Calling all you Warrior owners

[Abasmajor]

Mine is S no 4549 in .177 the trigger guard does not recurve.

Ormicron

Hi,

Thats really weird as with that relatively high Ser No (4549) your Warrior should definitely have the re curved trigger guard.

Regards

Brian

[Abasmajor]

Good evening, my Warrior
is number 2065 and has the recurve guard. It is in .177 and is nickel plated.
Cheers Pete

The link below is to a picture of Pete's fine plated Warrior which he kindly agreed to let us share.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/abasmaj...in/photostream

This is the only plated Warrior I have come across personally, but I'm sure there are more out there somewhere.

Regards

Brian

[micky]

Hi Brian many thanks for putting the photo up, it looks realy nice l wonder if it was a factory job or done by someone who owned in the past?.

[Lakey]

Hi All, I have pistol no. 5350, in .177 flavour with the second pattern recurved trigger guard.

Cheers

Lakey

[Mark D]

Heads up for the Warrior lads

http://www.gunstar.co.uk/Air-Pistols...-gs134328.aspx

[Abasmajor]

Heads up for the Warrior lads

http://www.gunstar.co.uk/Air-Pistols...-gs134328.aspx

Boxed at that price it looks to be an absolute bargain.

Regards

Brian

[micky]

Boxed at that price it looks to be an absolute bargain.

Regards

Brian

Hi Brian l think the box is a repro,

regards,

Mick.

[CHJF177]

Hi Brian l think the box is a repro,

regards,

Mick.

My immediate reaction as well.

Chris.

[Abasmajor]

Hi Brian l think the box is a repro,

regards,

Mick.

Hi Mick,

After having had a closer look, I tend to agree that the box doesn't look quite right on this example. Still looks quite good value for the pistol alone though. I have a nice Warrior in an original later black and gold box so can't do a direct comparison. I will have to dig out some pictures of the earlier box out of interest.

It just goes to show how careful you need to be when relying on photographs.

Regards

Brian

[Abasmajor]

Iv'e just had a quick look at some pictures of the earlier Warrior box and it would appear to show that the label on this box should extend to the outside edges of the box rather than being inset as applied here.

To be fair the seller makes no claims that the box is original.

Out of interest, I believe the changeover from this earlier depicted box label to the later black box occured around Ser No 5000.

Regards

Brian

[trevor1]

http://s21.photobucket.com/user/cine...0fe6d.jpg.html

[raven0171]

Hi,
I have a .22 warrior with recurved trigger guard, serial number 2805, hope this helps with your research,

ATB Bill.

[micky]

Iv'e just had a quick look at some pictures of the earlier Warrior box and it would appear to show that the label on this box should extend to the outside edges of the box rather than being inset as applied here.

To be fair the seller makes no claims that the box is original.

Out of interest, I believe the changeover from this earlier depicted box label to the later black box occured around Ser No 5000.

Regards

Brian

Hi Brian yes thats what thought with the edges also, and the colour didn't quite look right as well.but as you say the seller doesn't say anything about the box.
sorry l can't help with any information on the changeover se/nos but you are proabley right.
regards,
Mick.

[trevor1]

http://s864.photobucket.com/user/cin...tml?sort=3&o=0

[slug-gun]

The link below is to a picture of Pete's fine plated Warrior which he kindly agreed to let us share.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/abasmaj...in/photostream

This is the only plated Warrior I have come across personally, but I'm sure there are more out there somewhere.

Regards

Brian

I would question why the rearsight is also 'nickel-plated', as all the original plated pistols I have seen, whether from Webley, Westley- Richards, or even the little pop outs, invariably always have their rear sights blued. The reason being that a plated rear sight would reflect or produce glare.
When pistols are re-plated then the rear sights are invariably always plated as well, always a good guide as to whether the plating is original or not.