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RamItOne · March 14, 2012, 02:07 PM

I had been meaning to update but most of the time im on here w/ my Iphone and don't want to type this much w/ it.

Caz83, yeah I had spoken with a local gunsmith but seeing that I spent around 1,000 for the pistol I didn't want a quick fix that could then give Sig grounds to back out of their warranty.

Diag- Think it was prolly 5 times that I sent it in, they have very poor communication skills, every time I explained and wrote what the problem was, their response was just have the gunsmith reassemble the pistol and send it back. The last time they wound up replacing IIRC the main spring, the grip safety and the ambi safety. There is still a lil lock up sometimes when I try to flip the safety from safe to fire on the ambi, enough for me to never consider carrying the firearm for EDC. I still love the pistol, dead on, not a fan of the target sights as the windage gets loose after a day at the range. I may try some thread locker. Its a poor design where I have to flip up the elevation in order to reach the windage screw, why not drill a large enough hole on the elevation part to allow access to the windage screw.

The new problem I have is the slide locks back maybe 20 percent of the time after the last bullet is fired. Had two different people shoot it multiple times with the same issue. It's not the magazine, I'll use my friends mags from his springfield and get the same result, he'll use my mags in his and itll lock back. Really dont want to send it off again. However I can thank them for taking their sweet time with it, since I couldn't shoot the sig that I bought I wound up buying a MnP 9mm (only for the range) to fill the void, but its a blast to shoot.

I was becoming a huge sig fan, had already purchased the P250c .40, then the 1911, was already planning on the P229 and P238 and have eyed the 226 X5 for a long time, but the 1911 and the customer service experience has sadly put a bad taste in my mouth. I know the P229 and X5 are fine pistols, just have to give sig a rest from a while, like taking a break from a once good relationship that went badly

March 14, 2012, 02:07 PM	#39
RamItOne Senior Member Join Date: May 24, 2011 Posts: 990	I had been meaning to update but most of the time im on here w/ my Iphone and don't want to type this much w/ it. Caz83, yeah I had spoken with a local gunsmith but seeing that I spent around 1,000 for the pistol I didn't want a quick fix that could then give Sig grounds to back out of their warranty. Diag- Think it was prolly 5 times that I sent it in, they have very poor communication skills, every time I explained and wrote what the problem was, their response was just have the gunsmith reassemble the pistol and send it back. The last time they wound up replacing IIRC the main spring, the grip safety and the ambi safety. There is still a lil lock up sometimes when I try to flip the safety from safe to fire on the ambi, enough for me to never consider carrying the firearm for EDC. I still love the pistol, dead on, not a fan of the target sights as the windage gets loose after a day at the range. I may try some thread locker. Its a poor design where I have to flip up the elevation in order to reach the windage screw, why not drill a large enough hole on the elevation part to allow access to the windage screw. The new problem I have is the slide locks back maybe 20 percent of the time after the last bullet is fired. Had two different people shoot it multiple times with the same issue. It's not the magazine, I'll use my friends mags from his springfield and get the same result, he'll use my mags in his and itll lock back. Really dont want to send it off again. However I can thank them for taking their sweet time with it, since I couldn't shoot the sig that I bought I wound up buying a MnP 9mm (only for the range) to fill the void, but its a blast to shoot. I was becoming a huge sig fan, had already purchased the P250c .40, then the 1911, was already planning on the P229 and P238 and have eyed the 226 X5 for a long time, but the 1911 and the customer service experience has sadly put a bad taste in my mouth. I know the P229 and X5 are fine pistols, just have to give sig a rest from a while, like taking a break from a once good relationship that went badly