Sig 226 tuning

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I am looking for a place to get my Sig 226 tuned up and maybe a few mods... Does anyone have suggestions of where i could go to get this done. Thanks!
 
beltfed said:
You can do that yourself by replacing the main spring;)
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Hey thanks for telling me this. :)

Yayyy...Unfortunately I am a terrible pistol gunsmith. Please tell me more...

Are you talking about the long spring that is in the back of the grip when you remove the side panels?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AesikVGSdE4 ? Looks very easy indeed to change it. I guess I just need to test what spring will work better. I was thinking a 19-20lbs Wolf.

Cheers.
 
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Yes, that's the hammer spring. Factory hammer spring is 24 lbs, I believe, but unless you use Nato ammo (with hard primers to take SMG hits) you can safely go down to 22 or even 20 lbs with excellent reliability. You can order a reduced power set from Brownells' and try which one suits best. It's a bit of pain to replace them but not so difficult. The SRT one can easily install one in five-ten minutes.
 
Miltiades said:
Yes, that's the hammer spring. Factory hammer spring is 24 lbs, I believe, but unless you use Nato ammo (with hard primers to take SMG hits) you can safely go down to 22 or even 20 lbs with excellent reliability. You can order a reduced power set from Brownells' and try which one suits best. It's a bit of pain to replace them but not so difficult. The SRT one can easily install one in five-ten minutes.
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Thank you.
 
Miltiades said:
Yes, that's the hammer spring. Factory hammer spring is 24 lbs, I believe, but unless you use Nato ammo (with hard primers to take SMG hits) you can safely go down to 22 or even 20 lbs with excellent reliability. You can order a reduced power set from Brownells' and try which one suits best. It's a bit of pain to replace them but not so difficult. The SRT one can easily install one in five-ten minutes.
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I have a 17lb mainspring in my Sig and haven't had a light strike yet in about 600 rounds. Get the wolff mainspring pack, it comes with 17, 18 and 19lb springs. Start with the 17 and if you get any light strikes move up. Cheap and simple mod that will make a huge difference in double action pull.
 
SlimTim said:
I have a 17lb mainspring in my Sig and haven't had a light strike yet in about 600 rounds. Get the wolff mainspring pack, it comes with 17, 18 and 19lb springs. Start with the 17 and if you get any light strikes move up. Cheap and simple mod that will make a huge difference in double action pull.
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600 rounds... Factory or reloads?
 
Cpt.Flan said:
600 rounds... Factory or reloads?
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100% Canadian BDX 124grn TMJ commercially remanucaftured. Dont shoot alot of factory ammo really. To the OP, the sigforum is worth checking out, there are dozens of threads on this subject. Bruce Gray himself (world renowned Sig pistolsmith) posts there on a semi regular basis as well, and I Believe for 100 percent reliability with a large selection of ammo he recmommends going no lower than the 19lb spring, which I have tried, and is still a very worth while upgrade over the stock spring.
 
SlimTim said:
100% Canadian BDX 124grn TMJ commercially remanucaftured. Dont shoot alot of factory ammo really. To the OP, the sigforum is worth checking out, there are dozens of threads on this subject. Bruce Gray himself (world renowned Sig pistolsmith) posts there on a semi regular basis as well, and I Believe for 100 percent reliability with a large selection of ammo he recmommends going no lower than the 19lb spring, which I have tried, and is still a very worth while upgrade over the stock spring.
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I tried 18, 19 and 20 lbs on my Sig P228 and I got light strikes with the 19 lbs (around 30% light strikes) while with the 20 lbs spring it works fine. I also only use reloads with Winchester primers. For my P226 I use the 22 lb spring due to occasionally use of NATO ammo. However, even with the 22 lb I have gotten some light strikes with Portuguese NATO ammo, they must have very hard primers.
 
Ordered springs from Brownells. From 17 up to 21lbs ( Wolff )

I will give a range report after I get them of my P226 Dark elite 2011 ( short mainspring ).

Cheers.
 
If you would like to further reduce your trigger pull you can try and source increasingly hard to find gray guns comp kit with the titanium firing pin safety.
 
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