New SIG Pistol! SIG P250

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SIG has a new multi-modular polymer pistol called the P250. I've never been that big of a fan of polymer pistols but the video they produced for this release looks interesting. I'm wondering how the receiver sub-assembly and the polymer frame will hold up after 20,000-30,000 rounds?:) Does offer the advantage of being able to confiure your pistol to 9mm. .40S&W or .45ACP using most of the same parts, excepting bbl, etc... of course! Not sure how the compact/subcompact assembly will fly with our current gun laws though. May be a limiting factor for Canadian sales, especially with the S&W MP, SA-XD & Glocks selling so well with the drop in retail prices.

According to the SIG press release:

The P250's innovative design enables the shooter to quickly remove the functional mechanism and place it into the polymer grip of his choice. This allows an immediate change in caliber and size; (subcompact, compact and full). And after any change the pistol delivers both outstanding accuracy and reliable functionality. It's modularity not only provides incredible ease of maintenance, but also provides a solution for accommodating different hand sizes - there are 6 different ergonomic combinations for each size, accomplished by changes in grip circumference and trigger style.

Now you can own the world's only modular shooting system globally engineered to deliver the "to hell and back" reliability you've come to expect from SIG SAUER.
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Check out the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsPgYAn258c
 
Thanks for the post. That's an interesting gun. The receiver is quite small. Not sure I agree with the one gun does it all idea. Making a gun big enough to accept 45ACP ammo and magazines hardly makes for a compact 9mm. It will be interesting to see how Sig prices the interchangeable parts. Will it be cheaper to have one gun with all the parts for both a 45 ACP and a 9mm for example or buy two separate guns? Changeable triggers is good.

There won't be any problems getting them in Canada as long as all the barrels are longer than 105mm. Frame size is irrelevant.

I can see how this would be great for those countries where you are limited to the number of guns you can own.


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As for longevity, a well designed polymer frame should outlast a steel one in use.....and 20-30 K rounds is nothing...should run ten times that or more...
 
As long as the barrel that comes with the full-sized frame is over 105 I'm sure they will come in. And because its a Sig you know it will be a great gun. I'm starting to save for it now.
 
It's a GLock-Tok!:yingyang: Half Glock and Half Tokarev. Perhaps Messers Glock and (the ghost of) Tokarev were hired by Sig-Sauer to help them boost sales in their overly expensive and tired line-up. After the two kicked around a few ideas this is what they came up with and "Hey presto!" the Sig-Sauer Glock-Tok 250 was born.
No thank-you. I'll stick with Glock.
Everything in firearm technology eventually gets recycled. Old ideas are taken off the shelf, dusted and given to a public for whom the technology is new and intriguing. How many western shooters are truly familiar with the TT-33?
 
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Funny listening to a Glock lover talk about old tech, Glock is like Ford, any colour you want as long as it is Black. I am talking about the design, not the colour selection.
 
Ploymer is what made Glock's pistol unique. His simple design also made it highly reliable and robust. It uses the Browning tilting barrel but that is where the "old" technology ends.
I am not saying the new Sig-Sauer is un-appealing but it looks just like a Glock pistol on the inside as well as a Tokarev.

Sig melded pistol designs from the Russian and Austrian designers and created the Sig-Sauer GLOCK-TOK 225.:)
 
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Ploymer is what made Glock's pistol unique.
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I guess you've been too busy reading Glock marketing materials to notice that Glock wasn't even close to being the first polymer pistol. HK beat Glock by about 15 years. Not only did the VP70 have a polymer frame, but it also had many other "unique Glock features", like polygonal bore, striker-operated DAO trigger mechanism, no decocker/manual safety, etc. It's rather ironic that you would accuse anyone of copying Glock seeing how Gaston Glock himself ripped off an HK design.
 
Hey, I'm not saying he was the first. What I mean is that he came up with a design that was more robust than anything else out there and marketed it well. His pistols were bought by the Austrian Army and then sales just took off.

I don't really care who came up with the plastic frame first or the other features; Gaston Glock made them marketable. He took characteristics from the VP-70 (which was a failure in terms of sales and therefore dropped),and Browning, among others of course, and made a hugely popular pistol.
Sig-Sauer is working from the opposite direction: it took characteristics from something that was already popular (a Glock pistol)and is trying to get in on the act.
 
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