It really doesnt have a bad trigger. I'd describe it as gritty......maybe a touch heavy. I'm sure something can be done with that for less than 100 dollars. I don't care, i shoot it and it hits what I shoot at. Not all that worried about it.
Lets face it, I'm not looking for a trigger that breaks like glass out of a 329 dollar 1911. People are right, they don't focus on good triggers on a cheap 1911......f***, they don't focus on triggers on 800 dollar 1911's either........as the Tisas triggers are better than my Ruger, and maybe not as smooth, but lighter than my Smith and Wesson E, horribly heavy trigger for an 800 dollar 1911.
But more apples to apples in price, Triggers are equal if not better than any Rock I've shot, but Rock's have their own issues....they don't run all that well, and I've had the slide stop notches wear and create a sharp metal burr, in both the ones I've had with not that many rounds thru them. The finish on Rocks are crap, and the machining is only OK comparitively to Tisas, and Rocks are still more $$$.
Again......I didn't buy them to build them, I bought them to shoot them, and try a 9mm 1911, if they crap out for a 330 dollar price tag....they crap out. Big deal. I'm thinking I'll get my share of rounds thru them before they do. It creates good value for me.....that's really all I care about.
Are not Magnum Research (Desert Eagle) 1911's manufactured in Isreal, in the same plant they make BUL armory 1911's???? I believe you can get a BUL armory cheaper than a DE, but we aren't talking much cheaper? If you can stand the big DE letters ripped across the side flats. Where BUL armory is much less of an obnoxious billboard. I do agree as a starting point to a really nice 1911 a BUL or DE would be a good platform. And if I was looking at another 1911 in the 800 dollar range, the features on the DE and BUL are superior to anything out there in the market.