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I am looking for a P220 slide to have it milled for a red dot, w/o using an adapter plate. Galloway Precision tells me the slide must not have: "the deep cavity to the side of the firing pin". Anyone have any suggestions or images of the "deep pocket"? Would it be older slides, or newer ones? I had my 220 slide milled for an adapter plate, which was larger than ideal for concealed carry. So, will sell that slide and am looking for a replacement.This message has been edited. Last edited by: c1steve, -c1steve | ||
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If you’re asking about the “pockets” in the bottom of SIG slides, this is a picture of P320 slides with and without. The ones in Classic line slides like the P220 are similar if they are stainless steel slides. As I recall, the carbon steel slides with separate breech blocks don’t have that feature. The bottom of my P220ST slide has lightening grooves on both sides, but they’re not as deep as the one pictured.  Hopefully someone will chime in about other possible P220 slides. Added: Are they referring to P220 slides in particular, or just SIG slides in general? The slides with the deep slots are usually those for 9mm pistols. ► 6.4/93.6 “ Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one’s own mind without another’s guidance.” — Immanuel Kant | |||
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nobody mills the folded slides, which is what I think they are trying to differentiate here. “So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.” | |||
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Nobody mills the folded slide, yes, but they are talking about the stainless milled slide. Here is the "deep pocket" on the P220 MSE I used to own.  Q | |||
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I thought you may have been referring to the ugly ass hole on the outside of some slides. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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| Oriental Redneck |
That "ass hole" only appears on the milled slides with the internal extractor. External extractor P220s don't have them.   Q | |||
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Thanks all for the help. The image from 12131 explains everything. I have a P220 being converted to .357 Sig at Gray Guns, but we have a long wait for Bar-Sto to make a semi custom barrel for this conversion. I was setting up this pistol that would be good for concealed carry, but still legal to bring into Canada. -c1steve | |||
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You said ass hole Lmao! | |||
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The main point is to prevent opening up the inside of the slide when milling the top for the optic. There's a chance of those deep cuts like in 12131's pic being opened up when you mill the top flat. I think I have a few with and without that deep cut. I actually have a carry slide over at Galloway right now for that exact service. I did measurements to show that we wouldn't expose the slide internals before I sent it on. As to how to tell which serial numbers or manufacturing years will have optic milling compatible/incompatible slides, I'd be interested if anyone knows. For buying things online, sometimes the pics do not indicate what type of slide is in a gun, which makes purchasing for the plan of milling for an optic dicey. Sometimes you can get seller to post additional pics, but it would be great if we could know that this year, or this series of serial numbers had the incompatible ones. I'm interested if you find a source for P220 slides besides takeoffs from used guns. ...that I will support and defend... | |||
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Haaaa! | |||
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| Lead slingin' Parrot Head  |
I don't have enough experience with various P220s manufactured in different years to know for certain, but years ago I posted a series of photos documenting the internal slide milling variations of the P226, with the various lightening milled cuts. There were several milled cut variations over those years, likely several more since I posted that discussion... and it wouldn't surprise me at all if the P220 milled slides went through several similar design changes. | |||
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No doubt. I wonder if even SIG could say what was done when. ...that I will support and defend... | |||
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