I hate my SIG P226 and I know why now

Recommended sights from SIG :
For 9mm and 357SIG : #8 front and #8 rear
For 40S&W or 45ACP : #6 front and #8 rear

Info found on another forum:

"For rear sights, the higher the number, the taller the sight. For front sights, the higher the number, the shorter the sight. This can be confusing to remember.

The easiest way to think of it is, numbers up, groups up; numbers down, groups down. This is true for both front and rear sights.

Each number change on the rear sight will affect POI 2" per 25 yds. Each number change on the front sight will affect POI 1" per 25 yds."

Hope it helps..
 
Rivalen said:
Recommended sights from SIG :
For 9mm and 357SIG : #8 front and #8 rear
For 40S&W or 45ACP : #6 front and #8 rear

Info found on another forum:

"For rear sights, the higher the number, the taller the sight. For front sights, the higher the number, the shorter the sight. This can be confusing to remember.

The easiest way to think of it is, numbers up, groups up; numbers down, groups down. This is true for both front and rear sights.

Each number change on the rear sight will affect POI 2" per 25 yds. Each number change on the front sight will affect POI 1" per 25 yds."

Hope it helps..
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It's #6 front, #8 rear. As for info a roughly 3" (guestimate) at 8" below target at roughly 8-10 yards. Well at least the numbers add up when the guy said the rear sights ARE taller than the front.
 
t3dd13 said:
It's #6 front, #8 rear. As for info a roughly 3" (guestimate) at 8" below target at roughly 8-10 yards. Well at least the numbers add up when the guy said the rear sights ARE taller than the front.
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That still doesn't work, though. A too-high rear sight will make your groups go high.
 
Do your sights look like this (Sig Contrast Sights):
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or this (Siglite Night Sights)
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My 229 shot so low that it was (for me) mostly unusable for shooting at smaller targets, because that 3rd sight picture (post 11 illustration) that SIG loves so much covers it all.

I only found one aftermarket company that had a rear sight high enough to make up the difference, and now it shoots with the same sight pic as all my other handguns.
 
I feel like the boring nerd to ask this, but seeing all the talk about adjusting the sight seems a little bit cart-before-the-horse to me.
OP, pleeeeease post some pics of your target groupings, perhaps at 10 yards or 25 yards.
 
"Originally Posted by Stevo

If the rear sight is too tall, it will shoot high, not low, when lined up correctly."

This.
 
norlandgeese said:
I feel like the boring nerd to ask this, but seeing all the talk about adjusting the sight seems a little bit cart-before-the-horse to me.
OP, pleeeeease post some pics of your target groupings, perhaps at 10 yards or 25 yards.
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The previous post almost 18 months ago...I'm guessing the OP has this figured out by now.
 
t3dd13 said:
So a few years back we bought a .40cal p226. I hated that gun and was never confident in shooting it. At first I thought it was just bad shooting habits. Different calibre and heavier and beefier grips than what I'm used to. Aiming low all the time. So I kept it in the safe half the time.

Fast forward today. We take it out to shoot today and like always it's #### in accuracy. A few members decide to give it a few rounds. Lo and behold everyone shoots low (pun intended). One guy takes a closer look and says the rear sights are taller than the front so when we line up we're pointing below the bullseye. So what i thought was people anticipating the recoil was just everyone aiming low. What are my options to fix this?

PS. All sights are non-adjustable
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I own a Sig 226 9mm and have shot other 226's in 40. I would say it is not the gun and it is unlikely that the sights came out of the factory set incorrectly, not impossible but Sig is pretty good at this stuff. I have found it takes a bit of time to get used to shooting the 226 but certainly in every example I have tried they are very accurate and the sights are spot on. Initially almost everyone seems to shoot low left until they get used to the gun. I would recommend leaving the gun and sights alone until someone who knows the 226 has shot it and agreed it is the sights not the shooter. Bear in mind that full power 40's are not easy to shoot well but with practice you can get very good. Very easy to develop a flinch.
 
I shot plastic striker guns and HK LEM all my life - the first time I test fired a legion P226 I hit a 5.5 bullseye in DA mode at 40m. The gun is accurate and spot on!

Since you are in Richmond hill , I assume you are shooting indoor. It could be the light condition at the indoor range that throws you off. Sometimes the dots make thing worst under artificial light
 
Since this thread has revived, I'm gonna add my $0.02

I bought a P226 Elite Stainless a few months ago and experienced the same thing as the original poster. All of my pistols except the Sig use a "pumpkin on post" sight picture, so when I first shot the gun it was consistently about 3 inches low at 5 yards. Some Google searching later and I learned about "combat" style sight picture.

I had considered swapping out the sights for target sights just like my other guns, but decided to keep the original sights. Changing the sights to what I already knew how to shoot would teach me nothing about how to shoot a gun that has combat style sights. I persevered and after a couple hundred rounds I got the hang of shooting the Sig accurately.

The REAL challenge (for me, anyway) is the Short Reset Trigger. I'm used to shooting a crisp-breaking 1911 trigger, so the Sig trigger feels "mushy" to me. It takes some getting used to, but that's what range time is for, right? :)
 
"Lo and behold everyone shoots low."

I have found that most of my new purchases shoot low. Recently, 2 Glocks and 2 FNS pistols and 2 M&Ps.

As has been shown above, this may be because the front dot is supposed to be on the target. I don't shoot that way and am too old to change.

So I buy a nice new low fibre optic sight from Dawson Precision. I also make it a narrow one, so I can see more white on each side.
 
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