9mm Conversion...

[chad allred]

I am about to start my 9mm conversion project so I would love to have some of your"Expert" imput!I am starting with my P-14 lda bottom end because it has had extensive trigger work and I am having real good luck and shooting some pretty good scores with it.I am thinking a STI slide and a Nowlin barrel?What do you think?

[Jon Merricks]

I wish I had mine in front of me so I could look, but I don't think a regular slide will work. I can't recall but I thought there were some special cuts for the saftey or trigger on the slide. Maybe Salior will chime in, I hear he is real handy with LDA's.

[jjanglin]

regular slide will not work unless you do some pretty

fancy welding to it ,Best bet is to have brownells special

order you a 9mm slide,Para themselves Ive found to be

terrible to deal with,Tha John Westerfield who is head

of sales is a reall dandy.!!!

Jim

Sailors custom

[chad allred]

Thanks guys,I will talk to Para ftf at the Steel challenge!

[bountyhunter]

Ditto, the slide that mates with an LDA has some special cuts and also the firing pin blocking safety stuff is not "1911 standard".

Might be cheaper to get a 9mm barrel made that drops into your existing slide..... or just buy the complete top end for a 9mm Para LDA.

In most cases, buying a new top end from a manufacturer costs more than a good used gun of the same incarnation.....