Para Ordnance 45 ACP gas operated 1911

[JFootin]

This sure is different! Originally a Para Ordnance Double Stack 45. It has been radically modified with a fixed barrel and a gas piston in place of the RSA. Very interesting.....

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=338033187

[jeepster09]

Why would anyone spend so much money doing all that? He won't sell it for what he is asking. Some custom mods lose you money.

[Longitude Zero]

Why would anyone spend so much money doing all that? He won't sell it for what he is asking. Some custom mods lose you money.

IMHO MOST custom mods are money loosers at sales time.

[JFootin]

I wonder how it shoots, the accuracy, the felt recoil. Seems like a good idea. I wonder why nobody has tried it in a service pistol before.

[Longitude Zero]

I wonder how it shoots, the accuracy, the felt recoil. Seems like a good idea. I wonder why nobody has tried it in a service pistol before.

They have in a different format. The HK P7 and also the Steyr GB. Both are gas operated with their own unique features.

[Bawanna]

Doesn't an HK P7 work on the same principle. Fixed barrel, gas operated?

Wonder if it heats up the same. Looks nice, I'm not gonna bite on it but looks wise it's a pretty thing.

I have a double stack LDA which is just sweet, I should break it out of the toy box and pack it some, I'm sure it's feeling like a red headed step child about now.

[muggsy]

All guns are gas operated. It it weren't for the gas there would be no recoil. ;)

[Longitude Zero]

Doesn't an HK P7 work on the same principle. Fixed barrel, gas operated?

Yuppa Bawanna. muggsy with semi autos your statement is true. With revolvers you are patently wrong as neither gas nor recoil operates them. The use of the word "all" can be a slippery slope, without the proper qualifier.

[Bawanna]

Perhaps direct gas would be a better descriptor in this case as there actually a gas tube so to speak. Hence the heat and the pain cleaning, decarboning etc.

I still want a P7 some day. Not sure why, just arouses me I guess.

[Longitude Zero]

I still want a P7 some day. Not sure why, just arouses me I guess.

Fired a few and NOT favorably impressed enough to spend any money to buy one. If it was given to me I might keep it. I have seen way to many issue to have any faith in them. NJ State Police gave them up for many very valid reasons. Almost all weapon design oriented.

Now if I every find another functional good conditioned Steyr Gb I am all in.

[MW surveyor]

Yuppa Bawanna. muggsy with semi autos your statement is true. With revolvers you are patently wrong as neither gas nor recoil operates them. The use of the word "all" can be a slippery slope, without the proper qualifier.

So..............................what exactly propels the bullet?

Sorry, gotta be a wise *** from time to time.:blushing:

[Longitude Zero]

Gas expansion propels the bullet but does not function the sidearm aka gas operated which is what he was referring to.

[JFootin]

They have in a different format. The HK P7 and also the Steyr GB. Both are gas operated with their own unique features.

Right. I had forgotten about them. :o