Opinions/Experience With Para Ordnance LTC

[mlehtovaara]

Just like the title implies I am looking for any info good or bad anyone would like to offer. I have heard alot of good things and a few bad. I am hoping to find some guys with some experience with them as I am looking to buy one in the next couple days.

Now I am more concerned with reliability and function, as I already know that the finish sucks. My local dealer and a couple guys from the club say that that is the only thing wrong with em. No matter to me as the model I am looking at is a stainless special edition.
Thanks

 

[capp325]

Can't speak for this particular model, but every Para pistol I've ever shot was a jam-o-matic. Para also has a known issue with the slide stop peening the [cast] slide.

 

[DBP]

I have had a couple of the newer para's and I am quite satisfied as far as reliability goes. The finish does suck but if it were stainless i wouldn't be too concerned.

 

[Trigun]

Para had gone south, you are not gonna to get any after sale support easily with their 50% lemon rate.

Trigun

 

[longknife]

Para LTC

Had one. No functioning problems. Crappy, gritty trigger. Expensive to shoot (unless you are a handloader). Sold it. Kept my Beretta 92.

 

[DOOK]

I had a Limited.
Very nice looking gun. Never fired it, but I found the slide spring to be extremely stiff, and the serrations on all the Para's are crappy for grip.
Bad combo.
They are composed of large smooth cuts with 'v' shaped serrations that afford little purchase compared to a traditional square cut groove.

Also didn't care for the MIM safeties, hammer, and trigger.

Sold it.

 

[Longshot]

I wouldn't know.I won one in September and haven't seen hide nor hair of it despite repeated promises that it would get to me in the next couple of weeks.
I know a couple of guys who ordered them overseas almost 2 years ago, paid up front, and still haven't got them!

 

[timothydgordon]

My Para experience with the LTC

The Para Ordnance LTC 1911 9mm. I piad just over a grand with taxes in. Very accurate: 1" groups rapid fire at 10 metres. Easy to control and excellent top notch mags. The pistol felt sturdy and with the addition of rubber grooves installed under the wood grips (as pictured) the pistol was more ergonomical than I could have dreamed. I've fired a lot of 1911s and for the money I paid, I expected the trigger to be better. It was light but had a rough break-up. I decided to suck it up and that this trigger would not get a trigger job but instead I would wear it in with dry-firing and lots of ammo. Only other issue, the fit was rough. Randomly after a round would be fired it would eject and the next round would not chamber and seat correctly. Despite the efforts of a armourer/hobbyist gunsmith who'm I was shooting with that day and a whole lot of lube the problem was not remedied. After having the eye of an expert gunsmith it was decided to fire it a little more to see if I could wear in the "rough" rails as this was a common problem with the newer LTC. As I started to wear in the pistol I found the finish was really not excellent and thus begins my (hopefully not lengthy) transaction with Para Ordnance warranty department.

Update on the finish issue: because my LTC is my primary shooting pistol for competition and fun I have not gone the route of having any warranty work done on it.