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Posted: 12/27/2008 6:09:11 AM EDT
| Pardon my newbie ignorance, but is the P556 SWAT available for civilians? If not, what makes the P556 SWAT LE only? The quad rail would be much more preferable... |
| SWAT is a civvie friendly version, no problems. That being said, as a SWAT owner, don't buy it. Best cost is probably around 1750 to 1800 bucks (around what I paid) and you can do FAR better by buying the base model and modding it out. I would try to find a base model for thirteen or fourteen hundred bucks, then put a heavy duty ACE folder on it, a Samson rail, and an ACE K Grip. You will have a better running, better looking rifle... as much as I love my SIG SWAT, I'm completely retrofitting it now that I have more knowledge about the weapon. |
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I just took at look at the Samson site...their rail looks great, but the price listed there was $309. Hoping it can be acquired elsewhere for less. I'll do a little searching.
One other (newbie) question...any thoughts on the Sig red dot sight. I'm guessing I would be better off with spending the $$$ on higher quality sight. Any suggestion that works particularly well for the P556? |
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Yeah, the Samson is expensive.... however if you can get a stock rifle for around 1300 or so, add that rail and an ACE folder and you're going to be within a hundred bucks of a SWAT model. Yeah, it's still ballz expensive but you'll have a tighter piece of equipment for a comparable price.
And I don't have any first hand experience but the SIG dot sight looks like a Chinese POS. I have an EOTech on mine that works very well... but that being said I'm actually going back to irons, I'm probably going to put a set of Aurora sights on mine in the next month or so... I'm putting on a short fixed sight and irons, going back to something a little more basic. |
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SWAT is a civvie friendly version, no problems. That being said, as a SWAT owner, don't buy it. Best cost is probably around 1750 to 1800 bucks (around what I paid) and you can do FAR better by buying the base model and modding it out. I would try to find a base model for thirteen or fourteen hundred bucks, then put a heavy duty ACE folder on it, a Samson rail, and an ACE K Grip. You will have a better running, better looking rifle... as much as I love my SIG SWAT, I'm completely retrofitting it now that I have more knowledge about the weapon. i agree, buy a base sig556 for as little as possible and take everything off and put on what you want. |
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