M1911A1 U.S. Army for $340!

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I bought my 2 Rock Island Full Size 1911 9mms and an ATI Commander 45ACP 1911 at $300 after rebate maybe 3-4 yrs ago, Tisas was also sold at maybe $325 at the time, sort of set my price point for a foreign made 1911 while many have little CS support. The "US Army" marking on a foreign made is a dislike!
 
I wouldn't hesitate to buy a Turkish firearm. By the way I have a couple 20 Million Turkish Lira notes at home. I guess that makes me a rich man. I did take a look at some of the over/under shotguns people were buying when I was there. The quality looked pretty darn good.
 
So moving pass the complaints about the markings on the slide how does his gun rate as a copy of the 1911-A1 and reliability using 230 gr. ball ammunition?

For some strange reason I have a hankering for a W.W.2 copy shooting pumpkin ball bullets.
 
I bought my Tisas M1911a1 clone brand new three years ago, give or take a couple months. Nice pistol, shoots well and cycles without issues with Triple K magazines as well as with the Mec Gar 8-rd mag that came with it. I only shoot 230-gr ball ammo.
I had to replace the front sight shortly after I bought it. I had only run about a hundred rounds through it and the front sight broke off. Bought a new sight on eBay, staked it on, and it's been fine.
As small as the GI sights are, you sure notice when the front one all of a sudden isn't there.
 
I'm trying to hold out for a 9mm 1911, but a government-style knockoff this cheap makes it pretty tough.
 
Tisa has a good reputation.
Your next closest price match is probably an ATI, and you'd probably have to order one online to get the specific GI style model, as no LGS seems to stock those (or drag them to shows).
Next after the ATI is the Auto-Ordnance, which is right at $400-450 new.

All three have the right features--trigger scallops, arched mainspring housings, and lanyard loops. Your eye will speak mor eto how closely the finish matches your impression of "US GI" (milspec is a charcoal parkerize/oxide finish; the "green" hue often seen is from being stored coated in cosmoline and wrapped in brown craft paper).
 
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Said so on the slide but it is vendor's Model # or Manufacturer P/N! Made by Tisas in Turkey and imported by SDS! Should I get one to fool my son, but he is not 12 yrs old anymore!
https://www.centerfiresystems.com/p...il&utm_term=0_a17d16ad3c-87d5df110b-128002581
I heard Tisas makes good 1911s, at least for the price, but I would not buy one with such marking!
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I guess my problem would be more an issue of Turkey being such a horrendously poor strategic ally to us and NATO and therefore, not worthy of my supporting their arms industry than it would be the markings.

Todd.
 
I like cheap 1911's that work, I don't care who makes them. This is my cheap 1911. Found it at the LGS and made them an offer. They let me have it for $450. Had the original box and docs. After closer inspection I found the factory comoline in the barrel that had dried out. It had never been fired. I checked and looks like the first model 1991 A1 that Colt produced. Parkerized with carbon steel barrel like WW2 A1, probably 91 or 92 production. The grips were plastic and I replaced those. This one gets its share of range time.

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We used them, Tisas guns, as our 'LE and Military' door prize guns at our annual FNRA event last fall and I could not resist buying one as the first time I ever had to use a handgun to 'stop' someone was one that like this, issued 1911A1 'US Property', along time ago in a land far, far away!;) Well I got it home and shot it with several friends. One had a Kimber and one a Springfield Armory, both costing three times what this one did, and my Tisas shot tighter groups than theirs did!!!!:cool: It is a keeper. I would not hesitate to take it 'in harms way'!:)
 
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