Para made in Canada vs USA made Para

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Hello I have a lead on a Para 9 MM stainless with fiber optic sight made in Canada that is LNIB for a decent price. I hear many mixed reviews about the quality of Para that was once made in Canada, compared to now the Para horror stories being made in Pineville N.C. USA thanks Chris. + or - feedback would be great.
 
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While on this forum I have often seen the theory espoused that Canadian Paras were quality pistols and US ones are not, my experience has been that no Para can be trusted out of the box and some will never run right no matter what you do because the frame geometry is wrong.

That was true when they were made in Canada as well. Some ran. Some did not. Some people got ones that ran, and they were made in Canada, and as a result, the idea is floating around that Canadian ones are better.

Personally, I do not believe this to be true. The odd one ran great. Most ran paranormally.
 
Some individuals receive/received Para 1911's that work/worked flawlessly out of the box, everyone else gets Para 1911's that are absolute sh*t. So I have to ask you, do you feel lucky?
 
Chris Marchetti said:
Hello I have a lead on a Para 9 MM stainless with fiber optic sight made in Canada that is LNIB for a decent price. I hear many mixed reviews about the quality of Para that was once made in Canada, compared to now the Para horror stories being made in Pineville N.C. USA thanks Chris. + or - feedback would be great.
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People that stated Canada Para are better than of America Para is indeed not correct, it was the management and QC system put para's product into 50-50. They were aways bad from day one in the business. Some lucky dude at a good one but not everyone win lotto.

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Mine is Canadian made and works good. Went to sell it a few months back and hardly a sniff except for a few lowballers. Decided to keep it and you now I don't regret it.
 
I had an early P-14 Limited. It ran great with good mags. The black finish wore very quickly. I don't regret selling it even so.
 
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Guess I won the lottery
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Me too. I own one of those single stack .45 ACP Canadian Forces appreciation of service models from 2009. It was made in North Carolina. Even during the break-in period of 500 rounds as per the manual, I have not had one single failure... Maybe my ejector, my extractor or some other part will break in the near future but when that happens I'll just replace it and keep going.

On the other hand, I've seen a fella with a stainless P16-40 that got nothing more than problems with it. His was made here in Canada. He got one of my armourer buddies to get it to run nicely. My friend basically said that he replaced everything made by Para on it minus the slide, barrel and frame. This person now uses his P16-40 for IPSC. And damn does it look cool.
 
Several years ago, the FBI bought double stack 1911s built by Les Baer on Canadian-made Para Ordnance frames for the HRT. Today, FBI HRT and SWAT use conventional single stack 1911s built by Springfield Armory's Custom Shop. This suggests to me that the Les Baer/Para guns were not exactly a smashing success.
 
It might've been as simple as not wanting some fat double stacked 1911s for everyone anymore and that's why they switched to single stacks. Just like the MPs in the CF chose the Sig P225 because of its slim frame to accommodate everyone.
 
Lots of extraordinary problems with Para 1911's and terrible support to go along with it. You're money is better spent elsewhere no matter how good of a deal.
 
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It might've been as simple as not wanting some fat double stacked 1911s for everyone anymore and that's why they switched to single stacks. Just like the MPs in the CF chose the Sig P225 because of its slim frame to accommodate everyone.
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Or more likely that double stack 1911s are inherently gimpy. Dr. Gary Roberts (aka DocGKR) has mentioned on other forums that any agency that has tried double stack 1911s has not had much success with them.
 
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