Tisas Tank Commander .45 ACP

[citizenconn]

It's so cute how all y'all non-Texans are fussing over which of your 2nd tier BBQ shacks come closest to actual Texas BBQ.

Come visit sometime and I'll take you on the circuit here to establish a BBQ baseline. Bring your cute little BBQ guns along, but don't shoot my pet raccoons when they try to swipe your plate.

 

[Boom Vang]

It's a 1903 in 32acp. Tiny sights but really fun to shoot. Worth very little because someone refinished it and put on reproduction grips.

I prefer JMB's original name for the cartridge he designed: 32 Rimless Smokeless. Rollmarked right on the slide

 

[CapnMac]

Come visit sometime and I'll take you on the circuit here

Better be hungry, the Texas Monthly Top Ten is about a three-day trip this year, just for the mileage covered. And that does not cover the naps required from the meat coma

To swerve this back into topic, one of my toughest ranges days was wringing out a 1911 after lunch at County Line in Austin. Hot day on an outdoor range on a full meal.
Which I nearly tried to relive when I got my TeaSause, for having stopped at Cooper's for a chopped beef sammitch.

 

[Grunt]

I just picked up another Tisas 1911 this evening. This time I had ordered a Military Armament Corporation JSOC 1911. I got it home, cleaned and lubed it up then stepped out the door to run a mag through to check for function. I still have to sight it in (probably this weekend) but it was on point enough to ring the steel with every round. This makes my 3rd Tisas pistol (I had ordered a Raider and Tank Commander earlier this spring) and I’m pretty confident in saying that Springfield, Kimber and Colt might want to step up their game here. I already own a Kimber and Springfield but don’t see the point to buying another one when these Turkish pistols are excellent quality and can be had at a much lower price.

 

[Mark_Mark]

It's so cute how all y'all non-Texans are fussing over which of your 2nd tier BBQ shacks come closest to actual Texas BBQ.

Come visit sometime and I'll take you on the circuit here to establish a BBQ baseline. Bring your cute little BBQ guns along, but don't shoot my pet raccoons when they try to swipe your plate.

Better be hungry, the Texas Monthly Top Ten is about a three-day trip this year, just for the mileage covered. And that does not cover the naps required from the meat coma

To swerve this back into topic, one of my toughest ranges days was wringing out a 1911 after lunch at County Line in Austin. Hot day on an outdoor range on a full meal.
Which I nearly tried to relive when I got my TeaSause, for having stopped at Cooper's for a chopped beef sammitch.

It’s funny how non-Texan people think of Texan. We pretty much don’t get you, only what we see from the movies. I think of Texans as kidda like Montana Cowboys but more manners and less passive aggressive. So if I go to a Texas BBQ my main concern is 1911? or 1873? but it probably needs to be gold plated.

 

[GooseGestapo]

I’ve ended up with 3 Tisas!
And pondering a 4th!

I first got a Service.45acp. Really like it, but it shoots “way high” with issue sights. I’ve filled down and touch up painted the rear sight so that it still shoots high, but only 3-4” at 25yds. Aiming at the bottom of a 9” paper plate puts it in the center… but, In not crazy about the sights. Brownells has a sight set for narrow tenon slides I may try.
I bought a U.S. Service 9mm w/OD finish. At first it wouldn’t feed anything but FMJ ball, and only 6rds from any magazine I tried. I’d never polished a 1911 feed ramps, but figured what-the-heck. I had to use a stone grinder in my dremmel to remove the finish from the ramped barrel. Also the feed ramp of the frame. That helped, but TC and hollow points kept diving.
I finally got a buffing button, and loaded it with some red polishing compound and put a mirror finish on the feed ramps. Works perfect Now! It’s now got a a set of checkered wood US marked grips and is in a replica gi-leather holster on a tan web belt with canvas magazine pouches. I wear it when bush hogging with my tractor… armadillos beware!
I bought yet another “duty” 9mm. This has the Novak style sights, palm index pad grip safety, ambidextrous hammer safety and rowell style hammer. Trigger as good as any of the custom 1911’s I had built for PPC! I replaced the rear sight with a Kensight adjustable rear. I added a set of nice walnut checkered walnut grips. It looks as good as it shoots! It too will hold the 10ring on a B27 at 50yds!
I think I want (don’t need!) a bob-tail light weight Commander in 9mm….

(Not to mention the Taylor&Co (Armscor) 10mm I got… LPA Novak style adjustable rear sight, all the whistles and bells! Reverse plug bull barrel… Awesome Pistol!

 

[CapnMac]

So if I go to a Texas BBQ

Depends on who is holding the thing, Taylor Sheridan's "do" will be different than Jimmy Henselring's (even if they have similar sized outfits).

Sadly TX does not recognize WA CHLs. Especially given how few of the Texas Monthly Top Ten have 30.06 signage.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Depends on who is holding the thing, Taylor Sheridan's "do" will be different than Jimmy Henselring's (even if they have similar sized outfits).

Sadly TX does not recognize WA CHLs. Especially given how few of the Texas Monthly Top Ten have 30.06 signage.

what is a 30.06 signage and you an’t got open carry

 

[CapnMac]

what is a 30.06 signage and you an’t got open carry

Texas has three sets of official "no guns" signage defined by Statute.
Most recent is: 30.05, which prohibits unlicensed carry
Oldest is: 30.06, which prohibits licensed carry.
The middle child is: 30.07, which prohibits Open Carry.

Texas does have open carry, always has for long arms, we gained pistol OC with 30.07, you just needed (then) an LTC. Now that permitless is here, you need a holster for pistol OC.

Only a few BBQ joints have posted signage--but, you'd cause a stir in the larger metro areas by OC-ing inside. Inside Louie Miller in Taylor? Probably not a second glance. Twisted L or Charlie Ro's--probably not even a first glance.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Texas has three sets of official "no guns" signage defined by Statute.
Most recent is: 30.05, which prohibits unlicensed carry
Oldest is: 30.06, which prohibits licensed carry.
The middle child is: 30.07, which prohibits Open Carry.

Texas does have open carry, always has for long arms, we gained pistol OC with 30.07, you just needed (then) an LTC. Now that permitless is here, you need a holster for pistol OC.

Only a few BBQ joints have posted signage--but, you'd cause a stir in the larger metro areas by OC-ing inside. Inside Louie Miller in Taylor? Probably not a second glance. Twisted L or Charlie Ro's--probably not even a first glance.

that’s right, in Texan, the property owners signage has the weight of law!

 

[jar]

that’s right, in Texan, the property owners signage has the weight of law!

Kinda sorta.

If it is one or more of the three signs mentioned and posted properly and the right size sign and typeface and versions in both English and Spanish they have the force of law. If they are not the official signs they do not carry the force of law but if you are asked to leave and refuse you are trespassing.

 

[Tallball]

I've lived in Texas for 46 of my 57 years. There's lot of good barbecue and Tex-Mex at my house, and at great hole-in-the-wall restaurants around the state. Where I'm living now, non-Texans cry and speak in tongues when they eat at our local places for the first time.

Everywhere I've lived in Texas it's been considered rude to OC in town and people don't like it. Plenty of people have pistol-shaped bulges, and no one thinks twice about that.

I don't CC in banks or the post office or for medical/dental appointments. Otherwise I do. None of the places I do errands or eat lunch at or whatever have "no carry" signs. My area is maybe too rural for that?

True story: I was inside the bank a few months ago. The man in front of me in line had a service pistol on his belt, so I assumed he was a LEO. Then a uniformed patrol officer got in line behind me. They talked with each other the whole time. Afterwards in the car I realized that I'd forgotten my to take my pistol out of my pocket and was standing there with it the whole time. Luckily it's hard to see. Otherwise one of the officers would have scolded me or something.