Mainsail
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I finally got out today to shoot my new P229 Legion.
After I got the gun home from the dealer I cleaned it thoroughly and greased the rails and barrel/slide interface with DuPont Krytox high performance grease. I will only discuss the Krytox briefly, and I recognize that gun owners are very brand loyal to their greases and oils. For the most part they are all pretty much the same, except for Kyrtox which stands alone. More about that later.
I had a collection of eight magazines; three came with the pistol, a couple more used, and a couple more from Sig. One more was a MecGar extended magazine for the Sig P226 which everything I'd read seemed to say would work just fine in the P229.
I used Speer Lawman CleanFire 357 SIG Ammo 125 Grain and a handful of my carry ammo- Georgia Arms 125gr Speer HP.
I fired 300 rounds of the Lawman without a single failure of any kind as well as a couple dozen carry rounds without failure. The P226 magazine did not work; the bullets nose-dived and wouldn't feed. I'll be selling that one off. All the other magazines worked 100%. The gun is very accurate and I was getting some great groups, which I did not measure for no particular reason.
After shooting and home, I disassembled and cleaned the gun again. There was no smiley on the barrel or even normal wear on the slide rails which I attribute to the Krytox.
Overall I am very pleased with this gun in this caliber. It's now in my EDC lineup and I'll be carrying it tomorrow.
One humorus note. There was a story in the news recently about a police officer in a shootout with a dirtbag, and the cop put a bullet down the dirtbag's gun barrel. I duplicated that shot today as seen in the picture below. Like the cop, I made the shot without actually trying. (center of head mass shot that inadvertently went down the barrel)
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