Hello, everyone.
This thread was actually the first (maybe it was second, I forget after reading thru it all) search result when I was trying to see if I can find a manufacture date for my Tisas 1911.
First, I will admit, I did not buy mine new. In fact, it was given to me as payment for some work I did, work that I didn't even put money into, just time, so basically this gun cost me the $10 in gas it took to get it.
The Tisas Zig looks like a cheap ass gun... probably because it is.
Damn thing had a 9pound trigger pull! and this was pretty well used too. I think about 2000 rounds.
So, I stripped it down til nothing left but the grip bushings. I polished and polished and polished. I put at least 4 hours into polishing the sear, disconnector, and hammer alone.
Then I spent another 2 hours + on the trigger and trigger track.
I adjusted the extractor, I put in a 19 pound mainspring, I lubed it up and went a shootin
After a box thru it, I have a 3.9 pound avg trigger pull, a negligible take up and over travel, spent casings flying, and at 20 feet I am driving nails, at 50 I am in the bull probably 8 out of 10.
I have nothing to do with the making/selling/etc of any gun. I just picked up a basically free 1911 worked the hell out of it and have a gun that I would use as a carry gun in a heartbeat if I did not love my FNS 40 as much as I do.
So, yeah, it is a $300 gun, looks like it, and acts like it (out of the box) and not for everyone, and certainly not for those who do not know how to work on them. Because if I had to pay someone to do the work I did on it, it would end up being a $500 gun at least.
However, for someone who does not have much money, is not obsessed with looks and knows what they are doing, it can be one hell of a gun performance wise with work. It will always look like a $300 gun but, I tell you what, mine will shoot as good, if not better than an $3000 1911 , at least in my hands.
Doc
