I just picked up a lovely example of a mid-90’s P226 from a member here. Very excited to learn to shoot this and only my second deviating foray from Strikers (Glocks and a brief M&P stint back in 2012), the other being a pair of Beretta 92A1’s back in 2018. I put 6 rounds through it at the range when I picked it up and sure enough my strong hand thumb is an issue on the slide stop: failure to lock back on an empty mag.
I was intentionally trying to practice what I’ve read about: trying to get the thumb more outboard away from the lever. My thumbs are kinda short and so this is a challenge and didn’t work great.
Those of you with significant (no pun intended) time on a Sig Classic Series pistol, what’s the solution?