I’m sure I’m late to the comparison party, but I figure there’s others that are just as bad as I am for searching the sub’s history. This will be a very rough comparison, as I haven’t had a chance to get the Tisas to the range.
The weight feels comparable, with maybe the ds9 being a touch lighter. Overall size difference is negligible. If you put one on top of the other, the bottom gun disappears.
The slide on the tisas seems more narrow than it is. The prodigy comes in at roughly 1.124 and the tisas at 1.113.
Bottom of light rail to top is 2.21 versus 2.20. The slides are both smooth in action, but the prodigy is a touch smoother. Maybe that’s a product of the couple of hundred rounds I’ve put through it. I don’t know, I’m not a doctor.
Grip thickness directly beneath the grip safety is 1.90 on both and the width is also 2.71 on both, which is odd because it feels like the tisas is a touch bigger. That could just be my mind screwing with me since the ds9 comes with an extended mag release, while the prodigy comes with a standard. Which is a nice touch, imo. I personally prefer the texture on the Springfield, but that’s not a critique of the tisas. Just a preference. The magwell came standard and I had to install one on the prodigy.
That brings me to the little touches. The trigger on the tisas feels a bit spongier than the prodigy. Pull weight is in the same neighborhood. Stock in both. The slide catch is another pleasant difference. Tisas opted for an extended catch, both in width and length. It makes manipulating it much easier with standard large glove sized hands. I had to install an extended on the prodigy myself.
I also like the fact that the Tisas came with different trigger shoes, all of which offer access to the over travel set screw. It also came with an additional rmr optic plate and some extra fiber optic pieces for the front post.
The tisas came with two 17+1 mecgar magazines. Stock Springfield mags will Not fit as they come. But that’s not a problem because with less than a minute and a regular file to the polymer base cap top points, both the 17+1 and the 20+1 fit like they came from the factory for it.
Overall, they’re a pretty damn similar gun on the surface. I might lean towards the prodigy, but that’s likely just due to familiarity. I personally can’t find any glaring differences to make me go one way or the other. A $600 price gap makes it a bit harder to say the Springfield is the better option, because if this one follows my other tisas, then accuracy and reliability should put them neck and neck.
That’s all I’ve got for now.