Posted on 11/01/2016 5:10:07 AM PDT by w1n1
Although I often shoot and write about airguns, you may have noticed that my testing has focused on a few different SIG Sauer models recently. That's because I believe SIG is on to something, making airguns modeled after their "real" guns, including the use of comparable controls and full-blowback metal slides on the handguns.
Not long ago, everyone suggested practicing with a .22, what with the caliber’s light recoil and lower ammo cost. That may have been sound advice, but with the astronomical jump in the price of .22 ammo, it is no longer that much of a savings, even if loads are available. I don’t know whether SIG's plans were prompted by the higher prices or it was just lucky timing, but I’m glad they did what they did.
It is easier to practice your drawing techniques using a gun that is nearly identical to your real weapon, for example, and it's much more fun than dry firing your real pistol. And, if you live in a suburban setting, an air gun is much quieter and there are no powerful flying projectiles.
IN THE JULY ISSUE of this magazine, I wrote a review covering the SIG Sauer 226 airgun, and the following month did a feature on their MCX AR airgun. Since each of these is a near copy of a full-caliber gun in the SIG Sauer line, it gave me an idea. For this third and final SIG airgun piece, I decided to do a combination review of the airgun and the pistol it was designed to mimic. And, since SIG's 1911 Max Michel BB pistol is set to hit the market later this month, this will probably be one of the first published reviews of it.
As with the first two SIG airguns I tested, I was impressed by how closely these two resembled each other. In fact, if you lay them on top of each other, they are basically the same size. There are just a few small, understandable differences. Read the rest of the Sig BB pistol review here.
Wonder if SIG Saur is going to make a GERMAN Luger AIR Gun BB, maybe as well.
Last time I owned a BB gun, the BBs nearly always had some flat on them somewhere which affected repeatability (which affected trajectory based on relationship to muzzle departure, so unless that process has been vastly improved, getting a BB gun “sighted in” to a very tight group would seem to me to be a task possibly only marginally effective.
[As I recall the reason for the ‘flat’ was how they are cut from wire and then “formed” in a counter-rotating set of grinder polishers.]
I have a Daisy-CO2 model that mimics a 1911 frame.
I have used it for several...ummm...sales solicitors. They don’t seem to come back.
Actually had it behind my hip for a local police visit to my abode. That was interesting.
A lot of people, even writers who should know better, don’t specify round BBs versus pellets. My family has always used 5-meter targets for round-BB guns. Inch groups with occasional fliers are a typical good result with typical cheap BB guns.
Spinning clothespins on a clothes line or shooting tissue out of a washer can be done regularly at 10-12 feet.
Pellet guns, by contrast, are much more accurate.
What I read said BBs I guess I’m just dyslexic or something.
Oh yes...well aware of pellets better performance...especially coned pellets in a rifled barrel.
I just told the story because the companies that sell the 226 replica call it a pellet pistol. Pellets are very capable of precise shooting while actual BBs are pretty iffy, as you indicate.
I wonder if anyone has tried to shoot BBs in something like the 226 replica.
Thanks.....
There is a video on you tube using . 22 pellets and a nail gun cartridge. The results are very interesting. 2500fps?
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