For a company that prides itself on making hard-use gear for serious users, SIG’s history in the .22LR realm is somewhat perplexing. Their previous venture, the Mosquito, was farmed out to German Sport Guns and turned out to be a bit of a dog with stories of stovepipes, feeding issues, cracked pot-metal slides, and various other QC problems being reported by users. This eventually caused CEO Ron Cohen to pull the plug on the project, leaving SIG aficionados with just one other option if they wanted a 22 with the company’s logo on it — to buy a P226 and slap a conversion unit on the frame. Hardly a cost-effective solution for a 22 plinker. The P322, then, might just be what the market’s looking for.
UNDER THE HOOD
At first glance, you’d think this was a striker-fired pistol. It isn’t. Concealed beneath the slide is conventional single-action lockwork, driving a hammer that hits a firing pin. According to SIG’s product manager, Phil Strader, this was done