Well yes I did know that. After much consternation...it has become apparent that a person nearly has to be former military to have learned to appreciate the merits of the 1911 pistol. Some of us did not get a chance to serve due to various reasons...the best of which was a student deferment back during Nam so those of us left behind to guard the wmmen and chillins...learned on DA Wheel guns. Most specifically SW and Colt .357 magnesiums. Transitioning over to a DA semi auto was peasy peasy. 1911 has too many flippers...flappers and bogus safety gizmos for we uns. lol. Thats all I know other than I had a bunch of its clones in mostly .380 off duty guns back in the day...and it scares the heck out of me to lug one around fully cocked and a live one in the chamber. It just dont seem safe. Not to even mention how many people I have known who accidentally shot holes in unintended objects while fiddling around with one of those crazy things. My partner nearly killed the jailer up in Wilbarger County..when he shot one off into the wall where the poor jailer was sleeping in the adjacent room.
Are any of your Sigs strikerfire? Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot, simple.
Some do.
Nope..I only have a P 226 which I lugged on the outside for a long while and now a long time trying to keep it hid. It works just like a DA Mod. 28 SW six shooter. It dont have not steenken safety and if you dont want it to go boom...keep the booger hooks off the bang switch...to coin a phrase from my old Sgt Major pal who used to pay the rent on the sports grill. lol. It do hold a lot more ammo and the trigger pull gets real easy after the first shot.
Thanks it was a muracle. My pard was sitting in an easy chair messing with somebody elses gun..and shot it off about seated chest level toward the exact spot it would have hit the jailer in the head as he slept on his little bed. The only thing that saved his life was the slug hit on edge an aluminum wall stud in between the the walls and penetrated one side and indented the heck out of the other side of gap but didnt come out the far side. Whew. It was a little bit funny deal because one of our pals was trying to get a drunk driver to blow into the breathalator in the other room..and the guy was staunchly refusing to blow..then the gun went off...and we had regained our hearing a little the drunks famous words were..I will blow..I will blow. lol.
The same reason a biker changes things on his bike, make it your own and perform how you want.
