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With the apparent success of the huge array of 1911 warrior models produced by Tokyo Marui, it was probably no great surprise to anyone when Tokyo Marui released another one, the night warrior.

This time they chose to produce a modified Warrior style gun. The TM is in the style of, but not an exact replica the Kimber warrior



As with most TM releases, the Night Warrior has received huge amounts of praise and I was interested to see how much was justified.



In the Box

TM guns are nicely presented. The box lid features smart artwork showing the Night Warrior and this time no claims of Hi Kick nor Hi Grouping.



Inside, there is the gun, the magazine in a separate section (with space for the magazine fitted in gun, too, allowing two to be stored in the box), a barrel cleaning tool (no-one else bothers with this), and manuals. There is also a small bag of .2g BBs, a 1911 bushing tool and two pieces of plastic replacements for the magazine bb loaders.



First Impressions

Lying in the box, the gun looks pretty good. The markings on the slide, though totally fake, are (as you expect of TM) sharp, broad and clearly moulded. The gun has a two tone of black which gives a distinguishing difference from the traditional all black pistols.

Picking the gun up, I was immediately struck by how light it felt. Of course, it looks like warrior, so I was making a sub-conscious association with those, but somehow the gun felt odd. Weighing it showed it was actually not far off the weight of a warrior, so, at first, I was at a loss to explain the feeling.



The grip is plastic, with the distinctive warrior design. Lower frame is metal, with the usual Tokyo Marui markings - Clearly this was somewhere where TM felt they could not compromise.
Other metal parts include the ambidextrous thumb and grip safety, hammer, magazine release and the slide lock.



The Night Warrior engraving on the left side of the slide also is properly done, although from my search I couldn’t find a Night Warrior gun with similar markings.


Closer Look

Aside from the fact that it is very light, what do you expect it is ABS plastic.



Anyway, that gripe over, the general finish is good. The slide has the curved style of earlier and standard 1911s.



The cone style outer barrel is plastic, and nicely grooved like the Hi-Capa series. The plastic bushing is in silver.

The grip safety and thumb safeties are painted black and made of metal. These seem fine and work correctly, but the silver painted hammer is not so good. Firstly, it is too shiney, with cheap chrome paint.



Of course, this is not a replica of anything, so the trademarks are fake. However, they look pretty good and there are so many aftermarket slides for real 1911s, that few could positively prove that the markings are NOT present on some real steel 1911 variant, somewhere. On the left of the slide, the gun is marked "Nigh Warrior Combat Custom". Ahead of that, over the trigger the frame is marked "Tokyo Marui", "Made in Japan" and "ASGK".



The sights have white dots where they would be useful in dark indoor skirmishes. The metal frame is good, albeit a little light, with a smooth finish.

Inside, the hop-up adjustment is a simple rotary operation, but it does require the gun to be stripped down, not a trivial task, to adjust it, something WA and KSC have moved away from entirely. Having said that, most reports suggest TM's hop-up is very good and likely to stay set once you have set it to suit.

Shooting Impressions

The kick is lacking compared to the Hi-Capa series.



Again consistent with Tokyo Marui is the good grouping. Using standard .20 bbs, the Night Warrior proved a capable, if not excellent, performer.

The best 5 grouping was 1.5 inch (4.0 CM) across, which is good, but puts it in only in the top 40 of GBBs that I have tested.

Over 7 shots, the TM Night Warrior averaged 72 mps (using Laylax 152a gas and TM .2g BBs) indoors (at 21C).

1 – 75m/s
2 – 73m/s
3 – 73m/s
4 – 72m/s
5 – 71 m/s
6 – 69 m/s
7 – 68 m/s


Take Down

Take down is just like any 1911 pistol.
With the magazine removed, the slide is pushed back until the slide lock can be pushed through the frame. With that done, the slide, barrel and recoil rod & spring can be pulled back off the frame as unit.



With the recoil spring removed, by withdrawing the bushing from the front of the slide, the barrel unit, with it's fixed chamber, can be pushed forward out of the slide.

Conclusions

Overall, I found the TM Night Warrior an able and capable gun.

It is a budget gun, with some rather cheap looking parts and power and accuracy are only good, at 5m anyway, rather than exceptional.

If you REALLY want a 2011 warrior style gun at a budget price, with the promise of good range, you might want to consider a TM Night Warrior and there are already many aftermarket accessories to improve the performance and (posssibly) the appearance of it.

If I had come to this gun completely cold, I would have said it's a competent performer, but nothing to get excited about, so I guess that should be my conclusion.

Weight : 950g (400g magazine)
Realism : ***
Quality : ****
Power : ****
Accuracy : ****



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