Sig 226 x-five opened...

[Minuteman]

I bought an x-five open a couple of months ago after reading on here how good they are

I have thoroughly enjoyed it but not being able to feed it a diet of lead ball started to niggle as steel bb's aren't my favourite ammo.

So I decided to operate

Slide removal and disassembly where unnervingly simple - I took the barrel out and unscrewed the two halves of the breech:

http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/w...S/S6302333.jpg

Sure enough the barrel was too restricted for a .177 lead ball to pass, as has been remarked on here before, and there was no real way for me to mod it to

Soooo.... the operation looked like a failure until I decided that I would have a hunt through my spares box.

Soon I had a .177 rifled barrel from an old drozd project in my hands which was only of a slightly larger diameter - less work!

A few chops and a bit of file use later I had this made:

http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/w...S/S6302334.jpg

Whilst it was under anaesthetic I lopped off the compensator. Truth be told its purpose is only aesthetic and I always preferred the look of the x-five's front end to the x-five opens but wanted the extra bits inc. adj. sights. If I am honest I may have missed a trick here as with the compensator attached I could have extended the barrel through it - but hey you live and learn!

Completed it last night and couldn't test till this morning...

The operation was a complete success! The mag loads with lead same as with steel, accuracy is great - power test to come but as I have already made myself 2 hours late for work blasting away a few mags I will have to do that later

Anyone else done this already?

[magicniner]

Nice Job!
I've not seen the SIG done before,
I've done the job on a CP99 Compact though
ATB,
Nick

[Minuteman]

Nice Job!
I've not seen the SIG done before,
I've done the job on a CP99 Compact though
ATB,
Nick

Cheers Nick

Here she is chopped to "normal" length: http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/w...k3/BBS/SIG.jpg

Now to get another x-five open and experiment with a longer barrel inside a longer silencer

[magicniner]

Cheers Nick

Here she is chopped to "normal" length: http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/w...k3/BBS/SIG.jpg

Now to get another x-five open and experiment with a longer barrel inside a longer silencer

God Show!
She looks bang right! Doesn't get better,
Regards,
Nick