I took my two Tisas 1911's to the range yesterday morning. One is a 1911A1, Semi-GI type, in 45 acp, the other is a Tanker Commander, in 9mm. I paid about $800 for the pair.
Both guns worked perfectly. The 9mm was especially soft shooting. The 9mm has a much better trigger, something that took me some getting used to, and I'm not there yet. It's light by my standards, at 4.5 pounds, but also has a VERY quick reset. Trigger reset is something I had never even heard of until recently, and I found myself "riding the reset" with this gun. That led to a couple of shots being fired before I expected them to be. Still downrange, just the sights just weren't where I wanted them to be.
I fired a total of 67 rounds from the Commander. 50 of 115 Blazer brass, the other 17 were a handful of Sierra 124 grain hollow points I had left over. All the ammo performed perfectly, except the very first round (One of the hollow points) didn't want to chamber using the slide release. A slingshot got it going, and I never had another problem. I used both magazines, and there was no difference. They were sort of difficult to load at first, but seemed to be getting better.
Here's the 7 yard, 9mm target. This gun was very soft shooting. What recoil there was, was sort of a soft push, not snappy at all.
The 45, basically the same thing, only this time it was only 50 rounds of Federal American Eagle, 230 grain hardball. Again from 7 yards.
The trigger on this on is not quite as nice as the Tanker (5.5 pounds), and sights are the standard GI type. The only thing I've done to both is a little white/orange nail polish on the front sight. There was a more recoil with this one, as I expected, but not at all unplesant.
Anyway, I sort of surprised myself today. I might run the targets out a little more next time. The sights on both guns seemed to shoot close to POA at 7 yards, although I do seem to pull most shots left. I'm not sure if that's a "me" problem, or if I might need to adjust the rear sight a little. For now, I'm happy with both.
Both guns worked perfectly. The 9mm was especially soft shooting. The 9mm has a much better trigger, something that took me some getting used to, and I'm not there yet. It's light by my standards, at 4.5 pounds, but also has a VERY quick reset. Trigger reset is something I had never even heard of until recently, and I found myself "riding the reset" with this gun. That led to a couple of shots being fired before I expected them to be. Still downrange, just the sights just weren't where I wanted them to be.
I fired a total of 67 rounds from the Commander. 50 of 115 Blazer brass, the other 17 were a handful of Sierra 124 grain hollow points I had left over. All the ammo performed perfectly, except the very first round (One of the hollow points) didn't want to chamber using the slide release. A slingshot got it going, and I never had another problem. I used both magazines, and there was no difference. They were sort of difficult to load at first, but seemed to be getting better.
Here's the 7 yard, 9mm target. This gun was very soft shooting. What recoil there was, was sort of a soft push, not snappy at all.
The 45, basically the same thing, only this time it was only 50 rounds of Federal American Eagle, 230 grain hardball. Again from 7 yards.
The trigger on this on is not quite as nice as the Tanker (5.5 pounds), and sights are the standard GI type. The only thing I've done to both is a little white/orange nail polish on the front sight. There was a more recoil with this one, as I expected, but not at all unplesant.
Anyway, I sort of surprised myself today. I might run the targets out a little more next time. The sights on both guns seemed to shoot close to POA at 7 yards, although I do seem to pull most shots left. I'm not sure if that's a "me" problem, or if I might need to adjust the rear sight a little. For now, I'm happy with both.
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