Para Frame Long Slide 1911 Build

[Boehlertaught]

Well, here it is. Shot This beast Sunday and it did exactly what I wanted...it is a tack driver. The 6" Caspian slide keeps the 9mm recoil at a minimum and the old school Aristocrat rear sight just means I'm old because I think it's kind of cool.
I had the old Para frame sitting around doing nothing and had spoken to the folks at Caspian about another project and mentioned, in passing, that I had an original Aristocrat sight. They said they had a 6" stainless slide with the cut for the rear sight and the deal was set at that time.

 

[Gunbuffer]

Cool pistol!

 

[Fr Mulcahy]

What brand of frame did you use? What brand of fire control system?

Did you mill the slide and frame for fitup, or did you hand-fit them?

Thanks,
FrMulcahy

 

[Boehlertaught]

The frame is Para Ordinance. I bought it on OUSAbut don't remember from whom. I'm imbarrased to say i built the fire control system from stock parts I had. I tuned the trigger to a crisp 3.5 pounds.