I am in the market for either the Legion SAO RX or the Elite SAO RX. I can get the Elite SAO for $1000 and the Legion for $1500. I feel my best option is to go Elite SAO and send it off to Robert Burke for a trigger job. Looking for opinions.

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Originally posted by Trey83:
I am in the market for either the Legion SAO RX or the Elite SAO RX. I can get the Elite SAO for $1000 and the Legion for $1500. I feel my best option is to go Elite SAO and send it off to Robert Burke for a trigger job. Looking for opinions.

If you can buy a new Elite SAO RX for a grand you should buy more than one!!

I own a SAO RX and a Legion SAO (not a RX). While both are excellent shooting pistols the Elite is the best shooting pistol I have ever shot. It features all the benefits of the Legion except the straight trigger and patch of checkering under the trigger guard with a better finish. While I can say you couldn't go wrong with either, on a dollar for dollar basis the Elite would be the better value.

I would also recommend shooting whatever you do buy before spending the money on a trigger job. With the addition of a Wolff 17lb mainspring my SAO triggers are outstanding.

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Originally posted by Trey83:
I feel my best option is to go Elite SAO and send it off to Robert Burke for a trigger job. Looking for opinions.

I doubt that the trigger on the Legion would be much different than the Elite.

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Originally posted by GP229:

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Originally posted by Trey83:
I feel my best option is to go Elite SAO and send it off to Robert Burke for a trigger job. Looking for opinions.

I doubt that the trigger on the Legion would be much different than the Elite.

Other than variables between individual pistols there should be essentially no difference between the triggers of the two pistols aside from the Legion having a flat-faced trigger.

Thanks for all of the responses. I ended ordering an Elite SAO RX. It should be here by Friday. I will have to see what I think of the factory trigger and decide if I want to send it out for work.

I want to know where some of the Legion prices are coming from. I paid $1075 delivered to my ffl and the next lowest was around $1150 before shipping. I realize that prices vary around the country but $1500 seems a bit high.

The $1500 price is for a Legion with the Romeo1 optic.

I recently ordered a Legion P226 SAO and love it. Was deliberating between this and the new Wilson EDC in 9mm. Dimensions are similar with the Legion being about 1/4" longer and 1/4" taller but I carry it IWB in a TT Gunleather holster with an 18 rd. Mag and a 20 rd. spare and it is manageable to conceal for a full size pistol. Wonder what I should do with the $1900 I saved since I passed on the $3000 EDC....?

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Originally posted by Parausa:
I recently ordered a Legion P226 SAO and love it. Was deliberating between this and the new Wilson EDC in 9mm. Dimensions are similar with the Legion being about 1/4" longer and 1/4" taller but I carry it IWB in a TT Gunleather holster with an 18 rd. Mag and a 20 rd. spare and it is manageable to conceal for a full size pistol. Wonder what I should do with the $1900 I saved since I passed on the $3000 EDC....?

You need a spare. You'll still have $800 for ammo.

They are ambi. Maybe one for each hand in that seeet Andrews Monarch 2 gun shoulder rig...

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Originally posted by Trey83:
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I feel my best option is to go Elite SAO and send it off to Robert Burke for a trigger job. Looking for opinions.

That's my opinion too. Robert's action job on my 9mm X5 Comp is excellent.