There is a large annual gun show in my area in a couple of weeks. I’m hoping to find one there, even if I get gouged on the price.

Well, the only (one in the entire place!) Sig P series pistol at this gun show was an older P-220 .45 with spur hammer that had “Made in Germany” on the slide — not West Germany — so I put it in the early 1990s. The price was high enough to pass on. The search continues…

I finally found one! A barely used 2016 229 9mm for a great price! This LGS also had a new 226 Elite that I saw first. Good thing I looked around some more and found this. It was nearly half the price and it doesn't appear to have been fired much if at all.



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Grats! Glad that you finally found one.

Nice catch G-Man. Seek and ye shall find!

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Originally posted by G-Man:
I have a 320 and a 365, but want to re-acquire what I sold years ago, the classic hammer models. If I have learned anything from this it is to NOT sell any firearms. Ever.

This.

The only guns I've sold in years were during the COVIDpocalypse/riotpocalypse in 2020 to friends who'd been contemplating firearms purchases and shopping around and suddenly found themselves without the options they were debating with me just a week or two ago. All with a Right of First Refusal clause.

The one exception to this policy is a Legion P229 I sold on here a few years ago, and I only did that because I switched from carrying a P229 to carrying a P320 Compact when the Army adopted the M17 and I didn't need TWO Legions just to appreciate them occasionally on range days.

I saw a few non Legion P226s at a recent gun show in the Houston burbs.

Parts are getting harder to find. I was just able to get a backup P6/225 barrel from EFK Fire Dragon the other day. They made a small run of 225 barrels. I hadn’t seen a P6 replacement barrel anywhere in years. Mine is an ‘84 model with the pre-JHP feed ramp. It runs 9BPLE, but I haven’t tried larger mouthed JHPs.

Midwest Gun Works still has a pretty good selection of parts for 226s and 229s. I’ve ordered from them once before and am about to pick up some spare parts, just in case…..


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Originally posted by Abn556:
I saw a few non Legion P226s at a recent gun show in the Houston burbs.

Parts are getting harder to find. I was just able to get a backup P6/225 barrel from EFK Fire Dragon the other day. They made a small run of 225 barrels. I hadn’t seen a P6 replacement barrel anywhere in years. Mine is an ‘84 model with the pre-JHP feed ramp. It runs 9BPLE, but I haven’t tried larger mouthed JHPs.

Midwest Gun Works still has a pretty good selection of parts for 226s and 229s. I’ve ordered from them once before and am about to pick up some spare parts, just in case…..


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I'll be ordering a complete spring kit soon. The rest of the parts will outlive me.