[mtsurette]

So for the past few months, I've been debating what I wanted to get for my next gun. I was torn between a SIG P226 and a S&W 1911. I like the style, feel and tradition of a 1911, but I love SIG's guns. They just feel right to me.

So imagin how happy I was to get home from a weekend of camping to see an email from my favorite gun shop announcing the arrivial of SIG's very oen MA compliant 1911. I think my choice has been made for me now.

To anyone outside of MA, do you have any experiance with SIG's 1911? Just curious to how they stack up to others.

Oh, and would anyone like to buy a kidney off me so I can afford one? (jk)

 

[FF1063]

I could sure use that kidney!
You don't happen to be O positive?

 

[aryfrosty]

SIGs

I completely agree with your choice of pistols. SIGs are hard to beat. I bought my youngest son a P-239 in 9mm with SigLites and he loves it. I bought myself a P-229 and a P-239 in .40 S&W and put Crimson trace grips on the 239. My "grab it all, Maw, it's a going to ****" rig is the P-229 with 7 spare mags and a Bushmaster M-4. The 239 is great for a Mika IWB holster and trips to the store. The Sigs replaced a set of Glocks in .40 and I really trust them. Regards

 

[2Bits]

Sigs are a great pistol but those 1911's will put that first shot on target with a lot more regularity! I once owned 5 Sig Sauer's, down to just 4 at the present and I do like the feel in my hand.........they fit me like an expensive leather glove.

Sig's are very accurate right out of the box, I think more so than a Springfied 1911 perhaps. I like the 1911's a lot too but my carry guns are Glocks in sub-compact, not as accurate out of the box as a Sig would be but very dependable under all circumstances.

 

[Tang]

Sigs are great, and always accurate. But, I had a P229 in .357 SIG, that I loved dearly. Until one range trip, it kept choking on my carry ammo. After that I no longer trusted it, so it had to go. If my Glock ever does the same, it will leave to. But like Tracer, I prefer sub compact Glocks for carry guns. The dependability speaks for itself for me.

Now back to the topic at hand. I played with a couple of the Sig 1911's at my friends shop, and again I agree with Tracer. I shot better with those than the Springfield we had out there. But I still shot better with my S&W 1911. They looked very similar, but shot very different, go figure.

 

[mtsurette]

I know it wouldn't be as comfortable to carry as a compact. I think I'm looking at the SIG 1911 more for my home collection and to bring to the range, than as a carry gun.

 

[2Bits]

I have a collection of 1911's and like my dogs, I love them all but the GLOCK model 21-sf, is also a carry gun for me when an issue presents it's self. Sometimes in winter I carry the model 21 (.45acp cal) and the model 20 Glock in 10mm both together. The model 21 Glock has 13 rounds in that magazine or clip.

 

[M1Garand]

Sigs are great, and always accurate. But, I had a P229 in .357 SIG, that I loved dearly. Until one range trip, it kept choking on my carry ammo. After that I no longer trusted it, so it had to go. If my Glock ever does the same, it will leave to. But like Tracer, I prefer sub compact Glocks for carry guns. The dependability speaks for itself for me.

Tang, I've shot thousands and thousands of rounds through 3 SIG P226's (1 9mm and 2 40's) and have yet to have one misfire or jam. I've also been around others shooting them as much as I have and have yet to see a malfunction. I sold my old 9mm to my dad for his CPL and when he went through the firing phase, his was the only handgun that day that did not malfuncion. He said everyone there wanted to know what kind it was. If you had problems with your P229, there's a rare chance you had one that was a lemon, but I'm betting it was either A) something to do with the cartridge being bottlenecked or B) the ammo you were using. Either way, for some reason it wasn't feeding right and I doubt it was a result of the firearm. My guess would be the ammo.

 

[Tang]

125gr Speer Gold Dots. THE bullet that was designed around that cartridge. Im not knocking them at all, and I will have another. But with my carry gun, I dont take chances ya know ?

 

[M1Garand]

I don't blame you. If I had that sort of exp, I'd probably lose some confidence it it. I know some rounds in the semi pistols can not feel well due to the meplat of the bullet. I have a friend who had the SIG in the 357 and I don't recall him ever having issues with it. Maybe you got one that was the exception rather then the norm. Do you think being a bottleneck cartridge had anything to do with it? Did you try different ammo? I'm curious to know what the issue may have been.

 

[Tang]

I was able to get it to replicate the stoppage with WWB also. I absolutely loved that gun. I shot very well with it, and it felt great in my hand. I had an LEO kit, with the .40 S&W and .357 SIG barrels, along with 4 magazines and night sights. I want another 229.

 

[M1Garand]

I definately like mine too...but I don't like the DAK as much. I was looking at getting one in a 45 ACP.

 

[2Bits]

Gentlemen no matter what pistol you may have your mind set to purchase, there is always going to be a "LEMON" in all the thousands of pistols that a manufacturer produces in a given year. I once had a good friend of mine have problems with his Colt Python he purchased back in the mid-80's. I had a problem once with a Colt Diamond back pistol I bought for the wife years ago. Nonetheless Colts were and still are very good quality pistols!

I really like the way the Sigs feel in my hand but I cannot deal with the De-Cocking Lever that is on those type of guns, not for my CCW tool being on my person 10 or 14 hours a day. The Glocks serve me well as sub-compacts, I don't think I could handle one of my Kimbers 1911's being on my hip for 8 straight hours anymore......they do get heavy.

 

[digisol]

Lemons ? had two, allthough one ended up to be a real good shooter, lemon 1 was a Taurus .357, the S&W 686 copy, had one rifling land machined off on one side at a 45 deg angle and another land with a square section cut from the edge of the land, what a piece of junk.
That ended up in court, where the wholesale importer paid out the purchase price and all costs, but I won't be buying another Taurus, not this century.

The second was a .38spl S&W mod 14, the forcing cone was macined with a huge step into it, makes the term forcing put in a new light.
No big issue, S&W replaced the barrel in about a week with what could only be described as the pick of the bunch that would easy shoot 1.5" at 50 yards with any ammo, not too shabby once some added trigger mods and conversion to DAO, still have it, great easy shooting paper puncher.

I'm in the market now for a new auto pistol, and the Sig was one in my short list, only worry is the mega high cost of it here at near twice that of a 92FS Inox, which are not cheap down here anyway at just over 2 grand AUD.

Had a De-cocker mod 96 Beretta in .40 s&w which was a real PIA in some IPSC competition with the spring loaded de-cocking function, in several matches I was not allowed to use it, as it essentially has no safety once de-cocked, was only an average shooter, would never choose another de-cocker, no matter what.

Sig, nice chunky metal guns but probably way over priced, easy to get a better gun a lot cheaper, but they have a good following and have never heard anything bad about em, except the price, like most best to shoot a hundred rounds through one before paying all that cash for any Sig.

Glocks are Ok, a tad light for comp guns but with a match barrel and trigger mods you can have a decent gun, one of the cheapest down here in Australia, worth consideration for a carry gun, and once the trigger pull is mastered they shoot fine, i've shot both the 17 and 34 models, and for me they both functioned perfectly and both shot into the ten ring, just a bit too light for me, I prefer a colt gold cup .45, feels and shoots like a real gun, I guess for a carry gun it could get heavy but if trusting my life to it the weight would soon be ignored.