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My Latest Purchase (or just pictures of your current guns)

sevenhelmet

sevenhelmet

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OscarMyers said:
Did you do it or have a gunsmith? I have the parts kit but haven’t gotten around to researching the install.
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Did it myself. It wasn’t bad if you’re somewhat mechanically inclined. My father-in-law and I worked on it together. He has a non-SRT Mk-25, so it was cool to compare the two side by side when we were done (took around 20-30 minutes).

I bet there is an installation video online somewhere.
 
sevenhelmet

sevenhelmet

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ChuckMK23 said:
I do not yet own my AW namesake weapon.... But actively looking!!!

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Is that what you carried, Chuck? I would have thought you were an M9 Beretta guy.

I have paid kind of close to that for a custom 1911. I can’t say any of my pistols were that pricey out of the box, though. Rifles on the other hand… I have a trigger and glass snobbery problem. 🤣
 
ChuckMK23

ChuckMK23

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sevenhelmet said:
Is that what you carried, Chuck? I would have thought you were an M9 Beretta guy.

I have paid kind of close to that for a custom 1911. I can’t say any of my pistols were that pricey out of the box, though. Rifles on the other hand… I have a trigger and glass snobbery problem. 🤣
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In country during Desert Storm we were issues rattly M1911A1s in GI leather chest holster. 4 x 7 round mags in a MAF bag.

Our 1911's were in our table of equipment as a result of the nuclear weps transport mission. We took them on deployment and after the first month or so of ops, these weapons were relocated to a nylon bag in the cabin next to the raft and igloo cooler.

I got a chance to shoot a MK23 years ago and have been fascinated with it since. I reload .45acp.
 
Griz882

Griz882

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ChuckMK23 said:
Speaking of which, SIG just released this:
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This is a big deal for them. My house is only a few minutes from the SIG Experience (firing range, school, and store) and I’ve gone to demonstrations where they drop them, hit them with hammers from front, ack and top, and they won’t fire. The SIG headquarters isn’t too far away and they make several of their weapons nearby.
 
GroundPounder

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Griz882 said:
This is a big deal for them. My house is only a few minutes from the SIG Experience (firing range, school, and store) and I’ve gone to demonstrations where they drop them, hit them with hammers from front, ack and top, and they won’t fire. The SIG headquarters isn’t too far away and they make several of their weapons nearby.
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We went with them 8 years ago, and in the first year had 3 NDs, one of which is in litigation. This is after a few decades of Glock use where we had not had an ND.


SIG put our entire command staff through their school to prove to us how the weapon could only fire by pulling the trigger. Personally it was effective to me, and I don't believe the weapons as built now are defective. My theory is that the flat trigger and size of the trigger opening makes it easier to catch it on foreign objects during the holstering process.

All that being said, I don't trust it in the same way I did my Glock. And I must say that I've never been a Glock fan, but when it comes to reliability you can't beat them.

New Sheriff is going back to Glocks soon, so I'll be buying the Sig and putting it to pasture in the next few months.
 
sevenhelmet

sevenhelmet

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Griz882 said:
This is a big deal for them. My house is only a few minutes from the SIG Experience (firing range, school, and store) and I’ve gone to demonstrations where they drop them, hit them with hammers from front, ack and top, and they won’t fire. The SIG headquarters isn’t too far away and they make several of their weapons nearby.
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Whenever I hear that someone ND’d while holstering, my inclination is not to blame the gun.

I don’t have a P320, but if I did, I’d continue to carry it and train with it without thinking twice.
 
Gatordev

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sevenhelmet said:
Bought my Mk-25 for the same reason, since the M11 was my service pistol on AD- it just needed a rail for a light.
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It's funny you say that. I got my 229 specifically since we were issued M11s and I wasn't very good with it (or hand guns in general, as I would learn). I put a SRT in it, as well. I got so comfortable with that 229 and was even complemented by one of the "old-timers" at a competition about my double-action trigger pull. After a couple of years and some competitions later, I decided to grab a MK25 (with a SRT). Great gun but...

That's also when I started shooting my Glock, A LOT. And now I'm both a Glock and red dot cripple. The last time I took out my MK25, I was disappointed with my performance. It doesn't help when it's getting much harder to see that front sight now. Sadly I don't think there's a way you can put a red dot on a P226, at least not easily.
 
sevenhelmet

sevenhelmet

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Gatordev said:
It's funny you say that. I got my 229 specifically since we were issued M11s and I wasn't very good with it (or hand guns in general, as I would learn). I put a SRT in it, as well. I got so comfortable with that 229 and was even complemented by one of the "old-timers" at a competition about my double-action trigger pull. After a couple of years and some competitions later, I decided to grab a MK25 (with a SRT). Great gun but...

That's also when I started shooting my Glock, A LOT. And now I'm both a Glock and red dot cripple. The last time I took out my MK25, I was disappointed with my performance. It doesn't help when it's getting much harder to see that front sight now. Sadly I don't think there's a way you can put a red dot on a P226, at least not easily.
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You can get the slide milled if it’s really important.

FWIW, I did something similar after shooting the M11 for predeployment qual in 2010. Qualified, but shot worse than I’d have liked because of DA/SA. Paradoxically, I liked the gun. So I bought the Mk-25 and set about getting good with it. Went from being made fun of in class (by instructor Larry Vickers, no less… it’s a strangely small world sometimes), to being complimented at local USPSA matches.

Now I have a Stealth Arms Platypus, which probably has @ChuckMK23 reaching for his nitro pills (it’s a double-stack 9mm 1911 that takes Glock mags), but damn, I love that pistol and it’s quick, especially with a red dot. Have to train with both actions now, to stay proficient with the DA/SA. Oh, darn… more range time.
 
Gatordev

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Well now you've done it...I just did some Googling and it looks like there's more options now than when I looked at it a couple of years ago. Looks like Vulcan Machine Werks will do it for $175 with refinishing. That's not bad. And mine is even a compatible model. For now though, I need to take it out as is again and see how it goes. Funds are currently allocated for a Garmin GI275 engine monitor (and install costs...ugh).

I saw those Platypusesses last year but never heard real person reviews. Basically a fully customizable STI-like gun at non-STI prices, right? I very specifically have avoided jumping on the STI-like form factor because I don't want to get used to the trigger and get spoiled when shooting other pistols.
 
sevenhelmet

sevenhelmet

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Gatordev said:
I saw those Platypusesses last year but never heard real person reviews. Basically a fully customizable STI-like gun at non-STI prices, right? I very specifically have avoided jumping on the STI-like form factor because I don't want to get used to the trigger and get spoiled when shooting other pistols.
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Dude, it’s epic. I was considering a Staccato, and my local gun store guy (a Staccato shooter himself) showed me a Platy and let me try it in late 2023. I knew right then and there I had to custom order my own. The trigger, the weight and balance, direct fit for your choice of red dot, and cheap and reliable magazines were all right up my alley. Since then, they’ve only grown in popularity. SA did a great job, despite naming it the “Platypus”. I guess Honey Badger was taken. Either way, it’s badass.

My only nit was finding a quality kydex holster. Had one made by a small business I found on Instagram, of all places.

I can tell by your post there’s a slide milling in your future…
 
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