My SIG-Sauer P226 AL SO (alot of pics)
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Awesome thread. Thanks for posting the pictures.
My Sig 226 is about the same age and is electroless nickel. 9x19.
Just curious and hope I am not derailing, can you carry that Sig in public? Can you keep it loaded and use it for self defense inside your home?
My Sig 226 is about the same age and is electroless nickel. 9x19.
Just curious and hope I am not derailing, can you carry that Sig in public? Can you keep it loaded and use it for self defense inside your home?
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https://www.bignami.it/it/per-pistola_D106_088_AT2/17788-walther-canna-9-luger-p99[/QUOTE]
That's seems a lot of money for a pistol barrel. Over here, pre pandemic, brand new P99ASs were $300.
https://www.bignami.it/it/per-pistola_D106_088_AT2/17788-walther-canna-9-luger-p99[/QUOTE]
That's seems a lot of money for a pistol barrel. Over here, pre pandemic, brand new P99ASs were $300.
In Italy to be able to carry concealed a pistol you must obtain a carry license which is issued only to a few categories of people, based mainly on the type of work they do. If you are a lawyer you will be able to get a carry license; if you carry gold, diamonds, jewelry or cash, you will be able to obtain a licensed carry; if you are an entrepreneur with a certain certified annual turnover you will be able to obtain a carry license; if you are a real life threatened person you can get a carry license. In short, to obtain a carry license you must have a job at risk or be a person at risk. There are also some categories of people who can carry a pistol without a license carry and they are, for example, judges and parliamentarians. In any case, even if you have a carry license you cannot carry the pistol inside public places such as bars, restaurants, public offices, stadiums, cinemas, supermarkets, shops, etc. In practice, even with a licensed carry, you can carry your pistol only on the street or in the car or in the countryside. I will never have a carry license because I don't have a risky job and I'm not a risk person. My license is of the sports type and allows me to buy any firearm legally sold in Italy, ammunition, and allows me to transport up to 3 weapons (unloaded) to go to shoot at the range, to sell them, to take them for repair, etc.
Regarding the second question: yes, can I keep the weapons loaded and carry them inside the place where I live and its appurtenances (for example the fenced garden around the house).
Yes, it is alot of money. Prices are much higher here. The only pistol that has a similar price here and in the USA is the Glock Gen3 which is 600 euros. I paid 650 euros for my P99 at least 10 years ago but it was on offer. Normally it was 750 euros.
A SIG-Sauer like mine has a MSRP of 1400 euros more or less.
Thank you, a compliment from a certified SIG-Sauer armorer is worth double to me. I think the good internal conditions of the pistol depend above all on good lubrication. Also, being a range-only pistol, its external conditions remain practically those of a new pistol because I do a recreational type of shooting without training with draw and holstering.
Someday I will post a discussion showing the internal conditions of my Walther P99 AS which fired around 5000 rounds, if I remember correctly (I have to check the data). I assure you that it looks like it fired 500 rounds, not 5000. Even then, good lubrication and an extremely tough surface finish mean the pistol doesn't show the rounds it fired.
As for accuracy, this is what the pistol is capable to do in my hands using factory FMJ-RN. Surely a better shooter could do much better, perhaps looking for the best pistol/ammo combination and experimenting with reloads. The various 10 shots groups were done at 10 yards, 2 hands, standing, low fire. The mistakes are all my fault as I'm sure this pistol is capable to make a one hole group at 10 yards from the rest all day long.
commygun
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I wish all the assembly/disassembly manuals had photos with half the clarity of yours. Great stuff!
JTQ
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Since you sent me here from the "Do you clean your guns" thread https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/do-you-guys-clean-after-one-mag-through.912044/
and you happen to have a SIG P226 here, I'll share this SIG Academy clean/lube video.
As I said, you can degrease all you want. It isn't needed, and it makes makes cleaning more difficult, not just the extra steps, but by not allowing the lube/cleaner to do it's job, because you keep stripping it off with a degreaser. However, if that is what works for you, keep on doing it.
My input in all this is because you asked how this would work for me. I could post bunches of other videos of folks cleaning without degreasing, but you get the point, and you just have a different way of doing things, and that's fine.
and you happen to have a SIG P226 here, I'll share this SIG Academy clean/lube video.
As I said, you can degrease all you want. It isn't needed, and it makes makes cleaning more difficult, not just the extra steps, but by not allowing the lube/cleaner to do it's job, because you keep stripping it off with a degreaser. However, if that is what works for you, keep on doing it.
My input in all this is because you asked how this would work for me. I could post bunches of other videos of folks cleaning without degreasing, but you get the point, and you just have a different way of doing things, and that's fine.
Sorry if I may sound presumptuous (and I am) but I have higher standards than this guy in every aspect of gun cleaning starting with my position (how can you clean a pistol carefully while standing?) and the position of the various parts of the gun on the work table since I don't usually allow the various parts to collide with each other when I clean my guns. Sorry but I wouldn't have this guy clean my P226 even if he were paying for it (actually I wouldn't even let him touch it). I care too much about my P226. What he does is "clean" the pistol as I would do with what I have in my pockets in the middle of a forest. However, he clearly says that if you want you can use some solvent in the barrel. His goodness.
We are on two galaxies far distant from each other.
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Heir Kommt Die Sonne
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There's service cleaning; and then there's a proper cleaning. We all have proper standards of both.
When I do a deep cleaning I feel like i'm working on a project again. Which isn't a bad thing because the end result is so clean and neat. It's how I treat my revolvers.
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