JerBla wrote:[QUOTE=cmshoot;5064632]SIG in general has an outstanding reputation...........but that rep has not carried over to the P250.
I'll admit, it has one of the nicest DAO triggers, but that's about all I'll recommend on it.
During serious shooting, the frame will become so hot that it is impossible to hold, especially the take-down lever (which is where your thumb rests when using a thumbs forward grip). You have to sit it down until it cools down.
I work for a Fed agency who is looking into purchasing the P250. We've had nothing but problems out of them. SIG my office 9 of them for testing; 8 are having repeated malfunctions of various types, mostly failures to extract causing what some folks call a "double feed", but we've also had problems with failures to feed and failures to fire. Oh yeah, and magazines that bind up and won't feed rounds. One of the pistols is averaging a stoppage or malfunction every 83 rounds fired.
If that doesn't make up your mind, SIG has stopped production of the P250, although they have not announced it. They are working on a replacement pistol, which will be striker-fired. If the pistol is as great as SIG claims, why did they cease production?[/
I told this guy I never had an issuse with mine. That is true. I never had any of the problems that he has stated. But the one the that got me the most is when he said that Sig is stopping the production of the 250. Is this true? does anyone have insider info? Any info would be great.
I have several thoughts on this.
First of all, it would be very useful to have a link to the original post so that we can go back and ask the OP clarifying questions.. Could you provide us that? It might be useful to ask him when this happened, what caliber and configuration he was using, what type ammo, how many rds had been put through the guns, what kind and amount of lube was being used, if SIG had been notified of the issues, and if so what's SIG's efforts were to fix the problems.
Reference the striker-fired 250, Todd Louis Green, a professional trainer and the owner of the pistol-training.com website, predicted on various public forums (his website, m4carbine.net, etc IIRC) that SIG would introduce a striker-fired version of the 250 at the 2010 SHOT Show. SIG did not introduce a striker-fired gun of any kind at SHOT 2010, nor at any other venue to the best of my knowledge. To the best of my knowledge, the existence of any striker-fired SIG remains an unconfirmed rumor.
I'm not an insider by any stretch of the imagination, but I'd be surprised if 250 production has been terminated. The variety of available calibers and configurations of the 250 seems to be expanding, albeit slowly. I would expect that would not be true if production had already ceased, or if it was about to cease. I wonder if the OP was confusiong the recent change in 9/40/357 Compact grip modules and magazine floorplates with a termination of production of the 250 line. I would welcome proof more compelling than an unsubstantiated assertion by an anonymous internet source.
Having said all that, it does not speak too well of the 250 that it has (AFAIK) yet won only one US LE contract, namely the Federal Air Marshal Service contract for a number of .357 caliber guns. Based on my very limited knowledge, I had always thought that the 250 was SIG's attempt to compete with Glock and the S&W M&P for those LE contracts (and individual sales to us ordinary citizens )where price was an important criterion.
