Mark_Mark
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It’s a about variety and affordable. My gun budget has sunk to nothing ($1,000 - $1,500) this year, inflation and food cost hurts. And I’m a reloader so component take half of that. So when I found out I could get a working and reliable 1911 for $350 out the door. I was on it! I have a Colt 80 Defender .45 and it’s nice. It don’t like coated bullets, and have not tried JHP yet, but it loves lead and fmj’s. Good gun, but the ejection pattern is almost 12 o’clock and rains hot brass on my head.If the local gunstore had Tisas 1911's in stock, for $350, I would have purchased one. I have handled a couple out at the range, the early one was as tight as a series 70 or 80 Colt and went bang each and every time.The owner had paid something under $300 for it. Another pistol I handled was tighter, the owner was happy.
The Turks have been making firearms at a time when the First People's in the America's were running around in animal skins and hunting with atlatl's. Many very well made firearms selling in the US are made in Turkey.
One does not have to spend thousands for a straightforward and reliable 1911. I recently purchased this at a local gun store
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Two years ago this pistol was selling in the lower $300's, but due to "Putin Inflation", it was the cheapest in the shop at $425. The pistol is tight, good trigger pull, large sights, and at the range, it shoots to point of aim and went bang each and every time. The slide is milled 4140, the frame from cast 4140. Those are better materials than any US Military 1911 up to WW2. I don't know what Colt used afterwards, but I do have a couple of series 70 Colts, and had issues with both.
When this finally happened, I removed all the series 80 parts from the Colt
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I do have a Les Baer Wadcutter, an amazingly tight, accurate, and properly built pistol for Bullseye Pistol Competition. It shoots great and is right in all the little details, but there are very few people shooting groups at 50 yards, and 50 yards is a very long way for combat pistol shooting.
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Heck, the high capacity crowd I see at the range is rapid firing at things seven to 10 yards. And at those distances, these lesser priced 1911's will give the customer value.
your 80’s Colt could probably function with out the block. Some tinkering could probably get it done. I’m going to try to remove my block and see what happens. My other 1911 are 2011’s, got those before the boys were born and they are all 70’s.