Why is it so hard for many of you to digest the fact that there may be a better gun out there than Sig. Honestly speaking HK P30, if you ever held one, beats Sig hands down in all departments.
Well, your lone SIG experience is with a few variants of the P226, a full size service / duty pistol, and you're comparing it to a Compact HK. I bet if you'd started with four variants of the USP, and then handled a SIG P239 or P229e2 your opinions would be significantly different. If 1911s were more your style then a Commander size piece with a lightweight aluminum or scandium frame would beat the heck out of a steel frame government model (but I carry a 5" steel frame 1911 comfortably, so what the hades do I know).
We're not having any trouble understanding that there are subjectively better guns out there than SIGs: You just seem to have trouble selecting carry guns. Objectively SIGs, Glocks, HKs, S&Ws, XDs, Rugers, FNs, etc; are all durable, reliable, and plenty accurate for self defence. Objectively it takes hair splitting to define the better gun of the major brands. Subjectively a given model from the major brands may be better than that from another brand based upon personal preference, departmental policy, or agency protocol.
The reason I kept buying Sig was for different models (within 226) trying to understand and find fault in me, but it was the gun- wasn't for me.
For the life of me I can't figure out why you'd keep buying P226 variants when you state you want a smaller and lighter carry gun. The P239, 225, 228, and 229 are smaller and lighter than the P226. Just because it wasn't for you doesn't make it overrated, nor even bad. Heck, SIGs aren't for me. I've spent so much time with 1911s that my thumbs hit the slide stop/release, and I fumble with the decocker when I'm trying to hit the slide release (take a close look at the layout of both guns, and you'll understand). That still doesn't make SIGs bad, it just means I'd need to train with SIGs to transition from 1911s if I wanted to carry SIGs.
On the other hand, my previous room mate ran off and became a Special Agent. He's a Glock armorer, but his agency issues the SIG P229. He bought a P229 a few months before he left for FLETC so he could make the transition from Glock to SIG ahead of time, rather than in training where it would be a handicap. Lo and behold, early on he found out that slow fire, from a rest, to test mechanical accuracy, the SIG shot better groups. Go figure.
How does the P30 not beat a Sig226? Care to explain this a little?
I'll explain it again. You're comparing a full size duty gun to a compact pistol. If I were to compare a HK USP to the SIG P229 in terms of utility for a CCW the P229 would clean the USP's clock.
P30 is a completely ambidextrous pistol and ergonomically superior to Sig226.
Again, let's compare apples to apples, and oranges to oranges. For a CCW pistol if you switch the P226 to the P229 (P229e2 for me) and compare it to the HK P30 then you have a much more level playing field.
Why in the world would you want an unnecessarily heavy pistol. It does not make it more effective.
Again, I don't know. Please tell us why you kept buying these full size SIG P226s - rather than compact SIGs, HKs, Glocks, S&Ws, etc - when you wanted a lighter carry pistol? Why don't you buy a Glock 21 for your next carry pistol and tell us how big & heavy it is, and how Glocks are so over rated. Then we'll tell you that you should've purchased a Glock 19/23/32/38 or 26/27/33/36/39 if you wanted a carry gun.
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All I have say to Sig is basically, lose some weight and get a damn haircut, so its ergonomic and lighter and not chunky.
Again, they're called the P239, P228, and P229 - especially the P229e2: They're not mythical creatures.
