My latest Turkish 1911 is a Davidson Exclusive import from the Turkish manufacturer 'Girsan'. It is a Commander size XLV ACP and is shipped with only a single eight round ACT magazine in a small plastic clam shell case.
The basics are 4.25 barrel, ambi-safety, Novak style three dot sights, beaver-tail with speed bump, skeleton hammer, long solid trigger and full length guide rod with flat-coil recoil spring. Factory trigger pull of four pounds ten ounces average. Trigger is ribbed, front strap and flat mainspring housing are checkered. Grips are plastic but feel solid and offer great control.
Initially I experienced some failure to feed and failure to go fully into battery but as I shot it more those kept becoming less frequent. I'm still getting a failure to go into battery but only on the last round of some of my Mec-Gar magazines. My Checkmate, ACT, Ed Brown and Wilson magazines work as they should and I imagine after another hundred round or so the Mec-Gars will also be reliable.
For a low cost imported 1911 I'm impressed. Fit and finish are not as high as on the three Tisas 1911s but certainly not bad. The two real complaints are that the cut out on the slide for the thumb safety does not mirror the safety itself ,,,
... and there is a scratch underneath the slide stop about a half inch long and parallel to the center line of the slide stop itself. The scratch is only visible when I take the slide stop out so someday I'll touch it up.
The basics are 4.25 barrel, ambi-safety, Novak style three dot sights, beaver-tail with speed bump, skeleton hammer, long solid trigger and full length guide rod with flat-coil recoil spring. Factory trigger pull of four pounds ten ounces average. Trigger is ribbed, front strap and flat mainspring housing are checkered. Grips are plastic but feel solid and offer great control.
Initially I experienced some failure to feed and failure to go fully into battery but as I shot it more those kept becoming less frequent. I'm still getting a failure to go into battery but only on the last round of some of my Mec-Gar magazines. My Checkmate, ACT, Ed Brown and Wilson magazines work as they should and I imagine after another hundred round or so the Mec-Gars will also be reliable.
For a low cost imported 1911 I'm impressed. Fit and finish are not as high as on the three Tisas 1911s but certainly not bad. The two real complaints are that the cut out on the slide for the thumb safety does not mirror the safety itself ,,,
... and there is a scratch underneath the slide stop about a half inch long and parallel to the center line of the slide stop itself. The scratch is only visible when I take the slide stop out so someday I'll touch it up.
