SIG: Opinions on frame wear

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The wife expressed an interest in shooting, and liked the way a P226 felt, so I picked her up a Sig P226 Classic for Xmas from Questar.

I want to stress that when this pistol arrived I dissembled, cleaned and liberally lubed the firearm.
It has never been fired, but she has been practicing her trigger pull with snap caps, and operating the slide. (I'm guessing about 150 +/- racks of the action)
As well it has been cleaned and lubed twice since then as well. When disassembling it today I noticed this wear. (Apologies in advance for the poor photos)

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I am not that familiar with normal Sig wear, the ones I use at work are extremely well used, so this is the first one that I have experienced new.
My biggest concern is that the wear is not even, and I can't find any bur, or rough spot on the corresponding slide rail. There is some minor wear on the very forward end of the slide rail but nothing that is completely through the finish.

Rails have been run wet (CLP) for the purposes of her snap cap practice.
 
Completely normal, anytime there is metal on metal contact, it will wear like this until a certain point and then it will stop once it's polished out.
 
You gotta put grease on the slide and you won't see so much wear but wear is inevitable. CLP just don't cut it. Check out this link about Sig Sauer Lubrication:
h ttp://grayguns.com/lubrication-of-sig-sauer-pistol-rails/

He is a well known gunsmith in the U.S. whom is also a qualified Sig armorer. Is that wear inside the middle of the frame? If so, that is not normal.
 
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What were you using for grease? Oil won't cut it, need something viscous. You will see low-mileage Sigs with frame wear and higher mileage ones with little to no wear.
 
Use frog lube, shooters choice, TW-25B, etc. I use grease over oil. Oil is too thin, and if you use a high quality oil, you will definitely preserve the hard anodizing on the aluminum frame.
 
I used to shoot SIG's a ton, and still have a 228, 229, 230 and 239, and I bought some of this stuff from the States called "Ultima-lube" from Wilson Combat, which is a white grease-type lube that will stay on rails. I use that on all SIGs, even though I don't shoot them as much as I used to (I mostly shoot HK P7 and GLOCK 19 now).

With SIGs, you have to remember that you have a steel slide moving against an alloy frame (unless you are using a steel frame model), so it is going to wear, and if it is not lubed up properly it will wear faster.

I have a 229 that has probably 10,000 rounds on it easy, and the frame rails show signifigant wear (in terms of colour change at least), particularly on the bottoms of the rails - and it still shoots extremely accurately and is totally reliable.

I would focus mainly on trying to get some grease on the BOTTOMS of the rails, a bit on the tops and sides of the rails and on the locking block, and beyond that, don't worry about it too much.
 
The SIGs I work on have well over 50,000 rds through them and have been lube with CLP when the guys remember too. You will wear your barrel out long before the frame.

This is a combat pistol not some show gun
 
I know that red tacky grease that Shell used to make is really good stuff. I might try that....think I still have a couple of tubes in the work shop. The regular wheel bearing grease isn't as tacky as this stuff is...
 
There is winter grade grease as well. I was just comparing some that I have on hand and I think I'll use the winter stuff. Just as tacky as the regular bearing grease but much thinner. I suppose one large tube would last a while....hahaha.
 
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