“If I lived back in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I’d carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, ‘Hey look. He’s carrying a soldering iron!’ and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, ‘That’s right, it’s a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.’ Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.”
–Jack Handy/Phil Hartman, Saturday Night Live
How does that quote apply? Don’t know, but I thought it was cool.
With autumn finally coming to Georgia, I decided to carry a Sig again for awhile. I’ve been pretty much exclusive to wheelguns the last few months, so I’m changing my manual of arms. That means drilling at the range to get my muscular memory adjusted.
Obviously, my time with revolvers has tightened up my groups a bit. The group on the left was shot all double-action, NRA rapid fire. The one on the right was shot single-action. I broke a bit high and left at first in SA due to the fact that I’d forgotten how light and crisp the trigger was.
While the DA on a Sig isn’t the same as a nice S&W revolver, it’s better than any other brand of automatic. It’s got a smooth, even pull, which contributes quite a bit towards first-shot accuracy.
The model pictured is the now-discontinued P228. This specimen was one of the November 2005 “Gun of the Month” editions.