I just picked up my new SIG SAUER P226 XFIVE CLASSIC last night. I had been after one of these for a while. I love the feel of this pistol as well as the sweet trigger.
Don’t show this to Pappabear. Nice looking pistol for sure.
Beautiful blaster Renegade, is that gun optics ready or is it an iron sight gun? And yes that trigger is next level.
PB
Very nice Pistol.
I’ve always had an appreciation for the 226. Carried one for a couple years.
When did the SAO Sigs come out?
It is optics ready. It can accept the SIG ROMEO1PRO, ROMEO2, or anything else that has the same mounting setup.
They started coming out several years ago, at least back to around 2015. They started introducing more of their lineup as SAO the past couple of years. Beretta is doing the same thing with some of their newer pistols.
That’s a sharp looking pistol.
An X5 is about the only other Sig I’m wanting to get. Or an Allround or LDC II which are DA/SA guns.
I modified some Allround grips for my 226 Legion, I like them better than the factory ones.
I believe the X5 came out around 2005 or so and were an imported German (DE) Sig.
Well out of my price range.
Made in the good ol USA now.
Armory Craft has a good line on X5’s and parts.
I was in a LGS and they had one in stock. Trigger was nice but a little different than my P226SAO, couldn’t figure out why. But boy was this gun hefty, I thought it must be a cream puff to shoot.
Todd, the SAO sigs have been around for a while, and they do a very nice GreyGuns trigger. Even their DA/SA GreyGuns triggers rock, IMHO.
Does this gun accept the regular 226 mags?
PB
I’m a sucker for a nice 226, especially with wood grips and those look like real nice wood grips.
I gotta stay out of the lgs for a while as I’m back to building tube amps again.
That is not a good thing.
MY old 226 ALWAYS runs, even with sloppy reloads !!
Being made here at half of what it cost to get an imported DE model is not a bad thing.
It looks like the slide is using the current production long extractor and not the internal or short extractor.
Which will drive the purists nutz.
I could swing a current production one at $2k.
But with the DE ones going from $3,500 - $6,000, that’s a lot of ramen for me.
I have a SAO dated march of 2010 with a German frame, so at least that long for SIG SAO’s.
I have one as well, can confirm.
Review for folks searching this thread for info on the XFive
[video=youtube_share;KHIJdkBxATE]https://youtu.be/KHIJdkBxATE[/video]
A few months ago, I picked up a German-made P226S X5 Level 1 in .40S&W for $2600.
Here are both.
I thought the Xfive SAO, like the ‘Tactical’ were out pre-2010. I thought I had one in 2008, but I’m getting fuzzy on dates. Great gun. A little to front heavy with a 5 inch barrel.
This explains why I never noticed them before, I’m very much not in the high end pistol market and don’t pay attention to the details when I see numbers like that.
My P226S X5 Level 1 was made in 2013. From what I have read, that is the year the X Series was introduced.