Well, I just bought a P238 HD -- stainless steel 380.
Hope I didn't get one of the recent crops of lemons.
The first year of production of the P238 around 2009 was full of lemons. The switch to a flat wire recoil spring was the main upgrade that made mine reliable. With mine, there was not enough room in the recoil spring cavity for the round wire spring. Under recoil, the spring would become coil bound, eventually plastically deform and bind up the pistol.
Sig also went through a couple of different magazine followers. I am not sure if Sig made any other major changes after the recoil spring.
During this time, folks tried Mustang springs and magazines. My P238 never worked reliably with those parts in the gun either.
Since about 2010, the P238 has pretty much been as reliable as a light switch.
Kind of back to the subject of the thread, I have two Sig M1911 pistols that have been reliable. I got them because I like M1911s and they are chambered in 40 S&W and 357 Sig. I can work on them if they had problems.
The escapade with the P238 has soured me on any other Sig pistols.
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