Hi M. Give us a hint...FReepmail is OK to.
Happy range time to you.
I may be 80 years...but my right hand grip pressure weighs in at 105 lbs...left hand not so much at 85 lbs.
So lets try out at the range to see if the left hand is good to go.
Anyway...might as well purchase 2...spare parts and all.
Gun slide...
Took it to the range yesterday (the Tisas 1911A1 service model). It’s basically a Series-70 1911, with small GI sights, plastic grips, but a forged slide, frame, and barrel. Barrel is stainless. The basics are there, they went cheap on non-critical (IMHO) items.
At the range, it was consistently hitting about 2 inches left at about 22 yards, grouping was a little larger than I can do with my Colt Government 1911, but part of that is getting used to smaller sights, and part of it is the somewhat heavy 5.5-6 pound trigger pull. It is crisp, just takes a little more squeeze than some. I can get the windage right without much trouble, if only I could get that rear sight to move. I’ll have to take a bigger hammer and non-marring brass rod and give it a little better whack. I tried to field adjust it using a spent case and a small hammer, but all I did was ruin a couple of spent cases. LOL
I’m going to take the trigger parts out and hone/polish them a bit. Not too much, I’m not a real gunsmith, but I have had some success with just smoothing and squaring surfaces as needed, keeping the factory angles (I have jigs and the right stones) and being gentle so as not to change the geometry of the parts. I’m spoiled by having good trigger pulls - not crazy light, but I like my 1911s around 3-4 pounds.
Racking the slide with the hammer down is a little bit tough - I don’t know if the hammer/mainspring is a higher rate than usual, or they use a stiffer recoil spring, but it takes a big effort to rack it. Once the hammer is back, it takes less effort (leads me to believe that the hammer spring is a little stronger than others). But my Colt Government is considerably easier. Again, comparing $350 to $750+ here. Plus, it’s new so everything is tight.