Posted by Admin on 2023 Dec 4th
TISAS 1911 Nightstalker: Full Review
"I will admit, I can’t decide whether “Night Stalker” is a great or terrible name for a pistol, but it certainly gets more attention than its subdued appearance. If you’re under 40, Night Stalker probably sounds like the nickname for a serial killer. It makes me think of “Kolchak: The Night Stalker,” the short-lived TV show starring Darren McGavin that inspired “The X-Files.” In this case, Night Stalker is a distinctive Model 1911 imported by TISAS USA.
If you are just, let’s pick a term, say, “casual connoisseur” of firearms, you might not have heard of TISAS. The name is actually an acronym for “Trabzon Silah Sanayi AŞ,” and thus properly capitalized “TISAS.” Trabzon Silah was founded in 1993 in Turkey. Trabzon is on the northern coast of Turkey, which is an area that’s home to a lot of small and medium manufacturing. I’ve been there before to visit other Turkish firearm makers and these companies are all using top-of-the-line CNC machines, no different than firearms manufacturers anywhere else in the world. CNC machines don’t change quality based solely on what country they’re in. TISAS can afford to sell these pistols at comparatively lower prices because production costs in Turkey are less than half of what it is in the U.S."
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