Gee, I stay away from this forum for two days, and this happens! Great looking gun!
Why loose the ramped barrel though?
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Gee, I stay away from this forum for two days, and this happens! Great looking gun!
Why loose the ramped barrel though?
John,
Nice looking Colt. The short solid trigger and arched housing look "just right" and I agree a teardrop thumb safety would be an improvement.
John:
Yeah, but I like 'em lowered more :D....
'Bout the only reason to lose the ramped barrel may be to further standardize the innards. CNC machining gear can cut the frame either way, and it's not much of a deal to make the original casting or forging either way, too. It also allows Para a wider choice of outside suppliers for barrels if that's where they were thinking.
IMHO, too, something like Tripp's magazine followers (or whole magazines) makes the ramped barrel arguments moot. IAC, about any round that'll feed in anybody else's gun will work in the Para, so why bother?
The downside, IMHO, is that it's essentially "me too" instead of "YIKES, look at that".... We argue about the PXT all the time, of course, but when it works, it's something else.... (I've not seen much comment about ramped barrels other than "it seems to work better"....)
If pricing is really aggressive, it should move a lot of 1911's. Can't argue about that....
Regards,
Well, cost is the obvious reason and possible what Stu mentioned, procurement from other sources.Quote:
Originally Posted by rekladan
The mags will be the same mags used in the other Para single-column pistols. As far as I am concerned, not the ideal design, but I'll let Para owners talk about these mags, I have no experience with them.
I have one ready to be installed, but I am arguing myself here. I already have this:Quote:
Originally Posted by JTQ
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So I have a standard-looking S80 Colt. The other one is supposed to be a GI-Expert kind of things, i.e. basically standard with some enhancements. That safety fits with the angled cocking serrations, the Commander hammer and the grip safety. The tear-drop one would be fine, if it had the spur hammer and grip safey, but on this one? I am not sure.
Oh, by the way, I hope you all understood that these are NOT real Colts, right? These are airsofts. :D :) :p
I wish they were real though......
I think they got it just about perfect. I prefer the flat MSH, so no problem there. A solid trigger would have been more appropriate, IMHO, but the one they have isn't bad. But I agree entirely with John that they should be using a round-hole, "rowel" style hammer instead of they light-weight thingie they have on it. But -- traditional Commander hammers are still available, if you look hard enough.
Novak has them!
John,
Do you have an idea who will be selling them in Canada? This is one good product! Simple but functional!
They make a 9mm in that I'm all over it.
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Originally Posted by isuzu
I am sorry but no. I guess every Para distributor will eventually have them.
John:
I think Para's just using up hammers they have around.... Same ones as on my PX745EM....
Para's older "welded bottom" single-stack magazines seem fine. I've got a couple of those (came with the 745). I bought four of the newer "pinkie rest" style for my smaller guns, and they seem OK, too, but the follower design is closer to Tripp's. I did have to take some metal off the top left corner of the magazine (bullet facing forward) to clear the ejector on my little Kimber. Looks like they'd have fit the CCO without change. (The CCO came with the older style mags, but the new ones fit it fine.)
I expect that Para will run out of the skeletonized hammers and toss something in there :). Change the furniture a little and it's a new model....
You gotta move someplace more civilized, John. Washington DC, for example.... :D
I think I could get you some connections in Eastern Europe - a friend of mine's part Italian, and part Serbian. He tells me that he's bound to either "feed you or throw a bomb at you." (You guessed it - he owns a gun store.)
I think Para's really got something there if the price is right.
Whoever gets to testdrive one, we also need some comment on how easy it would be to "upgrade" - sights, for example, or the beavertail (:)). One way to get a really nice Springer is to go for the bare bones gun and add stuff. You do cross over into "why didn't you buy that one?" eventually, but some of us are tinkerers.
(Hawk - if you get it, please don't drool all over it :D.)
Regards,
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