Sergei Mosin
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Recently I acquired a gently used SIG P229R DAK in .40 S&W. It is a police surplus gun circa 2008 in very good condition; it appears to have been carried very little and fired even less. Having taken an interest in the .40 S&W some time back, I decided that I wasn't quite as over the cartridge as I thought - at least when I encountered this gun and its interesting trigger at a very reasonable price.
Today was range day - me, 100 rounds of Fiocchi ball, and the 229. I've been shooting mostly revolvers for a while and had forgotten how stiff new doublestack magazines can be! Once that chore was completed, we proceeded to ventilate some paper. The SIG feels good in the hand, if a bit on the wide side, it's accurate, and if the .40 cartridge causes what might seem like excessive muzzle flip at least the recoil isn't bad and the sights can be brought back on target quickly enough.
Now, the trigger. It's true what they say - the DAK trigger really does feel like a good double-action revolver trigger, from the weight to the smooth and even pull to the long reset. I had no trouble letting the trigger make a full reset, but as I said I've been shooting revolvers for a while. If I'd come to the DAK from a lengthy period of 1911 shooting it might have been a bit harder to get used to that long reset - but that's where I think the intermediate reset would shine. If you short-stroke the trigger, no problem - the intermediate reset can help you keep the gun in action.
In fact, I had to make a conscious effort to use the intermediate reset. I noticed that when I did so, the muzzle flip seemed somewhat less - probably because I was concentrating a bit harder and maybe gripping the gun a bit tighter. The pull from the intermediate reset is slightly heavier, but not unpleasantly so, and I noticed no decrease in accuracy from from the full reset. I think that training to use the intermediate reset might allow for slightly faster shooting, simply because of the shorter trigger stroke. More experimentation is in order.
Quite happy with the pistol thus far - I need more practice and a holster, but it's a good candidate for use as a carry gun and around the house. At some point I intend to acquire a .357 SIG barrel too, but that's for the future.
Today was range day - me, 100 rounds of Fiocchi ball, and the 229. I've been shooting mostly revolvers for a while and had forgotten how stiff new doublestack magazines can be! Once that chore was completed, we proceeded to ventilate some paper. The SIG feels good in the hand, if a bit on the wide side, it's accurate, and if the .40 cartridge causes what might seem like excessive muzzle flip at least the recoil isn't bad and the sights can be brought back on target quickly enough.
Now, the trigger. It's true what they say - the DAK trigger really does feel like a good double-action revolver trigger, from the weight to the smooth and even pull to the long reset. I had no trouble letting the trigger make a full reset, but as I said I've been shooting revolvers for a while. If I'd come to the DAK from a lengthy period of 1911 shooting it might have been a bit harder to get used to that long reset - but that's where I think the intermediate reset would shine. If you short-stroke the trigger, no problem - the intermediate reset can help you keep the gun in action.
In fact, I had to make a conscious effort to use the intermediate reset. I noticed that when I did so, the muzzle flip seemed somewhat less - probably because I was concentrating a bit harder and maybe gripping the gun a bit tighter. The pull from the intermediate reset is slightly heavier, but not unpleasantly so, and I noticed no decrease in accuracy from from the full reset. I think that training to use the intermediate reset might allow for slightly faster shooting, simply because of the shorter trigger stroke. More experimentation is in order.
Quite happy with the pistol thus far - I need more practice and a holster, but it's a good candidate for use as a carry gun and around the house. At some point I intend to acquire a .357 SIG barrel too, but that's for the future.
