Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Hard To Beat This Deal On WWII GI 1911A1 Replica From Turkey

LOL.
I highly recommend it at this price.

Field stripped after first hundred rounds.

I was issued a 1911A1 when I made SSgt. Carried it for a couple years before the M9 came along.

Those pics bring back some memories. Ours were old and worn. I believe they in the were from Korea or WWII production. Maybe even older.

I think mine was marked made by Singer?

Holy mackerel! Singers fetch a pretty penny. Too bad you didn't send it home. By the time you served, they probably really cracked down on that sort of thing, though. It was nearly standard practice during the first two World Wars, I understand.

There was no 'sending it home' in my time. That was around 1986, at Camp Pendleton CA. I was with 11th Marines out at Camp Las Pulgas.

It was pretty hailed out. During range qual, it bucked off the front sight on me.....lol

Oh man.

Mine is scheduled for delivery Thursday.

Cool. Let's have a report.

Until the last batch of Colts (M45A1?), the USG hadn't bought any new 1911A1s since 1945. They had "more than enough" for their needs, or so I was told when I was in the Army. We could have used some of the better ones, my arms room had 20 1911s in it, and only seven were functional, the others needed parts "badly", to put it mildly. I think some of them could have been rebuilt, but some were past that. I was supposed to be issued one, so I went down to the local pawnshop and bought myself a Commander, my issue gun was one that flat-out wouldn't work. We had to pass the seven around amongst us to get qualified with them.

I also grabbed the 1st one that arrived at my local gun store today!
Like TRH, I am damn impressed!!! The fit and finish is quite impressive. Looks exactly like the real thing. The slide to frame fit, and the barrel and bushing fitting is very tight, and the original finish and detailing are great. It is extremely smooth when you cycle the slide. The trigger on mine has just a little bit of creep, but measures right at 5 pounds. I did not get a chance to go shoot it this evening. But I will report as soon as I have time. For $299, I damn sure don’t think you could go wrong. If it shoots as good as it looks, it might just become my favorite “work” gun the Ranch.
Now I just need me one of those World War II issue tanker holster’s to go with it. 🤠

I bet you will be amazingly surprised!

That all sounds familiar.

We could carry/qual with any 1911 equivalent too. A few guys had AMT Hardballers, Colt Gold Cups, and so on.

Most of us used our issue pistol. It was impossible to get through a single stage of fire without a few malf's and alibis. It was kind of painful.

Good reproductions are available on Amazon.

You men going to run 230 ball in those pistols? and how does it compare to the Springfield A1's? I had one of those back in the day, it ran well with ball and 230gr xtp's powered by AA#7.

Nothing wrong with 230 grain ball. The .45 ACP and .45 Colt reputation for stopping power was earned when military loads were always round nose. Reports from the Philippines were that the .45 Colt revolvers were stopping the drugged up Moro natives effectively, before they could hack US troops down with machetes, after the .38 Long Colt had repeatedly failed miserably in this regard, prompting the shipment of mothballed .45 revolvers (both Single Action Army and the newly adopted - at that time - Colt double action revolvers).

PS I had a Springfield A1, and it didn't compare in authenticity to the Tisas A1. It didn't quite scratch that itch for a truly authentic reproduction of a USGI WWII issue 1911A1. The finish was wrong, for one thing. Then there was the thumb safety, which didn't match that on the USGI in the least. It was more like the commercial Colts from the 1960s and onward. The hammer didn't seem right in appearance, either. Nor the trigger.

10-4, of course 230 ball is fine, just wondering if any were going to try hp's, I had a Mil-Spec Springfield around 1995 I think, didn't have or know of anything at the time to compare it too for authenticity.

I've got a Springfield Mil-Spec, too. That was their first attempt at roughly approximating the USGI 1911A1, while adding some modern features that folks liked, such as better sights, lowered ejection port, more modern style thumb safety, absence of the lanyard ring on the MSH, etc..

Good guns (mine's been completely reliable, thus far), but generally not considered reproductions of the WWII USGI 1911A1. Mine's in stainless, and has night sights installed. That's all it needs to be a great general purpose 1911.

PS So far, I haven't tried JHP in my Tisas 1911A1.

I just ordered a reproduction of the belt, holster, and mag pouch to go with it.

That's pretty cool.