I am going to be buying a Sig 229 in the very near future. As far as cleaning and lube, how often does the gun need to be cleaned and how finiky is it about lubricant.
I am a Glock guy always clean the barrel after shooting, but do not do a detail clean until after a couple of trips to the range. I lube the Glock per the MFG instructions (not much) and it runs great.
Being both a Glock and a SIG owner, I'd say pay more attention to the barrel of the SIG for cleaning, and more attention to lube in the slide rails as compared to your standard Glock maintenance. Everything else pretty much goes the same.
Total agreement from me. I field strip mine about every two weeks. Between range use and primary carry it sometimes amazes me the the crud I find. I pretty much blame it on practice ammo.
Sigs will also want more grease on the rails then what I've seen reccomended for glocks.
I'd say Sigs like to run "wetter" than Glocks. I've always used either CLP or TW25B. A coating of lube on the barrel that is just thick enough so that you leave a fingerprint when you touch it, and a nice coating on the rails.
+1 I've always run my SIGs a little "wet". Actually had some DNFs in my early SIG days, slopped some lube in it right at the range bench, and that instantly solved the problem.
SIG slide rails need lube; if you run them dry you will wear out the anodizing far too fast. Use grease. I love Brian Enos's Slide Glide for all my SIGly goodness.
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