Para Ordnance?

[Crue4]

What is the consensus of the Para brand...

I have been looking at the Warthog, P10-40, and P10-45, and some of the LDA's. What are your opinions.. I have only shot the Warthog and I loved it, and there pistols seem very high quality, and they are excellent looking pieces... but wondering what the general consensus was?

 

[timothy75]

They're fine guns from Canada of pro quality. Rest assured they're not junk guns at all.

 

[Radagast]

I hada P16-40. A complete POS. Some Paras are good, some are bad. I tend to prefer brands that have a better reputation for quality. I replaced my Para with a Bul M5 (sold by Charles Daly in the states).

 

[critter]

I have both a P16-40 and a P14-45 and they are both very fine firearms. They are both 100% reliable and very accurate. I like them very much.

Neither are the new LDA kind however.

 

[kahrcarry]

I have the P7.45, the P14.45, and the Hawg 9. All of them were solid performers out-of-the-box. Each has had a minimum of 1,000 rounds fired, and I've only experienced 2 malfs, each of those with the Hawg 9. I've heard of the hit-or-miss nature of the quality of Para's, but I haven't experienced it.

 

[SouthpawShootr]

I've got three of them. I've had feeding trouble with my two high capacity frames (P14.45 and Tac-Four). Now in reading over at the Para-Ordnance forum on www.1911forum.com, I've found that, by and large, Paras are undersprung from the factory. I replaced the mag springs and recoil springs on all my guns. Both high capacity framed guns benefitted from this, it seems, but I still have to wring them both out a bit more. I like the guns so much I'm willing to work with them a little to get them running right (I also got good prices on all three, so a small amount of reliability gunsmithing is not out of the question).