The newer HK series (HK45, P30, P2000, SK, etc) desperately need trigger work, I agree with that.
USP and USPC are better.
Tactical models are better.
Expert, Elite, and Match models even better (and when you work one of these, the result to me anyway, is a near perfect and ultra reliable handgun...by comparison, the only Sigs that come close to meeting that criteria are the German and Swiss models, especially the X5 and X6 models)
I'm surprised the Sigs you are issued are not replaced sooner than 30k-40k rds. (220 and 226 models, correct?)
Obviously any handgun can fail, but I have yet to see a high round count no failure late model Sig while there are hundreds of examples of HKs, Glocks, Walthers, and Berettas.
Maybe I've had bad luck, but I've had many issues and failures with Exeter Sigs, and I refuse to waste my time with them. I gave up on them several years ago. I'm definitely not alone in this opinion as I see more complaints about Sigs than most other gun manufacturers that still ride on their prior quality which is long gone.
Ours are American-made P229's in .357SIG. They have proven to be ultra-reliable for us. Out of the 4 handguns that I "took the distance" (38,500-40,000 rounds) I only had 2 instances of parts breakage: a decocking lever spring (nothing that would stop a gun in a fight) and an extractor (fight stopper!). We had several extractors break around the same time, SIG must have had some parts that weren't heat-treated correctly. That was about 4 years ago and we haven't had a single extractor break since then.
We have a rigorous maintenance program. Our P229's have the springs replaced at factory recommended intervals and we inspect them twice a year for any other issues.
When I was our lead Firearms Instructor, I was shooting my P229 several days a week. I would go thousands of rounds between cleaning, except to brush off the breech face and run a boresnake down the bore to clean the chamber. Once I cleaned the entire gun with nothing but a Hilco weapon wipe, leaving the residue left by the wipe for lube. Ran another 5,000 rounds with no issues before cleaning it again. Only cleaned it at that point because I had to fly with it.......didn't wanna go to work with a duty gun.
My previous guns that were exchanged at 40,000 rounds were still going strong. Still reliable and accurate enough to shoot perfect scores. The only things that showed their age were the finish wear, especially on the slide; light gray with silver edges.
Interesting. I've never heard of this mass SIG complaint phenomenon. I see just about every handgun manfucaturer come through my shooting school, I'm not seeing the SIG's fail at all, and they all exhibit stellar accuracy.
I spent all day on the range yesterday with about 30 LEO's shooting mainly P229's, with a few P239's. Again, no issues.
Never heard of 20,000 rounds of Russian steel-cased ammo fired without a single misfire. I've participated in official tests of Russian steel-cased ammo out of numerous firearms, in several calibers. Inert primers are a given with this ammo, regardless of what kind of firearm you are using it in.
