I carry a P226 in 9mm in a Blade-tech IWB holster. It is an excellent weapon.. very accurate, fits my hand very well, I shoot left-handed and can still work all the controls with my firing hand, and it shoots any type of ammo I put thru it. You can still find new (pre-ban)15rd magazines for the 226 for about $50.00 or so if you look for em. The added weight isn`t that much of a bother with a good belt and holster combo, and I can wear it and hide it rather easily, I`m 6`1" 200lbs and my girlfriend doesn`t know I have it most of the time. I sometimes carry a P239 in 9mm also.. as either a back-up or my primary when I only have a t-shirt on.. it`s just as reliable as my 226.
The company I work for is doing training for a large corporation`s Executive Protection unit. I am the AI in the firearms portion of this training. The company has bought and is issuing Sig P229s in 9mm to each officer. In the last 6 weeks we have fired just over 80,000 rounds of ammo thru these pistols, 10,000 last week alone with 8 shooters in 3 days. Aside from the occasional limp wristed shooter or inverted primer (we are using factory reloaded ammo) we have yet to have any type of major malfunction. I should clarify that.. they have 8 pistols for use with the class.. so each class uses the same pistols over and over, they aren`t issued their own pistol until they pass the class.
My partner also carrys a Sig P226, he has since 1986, and it has well over 500,000 rounds thru it. He has sent it back to Sig for a set of new rails after about 300,000, and he changes the springs every 5000 or so. I sent it to Birdsong to get Black-T coated this spring... it`s just like a new pistol all over again.
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[This message has been edited by ChandlerSniper158 (edited 10-15-2001).]