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Thread: For Para Ordnance P12--Smith and Alexander mainspring housing/mag guide

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    For Para Ordnance P12--Smith and Alexander mainspring housing/mag guide

    I don’t like plastic parts in pistols. So, I finally decided to replace the plastic mainspring housing in my P12 with a Smith and Alexander mag guide made specifically for the P series of Para Ordnance pistols. I have used S&A grip safeties (plus their jigs) and mag wells in a couple of 1911 builds. These have been excellent parts. The S&A P12 mag guide is basically an extended MSH which fills in the void at the back of the frame when a magazine is in place. For those of us with average or large hands, it makes shooting a P12 more comfortable and controllable. Instead of the rear of the MSH being somewhere in the middle of your palm, the mag guide extends farther to the bottom or base of your palm. Hopefully, this all makes sense when you look at the P12 with the S&A mag guide compared with the P13 that is behind it. I’m so happy with this part for the P12 that I may order a couple for my P13’s.
    Rob

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    Interesting idea.

    I don't mind plastic parts in a gun; my attitude is "if plastic is strong enough to work, why waste metal?" but that's just me.

    In my P18.9, I took a file and carefully rounded off the bottom corner of the straight, plastic MSH, so that its corners align with the bottom corners of the frame. It's so subtle that nobody who has handled the gun noticed it without me pointing it out -- and sometimes even then people didn't know what I was on about. But I have large-ish hands and originally that corner did bother me a bit. This part would also solve the problem, in a very different way.
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