Para Ordnance 1911 Question

I've never owned one and never will. I heard enough bad things about them to steer clear. I hear less bad things about Norincos than Para, and that sentiment spans across more than this forum.

Of course, I still bought an NEA :stirthepot2:
 
Chinese made (Norinco ) wasn't bad guns , they are the guns actually use in real life combat wars , even 10 years ago , the shooters considered it as the best value for the prices . If you have time to understand the guns ,tune a little bit , upgrading some parts (springs ..extractor ) . Yes ! , its a good choices .
 
Also , It depends on how lucky you are , I had a buddy brought a brand new ST__ , $2000 , OUT OF THE BOX CANNOT SHOOT , jam... mag loose.... some problems up to now cannot solve , eventually sell the gun .
 
HONEY said:
Chinese made (Norinco ) wasn't bad guns , they are the guns actually use in real life combat wars , even 10 years ago , the shooters considered it as the best value for the prices . If you have time to understand the guns ,tune a little bit , upgrading some parts (springs ..extractor ) . Yes ! , its a good choices .
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I own Norcs. Not knocking them. I don't even upgrade them.

Certainly not a gun you would bring home to your parent, but she's reliable and ready to go when you are.
 
I've had a made in USA Para GI Expert for a couple years. Its had thousands of rounds through it. The only issues I had was para factory mags and my own reloads.
Mec Gar mags solved all the feeding and mag related issues. This is I understand common with 1911s.
My relaods are my own issue. Learning to crimp and seat projectiles properly and only load round nose. My gun's never had a significant mechanical problem. I can count on 1 hand the number of time the thousands of factory rounds of ammo have FTF or FTE.
 
cbass said:
Ive got an older ltc that was still made in canada, it works great and shoots better than Im capable. The finish however left a bit to be desired though, was really starting to look beat even though its had a fairly easy life. So I bobtailed it and reblued it and couldnt be happier with it now. Very much hit or miss i guess.
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I had an older LTC as well.

I bought it mostly because it was made in Canada.

Beautiful looking gun and very accurate.

However the finish was crap and started to come off the first month. Not everywhere, but holster wear on the slide (this was after maybe 50 draws from the holster).

After about 300 rounds the ejector snapped off with what was clearly an air bubble in the casting.

I contacted Para but got no response. I got the email of their repairs manager from 1911forum.com and he sent me a new ejector at no cost (I replaced it myself).

Sold it at a huge loss as I felt more bad things would happen shortly.

Since then they have moved to the US (although I can't really blame them for that; would you want to run a firearms manufaturer in Toronto??).

There are better guns for your money than Para.
 
My Father has a Para Ordnance 1911 and he loves it. He has thousands of rounds through it factory and handloads. He says he has only ever had one failure to eject, because the gun was filthy. He said that he hadn't cleaned it in a while.

He also says the gun is as accurate as he can be and as long as he keeps it clean it works fine.
 
My buddy had to send his GI expert in for repairs twice under warranty. It needed to go back for a 3rd time and he asked for his money back. Bought a Spartan instead and its the best sub$1000 1911 ive ever shot.
 
Why bs? Its not overly complicated. Buy bobtailed mainspring housing and jig. Set up jig. Drill new hole. Mark where new mainspring housing fits roughly. Cut. Install mainspring housing. File. Sand. Polish. Refinish. Re assemble. Go shooting.

HONEY said:
Very interest how you bobtailed the gun , can you show pictures and discribed how to make this happened,regards.:bsFlag:
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