![]() This was visually identical to the MPR and mechanically very similar other than that the Model 1010 had some parts (notably the barrel shroud, trigger, slide release and safety) manufactured from plastic rather than alloy. It was a closer match to the looks of the 1911 and the MPR was produced in black or nickel finish.īy 1977, the company had relocated again, this time to Los Angeles and the MPR was superseded by the new Model 1010. 177” pellets and darts, but these were single shot only. This was a spring powered development of the MP which allowed up to 20 BBs to be fired without reloading. In 1958 the Marksman Pistol Repeater (MPR) was launched. ![]() In 1957 the company moved to a larger manufacturing plant in Torrance, California and re-branded as Marksman Products. The original Model MP (Morton Pistol) looked a bit like the Colt 1911 and used a movable section at the rear to compress the firing spring. began production of a spring powered, single shot air pistol from a small facility in Beverly Hills, California in 1955. But, was it any good then and would you want one now? Let’s have a look. However, I was completely stunned to find that essentially the same air pistol is still being manufactured now and that there are very likely still fourteen year old boys (and perhaps some discerning fourteen year old girls) who are being introduced to the world of replicas through this simple air pistol. When I started researching I was mildly surprised to find that there isn’t a great deal of information available on this replica. Those nostalgic memories of my first replica air pistol prompted me to write this article on the Marksman MPR air pistol (because the Milbro G10 was actually just a re-branded Marksman MPR sold in the UK). It took an awful lot of saving the proceeds from my paper round, but I was finally able to buy a shiny black G10 in 1973. It was called a Milbro G10, it looked a bit like a Colt 1911 and best of all, it was a BB shooting repeater. And then one day while pressing my sticky nose against the window of our local gunshop, I saw what looked like the very thing. ![]() As far as I was concerned, air pistol nirvana would consist of something that looked like a recognisable cartridge firing weapon and which was capable of shooting more than a single shot. More powerful and accurate than the Gat, it was still a single shot, spring powered pistol and having the barrel mounted above the spring tube meant that it didn’t look like a “ proper” gun, an important consideration when you’re 14. Then I moved on to an elderly Webley Senior. My first was a Milbro Gat which took an age to load for each single shot and fired at roughly the same velocity as I could spit. But really, I didn’t care about any of these things because I was fourteen years old and I had just managed to get my hands on my first replica air gun. In the UK there were IRA bombs in London, the Open University awarded its first degrees and the Cod War with Iceland turned out to be less exciting than I had hoped. When she wasn’t beating me up, my big sister was listening to stuff like Elton John’s Crocodile Rock and Carly Simon’s You’re So Vain and even some weird thing called The Dark Side of the Moon. In 1973 the Exorcist was terrifying movie audiences around the world (though my favourite movie of the year was Roger Moore’s first outing as James Bond in Live and Let Die). ![]() Which might lead you to suppose that it must be pretty good. The Marksman Repeater has been in production for almost sixty years now in one form or another. Many wonderful classic replicas are now out of production while others seem to go on and on despite not being terribly impressive.
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