Like the M100, it also had a folding stock. The MGC Calico M100 was then followed by the M1000 which was a semi-automatic one and had an internal tank in the grip. Both the real and airsoft Calicos were unique, space-age looking designs that seemed to have taken inspiration from a forgotten sci-fi flick, and also their round capacities which beat the usual magazine fed rifles. Just open the top, and dump a bag bbs there and are then fired with its power source being an external tank with the hose snaking through the pistol grip. The MGC Calico M100 can have 800 rounds which are loaded on top of the rifle. Even the owner of the gun, Calico Light Weapons Systems, was also a very young company, having been established in 1982 and the Calico M100 rifle is very unique with its helical-fed magazine which can put carry 100 rounds. It's non-blowback and is not magazine fed. Though I started airsoft in 1987, it was in 1988 that I was able to have my own one, rather than borrowed or rented. The MGC Calico M100 was my first fully owned airsoft gun back in 1988. But what I fondly remember MGC for is their Calico airsoft rifles. MGC also developed an M16, MP5 and Ruger airsoft replicas.
MGC has produced a good line of pistols, with Tanio's design and still in fact influenced the development of gas blowback pistols which a good number can trace their origins to Tanio's designs. For those who haven't delved much into airsoft's history, Tanio Koba, as he is popularly known for, was part and the first employee of Model Gun Corporation (MGC) one of the airsoft corporations from Japan that led the first charge of airsoft from a just being mainly a Japanese past time to a global thing. Tanio Kobayashi just celebrated his 76th birthday.
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