Tanaka Model 500 "Ver.2”

[renegadecow]

It appears that Tanaka will be reproducing their venerable M500 line as featured in the April issue of Arms magazine. Curiously, they're calling it a Ver.2. Now, whether that's because it will come restricted in fps like the other revolvers they've been releasing or some new finish, I don't know. Likely it's something more significant than those as they never did distinguish between restricted and non-restricted models and new finishes usually get a fancy pants acronym which spell out "expensive". I'm guessing it's more to do with the structure of the gun, maybe more metallic reinforcements given its size (old model had flex issues) or perhaps a remodeled hop chamber. Only time will tell, or if somebody buys the magazine and translates it for us because the scan is too small to read.

 

Also Tanaka's website is next to useless except for providing its SRP at ¥26,000.

http://www.tanaka-works.com/index.html

[Katotaka]

The characters in the above pic are sooooooooo tiny, the only "useful" text I could read is the second orange line, saying "more realistic feel and weight".