Anyone have a Para Ordnance G I Expert?

A friend's son who is in the 82nd Airborne bought a special edition Para that they made just for them, all engraved and marked for the 82nd.

So far, it's a piece of junk: Failures to feed, fire, extract, eject....the whole nine.

It's headed back to the factory as we speak.

Really disappointed me too, as I've always heard Para made a first-rate product.

:eyeroll:

Scharfschuetze said:

That's really weird. Another club member who shoots HP rifle with us liked mine so much he bought one a week after I did; he also has not had a single malfunction of any kind. Is your friend's son shooting factory ammunition? Mine is smooth as glass and has never hiccuped.

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He says all he's shot in it is several different brands of 230 gr. hardball. You'd think any 1911 would run that without a hiccup. His IS a hi-cap, don't know if that makes a diff., but Para has been building hi-caps for ages - you wouldn't think it would matter.

He just got a bad one. That can happen with anything I suppose. From what I've heard of Para, I have every confidence that they'll straighten it out or replace it with a new one.

:idk: