JR24
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So, my Holy Grail gun, for carry, has been a nebulous series of features and sizes relative to my hands.
I want a good SAO trigger, double stack capacity, and appropriate dimensions/weight for me to be able to CCW.
I've tried almost all the options over the years and more or less consigned myself to waiting to afford a Wilson EDC X9, even if I had to buy it sight unseen (I hate buying a gun without shooting it first). Most guns have been close; 1911s are great but too few bullets, CZs were nice but the safety location doesnt work, Sig SAO were very nice but the grip never meshed with my grip.
Until now.
The announcement of the SIG 229 legion made me finally decide to look at the Legion Sigs, which i had written off because most sigs just dont fit. I couldn't rent a Legion SAO but on two trips I rented a DA/SA 226 legion and wouldnt you know it, the undercut and beavertail fit perfect.
So, I took the plunge and bought a 226 Legion SAO and ran it through most of 500 rounds today and earned a big grin and a few blisters.
I love it, it might have solved my search for my perfect CCW. The trigger is very nice, beautiful short reset smooth light. It's no 1911 or tuned CZ but it is close enough for me. It certainly took some getting used to as I've been shooting almost exclusively Glock since March. The safety is in the right place and fits my 1911 muscle memory perfect, and the size fits for my CCW needs, a Vedder and a tshirt and it vanishes.
Accuracy was great*, and it fed everything I tossed at it, including a whole box of HST.
*caviat: I started with some factory loads and some of my hotter 124 grain handloads. They, plus HST, were dead on. The bulk of the ammo I had loaded is a weaker 147 grain FMJ and the 226 ran that at a six o clock sight picture that was harder for me to remember my holdover. I'll have to load my next batch hotter and see if I cant get the POI/POA where I like em.
Couple pics of a 7 yard dot torture, a ben stoeger 6 circle and 10 rounds at 25, offhand (the tighter 5 round group is where I got my holdunder dialed in).
TL/DR: i got a Sig P226 Legion SAO and I love it. Sorry Glock 19X, kitchen gun duty for you now.
I want a good SAO trigger, double stack capacity, and appropriate dimensions/weight for me to be able to CCW.
I've tried almost all the options over the years and more or less consigned myself to waiting to afford a Wilson EDC X9, even if I had to buy it sight unseen (I hate buying a gun without shooting it first). Most guns have been close; 1911s are great but too few bullets, CZs were nice but the safety location doesnt work, Sig SAO were very nice but the grip never meshed with my grip.
Until now.
The announcement of the SIG 229 legion made me finally decide to look at the Legion Sigs, which i had written off because most sigs just dont fit. I couldn't rent a Legion SAO but on two trips I rented a DA/SA 226 legion and wouldnt you know it, the undercut and beavertail fit perfect.
So, I took the plunge and bought a 226 Legion SAO and ran it through most of 500 rounds today and earned a big grin and a few blisters.
I love it, it might have solved my search for my perfect CCW. The trigger is very nice, beautiful short reset smooth light. It's no 1911 or tuned CZ but it is close enough for me. It certainly took some getting used to as I've been shooting almost exclusively Glock since March. The safety is in the right place and fits my 1911 muscle memory perfect, and the size fits for my CCW needs, a Vedder and a tshirt and it vanishes.
Accuracy was great*, and it fed everything I tossed at it, including a whole box of HST.
*caviat: I started with some factory loads and some of my hotter 124 grain handloads. They, plus HST, were dead on. The bulk of the ammo I had loaded is a weaker 147 grain FMJ and the 226 ran that at a six o clock sight picture that was harder for me to remember my holdover. I'll have to load my next batch hotter and see if I cant get the POI/POA where I like em.
Couple pics of a 7 yard dot torture, a ben stoeger 6 circle and 10 rounds at 25, offhand (the tighter 5 round group is where I got my holdunder dialed in).
TL/DR: i got a Sig P226 Legion SAO and I love it. Sorry Glock 19X, kitchen gun duty for you now.