We all buy handguns for different reasons but why do we spend sometimes double the price for a heavy steel gun? Now that the highly popular 320 is available the price has been reduced.

Question:
The reason I bought a SIG is:

Choices:
Reputation
Reliability
Accuracy
Aesthetics
Weight of Steel Pistol When Shooting
Navy Seals Used 226
Police Use Them
Recoil Reduction
I Hate HK's & Glock's

 

I answered "reputation". In 1990, my FFL dealer talked me out of an HK P9S .45 auto and into a SIG Sauer P220. He claimed the SIG was better suited for hollow point ammunition. Perhaps I should have answered "reliability". Either way, I own/have owned dozens of P-Series SIG pistols over the years in various shapes, sizes and calibers. They're still my hands down favorite pistol.

I voted reputation, but the real reason is, it's what my parents had. P230 was first non rimfire pistol I ever shot, fell in love with them at that point. All my centerfire pistols are SIGs.

For me, it would be "experience". The first gun that I shot that really felt perfect for me was an original M11. When I got out of the military and went shopping, I considered SIG and HK as my preferred guns. I like the SIG better, and got a better deal, so my first carry pistol was a SIG 229. Since that, I have bought a 228, 2022 and 938. It's quite possible that I will get a 220ST this weekend if my dealer still has a bunch of police trade ins.

I own a Springfield 1911 and would happily own an HK, Smith, Springfield, Ruger, Colt, CZ or any number of other pistols. But I am dedicated to the DA/SA platform, or SA/cocked and locked for a variety of reasons of my own, and am not interested in striker guns for carry purposes.

My experience with SIG has been universally good as is their reputation, so I guess "reputation" would be second.

I voted reputation, but the real reason I have so many SIG's is I bought a 1994 vintage 220, and then I wanted every model. love my SIG's, never owned a Glock, and never will!

I own 5 Sigs, three 9mm's and a pair of .45 ACP's. The first was a P226 Mk25 was purchased to allow me to train with a DA/SA trigger system; something I'd never worked with in 50+ years of short gun shooting/competing. The P226 is a wonderful handgun, accurate, absolutely reliable (I've never had a malfunction), and about as weather proof as is humanly possible.

I found that while the transition from DA on the first shot to SA for subsequent shots could be learned, it was a PITA as Jeff Cooper professed. I've mastered it to my satisfaction now, at least as far as I'm willing to take it, and do carry a Sig concealed often, I realize that for me, it slows the first shot, and I end up with two distinct groups. At combat distances out to 10+ yds. it's not significant.

All of that said, I've found that no other manufacturer offers the quality that is the hallmark of Sig's pistols. It's that simple. And, competition aside, they make a superb CC weapon.

YMMV and probably does, Rod

I voted reputation but the real reason was I read an article back when the Secret Service was using the 228 and after buying one I fell in love with the brand.

I didn't vote. My first two were issued to me. Just seemed to make sense to continue from there.

Reliability my Sigs run and run 226’s and 228’s some have 15k through them over 20 Years no problems with decent maintenance.

At the time, early 90's Sigs were more expensive than others, so I did not really consider one. Then I shot a friends P-220 and could not believe how well I shot it, compared to my G-21. The rest, well, the rest is history.

I do shoot the P-220 platform very well.

Tie between reliability and reputation. I have a 30+ year old 225 that works like new.
And a 20+ year old 220 too.

I just sort of lucked into it. I wanted something as close to a 1911 as possible but that fit my department's rules that prohibited SAO. The P220 was the closest thing I found that I liked the feel of.

I voted reputation.
At the time, I didn't know much about guns, and was in the market for my first handgun. My uncle had a p226. I figured since my uncle only buys quality guns, that I look into a SIG as my first handgun, and went and purchased a used p220.

I bought one because they make them.
I bought one because I'd never owned one.

It was part of my goal to own "one of each".
Over the years though I've added "at one time or another" to that.

I've owned six, I no longer own any.

I said reliability because as said before, experience is the real reason. But I guess it's the reliable, accurate, comfortable, customizable, experience that has made me go back for more.

Maybe it's easier to say reasons that don't matter: looks, who uses them, and to an extent reputation.

Reputation.

I was a very young 23 year old LEO in 1994, and my only real exposure to handguns had been through magazines, especially Sig Sauer fan Massad Ayoob. Sig Sauer handguns were (and are) so respected. The brand just always commanded my attention based on what I read.

One day, I walked into a local lock and key store and there was a Sig Sauer sitting in the used gun case. It was such a famous handgun, the equivalent of a Porsche automobile, that I just couldn't believe it was real. I can still remember that feeling. I asked to look at it. The first thing I saw on it were the words, "P220" on the slide and ".45 Auto" on the barrel hood. I remember exclaiming, "This is a P220 .45 and not a P226 9mm?" It was if I'd found Excalibur. That thing was mint. It cost me $650 in 1994 for that spurred hammer West German, but it was worth every penny of my $20K a year salary. I used to just pick it up and look at at. I couldn't believe it was mine.

That gun more than lived up to its Sig Sauer reputation. That P220 is why I still love the brand.

Because My Mosquito is too big a piece of crap for me to sell it with a clear conscience.

First gun I ever shot was my uncles duty p220 west german..I was hooked.. I got it after his passing and CCR brought it back to life after seeing a lot of years in the holster/weather of Seattle.

Manual of arms (decocker)

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Reputation

Granted, I was buying it on the mid-90s reputation when I bought my German made P220 / 45.