Posted: 7/13/2012 3:02:59 PM EDT
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I recently went out and bought a 229 in 22lr to go with my 229 that I carry every day. Being sig; I assumed that it would run flawless, and it was a bonus to me that in the future I could call sig and order a 229 upper and have another complete fire arm. At this point I'm really disappointed in it, a first for a sig in my world.
First it doesn't lock back after the mag runs dry, not a deal breaker but annoying. And I'm worried that I'm already starting to get a peening mark on the receiver from the rim fire mechanism hitting it after I run it dry.Not a deal breaker, and yea if I had done more research on the gun likley would have known ahead of time, but really sig? everyone else got their guns to do this and you cant? At this point I have ~1000 rounds of 22lr through the gun hoping it would break in. I am continuing to have a multitude of problems with FTF. I have run 5 kinds of ammo (federal bulk, federal lighting, CCI hyper-velocity something or other, Remington thunderbolts, and Winchester bulk) and with every ammo am having this failure to feed problem where it crams the round into the upper portion of the chamber jamming the weapon. At times it has done it so badly it has almost bent the round it half. I have run the 22lr kit on both my 229 lowers and appears to make no difference. No if this was a once of twice thing no big deal, i understand its a 22lr. But when this has happened easily ~100 times out of ~1000 rounds, we have an issue. Below are pictures of whats happening. Does anyone have any suggestions or at this point is it time to call sig and see what they say. I have heard they have great customer service, never have needed to use it though, all my other sigs run like tops. 
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| Do you only have one mag? If so try another mag and see if that fixes it. If it does call sig and exchange the bad mag if not call sig and send it back. My 226 took a little to break in but after 100 rounds are so its been flawless. If you get it running order the high follower from sig power well worth the money. |
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2 possible fixes:
I believe Sig recommends CCI Mini Mags, in my 226 .22 Classic, they run nicely. Rem. Golden Bullets worked sorta OK, but they had QA issues imho. Sig says you need a HP round, round nose is best I believe...no hollow points or cones. There are aftermarket followers/springs/plugs that extend the capacity to 15, feed better , and hold the slide open on the last round....try http://www.sigpower.com/ 
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There are aftermarket followers/springs/plugs that extend the capacity to 15, feed better , and hold the slide open on the last round....try http://www.sigpower.com/ This. The sigpower spring fixed any of the feeding problems i had with the 22LR 229R, and the follower upgrade was nice too. The stock springs in those sig mags seem a little weak, and any waxy lube coming off those 22LRs and building up residue in the mag causes the same problem as the OP is having in my gun. |
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I have a P220 conversion kit that I shoot on my duty pistol frame. I had pretty good reliability out of mine for about a year or so, before I started having similar feeding issues as yours. Didn't matter if the gun was clean, dirty, dry or lubed... I bought a new magazine for it, in order to have enough spares to fill my duty rig and I noticed that my feeding problems dropped when I used the new mag... So, wanting the lock back and added capacity of the sigpower conversion magazines, I order the follower and spring kits for all of my mags. I rebuilt them with the new followers and springs and was impressed... Not only is the 15 round capacity great, but my feeding issues stopped. The lock back aspect is a little different, in that the sigpower follower stops the slide after the last round, rather than engaging the actual slide stop, so you still have to lock the slide manually to complete the reload, but it does solve the dry firing issue that causes the preening.
Anyway, OP.. I would seriously suggest looking into the spring and follower kits at sigpower. Give one of them a try. If it solves your problem, then you can rebuild the rest of you mags. For the $20 or so buck, it's a cheap fix. Don't ask me why Sig didn't better engineer the mags on these guns. I'm a huge Sig fan and own several of them, but over the years I've seen their QC decline and thier prices raise.... Kind of frustrating. Hope this helps. -Tac |
| The shop I work at has sent a Sig 226 .22 back to them twice for FTF/FTE problems. After it went back the first time and was returned by Sig with the usual "cleaned and inspected the pistol, functioned fine with all rounds used, unable to duplicate malfunctions" bullshit note attached, I took it to the range and shot it myself with a variety of ammo. One in five shots on average failed to extract, one per mag failed to feed, with a handful of failures to fire at all. We sent it back again and got it back two weeks later with a similar note stating that the gun works fine with CCI Mini Mags. So I guess that Sig is now saying to only use one kind of ammo in their pistols, at least in our case they are. We have had other similar experiences in the past. I would never buy one after experiencing their shoddy customer service. They are not the company they used to be. |