This was, and still is, my first Para Ordnance P14. She was originally purchased as a lightweight alloy frame kit with a 13 round magazine, then pieced together with an old nickel plated Colt Commander top end and guts. She shows her 1980s heritage with her long Videcki trigger, Ed Brown Ambidextrous thumb safety, King's extended slide release, Pachmayr grip safety and mainspring housing, and Dwyer Group Gripper barrel link kit. She's also grown a set of Hogue wrap around grips, like almost every center fire pistol I own, and set of Meprolight adjustable tritium night sights - no slide butchering needed.
God knows how many thousand rounds of Hydrashok, Gold Dot, Black Talons, and TAPs later and all she's lost are a few recoil springs and a bit of finish around the edges. For her fashion shot she's wearing one of my newer (only a few years old) favorite IWB holsters, a CQC by Blackhawk, with a spare mag in one of the newer Bianchi pouches I mentioned in my last post.
And those 20+ year old, 13 round, "vintage" Para Ordnance factory magazines have been replaced for most uses by the newer factory 15 round models, and show a lot of bare metal these days, but they still work in every Para I own.
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