This is actually a report of two range trips: one a couple of weeks ago and the other just a day ago with a new mag. Anyway, let's start.
The TAC MS by Rock Island Armory is a 4.25" commander size 1911 with a full length dust cover and rail. All steel pistol chambered in 10mm it has quite a bit of heft. More so than the Glock 20 I once owned. This definitely helps with recoil.
I had some definite problems shooting left of POA, but I attribute that to unfamiliarity with the weapon. Second session was not as pronounced as the first trip, but was still an issue. I am used to shooting revolvers and my Beretta and Sig, so getting used to the 1911 trigger will take more range time (not a terrible thing.)
The gun is nicely assembled and feels great in the hand. I was worried that the texturing on the grip panels would be overly aggressive, but that turned out not to be the case. They provide a nice grip and did not tear up my hands at all, even shooting Underwood ammo.
Trips combined, I have put about 300 rounds through the pistol. Still short of the 500 rounds the little paper they included indicates for a break in period. I had some issues in this time. There were three failures to feed, one weird stove-pipe type of failure with a live round, one slide lock with the last round in the mage, and two failures to return to battery. The failures to feed were with the original mag, and were nosedives with the last round in the magazine. These required magazine removal to fix. The one stove-pipe type I can't explain. It was also with the factory mag and it ended up catching a live round, nose up, in the slide. Like you see with a classic stove-pipe of an expended round, but this one was still live.
For the second range trip I was using a new Wilson Combat 47NX mag. I had one failure to feed where the round was actually loose on top of the mag feed lips, just sort of hanging out when I pulled the slide back to lock. I had another failure to return to battery which required a push to the rear of the slide. I also had the one slide lock with a round in the mag happen with the Wilson. All of these issues happened with the final round in the mag.
Overall, the pistol was very pleasant to shoot, and when I showed good trigger control was accurate out to the 7 yard mark where I was shooting. Not claiming to be an expert, obviously, but I did manage about a 3 inch group at 7 yards. The fiber optic front sight is a nice touch. I was using some Georgia Arms bulk 10mm, and ran some Underwood 180gr bonded through it. Both types of ammo were nice to shoot and easy to get back on target.
Trying to iron out these problems, as I was hoping the might be mag related, but still having them even with the Wilson. That mag is presenting its own problems, such as needing the Power of Greyskull to get all nine rounds in the mag, and then being unable to lock the mag in the pistol with nine rounds in it. I left the mag loaded for a week or so to let the spring set, but still could not get it into the gun until yesterday when I finally propped it up on a table and put my weight into it. Then it snapped into place. i am going to leave it like that a couple of weeks and check again.
Overall I am very pleased with pistol. Finding holsters to fit it, not so much... It's a weird configuration, but Blade-Tech offered to make one for me after I sent them a picture, so there is some hope.
After a good cleaning, I hope to take it back to the range in a few days and put the other 200 rounds of bulk through it to get it through its break-in period. Hopefully these weird problems will sort themselves out.
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