1911 for Under $400

[jkbrea]

The reviews seem pretty good. I don't know anything about Tisas but it sounds like a great deal. Anyone have experience with their guns?
Not shipped to Ca.

http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/prod ... 2+GI+BLACK

[Barcelona Rick]

The Rock Island Armory 1911s are well reviewed.....my son bought a Tactical a couple months back and I have got to say it is a great deal. The basics are still around under $400 if you look hard enough....at least in Tejas......

rick

[Panzercat]

The reviews seem pretty good. I don't know anything about Tisas but it sounds like a great deal. Anyone have experience with their guns?
Not shipped to Ca.

http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/prod ... 2+GI+BLACK

I've owned almost exactly that gun with black grips. Also goes by Regent R100.
Picked mine up at the local gun store. Feels good in the hand, good action and trigger in my relatively inexperience hands. Aside from a factory blemish I returned and exchanged at the LGS, it was a fine piece...

...except for the factory mag. The lower end 1911s and particularly TISAS mags are known for being jam-o-matics. If you get a good one great, but count it as a loss straight out of the box and have brand names in backup. I'm no armorer so i can't tell you the gap in the slide or anything technical, but its a decent piece IMO. You can certainly do worse.

On the other hand, I'm considering their R200 in stainless. It's either that or an American Classic II in hard chrome... Assuming I can find the latter these days :\

[Grizz]

I am avoiding arms made in turkey since they have made themselves our enemies by aiding our enemies and degrading our allies, and killing our soldiers.

I have a phillipine made 1911 that's perfect in function and they sell for under 400 sometimes.

[rodeo kid]

All the reviews look positive, but I'm with Grizz, I just can't bring my self to buy a firearm made in Turkey. I don't need another 1911, but if I did I'd spend another $200 and buy a Ruger. God Bless.

[Panzercat]

I am avoiding arms made in turkey since they have made themselves our enemies by aiding our enemies and degrading our allies, and killing our soldiers.

I have a phillipine made 1911 that's perfect in function and they sell for under 400 sometimes.

One of the same reasons I haven't pulled the trigger on my stainless upgrade. Not feeling Turkey these days... Just wish Metro wasn't out of stock everywhere.

[Grizz]

well I'm not very pure about my boycotting.

I have a norinco shottie and would love to have a norinco 1911.

something about the irony when they try to collect debt from my grand kids....

[mikld]

Kinda off topic 'cause I know nothing about the Tisa's and feel much the same about boycotting some country's products, but;

I bought a RIA plain jane 1911 about 3 years ago (half the reason was I had moved to Oregon a few months prior and wanted to know what it felt like to buy a gun and take it home!). Mine went a few bucks over $400.00 and I've been shooting it right along with no problems, 95% cast lead bullet handloads. No failures to feed/fire/eject that were not my fault. I've played with modifications (nothing major) and find it a solid platform to work on and it can shoot into 2" at 25 yards when I do my part...

[JohndeFresno]

I consider the Browning 1911 type .45 ACP the undeniable best type of personal defense handgun ever made - even now. It's what I carry most of the time in any urban environment (Colt 1911 Series 70 Mk IV), with the 230 gr. Federal HST as the primary fodder. Despite all of the howdy-do new types of ammo, at least two multi-agency law enforcement tests conducted across the country have confirmed that this bullet will reliably do the job, to the exclusion of many other top rated commercial "defense" loadings, under all sorts of circumstances - if you hit what you are aiming at, of course.

As for the rest of my answer, this "boycotting" bit seems disingenuous to me, given what we purchase daily and from whom. Especially considering that other, highly industrialized countries have betrayed us in a big way; not just Turkey with its humble industry and barely emerging economy.

Since the reasons cannot be expressed without seeming to be political and critical of our current Administration (which they are), I have posted a reply in the Political Forum -
" About '1911 for Under $400' "

John

[Blaine]

I am avoiding arms made in turkey since they have made themselves our enemies by aiding our enemies and degrading our allies, and killing our soldiers.

I have a phillipine made 1911 that's perfect in function and they sell for under 400 sometimes.

Lot's of Al Quida, and Muzlims in the Philippines....

[JohndeFresno]

I am avoiding arms made in turkey since they have made themselves our enemies by aiding our enemies and degrading our allies, and killing our soldiers.

I have a phillipine made 1911 that's perfect in function and they sell for under 400 sometimes.

Lot's of Al Quida, and Muzlims in the Philippines....

Yup. And many news reports of persecution and murders of "Infidels" - anybody who isn't Muslim - in that country.

[Grizz]

I am avoiding arms made in turkey since they have made themselves our enemies by aiding our enemies and degrading our allies, and killing our soldiers.

I have a phillipine made 1911 that's perfect in function and they sell for under 400 sometimes.

Lot's of Al Quida, and Muzlims in the Philippines....

Yup. And many news reports of persecution and murders of "Infidels" - anybody who isn't Muslim - in that country.

It's a little deeper than that. Turkey is ostensibly a Nato ally. Sworn to protect and defend our allies. They are making war on our ally Israel. They blocked our use of their airspace when we need access to northern Iraq.
They have swerved from a pro-west secular government to a muzlam brotherhoodie type of extremists. The phillipine government, last I heard, practices wiping them out from time to time.

The muzzies in the Phillipines are not, to my knowledge, warring against the US and our allies. But as noted, I am not purist in my boycotts and do it for my own amusements.