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Sitting here holding a Sig Sauer P6... an excellent design by the way. Mag capacity is 8 rounds of 9mm. The P6 was designed as far as I can circa 1975. The only deficiency as far as I can tell is the low magazine capacity.
Also have a CZ 75 compact and a CZ P07 here too... mag capacity is 14 and 16 respectively, in nearly identical frame pistol. The CZ 75 was designed in 1975 and the PO7 came decades later.
Pondering how or why it never occurred to the German designers to try to design the grip a little different to create a double stack magazine to get a few more rounds in it.
Perhaps more modern designers have benefited from computer CAD programs. But for two pistols to be made in the same era (1975) by premier engineers, for military/law enforcement purposes, with equivalent dimensions but drastically different capacity, just puzzles me. Clearly the concept of high capacity was not lost on the Europeans - they did afterall have the Browning Hi Power, which predated the Sig P6...
I can't believe they would purposefully want a low capacity single stack magazine when a few tweeks here and there could have created a double stack with nearly twice the capacity, like the CZ75 compact.
We see other examples between modern makers, in the quest for higher capacity.
Beretta 92FS has a standard magazine of 15 rounds. MecGar has figured out how to put 18 in the same size magazine... why hasn't Beretta followed suit?
Some others like Springfield XD and CZ are pushing 19 rounds in their pistols, which have grips no more wide than the Beretta 92FS.
Seems some engineers are really behind the curve given that capacity is a sales point for many consumers (not all, and certainly not the most important sales point to be clear).
The 1911 benefits from a slim single stack design... but for instance the P6 does not really as compared to the G19, XD 9mm, S&W M&P, CZ75 compact, and a bunch of others that are double stack...
Also have a CZ 75 compact and a CZ P07 here too... mag capacity is 14 and 16 respectively, in nearly identical frame pistol. The CZ 75 was designed in 1975 and the PO7 came decades later.
Pondering how or why it never occurred to the German designers to try to design the grip a little different to create a double stack magazine to get a few more rounds in it.
Perhaps more modern designers have benefited from computer CAD programs. But for two pistols to be made in the same era (1975) by premier engineers, for military/law enforcement purposes, with equivalent dimensions but drastically different capacity, just puzzles me. Clearly the concept of high capacity was not lost on the Europeans - they did afterall have the Browning Hi Power, which predated the Sig P6...
I can't believe they would purposefully want a low capacity single stack magazine when a few tweeks here and there could have created a double stack with nearly twice the capacity, like the CZ75 compact.
We see other examples between modern makers, in the quest for higher capacity.
Beretta 92FS has a standard magazine of 15 rounds. MecGar has figured out how to put 18 in the same size magazine... why hasn't Beretta followed suit?
Some others like Springfield XD and CZ are pushing 19 rounds in their pistols, which have grips no more wide than the Beretta 92FS.
Seems some engineers are really behind the curve given that capacity is a sales point for many consumers (not all, and certainly not the most important sales point to be clear).
The 1911 benefits from a slim single stack design... but for instance the P6 does not really as compared to the G19, XD 9mm, S&W M&P, CZ75 compact, and a bunch of others that are double stack...
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