| A Nutnfancy style of visit to the Sig Sauer booth at the Las Vegas 210 SHOT show! Sig Product Manager Eric Vonbosse is our escort as we talk about many guns in the 2010 SIg product line. And like my other booth visits, I don't just provide a product promotion opportunity for Sig (boring) but instead keep it REAL with product feedback, tie-ins with previous Nutnfancy reviews and testing, kudos where appropriate (lots of places!), and interjecting my own improvement advice at times. First up: we check out the Sig P226 "E2" Enhanced Ergonomics pistol which accommodates hands of smaller shooters. It seems to have a very CZ-75 style of grip that these shooters will love. Add in a short reset trigger, screwless one piece grip (that can also accept regular P226 grips as well...nice!), upgraded grip texture, and updated slide profile for the E2 as well. Despite the large crowd at the booth and the noise, we wind our way through and check out and discuss many other Sig Sauer guns including the Sig P238, Sig556, the Sig716, the Sig522, and P250. The P238 continues to be a hot seller with the "Rainbow" titanium, "Equinox" (with excellent tritium fiber optic sights), dehorned "SAS" model, and "Heavy Duty" steel models now being offered (subject to change). The Sig556 has lost its goofy and bulbous forend and now wears either a alloy quad rail or the slim and very ergonomic classic Sig forend (my favorite). Weights are decent at about 7.5 lbs but both wear thin profile barrels. A new ... |
