Personally, I prefer shooting the Beretta 92 with its fuller grip and nice trigger, but the 226 decocker is just so much easier to use. That gets you a bit more torque and muzzle flip compared with the Beretta 92. The Sig 226 bore sits VERY high above your hand. You’ll need to train yourself to hold the gun differently or the slide lock open on empty will never work. On the other hand, the slide lock lever on the P226 is right where you want to rest your thumb. The 92G does away with the safety and only has a decocker, which is the way to go IMO. IMO, the safety is not needed or wanted decocking is fine and accidentally leaving the Beretta 92 on safe is terrible. The Beretta safety/decocker is smaller and it’s in a spot where you can accidentally stroke it onto safe. The decocker on the Sig is easier to use: it’s bigger and not in a dumb spot like on the slide. With a spring kit or trigger kit, you can pull both way down and the SRT kit on the Sig makes the trigger reset length incredibly short. Trigger pull on both guns varies depending on model but most factory examples will be around 12/5lbs: DA/SA. They both have decockers that let you carry the pistol loaded with a round in the chamber and a heavy double action trigger pull as the only safety. They also both ran double stack magazines with higher capacity than a lot of what was available at the time.

Unlike a lot of the weird or old garbage, these pistols could run for thousands of rounds without failure. The massive difference that sets them apart from most of the handguns the US was fielding at the time is reliability and capacity. Both the 226 and 92 are big, bulky, hammer fired 9mm pistols.

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