Long-Term review: Glock 44 vs Sig P322

A while back, I decided to buy a Glock 44 to review; and then I fell in love with it. Everyone should own a sub-caliber combat pistol for practice. Then I wanted high magazine capacity, a threaded barrel, and a red dot sight. Turns out SIG had it all in one package, and I wanted a new SIG.

So a year on with the SIG, guess which one I like better? The Glock is easier to strip and has been more reliable. I originally thought the SIG P322 not just for looks, but because it has a 20 round magazine vs Glock's 10 (and the painful ProMag 18 rounders).

Unfortunately, the SIG doesn’t seem to cycle consistently on a variety of ammunition like the Glock does just fine with. SIGs Romeo RDS also has issues, like flickering and randomly changing brightness in between shots. I was NOT happy about that as I wanted this gun to primarily "learn" my brain to shoot an RDS. A battery change seems to have helped, but we'll see how that holds up. 

I don’t like the fact that I can’t pull out the SIG's trigger package easily with just a punch to give it a thorough cleaning like I can do with the Glock. The roll punches it uses are weird and I can't pull it out to clean the grit out.

So after having the SIG P322 for about a year, I have to say that in hindsight, I should not have bought this pistol. It is fine in principle, but I think it was poorly executed and I have questions about the QC. 

I will champion having a sub-caliber conversion or version of your daily carry pistol for cheap affordable practice. I can easily put 1000 rounds or more through that thing on a weekend morning. That's around a savings of $150-200 easily versus 9mm.