You're most welcome! I am so glad this content is helpful to some people! It means a lot to me to hear that so thanks for sharing!

@@dltz , no problem, man! Keep up the great work!

It feels so much better! The performance is great.

Video will be coming in a few days. Porting is done, just need to get back to the range to collect my muzzle flip data after porting and some general shooting footage.

​@@dltzplease make a chechard board or graph paper back ground for filming the before vs after porting comparison. The white background you've been using does not really show the difference. Think car crash test filming. Great efficient presentations 👍

Check out my Springfield Prodigy video that I linked in the description. I cover a bit of it in that video. In the description of that video I also linked to a video from Atlas Gunworks about sear spring tuning. Tuning trigger weight on a 1911 can really be more of an artform. I know enough to be dangerous. The basics are this: The sear spring sits in the backstrap underneath the main spring housing. Its a leaf spring. It has 3 tangs or leaves. One leaf is the spring for your grip safety and doesn't affect trigger weight. The tang on the other side (left side if looking from the back of the gun towards the muzzle) rests on the sear. This pretty much sets your trigger break weight. The middle spring tang rests on the back of the disconnector. This spring sets your trigger take up weight, and how your reset feels (how much it pushes your finger back out). It also sets the upward force on the disconnector. The leaf spring in this gun was really bent forward. Both the sear and disconnector tangs. So that was what was making the take up so heavy and the break 5 pounds. Hope this helps.

I dont have experience with other tisas 1911s, this is my first one and my only sample. I would just check the barrel bushing fit in the slide. The GI model wont have the optics cut like mine to worry about. Other than the barrel bushing issue mine has been a solid gun. Good luck upgrading yours and happy tinkering!

@@dltz thanks for the reply!! I hope if I decide to do it, mine turns out as well as yours!!

Guide rod: wilsoncombat.com/guide-rod-full-length-commander.html (Factory 16# recoil spring would not fit on the wilson combat guide rod - wolff brand springs did) 6 pack of shock buffers: wilsoncombat.com/shok-buff-recoil-buffers-1911-package-of-6.html The wilson combat barrel bushing is a nice part but due to the tolerances of the slide it was still loose and I had to fit an EGW one to tighten it up. But here is a link to the Wilson barrel bushing: wilsoncombat.com/bushing-1911-barrel-commander-thick-flange-bullet-proof-blue.html

Caswell stainless steel blackening gel: caswellplating.com/stainless-steel-blackener-gel-kit.html

Nice! Yeah mine has been running good. I have given it more cleaning and lube tho haha.

@dltz I think I'll go until it stops working, or 1500 rounds, whichever happens first.

@@sarkardarkstar haha give It the old torture test! Ah that's not too bad tho.

I suppose in a way. It can make the slide easier or harder to pull back by hand which may feel more or less smooth. It controls the speed that the slide moves back and forth, and how quick the barrel unlocks from the slide after the shot is fired. To me, smoothness of the slide is more about the fit of the slide to the frame, and how smooth the parts are that rub together.

@@dltz so getting the internals polished may help?

@@StayBusy88 yep. Polishing the interface between any parts that slide or pivot past eachother will make it feel smoother.

Thanks! I have stippled a lot of my own polymer frame pistols. I stipple my AK and AK grips too usually.

@@dltz do you stipple for others?

@@dannydowell9979 Oh, no sorry, I do not. I would encorage others to give it a try. Practice on an old AR pistol grip or something. I just use a $20 wood burning kit from Amazon.

​@dltz have you got a link for the kit? I love the scale style stipple job and would love to try it myself. I'd love to use the same attachment you did

@@dakotacarter4439 heres the kit I bought (amazon link): Weller WSB25WB 25-Watt Short... www.amazon.com/dp/B000EMBEY0?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share It didnt come with a tip the shape I wanted for making the scale pattern so I did have to modify one of the tips with a file.

Those are factory 20 round Staccato mags.

Thanks. I just bought gun had to send back due to trigger was locking.

Those are factory Staccato 20 round mags.