Tokyo Marui - MAC 10 Navy Seals Edition
Cost 21,000Yen
While shopping for cold steel at Echigoya there was one gun in particular that I couldnt pass up, the khaki coloured box, filled with accessories & extended magazine, a strangly reminicent package compared to my MAC11 purchase during my Hong Kong stay in 2005.
This is a very clever marriage of plastic and metal parts and holds its head high as the precursor to MAC11 offerings and has a very interesting history, which saw the Military Armament Corporation go out of business when the surpressor became illegal to manufacture as it was the key pivot of the firearm in regards to balance, control and silencing, there were initally alot of compliants surrounding control of the firearm due to the marriage of .45 ammo and a rapid rate of fire.
As for the Tokyo Marui offering its a must have classic and ironically shares the same internal motor model as the MP7 and Glock 18C, and as I went KSC Glock 18C, and YK went KSC MP7, it made perfect sense to add it to the Japan armoury trust, we now truly had a good spread of current market Airsoft offerings, not to mention the fun to be had at the range.
This gun is chunky and has real presence, and was the model which spawned many copies, re designs and cailbre changes thank god they didn't bring it out in .50 cal or the shooters head would have been blown off before they got a chance to take anyone out of circulation!
The magazine as I recall was 82 rounds with a platic flip up loading hole and a steel cog winder on the bottom of the mag for winding up, became a tad bit menotinous as you cant friction load it on clothes or range mats as they put winder guards on either side, I can see this gun was meant for outdoor airosft battles just by that alone, really the only fault I can give this banger.
The sighting on the original was never a selling point for this model, and the Tokyo Marui has copied everthing down to a decent level including this, more of a fire from hip style firearm and the sound does sound supressed, the fire rate being the slowest out of our cache for obvious reasons it hard to beat the gas pumpers with high flow valves and high cycle of the MP5AC!
The 7.2V battery which powers the unit hides behind a fully removable front plate & barell and was a alot easier to fit and close than other battery models I experienced while in Japan and the charge was easy to use and the battery life was more than enough for a daily shoot/recharge situation. A very interesting feature is that the threaded barrel tip can be unscrewed to reveal a standard barrel thread to attach a standard gauge silencer to go full black-ops and this is a nice bonus as I could use my MP5 silencer which gave the gun a totally different look, very cool indeed.
Results:
Design 9/10 - Quite close to the original, not too heavy thanks to the use of platic where metal is not required. A tried and true classic that has come back from the grave, you know I wont rest till the Stallone Cobra Edition Jatimatic & Tek 9 models have been given the same treatment, big hint to Tokyo Marui & KSC!
Accuracy 6.5/10 - Not a strong point of this particular model in the orginal or the copy, perfect for skirmish though!
Feel 9/10 - A nice package in and out of the box, very sturdy feeling and design copy is spot on besides the obvious swap for plasic in certain places. This will be right at home in the scub, or on the deck shootin out the enemy base targets, pass the pepper spray!
Fun 9.5/10 - A classic firearm has been given a decent treatment by one of the biggest airsoft manufacturers in the world, all I say is keep em coming, a real head turner at the range due to the fact that most people look over this model unles they grew up playing operation thunderbolt ;)
