I've got a 226 and shoot light loads, but I don't mess with the spring.

As long as the empties will extract and eject, I don't care so just keep lowering the load until you have problems, then up the load a couple of tenths of a grain and you'll be GTG.

 

SIG from time to time puts the wrong recoil springs in their guns. I can’t see how the white spring would work in the P226 LDC. Remember too that the P226 has a 1/2” longer barrel and guide rod.

I wouldn’t mess with your spring.

 

I don't believe Wolff "invented" the "single wire spring", as that's what Colt used back in at least the early 1900s. Using a basically 1/2" shorter overall length spring is courting disaster in my mind, as it will "shorten" even more with use, as it fatigues. If you're dead set against using Wolff springs...

If the stock "orange" spring is too strong, find a friend that has one that has about 5000 rounds under it's belt, and offer him a "new" replacement, and use his "old" one! Actually I believe the "Orange" spring has a 15# rating, while the "White" P229 spring is 16# rated...

 

Wolf springs work.. if they didn’t you would hear allot of people complaining about them. I use a reduced wolf spring on my 226 that has a compinsator on it.

 

I believe the orange spring for P226 and the white for P229 are both 16# (9mm) and they are different length (at least on mine).

 

I have a 226 LDC that came with a white spring. Have had several FTEs with Blazer 115 FMJs. Other, more powerful ammo works fine.

 

Dave K, welcome to Sig Talk from the southwest corner of Indiana.

Photos would help, along with a little more information. It has come to our attention that Sig has apparently went to a single wire recoil spring from the braided springs of the past. That, and as discussed earlier in this thread, the use of a P229 Recoil spring, in a P226. The P226 LDC is a recent release if made in the US. If they are using P229 length Recoil Springs, then they should have fielded an appropriate redesigned Recoil Spring Guide rod.

Blazer ammunition can be a little anemic. Without seeing what you have, as far as a setup goes, limits recommendations.

 

White spring in the LDC (whether German or US) is not a factory mistake.

 

i've been using my light handloads in both my 226 and 229. Both pistols have their standard twisted wire springs. I have had no problems with either pistols function. Ejection is normal, 6 ~ 10 feet away.
The handload is 125 grain Missouri Bullet Co. semi wadcutter with 3.8 gr of Bullseye propellant and a Federal small pistol primer. About 900 FPS. and excellent accuracy.
It seems that no matter what I stuff into either pistol, it works, every time all the time.