rudukai13
Pro Internet User
Most of you will be somewhat familiar with how my project threads work, given the Sig subforum was the home for my first dedicated project thread on this site detailing and cataloging my misadventures of modifying, shooting, and repairing a series of P320 pistols:
http://primaryandsecondary.com/foru...ing-project-nemesis-p320-roland-special.3790/
It’s been a while since I had a Sig in my hands to vivisect. Some of you may be aware I desecrated a couple revolvers for a while (HERE and HERE), meanwhile putting the spotlight of my general-purpose, do-anything, high-performance pistol attentions briefly towards a Tanfoglio Defiant Limited Master one-centimeter-yeeter (HERE). The Tanfo was very nice, but the “do it for the memes” wore off pretty quick and I got tired of paying nearly a dollar a round for FMJ range ammo, so it was put up for sale and I went searching for my next 9mm victim. I eventually settled on the highest performance variant of Sig’s classic P226, a pistol well know for its long service life among military, law enforcement, and commercial environments.
Per usual, this will be a long-term ongoing thread detailing any modifications, maintenance, repairs, problems, thoughts, brainstorming, or other adventures that take place with [Amos Burton Voice] the Roci [/Amos Burton Voice]. Updates will be fairly random and there may be long periods where the thread goes dormant, but I expect the shooting updates at least to be fairly regular.
As you can see, the pistol has already been set up with an optic (Holosun 508T-GR X2 with a Springer Precision filler plate), WML (Surefire X300U), and extended base pads/11-coil magazine springs (Springer Precision). As far as part modifications for this gun goes, the current plan is that will be about it for roughly the next year. We’ll see if that plan holds up in the long run…
Last Sunday was the first range day for the new pistol, and as is my usual course of action any time I acquire a new gun intended for serious defensive use I had bought about 700 rounds of mixed 115/124/147 grain FMJ and JHP loads to run through it:
So I loaded down the ammo can, got the Roci dripping with lube like a drunken sorostitute at a Halloweekend frat party, and went off to christen this bitch:
In a little over an hour I shot 300-some rounds of randomly mixed loads. As was expected from a P226, it never once stumbled, eating every single round without complaint:
I alternated shooting the target between 5 and 10 yards, and after the first 50 or so rounds I was basically shooting just about as fast as I could bitch slap the trigger face. Here’s the result:
That is all 300-some odd rounds I fired through the gun. It turns out when you buy a gun that weighs 45 ounces stock, then add an optic and WML, then shoot 9mm ammo through it, it barely fuckin moves. As long as I had just about any half-way decent grip pressure on the thing the muzzle barely lifted, the slide just chugs straight back and forward like a sewing machine. Not even my P320 with three-port comp and frame-mounted optic was this flat or soft shooting, and that includes with 124gr NATO loads that I had on hand during this trip.
I’ll finish up shooting the rest of the initial ammo I bought for it next weekend. But as expected, so far, so good.
So, what’s the current plan for this American-made Wunder Neun? 10,000 rounds by this time next year, at which point the pistol - assuming it’s earned the honor - will be sent off to Bruce Gray at Gray Guns Inc (GGI) for a full rebuild and tuning into a master gunsmith masterpiece, after which it’ll take a quick detour to Mk3 Firearms for one of their patented Single-Stage SAO trigger jobs that leaves literally nothing to be desired from a pistol trigger. Then another 10,000 round year after that.
Alright Sig, Custom Shop, and the venerable P226; Let’s see what you can really do
