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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!mimsy!
- From: (MJ)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: SIG Sauer P226: I now understand the cult
- Message-ID: <4360@eastman.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 04:00:12 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <9301201657.AA07226@optilink.com>, cramer@optilink.com (Clayton
- Cramer) wrote:
- #
- # My last encounter with the P226 left me underwhelmed. I have one in stock
- # for a customer at the moment, and I am beginning to understand the cult of
- # the SIG. It's esthetically hopeless, but ergonomically beautiful. Every
- # control comes to position perfectly. The lack of ambidextrous controls
- # causes me no suffering whatsoever, because I can manipulate EVERYTHING
- # with the left hand. The double action trigger is the first that I can recall
- # that doesn't make me feel like I'm being punished for having double action.
- #
- # Now, if only it wasn't almost twice as expensive as most of its competitors...
-
- I believe there is a SIG cult. IMHO, they are too expensive for what you
- get but they are ergonomically nice. Howevever, as a lefty I found the
- hammer drop very difficult to actuate without shifting my grip.
-
- MJ
-
- [As if you didn't already know, my opinions are my own and not my
- company's.]
-