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Old 04-30-2010, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by hunter5567 View Post
Do you know if anyone makes a barrel that has the outside dimensions of the .40 barrel but with a 9MM hole in it? Or possibly anyone that makes an aftermarket 357 Sig barrel for it?
Not any more. The factory .357 Sig Sigma barrels were solid, but the aftermarkets had some problems. I would be leery of any leftover aftermarket Sigma barrels.

The cheapest way to get the switch-barrel setup is to buy the M&P, which has factory barrels availble in .40 and .357. They drop right in , with no fuss.

9mm conversions to either .40 or .357 will always have the challenge that the 9mm case head is just enough different from the other 2 to somewhat mismatch at the extractor.
Not impossible, but not always reliable either. A fellow shooter spent the price of a gun trying to make one conversion work, and it never did.
One poster on this forum took a 9mm Sigma barrel, chamber reamed it to .357, then carefully fitted to his .40 slide and extractor: about 6 hours careful work. He reported it functioned correctly. Neat bit of precision gunsmithing, but expensive if you have to pay for it.
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