This stapler is right on the money.weight,ergonomics and build quality is top notch.Nothing to compare with Metabo.Metabo is awesome brand when it comes to air pneumatic..i have several Metabo air powered and battery.Unfortunately their 16 gauge 7/16 crown needs improvement and update.Did order Metabo before Bostitch and had a chance to use one.Double fires and leak air strangely inside or somewhere else in between.you can hear air hissing around the head somewhere.Double firing was better when i reduce the air with regulator but thats not the case.Still double fired when i try nailing few occasions. Faulty design or something.Totally unacceptable and very very dangerous if you are using for cabinetry or fine work.If using for framing or other rough work with bump fire that's another story.This Bostitch stapler is top notch IMHO. Works like a dream.Very powerful and light in hand.I am a happy camper i got a chance to own one along with my framing nailer.Thank you Bostitch !

We got this to fix up an old shed - it is working great and I've already used it on number of projects. Thanks for shipping it quickly!

works great a big time saver just keep the air pressure up or it will misfire

I love this thing! I used it for sheathing and couldn’t be happier. Compared to 8d nails you can just keep going so long because there are many more per strip. Anyone who has had to pull stapled sheathing knows that staples really hold tight!I initially went with Metabo, then realized that stapler was bump fire only. This has a selectable trigger… sometimes that precision placement is really helpful.

Good with 1-1/2 in staples. 2 inch jam frequently. No dry fire lock out- will keep stapling even when empty so you need to watch when running low.

Picked up one of these bad boys for some wood siding and now we are doing away with our old coil ring nailers and using these. Nice unit. Bit lighter that our previous nailers. Very low kick back.

This worked PERFECT for vinyl siding with the adapter tip! Gets it perfectly in the slot almost every time. About 1 miss out of every 100 or so shots.Before this we tried the Dewalt 20v roof nailer with the SidingTips adapter (100$ for 3D printed junk) and it was awful and missed about 4 out of every 10 shots. This stapler worked worlds better and the staples hold better than the nails.10/10 would recommend for siding.***you can squeeze the front tip in a vice a little to bend/tighten the side tabs to take out some of the play, which further improved the accuracy. You can also grind off a bit of the sides to make it fit in siding grooves better too

Great tool! It comes with vinyl siding adaptor. The 7/16 - 1 3/4 galvanized staples are perfect for the job. You will never go back to the tedious nails and hammer installation business again. The 4 Lb+ gun is a bit heavy, but it does not matter when it comes to very speedy installation. It is virtually a machine gun when it comes to vinyl siding installation. I would highly recommend it.

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Yes, you will pay more for this product compared to others, but watch for deals... it does happen.But if you have any sort of medium to high volume project work, the price is worth it.With strong driving force and jam-free mechanism, this stapler is hard to beat.I had to reduce to 70 PSI when stapling 1.5" crown staples into spruce 2x4; otherwise it would over-drive and counter-sink the staples.Can't imagine what it penetrates at 120 PSI; Obsidian perhaps?

Bought this tool because I just wanted one after borrowing my uncle's Senco SNS40 stapler for a large sheathing project. Here are my thoughts after using it for a little while compared with the older SNS40. (A note, the SNS40 had no safety, which is perfect for cabinet assembly work... and frankly pretty darn good for construction too. User be ware!) This is my fourth bostitch air tool. I'm don't have a great reason for this, other than they have seemed pretty reliable mid grade tool. I also have an 18 gauge stapler, an 18 gauge brad nailer, and a palm nailer from from bostitch.My one gripe so far is that the rubber coated handle, and the handle in general, is too thick if you prefer to wear gloves. (Note: When buying gloves at home depot, I find a large size glove a little bit too large. They work, but a medium fits right. And I do prefer the Husky brand heavy duty gloves which have pads on the palms. Good for lugging material around... not as good holding a stapler.) With my 18 gauge tools I'm usually doing finish work, so the rubberized handle fits fine in my hand. In addition, for finish work, you pick up the tool shoot a few and then put it down while you position more material and move along. For sheathing, you drive a ton of staples in a short time period... boxes hold 10k for a reason. Since I'm handling wafer wood / chip board, I prefer to wear gloves. The combination makes gripping the stapler a chore after a while. The much older SNS40 had a smaller bare handle, which really fit my hand better all around.The Bostitch is a bit bulkier and heavier feeling than the SNS40. For the engineers out there it has a greater moment of inertia than the SNS40, so it doesn't turn and spin quiet as easily. It has a very solid pleasing sound like it is smashing the staples in with command! The depth adjustment works fine with a 4mm allen key. The staple magazine is a little easier to load than the SNS40, but they are very close. An early mistake I made with the SNS40 was grabbing the tail of the magazine as a second hand hold, and it would prevent the staples from fully iterating between shots... and would jam. Once I figured that out things went a lot better. The Bostitch has a good spot to grab which won't squeeze the magazine around the staples, so that's a plus over the SNS40.The Air deflector on the bostitch points back down at your target area, which works well to minimize dust kick up if you are working along the bottom edge of a sheet a few inches from dry loose dirt. The SNS40 was particularly bad in this situation. It vented up and out from the top of the head. If you turn the stapler upside down to staple the bottom row it would kick up a cloud with every shot.The SNS40 did struggle with a batch of Grip-Rite 1-3/4" staples from Home Depot. It jammed a lot more often than it should have. Once I switched staples to a 1-1/2" Grip-Rite from a local supply house the jamming stopped completely. I have not run any of the larger staples in the Bostitch yet to see how it does, but I have had zero jams on the newer batch of staples with the Bostitch. I put about 13k staples through the SNS, and have run about 1k through the bostitch so far.The skyhook/belt hook/rafter hook is a VERY welcomed feature on the bostitch. Both staplers have the same gate to clear jams. It's a lot tighter on the bostitch... harder to open, maybe just new behavior. Not sure, but the same mechanism appears on a number of the construction staplers on the market including the makita.Rapid staple firing... This is a hard one for me to compare, but deserves some mention. Hard to compare because the SNS40 had no safety. (In some cases the pressure of the safety mechanism will push your cabinet parts out of alignment as you get ready to set a staple. That's why it had not safety on it.) For sheathing this made the SNS40 really great for setting staples fast. Drag the tip down the line and pull the trigger as quick as you can! Once I had the hang of it things flew. With the bostitch in single fire mode you have to come off and reset the safety for each staple. In the end it's about 1/3 to 1/2 as fast as I could go with the SNS40. In bumpfire mode I would frequently get multiple staples in one location when the stapler would jump and reset to fire again. Here again, I just couldn't keep up with the SNS40.Regarding safety mechanisms, maybe I just have ground to cover in learning to use air tools, but I would really like to see a safety with a different function on staplers. Being able to just drag the tool down the line on the sheathing a pull the trigger is definitely a faster way to go. If the safety would allow you to keep shooting one staple with each trigger pull, without coming off the work surface it would be ideal.In all it feels and acts like a well made tool, a bit larger and heavier than I would like, but very sturdy. Being that every safety I have come across acts the same way, I would purchase it again.

Works well. Not a light piece of equipment, but performs well. Easy to load and substantial enough to withstand some abuse as you work.