SIG P229R Barrel Problem?

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manley1111

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I just bought a brand new p229r .40 cal, and have noticed small "gouge" marks on the left hand side of the top of the barrel. I took the slide off and looked at the part of the slide that rubs against the barrel when you shoot it, but i didn't see any burrs on that. Anyone else have this gun, and these marks, is this normal?

Thanks

pics of the markings- http://img13.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=1001560.jpg
 
they are not tool marks, they are little "line" gouges in the metal, they are definitetly from shooting the pistol. My friend has a p226 in .40 and his is smooth on top, i don't get it?
 
manley1111 said:
they are not tool marks, they are little "line" gouges in the metal, they are definitetly from shooting the pistol. My friend has a p226 in .40 and his is smooth on top, i don't get it?
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Are they deep enough to feel if you run a fingernail across them?
 
Here's the barrel from my Sig after a thousand rounds or so. Like I said, it's normal for stainless barrels to "wear" like that.

I've got $20 that says your friend has a blued barrel and that's why it doesn't show up, because of the bluing.

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I have the 228, 229, 239.. and I used to have another 229 as well.

Every gun seems to wear a bit different. Some guns will develop lines running perpendicular to the length of the barrel on the exposed top of the barrel (the flat part) like yours. I wouldn't be too concerned about it. Based on your pics, I also wouldn't really describe them as "gouges", but to each their own. I think of a gouge as... you dropped it and it hit the sharp corner of something, something like that.

But yah, even within the same model, same calibre, they will show different wear patterns. I had two 229 9mms for awhile. I could tell the barrels apart by looking at them.

SIG barrels will show wear marks over time which are more noticable than a lot of their competitors (like GLOCK factory barrels, which show very little wear over time). Most of it is the finish wearing off, but in some places the metal will polish to a mirror finish. The difference is not barrel quality, it is because SIGs lock up pretty tight and many other guns have a lot greater "tolerances". I bet your gun is pretty accurate... correct? The slide and the barrel are just getting used to one another. The process can take a few thousand rounds.

I find that SIGs take a thousand rounds or so to break in. I find that the action will break in a bit, and so will the trigger. SIGs (other than the custom shop ones and X-FIVEs) seem to ship with "creepy" SA triggers these days. It doesn't last that long though. I was trying a bunch of different SIGs at Reliable the other day and they were all like that out of the box: 226 stainless elite, 229 Elite. They all have that touch of creep on the SA break point. Great guns, they just need some use.

I bought one of the 228s from Questar recently. I've had it out to the range 3 times now I think. I was noticing last Saturday, thinking in my head, "this thing is turning into a major tack driver". It has around 600 rounds through it now, and is really shooting to point of aim consistently.

I wouldn't worry about it too much. The guns are built tuff.
 
Yeah my barrel is blued though not stainless. It has wear marks all the way down the barrel which i thought was normal but not the top of the barrel, which has little notches in it. I guess it's fine, thanks for all the help guys.
 
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