Sig Mosquito Haters WTF?????? I have no complaints!!!!!

I thought about getting a SIG Mosquito, but then i thought maybe i should just get a .22 conversion kit for a 1911.
decisions decisions

This is a great debate: Get a conversion of a full pistol. For the same price, you can actually get a conversion, or a 1911-like complete pistol in 22lr (Chiappa Kimar 1911-22 from canadaammo or GSG 1911-22 from Blueline).

Decisions, decisions...
 
given the same dollar figure, unless you have no friends or you're antisocial or selfish, i'd say get a separate pistol. kinda hard to take someone new with you and hand them just a barrel & mag and say "well, that's all i have, so, um, yeah, good luck with that!"
 
given the same dollar figure, unless you have no friends or you're antisocial or selfish, i'd say get a separate pistol. kinda hard to take someone new with you and hand them just a barrel & mag and say "well, that's all i have, so, um, yeah, good luck with that!"

What about training with your existing pistol for much cheaper to be a better shot instead of going from one pistol that shoots a certain way to another that's completely different? Ie trigger pull, handling, feel ..etc..etc.. I have 6 conversion kits. I'm very selfish ;)
 
What about training with your existing pistol for much cheaper to be a better shot instead of going from one pistol that shoots a certain way to another that's completely different? Ie trigger pull, handling, feel ..etc..etc.. I have 6 conversion kits. I'm very selfish ;)

there's that angle of consistency, i'll give you that.

but the flip side is that if you can be a good shot with a variety of pistols, then you'd truly be a good shot, and not just "good as long as you only shoot this one specific type of firearm"

that's why whenever i go to the range, i'll shoot whatever i can get my hands on. glock, 1911, big revolver, small revolver, target pistol, etc. if it's a handgun i'll shoot it.
 
What about training with your existing pistol for much cheaper to be a better shot instead of going from one pistol that shoots a certain way to another that's completely different? Ie trigger pull, handling, feel ..etc..etc.. I have 6 conversion kits. I'm very selfish ;)

There are always advantage to own and shoot more different guns.

Trigun
 
x2 on perfecting more than 1 gun - become a better overall marksman by learning how to adapt to a variety of firearms rather than one specific (if you have been following Top Shot you can see the weakness in a variety of shooters because of this)
 
yeah, at that point, it's alright - but one gun plus one conversion is probably too limiting. if you have 3+ normal guns and a conversion for each, then it's a pretty good setup.

as long as they're not all slightly different shades of 1911 :p
 
yeah, at that point, it's alright - but one gun plus one conversion is probably too limiting. if you have 3+ normal guns and a conversion for each, then it's a pretty good setup.

as long as they're not all slightly different shades of 1911 :p

LOL good one ..no no not all 1911's...
Here is the list

Well a 1911 of course, 92FS, G17, Sig 226, SP01 shadow and a Sig 210 ;)
 
So I recently traded a fellow CGNer for a Sig Mosquito, and I have to admit I was a little nervous taking her to the range today! With all the BS I have read online about FTF, and FTE I was expecting to have to go through all kinds of ammo to find something to work.

So I went to the range and picked up 2 boxes each of Blaser, Thunderbolts, Yellow Jackets, and some blue box Federal. Of all the ammo I bought only the Federals were really bad and didnt cycle at all. The Yellow Jackets had an occasional feed issue, which I think was just because of the shape of the bullet, but the Blaser, and Thunderbolts worked flawlessly! I put 100 rounds of each through her with no issues at all!

So in the end I am very happy with my purchase! It just so happens that the Blazer, and THunderbolts also perform extremely well in my 10/22 so I am set with this gun! Now I just need to find a good source for a case of Blaser, at a good price! LOL


You're using the high velocity ammo with that Mosquito. That stuff works fine. Using the standard velocity ammo is what seems to be the cause of most FTF and FTE problems. The standard velocity ammo just doesn't seem to have enough recoil force to reliably work the slide and #### the hammer. I have heard that a lighter recoil spring will solve the problems.
 
I had one of the early mosquitoes in Canada. It would jam even with CCI Minimags, regardless of the spring used.
 
I heard the Mini-Mags work flawlessly, but they are a little pricy, and hard to find right now in Southern Ontario!

This is a sentence that ought to be pasted into every .22LR pistol thread....;)

All .22's feel like toys IMHO! The only decent ones out there are conversions for the Glocks, or Sig's, and 1911"s! Or the CZ Kadet which was my first pistol, but it to is essentially a conversion, just like the Classic .22 Sig's. I wasnt looking to spen alot on a .22! For the 400 bucks I dont think you can get any other .22 that isnt a space gun! Im not a Star Wars fan so I wasn't feeling the Rugers, or Buckmarks!

C'mon, no love for the Ruger 22/45? :redface:

Mine's a MK II, and I just love the way it feels (though, to me, it feels like a bigger gun than a .22 has any right to....:D )
 
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