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Diver43
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Hey @Bigslug
Diver43
Posts: 12,777 Senior Member
Many years ago our one and only
@Bigslug, posted this regarding his beloved 1911. A copy sat next to my workbench for a long time. Sometimes back I asked him about it for a new handgun enthusiast, but he didn't remember it. While unpacking after the move, I found my original copy in a document protector. It is as useful today as it was 100 years ago as not much has changed.
Thanks Big
@Bigslug, posted this regarding his beloved 1911. A copy sat next to my workbench for a long time. Sometimes back I asked him about it for a new handgun enthusiast, but he didn't remember it. While unpacking after the move, I found my original copy in a document protector. It is as useful today as it was 100 years ago as not much has changed. Thanks Big
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You don't graduate middle school until you can field strip a 1911, and you don't graduate high school until you can detail strip without tools. Hee!
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
It’s a °IIIII° thing 😎
Gone through and shot one Tisas recently. Aside from their OEM magazines having a slightly depressed right-side feed lip to work with a mag catch that protrudes too a little far into the mag well to accept a "correct" magazine without depressing the button slightly first, I had no complaints - certainly not at the price (a little careful filing and it behaves itself now).
I've developed a decent bit of respect for these as being more true to the original military gun than a lot of what's being shoveled on us as "necessary" in a 1911. The 1941-45 guns were certainly not costing Uncle Sam the period equivalent of a thousand or more of today's dollars, and they were cranked out walking the line between making sure they worked and shot where they were aimed on the one hand and the certain knowledge that a number of them would end up at the bottom of the ocean without ever seeing the enemy on the other. To speed production under press of war, a lot of the WWII slides were spot-hardened at the front and around the slide stop and disassembly notches. In that sense, the Turk and Philippine slides may be more durable for round count than the "real thing".
They are not Les Baer or Springfield Custom, nor are they trying to be at $500 or less. For that I am thankful - that somebody still understands that pistols and sniper rifle tolerances do not necessarily have to be paired.
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
I paid $20 for both so I’m
not out much if they don’t.
What's SUPPOSED to happen is the sidewall of the mag strikes a beveled surface on the mag catch pushing it slightly to the right until the mag inserts to the point of the mag's catch notch lining up, at which point the catch snaps back and locks in.
The issue with the one I worked on was that the mag catch came into the frame too far, and for reasons known only to Tisas, their answer was to put a bevel IN THE TOP OF THE MAGS instead of rectify the spec on their mag catch. A standard mag without that bevel runs into a hard wall of an insufficiently beveled mag catch. Easy enough to replace or file the OEM mag catch to fit like a proper one, but until you do, you'll probably have to depress the mag catch slightly on insertion to get a non-Tisas mag to insert.
Try your newly acquired mags and get back to us.
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
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@breamfisher mentioned it a while back
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
It’s a °IIIII° thing 😎
So far no issues with our two Tisas 1911s.
It’s a °IIIII° thing 😎
It’s a °IIIII° thing 😎
It’s a °IIIII° thing 😎