Details: 188cm, radii 12.8/15.5/18.6/22.2, sidecut 130/94/123mm, Isocell complex core, twin tipAverage retail price: $699
Conditions: Jackson Hole (Wyoming) sub-zero mostly sunny, 0 inches of fresh powder in 24 hours.
Terrain: Groomed intermediate trails with soft chalky snow on top of hard ice, off-trail advanced in-bounds bumps with chunky, unpredictable conditions, intermediate terrain park with table tops and big air features.
Review: My biggest complaint about these skis is the sizes that they come in: 154/164/174/188cm. A 14cm jump is a big gap, I chose the 188cm, the closest to my normal K2's at 183cm, but they felt a little big. This was definitely not the day to be on powder skis, but I wanted to take some twin tips into the park to see what they were like. The Guns struggled on the groomers, requiring more than average effort to carve, suffering from a lot of ski chatter, with huge loss of stability at speed. When carving GS-radius turns, the Guns constantly feel like they want to run away on you, in almost every direction. In the terrain park, they were stable enough at the lower speeds, but with the hardpack conditions, I didn't feel it prudent to throw any reverse tricks. It's hard to compare these to the Volkl's because they were tested in such different conditions. But on price and graphics alone, I choose the Volkl's. Baby blue just isn't a very sexy color for $700 skis.
Score (scale of 1-3): 2 - Kind of indifferent, would not buy
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