![]() ![]() The ammunition production portion of the company is doing the same. SIG is a big company that is very quickly getting bigger. In my opinion, no other factory match ammunition will beat SIG’s numbers. This is due to the projectiles SIG uses and the care with which they load it. It has been incredibly consistent and is regularly one of two brands that every rifle shoots the most accurately. I’ve been able to shoot a fair amount of SIG Sauer’s match ammunition in both. That turns into millions and millions of rounds just to test firearms at the factory. Every one of those guns has to be fired before it leaves the factory. They recently won the Army’s modular handgun contract, so the next few years will see an incredible spike in firearms production. SIG builds a ton of guns and the number produced goes up every year. The presence of SIG’s ammunition manufacturing capacity also allows them to realize considerable savings on their quality control ammunition budget. While consumer sales are a big part of the reason why SIG got into ammunition production, it also allowed them to offer packaged sales internationally. They have spent millions of dollars on a full metallurgy lab and testing equipment to ensure that their brass is top notch. SIG is a very large company, and they took the jump into ammunition production seriously. In 2017, SIG Sauer’s production of brass cartridge cases began. The HT is ideal on game animals because they are pliable enough to expand quickly when fired at rifle velocity, yet tough enough to handle impacting heavy bones without suffering core/jacket separation like frequently happens with jacketed bullets. The HT is SIG Sauer’s hunting bullet and it is a monolithic copper expanding bullet. SIG designed and built their first bullet, V-Crown, but also designed and built the HT late last year. Firearms News magazine was given a behind closed doors look at SIG Sauer’s new ammunition production, and everything it entails. While bullet production may have started with V-Crown, it has since greatly expanded to include rifle cartridges with expanding bullets and non-expanding match bullets. It is very hard to successfully negotiate the tests, but the V-Crown did it. These tests require a bullet to successfully penetrate 12-18 inches of gel while passing though clothing, sheetrock, plywood, and sheet metal. The V-Crown bullet is one of the very few that pass all of the FBI protocols. ![]() There was a ton of development and testing done on the V-Crown and pistols are where SIG Sauer sells the most guns, so pistol ammunition for self-defense made a lot of sense. ![]() SIG’s first entry into ammunition was pistol cartridges loaded with V-Crown bullets. Dan’s background was an important piece of the puzzle because it allowed SIG to bring in significant tribal knowledge right from the beginning. He left RUAG and started consulting for SIG Sauer and then came on full-time to start up the ammunition division. Once the company sold to RUAG, Dan stayed on as CEO of RUAG Ammotech USA for 2-3 years. Dan owned Precision Ammunition in Tampa for over a decade before he sold it to RUAG (one of Europe’s largest ammunition providers) eight years ago. The guy that got the ammunition division started was Dan Powers. SIG Sauer did, even from the very beginning. The name on the box might have said “SIG Sauer” but curious customers wondered who actually manufactured the ammunition inside the box. It is not uncommon for the companies that only make ammunition to produce ammunition for firearms companies, creating a “white label” product. When SIG Sauer first announced they were selling ammunition many questioned who was actually loading the ammunition. ![]()
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