We keep hearing the never-ending “1911 vs. Glock” argument. The two guns are as different as apples and oranges. It’s time to step it up and compare apples to badass apples with the REAL argument: which is better, the 1911 or the Sig Sauer P220? Posted on 09/05/2017 5:37:05 AM PDT by w1n1
We keep hearing the never-ending “1911 vs. Glock” argument. The two guns are as different as apples and oranges. It’s time to step it up and compare apples to badass apples with the REAL argument: which is better, the 1911 or the Sig Sauer P220?
I've always been a Sig Sauer fanboy and it all started when I got my first Sig Sauer P226 then wandered over to the P220 in .45 ACP years ago. At the time, I was sporting a Colt M1991A1 that I had spent hours working on, lovingly going through and modifying, upgrading to suit my needs so it would run reliably.
I had used the Colt in many tactics and self defense courses, and was comfortable with it. I grew to like it more and was carrying it lots until that fateful Sig Sauer fell in my lap courtesy of a friend.
‘Yep, was lust at first sight. The Sig P220 was the same basic concept as my Colt: a single-stack .45 ACP full sized combat pistol.
However, the Sig Sauer P220 benefited from another 65 years of pistol evolution and got almost everything right from the start. The P220 felt superb, was stunningly accurate, and—get THIS—I didn’t have to do anything to it. It was perfect, straight out of the box. I immediately relegated the Colt to the safe (archives), and haven’t looked back.
Ok, lets get to the meat of this here's the 4 reasons why that makes the Sig P220 better than the 1911.
Reliablity
This first reason a Sig P220 is better than a 1911 is a no-brainer. If you were in a situation where you knew people would be shooting back at you, and you could only choose between a Sig P220 or a 1911, both loaded with modern hollowpoint defense ammo, which would you grab? I know that P220 would be in my hand faster than you could say, “tap-rack-bang.”
Simplicity in operation Some might argue that a 1911 is as simple as it gets, with one trigger pull to master. I see your one trigger pull, and I raise you the the two separate external safeties (grip and thumb) that must be correctly actuated for a 1911 to go off, plus the need to carry “cocked and locked” (hammer back on a loaded chamber, thumb safety engaged) for the pistol to be truly combat-ready (argue all you want on condition one/two/three, but this is a generally accepted statement.). Read the rest of the Sig Sauer P220 vs 1911 here.
“juvenile opinion”
Don’t just sit there!
Give us your expert, fact base comparison!
Of course it is. His whole blog is written by juveniles.
That, too, would just be opinion. Who wants to read that??
Step up to a REAL handgun, an HnK USP45. Put thousands of rounds through mine, not a single failure. Not one. Was at the range with it this past Saturday and was reliably hitting center mass with less than 1/4" difference between rounds at 45-50'.
People who know shoot HnK.
Yes, I'm an HnK bigot. :-)
One thing that surprised me was how difficult the 1911 is to disassemble/reassemble. The Sig is a snap. Maybe I'll check out a Sig in .45 now.
No, but only because there aren’t going the be any weapons at all in about seven years. :-)
The Colt 1911 was a good gun for its time. But it has long been superseded by many other guns.
The military has tried others but have gone back to the 1911 several times. I will take the 1911 over others as personal preference.
HK is my next sidearm. For now, the reliability of Glock and the discipline which comes with it meet my needs, defensively and economically.
Broke the grips of the p220 rolling over a barricade, never had anything like that with my 1911s. Disassembly lever froze on the p220 requiring smith tools to replace again, never had anything like that on a 1911. After a few 10ks of shooting the p220 now keyholes with cast ammo, again no similar problems with the 1911s.
I really want to like the p220 but it has been a source of repeated aggravation. But not to the point that I have sold it though.
I have three Sig 1911s, a Springfield 1911 RO Compact in 9mm AND a 220 SAS and I love ‘em all. Don’t give a nanosecond of thought to which is “best”.
Bkmk
Speaks for me. This is as silly as the caliber holy wars - if it's really that important, the speaker needs more practice.
Great guns. Personal opinions... well we know what comes next.
I carried many side arms for many years, some directed by my organization, others at my discretion. SIGs were the least useful to me. Why? Because I am a left handed shooter. A really good one ( used to be anyway, now I am over 55 and eyes are not the same). Maybe the new ones are ambi- but I won’t be looking at them anytime soon- I have learned the ones I have and they aren’t wearing out, so....
For the life of me I hated SIG M11s- how could I decock? Safely? I never figured it out, so I carried an M9 instead ( hate that one too BTW). Picked up an M1911A1, added an ambi safety lock and had lots of useful experiences with that one. A USMC issue gun BTW.
If you like the SIG, great, but don’t think any specific sidearm or long arm is any “better” compared to another well proven model.
Ford vs Chevy deja vu
Oh, Gaston is my buddy all day every day, John M on certain occasions and at home at night, Eugene and his brothers always at the ready.....
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