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Old 09-10-2013, 06:48 AM
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I kinda like the Beretta pistol but only to collect and to customize to how I want it. Being issued one is the same as being issued with an M16. You work with what you got and complaining about it isn't making it go away.

I have read an article about some Green Berets switching over to Glock 19s when they were in Iraq. The story is they confiscated enough Glocks from corrupt police that they could outfit their entire unit. Most were 2nd gen Glocks but they loved the design, light weight and reliability. They ordered some mags, did some garage gunsmiting and they used them throughout their tour.
I've definitely seen photos of Green Berets and Rangers with Glocks doing state-side range work.
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Old 09-10-2013, 12:29 PM
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Anyway back on topic. I really don't think the P227 is something to get hyped over. It's a concept that SIG should have introduced years ago and every other company has been doing already.
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Old 09-11-2013, 06:26 PM
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Given that though, I think it's an R&D thing. As far as I can tell, the P227 is literally a P220 with a slightly stretched frame to accommodate (only) 2 more rounds. The 14 round extendeds, to me, are a beefy joke. If SIG had gone from the ground up, the could easily make something far more light and trim, but they want parts commonality and ease of manufacture along with reduced R&D time and cost, so they churn out something "new" that kind of isn't. And to top it off, you lose that slimness of the single stack P220, as well as all the prestige that comes with the model name.

Most companies just want to adapt the parts that they have to popular concepts instead of tooling up to make a proprietary but potentially groundbreaking product, and that's the core issue. You'd think that converting a single to a double wouldn't be such a problem, but it is, especially with a company like SIG whose flagship handgun is legendarily chunky. All in all, another "innovative" design hasn't innovated, it's merely split the difference. The P227 is not truly double stack/high capacity, it's not really more trim than other options that exists (some with better capacities), and it's not very prestigious either, but it's not a P220 either. Aside from SIGs decocker and other proprietary items from their other models, nothing separates this gun from the lame HK45 as far as I'm concerned, at least in a concept applied sense.
I think this analysis is completely on-point. SIG-Sauer's problem for years now has been that they value ease of manufacture and interchangeability of parts/manufacturing processes for their products. This mentality has led to a steady decline in QC in the last 20 years. Unfortunately, the 227 was clearly designed and released with the same vision in mind: The web site and marketing brochures even brag that it uses the same slide as the 220.

I also agree that it's not going to sit well in a marketplace dominated by guns like the XD45, but I am sure that the P227 is still going to get snatched up simply for being a SIG (just as the HK45, in spite of its disappointing magazine capacity, sold well simply for being an H&K). Alas, this also means that SIG isn't going to learn any lessons and will keep putting out guns that are far below the standard set by its German-made stamped-slide pistols in the 1980s.

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I've definitely seen photos of Green Berets and Rangers with Glocks doing state-side range work.
Speaking of SOF and the P227:

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I spoke with customer service...As far as getting the gun to the public, one issue, I'm told, was the Special Forces got the first order of 4,000 guns off the assembly line.
http://sigtalk.com/sig-sauer-pistols...-review-2.html

Not sure if this is true, though I remember reading elsewhere that the same thing happened when the HK45C Tactical came out.
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I remember when I saw the Glock 30S and rolled my eyes on how that is also a dumb concept because it is barely the same size as the G30. The big companies really are not taking any chances with new designs.
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I remember when I saw the Glock 30S and rolled my eyes on how that is also a dumb concept because it is barely the same size as the G30. The big companies really are not taking any chances with new designs.
The Glock 30S is different from the P227 in that it's still a reasonable product improvement over the Glock 30, and it's nomenclature does not insist that it is a separate design from it's predecessor when it's a minor change like the P227. The .45 ACP Glocks have always been chunky messes and given the market's demand for the ever smaller, lighter subcompact, the mating of a Glock 36 slide to a Glock 30SF frame makes perfect sense. There's no R&D there, but there was for both the 36 and the SF. So, even though it's functionally the exact same gun as the Glock 30, the S conforms to a new market demand as best it can given it's physical size constraints. And given it's capacity is 10 rounds for a subcompact (the SAME as a P227 with flush mags), it's not falling short in any practical categories. The P227 insists it's a new product that fills the niche it's intended to, when it doesn't do that as well as other models, whereas the Glock 30S is meant to be a product improvement or a mating of PIs in the Glock 30 line, which it totally is.

I can't think of any gun that can boast the Glock 30's capabilities and retain it's weight and form factor, no one even wants to try. And yet they still do the little extra they can to make it what it, admittedly, ought to have been in the first place. The only thing I can fault Glock for is not aiming as high with their end goal with their newest product, but they certainly reached their goal nonetheless. I can't say the same for the P227. They aimed to put out a product in the niche and what they have put out is a thrown together adequacy, if that. And in the end, it's a product improvement of the P220 with a different name entirely. Good for them, they're in the high capacity .45 market now, and their name will assuredly sell the product, but it's still not a great example of the niche. The Glock 30S is.
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