.357 SIG

The .357 SIG pistol cartridge (designated as the 357 Sig by the SAAMI and 357 SIG by the C.I.P.) is the product of Swiss-German firearms manufacturer SIG Sauer, in cooperation with American ammunition manufacturer Federal Cartridge. While it is based on a .40 S&W case necked down to accept 0.355-inch (9.0 mm) bullets, the .357 SIG brass is slightly longer by 0.009 in (0.23 mm) to 0.020 in (0.51 mm) total. The cartridge is used by a number of law enforcement agencies and has a good reputation for both accuracy and stopping power.

History

Developed in 1994, the new cartridge was named "357" to highlight its purpose: to duplicate the performance of 125-grain (8.1 g) .357 Magnum loads fired from 4-inch (100 mm) barreled revolvers, in a cartridge designed to be used in a semi-automatic pistol with greater ammunition capacity than a revolver. Performance is similar to the 9×23mm Winchester.

Other than specialized competition cartridges like the 9×25mm Dillon (1988), which necked a 10mm Auto case down to a 9mm bullet, the .357 SIG (1994) was the first modern bottleneck commercial handgun cartridge since the early 1960s, when Winchester introduced a .257 caliber round based on the .357 Magnum, the now obsolete .256 Winchester Magnum (1960). Then Remington introduced the unsuccessful .22 Remington Jet (1961), which necked a .357 Magnum case down to a .22 caliber bullet, and the .221 Remington Fireball (1963), a shortened version of their .222 Remington. Soon after the .357 SIG, other bottleneck commercial handgun cartridges appeared: the .400 Corbon (1996), necking the .45 ACP down to .40 caliber; the .440 Corbon (1998), necking down the .50 AE to .44 caliber; the .32 NAA (2002), necking the .380 ACP down to .32 caliber; and the .25 NAA (2004), necking the .32 ACP down to .25 caliber.

Sig

Sig may refer to:

Sig (Algeria), a city in Algeria, on the banks of the Sig River or Wadi

Sig River (130 miles (210 km) long), rise in the Amour Range in Algeria and flows north into a marshy plain out of which flows the Macta

Sig (rune), an Armanen rune, later used for the Schutzstaffel (SS) logo

Sig Hansen, captain of the American fishing vessel Northwestern

SIG, LLP, a global quantitative trading and technology firm

Signature, in various senses

Sig, a character from the Jak & Daxter video game series

Sig, abbreviation of Signore ("Lord") in Italian

Signa or Signatura, the "signature" section of a medical prescription, which contains directions to the patient, and the signature of the prescribing doctor

a signature block in e-mail messaging (.sig)

Coregonus, the common whitefish, known as Sig in Russian

Sig Alert, an alert for traffic congestion in California, named after Loyd Sigmon (contrary to popular belief, it is not an acronym for "stuck in gridlock")

The acronym SIG may stand for:

SIG (band), a Finnish band

Sig, Algeria

Sig (known under the Romans as Tasacora and under the French as Saint-Denis-de-Sig) is a town with wide streets and tree-filled squares. Formerly located in Oran Province and now located in Mascara Province, north-western Algeria. Its population was 61,373 in 2008.

The town's public garden is on the bank of the Sig river just down stream the confluence of the le-Mebtoûh and the Matarah. Sig is surrounded by fertile land irrigated by the Barrages des Cheurfas (dams) 25 kilometres (16 mi) upstream with the overflow stored in the Petit Barrage (little dams) 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) upstream from the town. The local land supports the growing of olives (groves of which surround the town), cotton, flax, grains, tobacco, and wine, much of which is proceed locally and exported. The other local industry is quarrying which for diatomite in Kieselguhr which is located neadby.

Sig is located about 29 kilometres (18 mi) south the Gulf of Arzew, separated by the Sig plains and north-west of Mount Touakas (349 metres (1,145 ft) high). Sig is about 44 kilometres (27 mi) east of Oran and 450 kilometres (280 mi) from Algiers. The temperatures there usually rise from May to the end of August. It can reach up to 44 °C (111 °F) and become very hot in a desert-like terrain.

Sig (given name)

Sig is a given name. Notable people with the given name include:

Sig Andrusking (1913–1994), American football player

Sig Arno (1895–1975), German-Jewish film actor

Sig Broskie (1911–1975), American baseball player

Sig Gissler, American professor

Sig Grava (1934–2009), American scholar

Sig Gryska (1914–1994), American baseball player

Sig Hansen (born 1966), American captain of the fishing vessel Northwestern

Sig Haugdahl (1891–1970), Norwegian racing driver

Sig Herzig (1897–1985), American screenwriter

Sig Jakucki (1909–1979), American baseball player

Sig Libowitz, American lawyer

Sig Mejdal (born 1965), American baseball statisticians

Sig Rogich, Icelandic-American businessman

Sig Ruman (1884–1967), German-American actor

Sig Shore (1919–2006), American film director

.357 SIG

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Sig, Algeria

Sig (given name)

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