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I normally carry a Glock 9mm on and off duty, although sometimes I mix it up depending what I\u2019m doing. Recently I sent my duty gun, a Glock Model 45, out to have the slide cut for a red dot sight. While I was waiting for that to be done I pressed my old duty gun back into service.<\/p>\n
That gun is a West German-made SIG P229 in .40 S&W and it has a property stamp of my police department. This gun is almost 30 years old and had been previously issued before I got it. It\u2019s got some wear, but is mechanically sound. A couple of years ago I had a chance to purchase the pistol so I did, but it\u2019s remained in the case ever since…until a month or so ago.<\/p>\n
Before I sent my Glock out to get worked on I replaced the springs in the SIG, along with the beat up old Hogue rubber grips. I installed a nice set of checkered G-10 G-Mascus grips. I also replaced the long-dead night sights with a new set of AmeriGlo Hackathorn sights that have a big tritium front sight bead and a black serrated rear. They\u2019re a big improvement over the old factory tritium sights.<\/p>\n
I re-qualified on the SIG so I could carry it at work again and realized that the new sights and grips made a big difference in the pistol’s handling. I was honestly never I huge SIG fan — or .40 cal for that matter — but a few minor upgrades made a really big difference.<\/p>\n
In addition to the SIG, my EDC carry load consisted of a VZ Grips Executive G-10 dagger which is made from a G-10\/Carbon Fiber matrix that makes it lighter and stronger than straight G-10. It’s also non-electrically conductive so it doesn\u2019t set off a Garret wand or other metal detector. Not that it matters when I\u2019m carrying that brick of a SIG, but I love how light and compact it is, especially in its well-designed leather sheath.<\/p>\n
For actual utility cutting I paired the SIG with a Kershaw Al-Mar AM-4, an Al Mar Knives-designed folder with Kershaw\u2019s SpeedSafe assisted opening mechanism and a flipper. It’s a sleek, elegant folder that carries light and discrete and can be put into service quickly.<\/p>\n
My light with this set up is the excellent ASP Sentinel. This is a 400 Lumen light that will run on either AA or CR123 batteries. The newer E3 version comes with a rechargeable battery, but can still take AA\u2019s and CR123\u2019s as well. It\u2019s a solid light with some nice features and I\u2019ve been using mine for a couple years now without issue.<\/p>\n
This setup is heavier and bulkier than my Glock 43X set up, but I\u2019m packing a .40 with 180 grain Speer Gold Dots in it. I prefer the 9mm for a number of reasons, but there\u2019s something to be said for a round that starts with a 4 and a bullet with that much mass to it.<\/p>\n
I normally carry a Glock 9mm on and off duty, although sometimes I mix it up depending what I\u2019m doing. Recently I sent my duty gun, a Glock Model 45, out to have the slide cut for a red dot sight. While I was waiting for that to be done I pressed my old duty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[228,230,207,229,227],"class_list":{"0":"post-642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pocket-dump","8":"tag-ameriglo-sights","9":"tag-asp-flashlight","10":"tag-hogue-g10-grips","11":"tag-kershaw-knife","12":"tag-sig-sauer-p229","13":"entry"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210701_163137.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210701_163137.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Tim Stetzer","author_link":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/author\/tim-stetzer\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210701_163137.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}