Posted: 2/4/2014 1:14:40 PM EDT
| I love SIGs. I have two and carry one of them that obviously prints. Why are their slides so much wider? I plan on buying a carry 1911 and like the SIG line but the slide is 12 thousandths wider. My squat frames needs all the help it can get. Mostly a frustrated rant but all the other 1911 makers do not seem to think the extra metal is necessary. |
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The original 1911 was a sleek design, no doubt about it.
Why everyone has to make pistol slides so thick these days is beyond me also. But, I find the butt the hardest part of a pistol to conceal, not the slide width. Are you carrying a P226 by chance, or is it a Sig 1911? I have a Sig P220 with the thin Hogue G-10 checkered grips and it is reasonably thin in the grip. Speaking of which, any 1911 can be made real thin with the use of the thin 1911 grips, again I like the Hogue checkered G-10 here too. Just something to consider. |
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This is just speculation but Im guessing the guys who design the guns just found that the slight difference in width makes them more reliable. Maybe that is because most sigs are aluminum framed or use that nitron thing. Traditionally, 1911's are made of stainless steel and while Sig does offer that MOST of their weapons arent stainless. They probably just don't want to offer two different thickness 1911's so you just get a little extra steel if you buy steel.
I am not a gunsmith though so, again, dont take this as fact. |