Buds still has the full size base model for $333. I feel it's the only interesting one if your going to take the risk.
Price is often $289 at my local shop.

Why pay double or more for front cock and beavertails when it's still the same fitment.

 

I have bad luck with risky guns. My buddy always gets winners.

I'd never take the Tisas gamble. I royally crapped out on the Prodigy turd. But that was my fault for not watching almost ANY yout00b on the hunk of junk.

 

Same here with the Tisas, never got into the Prodigy stuff.

With the Tisas, this is not the first time for overseas weapons hit the market dirt cheap, then increase price retail for increased profits.

 

I only bought one, so far.. I bought the full size Service Model.. It’s been very good and good fitting, great finish, and shoots well.. Well it shot great when I got it, then I wanted to change out the extractor and it took a while to get it right. Then I changed a bunch parts with Colt government parts, and it took some tinkering, then I changed out springs until I got it where I wanted it to be..
It is now shooting great again and I had fun tinkering with it, an excellent gun for someone who wants to learn or customize a 1911 on their own..
There is a guy on the 1911forum that has done a few and working on another now. He does great work and he shows his progress as he goes.. Another excellent reason to buy one…

 

Use Wikiarms.com before any gun or gun part purchases.

 

Life is too short for cheap 1911’s

…in all honestly, most 1911’s have gone up.

 

Normally I would say this is great advice. However, (and it’s a sample size of one) my Tisas has been 100% in both fuction and accuracy. It’s every bit as good in all practical measures as my Springfield TRP. It definitely isn’t up to snuff in fit and finish but it was also almost 1/10 the price.

 

Tariffs went to 15% recently. Is that the price difference?

 

Tariffs and the exchange rate isn't as good as it was a while back, but that's just a few percentage points. Put them together with, perhaps, importers realizing that they might could sell the guns for more might account for the total difference.

 

Tisas Service models at their website are $540.99 MSRP. Local Dunham's sells them currently @ $379.99 and $329.99 when on sale. YMMV. tom.

 

They were more $ than I was willing to spend on them when they first came out. I'll admit they seem to be well liked. But my buddy who worked for Tisas as a sales rep, then all of a sudden wasn't really reminded me of the SCCY debacle.

 

I have a nephew that for his 21st birthday recently bought a Tisas, though I’m not sure which model? He really likes it.