Sig Sauer Legion owners opinions ?

I have the plain Jane 226R and personally I wouldn't have put hundreds of dollars more for "the new model" It reminds me a little of the Iphones. A 226 is a 226 with more or less useless gadgets, if it's your thing go for it if you have the extra money
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SAO trigger is nice. However 226 is a big gun. Not very size efficient.
Kind of regret buying it as my p239 is very accurate and smaller.
 
if you really like the Legion, but find the controls a little recessed or the grip a little thin have a look at the Scorpion...it's like a legion that spent a little more time at the gym. it's my fave shooter!!
 
Pencilneck said:
I have the plain Jane 226R and personally I wouldn't have put hundreds of dollars more for "the new model" It reminds me a little of the Iphones. A 226 is a 226 with more or less useless gadgets, if it's your thing go for it if you have the extra money. My two bits
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Your "two bits" are dead wrong. If you had ever fired, or even held, a SIG Legion you would realize that. Improved ergonomics, a superior trigger and high-visibility sights are not "useless gadgets". They are legitimate enhancements that the Legion guns possess over the basic model, and they exist to improve the shooting experience. If you can't afford the better pistol that is your problem. But don't pretend for a second that the Legion pistols are some sort of expensive "gimmick" because they most certainly are not. You just make yourself look silly in trying to deny the obvious....
 
In my experience, a production tier 226 is a production tier 226. A Master Shop gun is a cut above. The LDC is a Master Shop gun. The Legion is a production gun.
 
First order of business is to decide whether you want DA/SA or SAO. If you decide SAO is the way you're leaning then I will put in a plug for an X5 with the adjustable trigger. Yes, it's significantly pricier than the Legion, but it's also several cuts above.

If you decide that DA/SA is more your thing then it comes down to features. The Legion is a good buy if you would upgrade several items on a stock gun anyways. Whether the features improve performance is very shooter dependent. I couldn't tell much difference between the Legion I tried and a 15 year old straight 226, however I am not comfortable with DA/SA designs and have spent minimal time with them.
 
Tom Morrison said:
In my experience, a production tier 226 is a production tier 226. A Master Shop gun is a cut above. The LDC is a Master Shop gun. The Legion is a production gun.
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Have you tried shooting a Legion? I have the SA/DA and the Grey Guns trigger in it is better than the trigger in my other SA/DA P226s; the X5 and the Dark Elite with the SRT.

I thought the improvements to the gun were more than worth the increased cost.
 
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Tom Morrison said:
The LDC is a Master Shop gun.
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I like the idea of the LDC P226—it looks like a great pistol. But I can't find any source that confirms it's a Master Shop pistol. What's your source for this? None of the dealers that list it mention this, and the $1800 seems a little low for Master Shop pistol pricing.

I don't get the "The Legion is a production gun so it's the same as a regular P226" thing. Yeah, it's a production gun, but of the four other "Production" P226s that I've owned it's a much better pistol. I'm puzzled by the tendency of non-Legion owners to slag the Legion models—they're really good pistols, guys, with real-world useful features.
 
Mercenary Geer said:
Have you tried shooting a Legion? I have the SA/DA and the Grey Guns trigger in it is better than the trigger in my other SA/DA P226s; the X5 and the Dark Elite with the SRT.

I thought the improvements ot the gun were more than worth the increased cost.
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yup, it’s about the same price as a Scorpion, and in my experience, the triggers are pretty much the same. So were the groups. With an LDC or X5 Alround, in my experience, both trigger and groups are better.

If you did a scientific comparison of the Legion trigger, its similarities to other production guns would be obvious. By scientific, I mean a system that uses a load cell to graph force vs trigger position, not opinions that are not always objective.

The Legion is marketed as a high end sidearm, not a competition gun. Kind of pointless in a Canadian civilian context. If you want a really good shooting 9mm for less money, get a Shadow 2
 
Master-G said:
Well, with that logic, so is every other non-competition-oriented handgun. We might as well as just sell them and shoot Hi-Points.
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I’ve not tried a High Point, but I’ve heard they aren’t bad considering the price. If you like your Legion, good on you, my view is that it is a production tier gun and it performs as such. Nothing wrong with it, nothing magic about it, in my experience.
 
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