Wow, this seems to be an epidemic. I own (5) Sigs and the last one I bought in November. I didn't get around to firing it until last month and at first only occasionally would the slide not lock back. Unfortunately the more rounds I fired the worse it got, until the point where it began to fail 100% of the time. I fired (250) rounds total. I read all the sigforum posts but since I was planning to carry this weapon on a daily basis in my job, I decided to send it back to Sig. They immediately offered free overnight UPS shipping and were most helpful. The rep did not hazard a guess as to what the problem might be but the feeling I got was that they know. Anyway turnaround time was estimated at (2) weeks, so we'll see.

this also happens with my Elite,I may send it back as well.I did order a new recoil spring(orange) and a slide stop spring.This is kind of a bummer.I hope Sig addresses this issue.

Does anybody have a video or pics of them replacing the slide lock spring.If my new recoil spring dont do the trick I may need to swap them out.Ill do a mag spring swap first though.

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Originally posted by sigshooter16:

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Originally posted by ontmark:
I recently bought a new 226 in Calif 10 round mag Law. Slide did not lock open. Looking at Magazines on the SIG Site when enlarged the picture shows the 12 round mag having a protrusion for the Slide Stop Lever, where the 10 round mag has this area rounded off. Called SIG customer service and they shipped me four followers part number off the 12 round mag for free. Installed them and it works fine, No it didn't change the capacity actually has made it easer to load the last round with speed loader. How have room in Mag for 10 and a half rounds.

Hello there,

I'm new to this site and just recently purchased a P226R in .40 S&W. I also live in California and had the same problem with my 10rd magazines not locking the slide back after the last round was fired. I say your post and decided to give this a try. So far I've only function tested the gun and it seems to have solved the problem. I'll get back with more after I take it to the range, hopefully later this week.

Thanks ontmark!!

I advise against that being the only fix. The main problem is the slide catch lever, not the magazine follower.

I compared 10rd and 12 round magazine side by side, and the ones I had did not have any difference as to how much area was contacted by the slide catch lever. Only difference I saw was that normal slide catch lever contacts significantly more area of the magazine follower resulting in more reliable slide lock engagement regardless of magazine capacity. The short arm slide catch lever contacted both 10 and 12 round follower in a very narrow area, and would start eating up the edge of the follower that will eventually result in slide catch lever no longer being pushed up.

The normal slide catch lever works with both 10 and 12 round magazine. So, getting the normal slide catch lever would be a better fix. Why in hell would you want your P226 to only work with a specific 10 or 12 round magazine when it SHOULD work with both?

P226 should be a P226. When I bought my P226, SIG never told me it was a "10 round magazine only" P226, and neither did they gave me a discount for it. So, the P226 I get being any different or inferior than a P226 any other customer would get is unacceptable.

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Originally posted by caneau:
15 minute solution to a problem that has 5 pages of posts:



No need to change your grip from a high thumbs hold.

Great post. This solved my thumb issue too. I just bought a new slide lock lever ground off the tab, and filed a little bevel to match, then applied some Van's bluing. I handed the finished gun to a friend who is not familiar with sigs and he couldn't tell me what might have been modded. The slide lock release is every bit as functional as it was before, without the thumbs forward slide lock problem. 15 minute and $15 solution. I think maybe sig should reconsider this part with the recent popularity of this grip. The grip is not nearly as effective for me if I place my thumb onto my support hand.

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Originally posted by Peetwo Twentee:

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Originally posted by caneau:
15 minute solution to a problem that has 5 pages of posts:



No need to change your grip from a high thumbs hold.

Great post. This solved my thumb issue too. I just bought a new slide lock lever ground off the tab, and filed a little bevel to match, then applied some Van's bluing. I handed the finished gun to a friend who is not familiar with sigs and he couldn't tell me what might have been modded. The slide lock release is every bit as functional as it was before, without the thumbs forward slide lock problem. 15 minute and $15 solution. I think maybe sig should reconsider this part with the recent popularity of this grip. The grip is not nearly as effective for me if I place my thumb onto my support hand.

If your grip obstructs the slide catch lever, and the symptom went away by grinding off about 2mm of it, that means the slide catch lever has cleared your hand by mere 2mm. I won't be comfortable with that margin of error.

actually, grinding off the tab removes .292" or 7.42mm .

I have a new 229 that was malfunctioning today. I had the recoil spring (white) on backwards. Putting in it right fixed the problem.

I went home and check my 220 Carry, and the colored end of the spring was facing the breach, the 229 had the color facing the oposite way. I cannot even reverse the 220 srping and get the gun together so on the Carry, the color is at the base of the rod and on the 229 the color is at the tip of the rod.

Not thrilled that it's not a uniform system, color in or out. I have at least 800 rounds through the Carry so I'm leaving it be.

Sorry for my previous pic going away, here's a new one:



Yes, there's a lot of TW-25B in there. You don't need that much, I just wanted all of my internals coated well. After I dry fired a few times, it spread around nicely. It's also a lot more than 2mm that I lopped off. The 7.42mm that Peetwo says is probably close to how much I took off.