Well my first Tisas of 2023 is a "Duty" model that was on sale at Classic Firearms for $339.99. The other Tisas 1911s have all worked flawlessly so I expected this one to be the same.
And it was.
The "Duty" is a full size almost 1911A1 with a flat main spring housing, beaver tail speed bump grip safety, long skeleton trigger and "Commander" style hammer as well as Novak style three dot sights. The frame, slide and barrel are forged and milled after hardening. Came standard in a plastic case with two eight round CheckMate magazines. Trigger pull out of the box was three pounds seven ounces with a crisp break and short but positive reset.
Today's range session was simply to test initial function and reliability and as expected it just worked. There were zero failure to feeds, zero failure to go into battery, zero failure to fire and zero failure to eject. It worked with magazines from Ed Brown, ACT, Checkmate, Wilson and MecGar. It worked with seven and eight round magazines. It worked with ball, jhp, ARX bullet shapes and with standard and +P charges. It fed empty casings. It tossed empties about eight to ten feet away.
It was simply boring.
And $339.99.
And it was.
The "Duty" is a full size almost 1911A1 with a flat main spring housing, beaver tail speed bump grip safety, long skeleton trigger and "Commander" style hammer as well as Novak style three dot sights. The frame, slide and barrel are forged and milled after hardening. Came standard in a plastic case with two eight round CheckMate magazines. Trigger pull out of the box was three pounds seven ounces with a crisp break and short but positive reset.
Today's range session was simply to test initial function and reliability and as expected it just worked. There were zero failure to feeds, zero failure to go into battery, zero failure to fire and zero failure to eject. It worked with magazines from Ed Brown, ACT, Checkmate, Wilson and MecGar. It worked with seven and eight round magazines. It worked with ball, jhp, ARX bullet shapes and with standard and +P charges. It fed empty casings. It tossed empties about eight to ten feet away.
It was simply boring.
And $339.99.