Hey fellow gun nuts. So I picked up two Sig p320x carry Legions right before the cutoff from a local retailer. I was shocked to see that both of them had where on the barrel lugs as well as somewhere on the front serrations. I was pretty disappointed and yes their guns are going to be used but I want to be the ones to use them when I'm paying that kind of dollar for something that's supposed to be brand new. Retailer told me that it's completely normal. Found that hard hard to swallow for just many pistols and never seen this kind of wear unless they were fired or racked a few hundred times. Just wanted to connect with some other owners and see if there's a correlation here
Sig p320 xcarry legion ...who else has one with wear from brand new
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the coating is pvd which is pretty thin, so it wears off easy, even the nitrided barrels show quite a bit of wear from test firing on my 2 P320s
TBH, I am glad I picked up these two, but they are no show guns, just shoot em
TBH, I am glad I picked up these two, but they are no show guns, just shoot em
The last pistol I bought I paid $4000 for, and when it arrived it had wear/scraches that showed the silver base metal throught the black coating on the grip safety. I contacted the manufactuer in the USA and they told me if I was in the US they would want the pistol to come back in to be inspected for function, and just to make sure there isn't a burr of something inside causing the scratch. Other then that they would not replace the part due to wear if it functions properly, the pistols are test fired at the factory before being shipped out. So if wear happens during that its considered normal
And the wear did get worse now that I have a few thousand rounds thru it, also the part that is worn is PVD coated steel, the part it rubs against to cause the wear is the grip of the pistol which is simply a hard plastic. Im over it already but like you when opening a new pistol I was a little dissapointed
And the wear did get worse now that I have a few thousand rounds thru it, also the part that is worn is PVD coated steel, the part it rubs against to cause the wear is the grip of the pistol which is simply a hard plastic. Im over it already but like you when opening a new pistol I was a little dissapointed
OK, I looked at my 320 xcarry legion. I have maybe 100 rounds though it, but it's been banging inside my range box among other useful stuff and awaiting for its turn for about half a year, I don't baby my guns. I see no wear at all on the barrel lugs. I see a slight wear in front of serration on both sides of the slide, not sure if it was from the factory of from banging inside the box.
Overall SIG as company disappointed me. Great gun, but.. Legion is not a budget stock gun like Glock or M&P, and it came non-sighted! Moreover rear sight was visually shifted to the side. Thank god after sighting it is sitting straight, but some ppl reported significant misalignment when zeroed. Is that something that supposed to be part of premium handgun? Oh, right, one more thing. And the fact that "modular" design of "premium gun" does not offer large size grips AFTER SO MANY YEARS. I ghetto-hockey-taped my grip because OEM medium size is too small for my Eastern European paws.
Overall SIG as company disappointed me. Great gun, but.. Legion is not a budget stock gun like Glock or M&P, and it came non-sighted! Moreover rear sight was visually shifted to the side. Thank god after sighting it is sitting straight, but some ppl reported significant misalignment when zeroed. Is that something that supposed to be part of premium handgun? Oh, right, one more thing. And the fact that "modular" design of "premium gun" does not offer large size grips AFTER SO MANY YEARS. I ghetto-hockey-taped my grip because OEM medium size is too small for my Eastern European paws.
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The sights on my legion xcarry were off as well. Shot way to the left. Measured the front post and it was dead center and after I zeroed the rear sight is was visibly misaligned with the slide. I put a red dot on it though and it shoots well enough.
Well, this is exactly what I am talking about. Coming from historical firearms background and possessing semi-automatic mass manufactured handguns made as early as 1890xx I consider unacceptable such a quality from modern manufacturer and especially with its premium line of "Legion". How come companies were able to manufacture Bergmanns, Borchardts and C96s with properly aligned rear sights (much more complicated sights BTW) but here we go with all the progress in 2020x and suddenly, 130 years later for a lot of $$$ we can't control tolerances? Hell, malnourished Soviet teenagers in WW2 were able to crank up guns with symmetrically aligned rear sights, but SIG now can't? Really? I don't regret buying 320 here in Canada, I did it on purpose before the ban, but in another country I would have sold 320 and never looked back, because altogether this is unacceptable in my books.
Oh sure they can. They just don't need to in order to sell as many guns as they want to in the civilian market. So why would they?
My theory is that 130 years ago, every pistol coming off the line needed to work right because that's how brand reputation worked back then. If a lemon went out, it was very costly to the brand because everyone in the territory would hear about it and make buying decisions accordingly. It simply doesn't work like that now: Sig can just dump money into the marketing department (or unpaid interns and internet fanboys, or whatever) to control their reputation. Apparently that's more economical than making changes to production lines. You can bet they have a different approach to production runs for government contracts.
