Re: .45 vs. .357
Hi again folks,
Sorry for the intrusion but what a fantastic discussion. As for the Sig 229 in .357 Sig I can attest to the durability of it. Last night I shot with my FAM friend at the range and they carry the 229 in .357 as do I. Their pistol is beaten to death... and I mean in excess of 20K rounds while they only clean their guns every 800 rounds or so. I found their beaten 229 to be as accurate as my brand new 229... at least in my hands and that's 1.5 to 2" at 15 slow fire for 20 rounds. That's not bad for a CC gun and certainly for one as beat up as that one. After the range I volunteered to clean their 229 and what I found was astonishing. The frame and slide are nearly perfect but the barrel has been eaten alive. Just in front of the chamber on the bottom, where carbon tends to lie after hundreds of rounds, it looks like the face of the moon from subsequent bullets grinding carbon along. From 1.5" out the rifling looked fine and this pistol still shoots fantastically well.
And finally another testament to these fantastic guns, and the Sig Night Sights. They practice jacking the slide by using the rear sight and slamming it against airplane seat arms or whatever they can find to simulate being one handed. And it still shoots like that! Fantastic firearm, fantastic round, and the recoil is not significant enough to stop anyone from using it.
thanks
ran
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