Reviews & Ratings for LaserMax Guide Rod Green Laser Sights for Sig Sauer P226 — 21 reviews — Page 1

You get what you pay for. I love the fitment. I never got to fire it, but I did check the site and it's more than a quarter inch off, which is very good; no adjustments needed.

Purchased the green one fir my P226 , and it installed fairly easily. Had it installed for about a year and fired the gun with it only a few times . The kast time i feild strupped my pistol to ckean it and reassembled it, the laser no worky. It now stays on continuously and wont shut off with fhd switch. I instalked everything correctly. I emailed LaserMax and got response weekd later that either i installed the guide uoside down (i didht) or some epoxy fell off of sometimg or other and i can order replacement parts. No thanks. Cheaiest POS $350 gizmo i ever bought. I regret buying it and consider the lack of durability only s liability in a handgun. Rip off.

The laser installed very easily. Cycled through it several times with no problem after install. At the range is where I ran into some issues with it working intermittently. Sometimes it would come on, other times it took a shot or two to get it to come back on.

I've put about 600 rounds trough my Sig Sauer P226 since I purchased the Lasermax LMS-226G from Optics Planet. My beef is not with Optics Planet but with the manufacturer. In my opinion, how dare they market a life aiding tool that is built around DUMB engineering and components. This "tool" is in no way even close to meeting military specifications.

The plastic battery cap is thin and cheesy. It wears extremely fast as it rides on the barrel of the gun and is shoved every time the weapon is fired. In addition, it houses a minute spring and contact pin that fall out easily while changing the batteries. They can go flying across the room only to never be found again. NEVER try to change your batteries inn the field!

The new take down lever supplied by Lasermax is another poorly designed and/or implemented concept.
This take down lever is the switch to turn the Lasermax on or off. It relies on a tiny dot of epoxy to act as an insulator to open the circuit and turn the laser off. In my opinion, a dumb and poorly implemented switch.

As for the comments made by others that there is no way to ZERO the laser to the gun, there is, just not one the end user can use. It requires special tools. the adjustments controls are iinfinitesimally small. to add to that, what are you going to use as a comparison since the screws are only available when the LMS-226 is out of the firearm?

My main gripe is the warranty service or truly the lack there of.
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Purchased a red lasermax for a Sig P226 and liked it so much I purchased a green one for a Sig P229. It's a very nice product that works well & was very easy to install despite me not being a very handy person. I would recommend this for sure.

Easy to install
top to use night & day light
This laser is made with high quality parts. I followed the instructions and installed it myself in 5 min. I can't wait to get to the range and see how accurate it is. I installed this on my sig sauer p226 and the best part is you don't even know it's there.

I really like the laser. I’ve had the red laser before, but it’s difficult to see under some light conditions. The green laser is much easier to see, especially in daylight. The main problem I had wasn’t with the product itself, it was with optics Optics Planet. The laser guide rod worked fine, but the breakdown lever looks as if someone had tried to file down the slot in the middle where the activation button rests. Because the little insulator was missing, the laser would never turn off unless you pulled back the slide about an inch. I’m not sure if optics planet is in the habit of reselling previously returned merchandise, or is someone at the factory was having a seriously off day, but it sure tainted my entire purchasing experience. For what I paid for this product, I was very much disappointed.

Purchased and installed after reading all material and watching the video twice. Went to the range and fired less than 3 mags and could not get it to turn off. Disassembled the pistol and and removed the parts, reassembled and still would not turn off. Not very reliable for the money it cost.

I bought this for my Sig Sauer P226. Evidently this item only fits newer models of the Sig Sauer P226. Nowhere is this stated in the description on Optics Planet OR LaserMax. Should have been stated somewhere BEFORE I bought it.

Full disclosure, I haven't actually had a chance to use the laser yet, just play with it enough to discover, like the review below, it does not fit in my West German P226 because the W German model's guide rod and hole are slightly smaller than their American counterparts.
All I had to do was contact LaserMax directly and they are sending me a smaller laser specifically for the W German models. If anyone else has this problem, give LaserMax support a call and they should be able to figure it all out for you.

That's it. Hope it's helpful! I ended up spending a hour or two trying to figure out what was wrong and if there's some sort of work around. :)