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parabellum
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You know the story of the guys that followed him and his wife from a gun show?
Never heard that, no.

Walthers, yes, I bought a P88C from Doc. Also, the K-Kote P225 that appears on our home page and in the header on every page of the forum, I bought from Doc Avery, bought it at the same time I bought the P88C. That was a great day.
 
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Yeah I have a German/US 265869 220-45 can't remember when I bought it but 96-97 considering Para's serial??


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Sig has used several suppliers for grips over the years; SSI, Hogue, Nill-Griffe and Altamont to name a few. Morini even for "Swiss Police" style grips.

That style looks like Altamont to me but guess there's no way to be certain since they unlike others don't always mark their OEM offerings.
 
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That style looks like Altamont to me...
Yes, Altamont.

These are Altamonts, from SHOT 2007








 
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I bought these direct from Altamont and they are marked inside. I guess anything is possible.

The thing that has me doubting myself about the OP's grips is the finish; it's too natural compared to the high-sheen synthetic finish Altamont usually applies





factory Morini:

 
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Sig has used several suppliers for grips over the years; SSI, Hogue, Nill-Griffe and Altamont to name a few. Morini even for "Swiss Police" style grips.

That style looks like Altamont to me but guess there's no way to be certain since they unlike others don't always mark their OEM offerings.


Wasn't there a company named Sile that supplied SIG grips at one time too?
 
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Many people here have repeated (me included) that Sile made the “police” wood grips but member OTD corrected us that it was actually Morini. I don’t have any pics confirmed to be Sile made grips so hard to compare
 
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Extremely hard to find P225 SIG SAUER logo Nill grips. These were originally owned by member c_swimm who bought them when he was stationed in Germany. I purchased them from him and subsequently sold it to another member. Love the Nill grips, but like all the wood grips, while they look classy, they're too big for me.





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I lucked into a P239 two-tone .357 Sig recently. It is a very old model based on the serial number and frame markings. It had wood grips on it without any exterior markings. But when I pulled them off, they are very faintly marked on the inside as Nills. Just added to my excitement when I received it.







 
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You know the story of the guys that followed him and his wife from a gun show?
Never heard that, no.

Walthers, yes, I bought a P88C from Doc. Also, the K-Kote P225 that appears on our home page and in the header on every page of the forum, I bought from Doc Avery, bought it at the same time I bought the P88C. That was a great day.


They were headed home from a gun show. Pulled into the driveway with the trailer full of guns. As Doc got out, he was rushed by a guy with a gun. His wife was in the passenger seat. As one guy was holding him at gunpoint, two more ran up.

She decided this wasn’t going well and started shooting at them with her 5 shot Chief. One or more yelped and, they ran back to their car. Doc A and wife were unscathed.

Officers found the abandoned stolen car a few hours later on a FM road somewhere in Princeton. There was considerable blood in the car. They found some evidence it might have been illegals from Mexico, possibly with gang ties.

I don’t believe anyone was ever identified.

And, the whole little dust up kinda faded away.
 
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Wow, that's pretty crazy. Fortunately Doc and wife came away unscathed. I'll bet after that incident they looked around when getting in and out of a car, especially with a trailer load of goodies.
 
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Good story. I can top that, though: 1980 attempted burglary, Collector's Firearms, Houston, Texas
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It's fuzzy, being so long ago, but as I recall, there had been two burglaries or attempted burglaries of the store. The owner decided he'd had enough. He slept nights in his office for a couple of weeks, then, here they come again. He got down behind his desk, and when these three guys came into his office, he stood up and capped all three with an Ithaca Roadblocker. For the uninitiated, that is a semi-auto 10 gauge shotgun. Big Grin

He killed two of them on the spot, and the third one, well...

I'm at this party in Atlanta in 1989 and I'm telling this story to a few people, one of them being the roommate of a good friend of mine, and he stops me and says "Yeah, I was there."

"You were there," I said skeptically, and he tells me, no, really, he was there. He was going to school in Houston at the time, and I guess there were some apartments there at the corner of Richmond and Fondren, or very close by, and he says he's in bed late one night and he hears thupthupthupthupthupthupthup.... He looks out his window and there's a helicopter landing in the intersection. It was Life Flight, taking the remaining buckshot-riddled survivor to the hospital. I can't recall, but I don't think he made it.
 
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Thanks for everyone’s feedback. Tried to get some better pictures. There are two handwritten letters/marks on both sides. If you click on the individual picture it takes you to a higher quality resolution
 
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Originally posted by PGT:
Sig has used several suppliers for grips over the years; SSI, Hogue, Nill-Griffe and Altamont to name a few. Morini even for "Swiss Police" style grips.

That style looks like Altamont to me but guess there's no way to be certain since they unlike others don't always mark their OEM offerings.


Wasn't there a company named Sile that supplied SIG grips at one time too?
Yes, I have a set of what I was told by SIG were Siles on a P220 9mm Euro...


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https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1097651683

Similar but rear of grip is different

 
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