09jisaac
Regular Member
Not entirely true. The guns that Todd Jarrett uses in "Stock" class are Para's, and they have to be, by USPSA regulations, quite literally box-stock. They can have trigger jobs and you can replace the sights, but that's about it as far as customization and tweaking...
You can have the throat/slide polished and a trigger job. Those can potentially really change the feel/handling/reliability of a gun. I don't want to take a gun straight from the gun store to a gun smith to have it where it would shoot reliably or smooth.
USPSA 2004
ISPC: 19.1 Modifications to them, other than minor detailing, are prohibited.
USPSA: 21.4 Action work to enhance reliability (throating, trigger work, etc.) is allowed.
I am not saying he didn't get a production model and put it straight into competition. And I am not saying that para is a bad gun. I am just saying you cannot accurately say that a manufacturer is producing quality goods just because someone famous uses their product.