Terry pays special attention to chamber specs, the link ?t and the cut, angle and surface ?t of the full-length guide rod. The reliability package is critical on an LE gun, especially a 1911. He replaced the firing pin stop and the trigger Terrys elected is from King’s Gun Works,especially made for the widebodied Para frame. Terry also ?tted an Ed Brown steel mag catch, grip safety and mainspring housing. He added a match bushing providing consistent 1″ groups at 25 yards.The Para shot very well before, but now it’s a laser beam. First the stock, curved Para rear sight and front sight came off to be replaced with Novak adjustables, for a perfect zero no matter what load you reshooting. His modi?cations to my P-14 were all with reliability in mind cop necessary reliability. Terry’s magic is combining the two disciplines and coming up with something artfully beautiful you can trust with your life. There are a lot of guns out there beautifully finished and finely accessorized, but if they don’t go bang each and every time you pull the trigger you might as well put a gold chain through them and wear one as a necklace to the next squad barbeque. The everyday working cop needs a gun that’ll go bang every time he pushes the go button. His creations aren’t just eye-candy they work, and they’re reliable. Terry should be considered a jeweler.Not the kind making rings and bobbles,but the Swiss watchmaker kind. They’re a bugger (not the real word he used but your kid might read this) to work on but you’ll never recognize it when I get through with it.” He was right. In his usual gruff, gravelly voice he said, “Send me the damn thing. (I know real men don’t use the word serendipity but it was my word of the week in the increase your vocabulary lesson and I have to use it at least once a day.) I was talking with old friend Terry Tussey about a gun he’d built for me years ago, and the “Para hatchet” came up in conversation. But, it still shot and that’s what’s really important isn’t it? Besides, 14 rounds in the magazine and one in the chamber is nothing to sneeze at. I’d worn it daily for about a year and it looked like I’d used it as a hatchet rather than a Rangemaster’s every day gun.The black Para Kote ?nish was worn in the spots you’d expect from countless draws from Kydex holsters,chipped and gouged in spots you’d never expect to be vulnerable, and scraped down to the quick in other places like I said, a train wreck. I just can’t get used to the trigger pull and sear reset.I didn’t realize I’d been that hard on the gun. My personal preference was a single action and not the LDA light double Para offers. 45 ACP in a 1911-style pistol, but I also wanted capacity.
I wanted something substantial, one way of saying.
I was rooting around my safe and came across the Para Ordnance P14-45 I used at the range just prior to retiring from the PD.
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