, the Transmorpher can rock as a small pistol shooter, or be built up (as seen above) with bigger barrel, a scope, and a stock that can double as a tripod if things gets that serious.
NERF Super Soaker Lightningstorm Blaster
Price: $25
You're looking at the ultimate Super Soaker. This is what you dreamt of when you were having water fights in your front yard as a little kid. The battery-powered super-shooter packs a water drum that clips onto the bottom of the gun and features a shield to protect you from those trying to creep up and blast away. If you want to get even more serious, you can buy additional clips, load 'em up, and have them waiting on the side. If you want to take your summer water fights to the next level, this is all you need.
Mizumi Shabi
Price: $9
The best offense is a great defense. The Mizumi Shubi water gun helps you on both ends with a built-in shield that can deflect shots coming your way. When its time for you to attack, you'll have to get a little close to your target as it can only shoot around 10 meters. Just stay low and keep firing.
Xploderz XStormer 10000
Price: $28
Welcome to the future of water warfare. Xploderz's line-up of water guns don't actually use water, they fire off small water balls that are "grown" when immersed into water. Once they strike an opponent, they break open leaving whoever got hit just as wet as they would be if shot with a Super Soaker. This makes for much cleaner and neater prep work and more accurate shooting. No more innocent bystanders getting hit with a stream of H2O.
The XStormer 1000 model sits in the middle product line. Bigger than a pistol, but smaller than the behemoth XRanger 2000, the XStormer 1000 is light enough to run around with, while still able to deliver powerful performance.
Triple Fusion Water Gun
Price: $15
Two guns are always better than one. Unless, of course, they come together to form one big gun. That's what the Triple Fusion does. When apart you get two nimble water pistols, but "fuse" 'em together and you get a super-blaster that can shoot out three streams of water at once.
Mizumi Ken Water Blaster
Price: $20
No, this isn't a prop from a Power Rangers movie. It's a handheld, pump-action water pistol that can hold a remarkable 40 oz of water and shoot streams up to 30 feet.
