SIG P226 Legion

Hickok 45 here finally with a sig p226 legion you thought i'd never try this one out did you pretty gun let's see if it shoots one two smoke a little pot hey any firearm that smokes pot can't be all bad how about on that target man not bad you know what the sun just came out i'm gonna go down here in the shade it's too hot for me to shoot in the sun let me grab my bag oh yeah lazy man shooting how about that am i too close to shoot the cowboy not not the cowboy he should be proud that he was just shot with a sig legion how about this bowing pin right here let's go over there and hit a uh i don't know let's start big try the buffalo all right how about big on a ram oh hello i was uh getting crazy i guess when i do that mag here i got another one all right this is the sig legion and uh it's a new gun this this particular one y'all been asking me about this for years and we just hadn't got the 226 in this but uh i like a 226 they're you're great shooters and all right uh mr ram i i know it's early in the video but i don't want to be frustrated early on but i'm going to hit you again yeah i see i see what's going on i was shooting low on those on those uh those shots where i missed let's try the uh gong let's try that square red plate how about the one on the right nice pistol how about that gong in the middle of the field over there kind of pretty accurate i'll have to say not bad uh of course accuracy yeah see our video on that a firearm is pretty much about as accurate as the shooter is on any given day right standing and shooting that is now you bench rest it's a little bit different so here i'm back in the sun that's good to give you a little more light okay on the pistol decock it so it's been a long time since i've done a sig it's kind of neat to to do one of the well it's not a long time since i've done a sig it's a while since we've done the 226 or 229 series and i give them i used to give them a hard time because the double single action i know i would uh not be nice on occasion although i've always been very complimentary of them and i'm not going to change my tune too much i still prefer a consistent trigger first and second third and all the pulls the same but i'll tell you this legion they've really improved you know the trigger the reset is short and i wish it would break a little further forward but it's nice it really is and then of course the single action pull on these things they've always been wonderful around four pounds or so and even the double action is i think 10 and it's fairly smooth so they're very shootable uh some of the past criticisms have been of this series of pistols as a high bore axis and uh you know in double single action of course but it's a nine in a nine millimeter the the high bore axis doesn't affect you that much if it was a really hard kicking round it'd be a little different you know uh but they're just really nice i'm reminded let me load these pistols and i might just go back to shade i you know i'm an old guy i can't be you know shooting in the sun that's a joke folks uh i'm in the sun all the time i don't worry about sun i don't worry about shade we do all right so let's put another one in there so yeah uh while i'm giving you a little look here and you got plenty of sunlight to see it some of the changes on the legion i may forget some of them these have been out a while you know six seven years or whatever it's not a brand new gun or anything but the legion i think they changed the contour a little bit on the beaver tail a little more comfortable maybe a little more undercut i'm not sure about that but they they melted the controls i kind of like that you're less likely to hit the slide lock or maybe the mag release thing things like that they're not as uh obtrusive okay they you got your x-ray sights really really nice sight for daylight or dark and i think the serrations on the front of the firearm i think those are relatively new i don't think those were on the early 226s i don't have an old 226 finish is really nice i like that kind of that greenish tint to it the uh the serrations on the front of the front strap back strap that's kind of a rubber insert and uh well no it's not i mean these are part of the g10 grips the g10 grips are what you have the front is also uh checkered right there but those feel really good that's probably the best feeling uh 226 229 you know that series of pistols that i might felt yeah i'll say so so let's shoot a little more okay is that all right i kind of like to shoot this thing the legion says right on the top yeah uh kind of a bigger heavier pistol i think it's like 34 ounces or something and i guess some folks would say these are almost becoming obsolete even though the seals carried this for a long time didn't they the 226 uh they are a heavy pistol it's just simple there are lighter pistols out there now that you know and shoot just as well uh but these are sweet pistols no doubt about it we haven't hit a two liter yet haven't we still haven't yeah i mean and they uh they rock you get that thing go you don't have to find your site you do have to find your site your front sight okay that's a problem you can't get the shooting up too fast because guess what happens you start missing very sweet how about you buddy make him leak a little bit too oh let's get him off there before he uh slowly leaks out hey good trick good trick there bud yeah good old sig 226 let me load one more mag maybe okay i'll let you go i just wanted to show you that we uh we we wanted to get this in and do another video with it and kind of uh with some other firearms but we just haven't done the 226 in the uh the legion so there's another reason i wanted to get it uh it's about five or six years ago y'all were requesting it and you still request it request it occasionally and uh just haven't gotten to it like i say it's kind of a heavy pistol uh great shooter uh i wouldn't mind owning one i've said that many times uh well i used to i've been a while uh i just i i confess i've gotten so spoiled by the striker fired pistols great triggers you've been shooting the panic rival lately and pistols like that and then and gosh almost any of the polymer pistols the sig the m17 gloss some of the glocks have good triggers just depends uh yeah they're lighter at a similar capacity uh consistent trigger pull and that that's the reason i always gravitate towards those pistols but that doesn't mean i don't have an appreciation for these okay just like a 19 let's go ahead and shade shoot the last i mean just like the 1911 there's a place for it and and even if it's heavy you know maybe it's not a carry gun maybe it's a home defense pistol it's a pistol you compete with you just like to go to the range and shoot thousands of rounds with it because it feels so good in your hand because it's a piece of quality you know because it's something the seals carried for so many years that you know has so much history and it's just a great great firearm so i don't know i'm kind of have mixed feelings about them i really do but you can't argue the quality and you got your decocker as a reminder for those that you're new to these things that's one of the big differences it gives double single action right now it's cocked right because i i you know pulled the slide back and put around in but now i can decock it right there safely you know there's a round in the chamber right now okay because uh now it's in double action once i do that double action mode again for new folks i just pull the trigger i gotta cock it with the trigger now since it's cocked it's in a single action mode and the trigger is a whole lot lighter and really really sweet to pull no doubt about it and i saw a varmint down there in the woods i guess it's a squirrel yeah jumping from tree to tree just want to make sure it wasn't a kangaroo or something uh what have we not hit over there how about that turkey on the top row all right nice shooter got a pig in the middle of the field didn't know it was falling i thought i held it correctly but you never know about some point yeah do i have one more mag i think i do don't i yes i do let's just play here a little bit that's the last round okay anyway the sig 226 legion it's a firearm that uh you can't hate you just can't hate it uh again it's a little bit like bringing out a nice 1911 you can't hate it you have to like it you know the history of it the quality the way it operates and everything might not be something you would carry okay but just really really nice pistols i've said many times before oh well not all of us but most of us probably most of us have several firearms that are not carry guns you know and i know i'm guilty of that and get into this mode well this isn't a possible potential carry gun for me what am i doing with it do i want to spend money on it that kind of thing but man most of the guns we probably have are not carry guns or hunting guns or anything they're just fun guns that we like for some reason because of the history or shootability or whatever it might be and this one definitely falls into that category and you know with a good holster i wouldn't be averse to carrying it uh just just a nice pistol again 34 ounces that's like 10 ounces and that's the thing you think about you know some of you don't i know i hear from you i carry a 12 inch model uh 1911 and don't think about it inside the waistband or whatever you've got uh but it is 10 ounces heavier than a glock 19 okay and this mag holds 15 rounds and that's what a glock 19 holds now i'm here i go glock 19 i pay a glock fanboy uh m&p okay 2.0 smith and wesson all right nine millimeter you know we can name a bunch of guns like that the sig p320 the compact or whatever and they're all going to be nine or ten ounces lighter than this big old pistol simple that's a lot of difference right but uh that also that extra 10 ounces eight or ten ounces makes this one sweet shooting pistol it really does so the sig p226 legion uh you know just just fun to shoot and many of you that own them uh yeah i'd like to hear from uh you all that that still own a p226 or you still shoot it a lot of you own them do you actually actually shoot it take it out and shoot it or carry it uh you know what do you do with them what do you think about them now with all the newer designs and lighter pistols that have as much or more capacity and where do you place this i you know you've heard me ramble about it you know many many times i really like the pistol gosh just such a nice pistol uh but how's this stack up for you you know does anybody still carry the thing do you rely on this for home defense or whatever or is it kind of like a 1911 for many of us a really great shooter but we just don't carry them much or rely on it for self-defense perhaps house gun or whatever so anyway glad you could be around and uh you know the day that i got one of these in my hand to shoot life is good all right 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