Sig Sauer Mosquito: Hands On

The Sig Sauer Mosquito is a 90% scale polymer-framed version of the model 226 chambered in .22 LR.  I'm treating it as a casual plinking gun, with the idea that any time I spend shooting, regardless of the caliber, can't hurt.

I think it's fair to say that it's aimed a more mass-market audience than Sig's service pistols, and they've chosen to make some changes to the materials and operation.  In a departure from normal Sig Sauer style, the Mosquito has an ambidextrous external manual safety on the slide.  It also includes a magazine disconnect and an internal locking mechanism.  I don't consider it a .22 "training gun" because the battery of arms is different from it's parent P226 line.

I've had the chance to shoot about 200 rounds with the little Mosquito.  While I've heard others say that it was finicky about what ammunition it shot, in somewhat limited experience, it functioned as well with Remington bulk ammo as it did with CCI mini-mags, though my groups did open up a bit with the Remington ammo.  I gave the gun a good cleaning after my first range trip, so we'll see if that reliability holds out.