I'm not knocking Sig at all , they are my current favorite semi auto and own 2 of them. just an honest comparison of those 2 particular guns. maybe it's cuz I grew up in the revolver age but steel can be smoothed and polished so it's as slick as snot on a doorknob, not so sure about poly, but my exp with poly is limited to 1 kahr and 2 glocks. the only reason I would choose poly over steel is strictly for wt reduction, but thats just me.
It's the fact that every gun manufacturer is competeing for a cheaply priced gun and SIG had to enter the polymer market to stay competitive with everyone else making them. Same holds true with 1911's now, they are being made by about 10-12 companies...
Most folks out there buying firearms today are the younger crowd and it is a "Black Gun - Polymer" crowd, and thank God they are doing it! If it hadn't happened a few years back and became popular I think you would have seen alot of gun manufacturers close up shop, since most outdoorsmen and women aren't going to spend $1000.00 plus dollars on a bolt action hunting rifle....
I agree, I have two SIG's and they aren't plastic...
I come from the old school too, where every handgun was a wheel gun and it was blued. I still like an all metal gun.
However.....I will take a polymer gun all day over metal for a ccw. If you guys work outside like a lot of us do, you will see what I am talking about. If you carry a non stainless-non polymer gun, you dang sure better have a can of oil and a rag, and clean it DAILY. Or you will have rust guaranteed
I have about ruined 2 blued guns carrying them IWB. Now my polymer/stainless gun doesn't have a speck of rust and its IWB every day, all day in this brutal heat
That's why they make SS Revolvers! Like a nice S&W Model 60 or Airweight. I am working on finding you that Ruger SP 101 357 hammerless snubbie you mentioned back a while...
+1 on the s/s sp101 hammerless, if you can deal with the wt. I've had 2 the 3" bbl was better imo. wish I never got rid of either.
