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Originally Posted by hunter5567
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?
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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.