SIG SAUER P226 Nitron Full-Size

Name: SIG SAUER P226 Nitron Full-Size
Brand: SIG SAUER

SIG SAUER lists the P226 Nitron Full-Size as a double-action/single-action 9mm Luger pistol with a 4.4 in carbon steel barrel, a Nitron-finished stainless slide on a hard-coat anodized alloy frame, SIGLITE night sights and an E2 grip.

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P226 Nitron Full-Size

SIG SAUER · P226

Source verified

Scope note: READ THE CAPACITY CAVEAT BEFORE USING THIS RECORD. SIG's P226 Nitron Full-Size page currently lists exactly ONE catalogue number — 226R-9-BSS-CA — whose STATE COMPLIANT cell reads "California" and which ships with two 10-round magazines. The P226 is a 15-round pistol by reputation, and this record says 10 because that is the only configuration SIG publishes on that page; it is NOT the P226's traditional capacity, and nothing here should be read as SIG stating that a P226 holds ten rounds. The page was checked for other SKUs rather than assumed: it carries 64 sku-item cells, which is 32 headers and exactly one data row, and the other SKU-shaped strings on it (226-9-10, 226-9-15, 226-9-20) are magazine part numbers sold as accessories, not pistol catalogue numbers. Every other value on this record — the dimensions, weight, sights, finishes and trigger action — is a property of the pistol rather than of its magazines, and is unaffected by which magazine ships in the box. The P226 Legion listings (226RM-9-LEGION and 226RM-9-LEGION-SAO) are separate records under the base-model rule, and note they too are listed with 10-round magazines, so this is a pattern across SIG's current P226 catalogue rather than a quirk of one SKU. THIS IS THE FIRST SIG RECORD WHOSE TRIGGER ACTION COLUMN ACTUALLY CONTAINS A TRIGGER ACTION. The P365 and P320 pages both put "Striker" under a heading reading TRIGGER ACTION, which is an ignition fact in a trigger-mode column and is why both records leave triggerAction unset; this page reads "Double Action / Single Action (DA/SA)", which is a trigger mode, so it normalizes to da/sa and SIG's wording is kept verbatim. Ignition and operating system are unset: the P226 is a hammer-fired short-recoil pistol and SIG states neither, the page never uses the words hammer, decock, short recoil or locked breech, and no manual is reachable to settle it. A SOFT-404 SHAPE WORTH KNOWING BEFORE GUESSING ANY SIG DOCUMENT URL: sigsauer.com/media/… returns HTTP 200 with a JPEG for a resource that does not exist. A guessed manual URL therefore "succeeded" at 4,972 bytes and was an image; checking the magic bytes is what caught it, not the status code. SIG's /manuals and /support/manuals are ordinary 404s. Both unit systems are published, as on the P365, so nothing on this record is converted — SIG's metric figures look like its own conversions (4.4 in is exactly 111.76 mm while 7.7 in is rounded to 196 mm) but they are the manufacturer's published numbers. Height and weight carry basis notes because SIG states neither's magazine state; contrast the P320, whose weight SIG does qualify as "w/ Magazine". Trigger pull is unrecorded — SIG publishes no figure for any of its three pistols in this directory. Year introduced is unrecorded: the P226 dates to the 1980s and SIG's press index is behind a challenge this project does not attempt. Warranty is SIG's Infinite Guarantee, stated on the product page itself rather than a separate warranty page, so the row cites the product source, exactly as the P365 record does. Also published and unrecorded for want of a schema field: a 6.3 in / 160 mm sight radius, a stainless steel slide, a carbon steel barrel, a hard-coat anodized alloy frame, an E2 grip and a SIG accessory rail.

Reference fields

Manufacturer	SIG SAUER^[1]
Manufacturer series	P226
Firearm category	Handgun^[1]
Chambering	9x19mm Parabellum^[1]
Manufacturer chambering	9mm Luger^[1]
Generation	Not yet verified
Manufacturer size class	Full-Size^[1]
Directory frame class	full-size
Manufacturer listing	Listed on SIG SAUER as SKU 226R-9-BSS-CA, the California-compliant configuration and the only catalogue number on the page^[1]
Year introduced	Not yet verified
Manufacturer action label	Double Action / Single Action (DA/SA)^[1]
Trigger action	Double-action / single-action^[1]
Overall dimensions	196 × 38 × 140 mm / 7.7 × 1.5 × 5.5 in (height: magazine state not stated by SIG SAUER)^[1]
Barrel length	111.76 mm / 4.4 in^[1]
Weight (unloaded)	964 g / 34 oz (magazine state not stated by SIG SAUER)^[1]
Magazine capacity	Standard: 10; no optional capacities listed by the source^[1]
Trigger pull	Not yet verified
Slide finish	Nitron^[1]
Controls	SIGLITE night sights; standard curved trigger; E2 grip on a hard-coat anodized alloy frame; SIG accessory rail^[1]
Warranty	SIG SAUER Infinite Guarantee: fully transferable and unlimited in duration, with no receipts or warranty cards required^[1]
MSRP	Not recorded

Verification boundary: Published technical data are rounded, may not reflect manufacturing tolerances, and may change without notice. MSRP is not recorded: most cited product pages do publish a price, but it changes without notice and independently of the specification, so this directory has no field for it and the row stays blank rather than carrying a figure that would silently go stale.

Evidence tiers backing this record: Manufacturer. Unmarked values come from manufacturer documentation; any value drawn from a lower tier is labeled inline with that tier. Where two sources disagreed, the higher tier was recorded and the disagreement noted.

Sources

[1]
P226 Nitron Full-Size — specifications and Infinite Guarantee (SKU 226R-9-BSS-CA)Manufacturer Manufacturer product page
Accessed 2026-08-12