Best Nail Gun? Milwaukee, DeWalt, Metabo HPT, Paslode

Looking for the best nail gun in 2024? In this video we cover our topic picks from a wide variety of categories including framing nailers, pin nailers, narrow crown staplers, and brad nailers in pneumatic, battery, and gas powered varieties.

We feature products from top brands in the industry like Milwaukee, Metabo HPT, Paslode, and DeWalt, give you a closer look as to what these products have to offer, and share where you can buy them and how much they'll cost you.

Here's a list of our top picks featured in this video!

Best for Framing (Pneumatic): Metabo HPT NR90AES1 Framing Nailer
Best for Framing (Battery): Milwaukee M18 FUEL Cordless Framing Nailer
Best for Framing (Gas): Paslode CFN325XP Gas Framing Nailer
Best Finish Nailer (Pneumatic): Metabo HPT NT50AE2M 18 Ga
Best Finish Nailer (Battery): Milwaukee M18 FUEL 18-Gauge Finish
Best Narrow Crown (Pneumatic): Senco SLS150Mg 18ga Crown Stapler
Best Narrow Crown (Battery): Milwaukee 2749 M18 FUEL Narrow Stapler
Best Pin Nailer (Pneumatic): DeWalt DWFP2350K 23-gauge Pin Nailer
Best Pin Nailer (Battery): Milwaukee 2540 M12 Pin Nailer

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[LCBBuilders]

Just cant beat a Paslode. Lite weight, robust, compact and reliable. All the new battery framers look great but they all are huge and heavy.

[kenabrahamson]

You called a brad nailer a trim gun. So pro you were detailed oriented on framers, but knowledge of 23, 21, 18, 16 and 15 is important. I love the strange step between pinners and brad nailers. With the quality of trim being a constant decline preassembly of door trim and returns is safer using the 21 ga. Sorry I do go technical because I took 2 years teaching what was right and right for that job that day to my young partners

[Tool_Addicted_Carpenter]

The $50 metabo brad nailer is not a good nailer. You had a mix of the $50 brad and the $150 brad. The $150 is the one with the air nozzle and it's their pro-grade line. It's a much nicer tool but I haven't used a pneumatic 18g in years. They're just about the lightest weight cordless nailers only 2nd to 23g, so I would never consider weight an issue like with a cordless framer or metal connector nailer. The lack of dry fire lock-out on the pneumatic metabo is likely intentional. It's not that uncommon to use an empty nailer to go back and set any proud nails deeper. It works like a charm.

[dstary]

Just a Heads-Up if you're considering a Paslode fuel cell nail gun whether it's a framing nailer or finish nailer. I bought both a few years ago and was pretty happy overall. You do have to clean them fairly regularly in order for them to function and you need to make sure your fuel cells are not out of date. I initially got both when I built an addition on my house but now being a weekend warrior and volunteer I don't use them as often. MY BAD according to Paslode. They no longer provide fuel cell cartridges for either of my guns. They replaced the cells with new ones that have a different adapter on them. For a very short period of time Paslode provided a new adapter to use with my older guns with the newer fuel cells *(the only ones you can now get). If you didn't buy the newer fuel cells with the included adapter for the older Paslode guns you are out of luck. Paslode only provided the adapters for their new fuel cell cartridges for older Paslode guns for a short time. They no longer include the adapters and there is NO WAY to get them. After calling customer support multiple times you are pretty much SOL. You can have a great working, cleaned and lubricated older Paslode gun but no access to fuel cells that work with them. How about them apples? SO JUST BEWARE if they did it once to all of us that previously purchased their older guns there's no telling how willing they'll be to screw you over in the future with even newer and better fuel cell cartridges that won't work with the current Paslode guns they sell. The customer is always right is not something in their vocabulary. So I will never be purchasing Paslode products in the future based on them not providing fuel cells or newer fuel cells with adapters to work on older guns. U N B E L E I V A B L E ! ! ! How hard would it be for them to provide the adapters to older Paslode gun owners??? Seriously?!?!? Check out the Paslode forums to see that many of us got screwed by Paslode. as I guess they want you to throw away your older working guns to buy their newer guns. S T A Y A W A Y from companies that do that to you. Not a Happy Paslode Camper!

[Therealphantomzero]

I have both Milwaukee/ Metabo HPT crown stapler. Prefer the Metabo HPT as it's lighter, sights down better, the Milwaukee shoots lower and when building cabinets it's a bit cumbersome to aim. The Metabo HPT it's more in line, the part you have to push on is much softer or easier to push on vs the Milwaukee which is a bit tougher. Definitely metabohpt is a better nail gun also cheaper on the kit.

[harlanborders]

Nice list but for the price overall can’t go wrong with Hitachi . Past loa

[kieranrichards]

1:33 the problem with milwaukee tools is that they are very heavy

[mikedopaco]

18 guage cordless bradders Metabo wins hands down, second hard to say but it's Ryobi.

For penumatic
Omer is the only correct answer.

Paslode use to have the best penumatic bradders but it seems like spotnails has purchased the rights to that nailer.

Best budget high performance nailer

SPOTNAILS CB1850

If you want accurate reviews just ask the pros, consulting YouTube videos doesnt always work!

[carolewarner]

Our battery platform is Dewalt and I'm really uninterested in having to deal with adding different companies' batteries and chargers if I can help it. That said, I didn't see you even review Dewalt's new framing nailer, although you did suggest one of their tools later on in the video so it clearly isn't that you're just not a Dewalt fan if it measures up.. Is their framing nailer THAT much worse than the ones you did review? Why? Thanks a lot!

[NWGR]

Ever since I got the m12 pinner it's been making me rethink my entire pneumatic setup. Yes, slightly heavier than the air nailers, but it's really hard to beat the convenience of cordless. I'm still anxiously awaiting the M12 18 gauge brad nailer to release. Barring any launch issues, I'll be grabbing that one ASAP.
Now I just need milwaukee to release an m12 narrow crown stapler (I have their m12 t50 stapler and like that one a lot too), and maybe an m12 21 gauge (great compromise between 18 and 23 gauge) and I'll be ditching the air nailers.

[ainslie]

I’ve used Hitachi framing guns and siding guns, they are great. Also used Metabo pin guns, and they are garbage- I say “guns” plural because the first one was so awful I took it back and exchanged it for a new one, the second one was just as bad.

[baseballdude]

Serious framers won't be able to replace the air on Milwaukee like u can for your Metabo HPT
Why make it hard
Hitachi/Metabo HPT the nailer king 25+yrs and running

[shanker]

Feel like I’m watching a Milwaukee Sponsored video no makita or other nailers

[fasteddie]

That's funny I've had that Hitachi framing nailer for 30 years now, I didn't even know that I taught you don't make them no more maybe they don't it's metabo maybe I don't know

[jbamboozle]

Does the milwaukee cordless framing nailer still compete with the dewalt nailer?

[myontariowatch]

HA! This video made me laugh. I tried them all and the Hilti destroys them. That and the Hilti will last longer. Know your tools.

[fasteddie]

Actually I've been using a Hitachi coil nailer that's the tree and a quarter inch nails holds like a magazine like a barrel hold the shitload of nails I love that gun

[johnbrown]

The metabo is a piece of crap tbh bro, it has consistent head leakage very unreliable