FYI Labor Day SIG service deal

**toml** · August 29th, 2011, 06:42 PM

Just got the email:

SIG Pistol Owners...
Let SIG SAUER® Customize Your Classic Pistol This Labor Day!

Have the SIG SAUER professional gunsmiths perform an Action Enhancement Package and SIG will include these additional services

- Install Short Reset Trigger
- Feed Ramp Polish
- 11 Degree Barrel Re-Crown

Normally $339.95

At the limited time price of...$199.95 Plus shipping + handling*

A savings of $140.00!

With this service, additional Custom Shop services are available at 30% off

Visit our website for more available Custom Shop Services.

Offer is good through Monday September 12, 2011.

PHONE ORDERS ONLY.
Call (866) 619-1128 or (603) 418-8102

Terms and conditions: Cannot be combined with any other offer. U.S Customers only. Sale starts August 30, 2011 at 9AM Eastern. Phone orders only. *VIP Round trip shipping and handling charges of $55.00 apply. SIG pistols available for this service include:P220®, P225®, P226®, P228®, P229® and P239® only.

**mikenac** · August 31st, 2011, 01:17 PM

Does that include the action job, or is that in addition to the price of the action job?

**brownman** · August 31st, 2011, 02:05 PM

Thoughts from Todd/Pistol-Training, with which I agree.

Come On, SIG!
30-Aug-11 – 11:40 by ToddG

Seriously?

The Short Reset Trigger is just a parts swap. I was working at SIG when it was developed by Ethan Lessard (now with AAC) and was lucky enough to get one of the first prototypes. Personally, I wouldn’t want a SIG P220-series pistol without it. But the “SRT” parts don’t cost any more to produce or take any more time to install than the non-SRT trigger mechanism. I’ve never understood the marketing approach of charging extra on a small percentage of “special” guns rather than just, you know, making all the guns as good as they could be at a given price point.

And polishing the feed ramp! Are you kidding me? Why are guns leaving the factory in a condition that requires the feed ramp to be polished after delivery? If a SIG won’t function properly because the feed ramp is too rough, that’s a defect. It’s not something a customer should have to pay to fix. If you don’t think the polish job is actually going to improve function, why are you selling it to people?

Same with recrowning the barrel. I doubt it makes any practical difference to performance but if SIG thinks it does, why doesn’t the gun come that way in the first place? It doesn’t cost any more for the CNC machine to cut the crown at that angle, after all.

Here’s an idea: instead of charging customers $199.95 + S&H for this stuff, how about including it in the $700 or so they paid already for a gun they expected to work? Just an idea…

Train hard & stay safe! ToddG

**toml** · August 31st, 2011, 05:48 PM

I guess I would tend to agree as well. SRT is pretty easy to do. The rest, eh, don't really see much need. But I thought I would post it anyway in case anyone was interested.