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Yea the 25rnd mag has been out for years.

Topgunsupply has the 25rnd mags every once in a while.

The old long strut flexes and makes for a somewhat uneven DA pull especially with heavier mainsprings. They came out with the short strut and plastic base to solve the flex issue. The E2 has yet another strut and base design in order to clear the E2 grips. The downside is the strut binds so going to "standard" grips would allow the E2 strut and base to be replaced with the "standard" short strut and plastic base. FWIW, I run a 17lb mainspring with 2 coils removed on my 2 GGI X5 Allrounds. I remove the 2 coils because the Wolff spring would coil bind at its stock length making the end of the trigger stroke a bit stiff as it pushed coils over top each other. I ran into the coil bind problem with Wolff recoil springs as well. I run a 14lb Wolff recoil spring and I swapped one out right before a match. All match long my brass was barely coming out of the ejection port and bouncing off my hand. I later discovered that the Wolff spring I had put in the gun before the match had 4 more coils than the one I had replaced. I checked slide travel and found that the longer spring was going to solid coil bind limiting travel to a shorter stroke than with the factory recoil spring. 9mm minor loads don't have enough recoil to compress the stiff secondary spring on the X5 so my slide was going back barely enough to eject the case.

If you do change to standard grips you will need a new decocking lever, main spring base and strut. In return you should have a better DA trigger pull. You can change to standard grips and just change the decocking lever if you just want to try different grips. Then change out the strut and base later to improve the trigger.

One thing to keep in mind. The guns equipped with the E2 grips use a different base and strut. It changes the angle on the strut causing some slight binding. You probably will not be able to use as light of a mainspring on an E2 equipped gun as you would a standard gripped P226

FWIW, With Roger's mousetrap basepads on a the standard 9mm magazine body (from an 18rnd Mecgar) I get 23rnds of 9mm with no modifications I can do some tweaking on it and get 24.

yes.

Same here. I'll buy one finally, now that it looks like I can get my extractor fixed. Thanks, Joe Just look me up when you need one.

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SIG at one time offered the X5 Tactical in 40. They had an issue with frames cracking. Technically the 40S&W version is still available however you will have to have it imported since SIG US will no longer import them.In Europe the X5 Tactical is called the X5 SO. Good luck finding just a slide. Unless you find someone with a junked frame that will sell you their slide you maybe out of luck.

Well, hard to say without seeing it but it almost sounds like you have the follower in wrong or it is sticking.

yes. So next question is will they be at the correct height? Sent from my Thrive using tapatalk2 Maybe. If they are off it probably won't be by much.

yes.

Here is a sample done in a "stainless" look moly-resin over type III anodizing. I'll have more parts of this nature before long. I'll have thirty parts that will be a ceramic based stainless look coating over an anodized hard coat.

I use Aguila Super Extra 40gr. It runs reliably and it works better than anything else I have tried when running a light mainspring.

22 conversion on my X5 AR

That is an early prototype made of plastic on a 3D printer. Here is a more recent video.

It is a STI marked with a SIG logo probably because that is what Max shoots in open. Also, in the video did any thing about his X5 look vaguely familiar? :-)

Works just fine. Nothing to worry about. Now if you tried to leave the X5 guiderod assembly in place you would have a problem You basically created a X5 short and smart.

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Topgunsupply.com usually has them but they show out of stock right now.

A SIG sight pusher makes the job easier.Do you know of anyone you could borrow one from?

?? Why do you think Grayguns only wants to do packages? That isn't the case. Gerry (Total Automation) does nice work as well. Gerry has done work on 3 guns for me.

I have not seen a ST with a rail.

Here is an example of an X5 frame with the mounting rails. And here the frame of a P226 produced Feb 2012 As you can see you could mill the front part of the rail into the P226 frame but that would provide you with little support at the front of the magwell and only the magwell retention spring for support at the rear. It would probably work ok with the factory magwell but my magwell is designed to provide support for better control of the gun. Therefore the front the magwell will see stress. I would be concerned with the mounting rails of the magwell eventually weakening and breaking due to all the load being concentrated on the front 1/4 of the rail.