para LDA question

[brentn]

Been reading up on para's and seems pretty neat, i'm particularily interested in the LDA pistols, a double stacker.

What I can't find online is anything about LDA and how it works, just that its so friggen great.

So whats the deal, is there a hammer that you can cock? is SA/DA? if its just double action how in the hell can that be so great?

If anyone has used, sold or owned a para LDA tell me what you think/thought would love to know.

A video of the trigger pull would be awesome, but thats pushing it i suppose

 

[Father Knows Best]

The LDA works a lot like a Glock trigger. The cycling of the slide partially cocks it, and pulling the trigger completes the cocking sequence and releases the sear to fire the gun. As a result, you don't get the heavy trigger of a traditional DA or DAO gun. I had an LDA for several years, and the trigger was very, very light. In the first stage, the trigger moved through a fairly long arc but only required less than a pound of pressure to do so. There was a distinct second stage that released the sear, and you could easily learn to pre-stage the trigger there, at which point it is just like firing a single action. The second stage on mind released at 3-1/2 pounds.

Because the slide cycling does most of the cocking action, it's not a true double action and does not have "second strike" capability. If you get a misfire, you need to use the tap-rack-bang drill just like you do with a single action.

The idea behind the LDA is essentially that you get the perceived safety of "hammer down" carry and a long trigger pull, but with the light trigger of a single action, and the proven 1911 design. Personally, I found that it didn't do that much for me.

 

[brentn]

That explains alot, thanks. I thought it was a full double action, apparently not. So basically its sorta like a long trigger pull thats in fact extremley light? thats what I get out of this?

 

[Father Knows Best]

Yup. It operates lot like a single action with a whole lot of take-up in the trigger. The only thing that the first stage of the trigger does is to draw the hammer back, which is easy because the mainspring has essentially been cocked already by the cycling of the slide. So you get a long but extremely light trigger pull, and then it stacks with the hammer all the way back before breaking at around 4-6 pounds of pressure depending on the gun.