- Location
- Calgary, Alberta
SIG Arms service is fantastic if you live in the US, I was usually highly impressed by them when I lived there. When the frame on my P229 cracked, I had a new gun from them within a week. And they were great with parts orders too. Just tell them what part you want and they take your credit card# and you get it within a few days.
The only time I got angry with them was when I ordered some spare mags for my P220-1 in .38 Super - they ####ed up and ordered the wrong mags from Sauer in Germany, for the P220, not the P220-1, so I was waiting for my mags for over a year as I recall.
The problem with Canadian orders is the size of the market. Have a look at this: http://www.shootingindustry.com/SpecReport06/graph7.gif
Those are ATF stats. All guns going to Canada (officially as SIG Arms is the American agent) have to go through SIG Arms. Those stats show they exported 625 pistols total in 2004. That includes law enforcement sales, govt. sales, and exports to countries other than Canada (which includes the Caribbean and the whole of South America).
So the total number of pistols exported to consumers in Canada in 2004 was probably a hundred or two, max.
SIG Arms just isn't going to get out of bed for that kind of business. And R Nicholls I bet only has parts for the models they've sold to PDs in Canada, recently. And probably not many.
The only time I got angry with them was when I ordered some spare mags for my P220-1 in .38 Super - they ####ed up and ordered the wrong mags from Sauer in Germany, for the P220, not the P220-1, so I was waiting for my mags for over a year as I recall.
The problem with Canadian orders is the size of the market. Have a look at this: http://www.shootingindustry.com/SpecReport06/graph7.gif
Those are ATF stats. All guns going to Canada (officially as SIG Arms is the American agent) have to go through SIG Arms. Those stats show they exported 625 pistols total in 2004. That includes law enforcement sales, govt. sales, and exports to countries other than Canada (which includes the Caribbean and the whole of South America).
So the total number of pistols exported to consumers in Canada in 2004 was probably a hundred or two, max.
SIG Arms just isn't going to get out of bed for that kind of business. And R Nicholls I bet only has parts for the models they've sold to PDs in Canada, recently. And probably not many.
