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I hope everyone had a great Christmas, I have a question, does anyone have the Sig Sauer P229 Equinox? Can you give me some feed back on it. Do you like it, how does it shoot, etc. Thanks in advance.
Animal Cop

I have a P226 Equinox and a P229 Two Tone in 40 S&W. The Equinox has the cool wood grips, nite sites, shaved slide sides. I love my P226 Equinox, it was my first SIG, It's very accurate. One of the first things I did though was to take off those cool grips and put Hogues on it. I didn't want to beat 'em up.

I didn't get the P229 in Equinox because it had a rail and I wanted to carry the P229 and I don't like rails on a carry gun. The P229 is not as accurate as the P226 but it's close. I've worn it a couple of times but I'm not a big guy and the P229 is just a tad heavy for me. So I end up carrying my P239/40 more often than anything. All my SIGS are utterly reliable and the mags are good quality. No complaint here.

Hope this helps.

Oh, if you do want a non-railed SIG, you can still get them from time to time. Steve at SCP firearms is pretty good at finding what you want.

http://www.scpfirearms.com/products.php?cat=firearms

Texas Armadillo wrote:Oh, if you do want a non-railed SIG, you can still get them from time to time. Steve at SCP firearms is pretty good at finding what you want.

http://www.scpfirearms.com/products.php?cat=firearms

What a cool page, whoever did his css sheet and html is very good. Oh yeah, the P229 looks very sexy. Can someone explain what is meant by "railed?"

See the place under the barrel of an Equniox gun that holds the attachments (like a light)? Now look at Steves page and find the P239's. No place for a light to fit. Non-Rail = No Mounting rail.

+1 for Steve at SCP. You might also give member Zeroskill a shout, I know he got an assorted shipment from Sig of a lot of out-of-production non-railed Sigs. Very cool/lucky find for him.

i have a 220 equinox great gun i like the 229 better though

I got my 226 Equinox for Christmas and was thoroughly pleased as this has long been my dream gun. Then I took it to the range to celebrate the birth of our lord with a good old fashioned family shoot out. At 10 feet it is dead on. Anything past that and it is horribly low (6 - 12 inches on average). I know the old adage, "Its not the gun, its the shooter." So I take out the old reliable Glock 17 and center punch everything from 10 to 60 feet. Then take the Equinox back out and cant hit my targets if my life depended on it. Does anyone have any suggestions? I have run over 1000 rounds through it, so it is well into the break-in process. Also, it does not return to slide lock when the mag is empty. Anyone out there have the same problems or suggestions for me? I would love to be able to rely on this gun.

Watch your thumb placement on the slide release. I found that on my P239, my thumb would touch the slide release, putting just enough pressure on the release to keep the slide from locking back.

Sigs are combat sighted, meaning that your sight picture should be higher than you would expect. Go to sigforum dot com and do a search as a member (Testpilot) just did a good write up on sighting Sigs.

Semper fi,

Bob

steve great person to deal with zeroskillz is good to

Thanks for the suggestions. Now hopefully I can shoot half as good as it looks!