Do I need a Sig P225/P6

August 26, 2025, 11:37 AM

Il Cattivo

IMHO it's really important for you to pick one up and shoot it. It's compact to the point that it's compactness can fit someone well or poorly.

If it suits you, and comes with five mags, I would say "go for it".

August 26, 2025, 04:01 PM

P-220

I will add, as I have before.

If you go back in the Time Machine, there was a time (pre P6), when P-225's commanded a premium. They just seem to fit so many people, so well. Hell, if you bought a P225 and did not like it, you could easily turn around and sell it quickly and not take a loss.

IMO, that all changed when the P6's were imported. The market for previously coveted P-225's, dropped precipitously.

I only wish I had purchased more P6 mags when they were so plentiful.

Anyway to answer your question again, YES!!

August 26, 2025, 09:38 PM

Pale Horse

quote:
Originally posted by P-220:

I only wish I had purchased more P6 mags when they were so plentiful.

One of the things that really turned me off from Sigs was that when the P6s came in and got popular, instead of being cool and releasing new mags and maybe re-releasing the P225, they released the P225-A1 with incompatible magazines.

As far as I know the P225-A1 was not a very popular gun. Obviously this is one of those things we’ll never know, but I wonder if they would have made more money just releasing new P225 mags instead of a whole new gun with P239 mags. I know the new gun uses the P239 mags so maybe it was a tooling issue and they felt it was cheaper to just use magazines they currently produced but it seems like a money grab to me.

I’ll tell you this though, if someone other than ProMag (looking at you Sig and MecGar) would release new P225 mags I’d be a buyer even at $50 apiece. Though the wave of interest has probably peaked so it’s probably not profitable anymore.

August 28, 2025, 12:30 PM

Freq Geek

Need and want are very different.

Your collection *wants* to have that P6!

I have a P225. It feels great and looks great. I like that it looks like it came from a different era.

From the pistols perspective:
The P6/P225 pistols look at the new plastic double-stuffed toys and confidently say "No thanks", then go about their business. They are what they are, and they like it that way.

My P225 is loaded and ready for action, right now. It stays that way. I trust it completely.

Every pistol collection should have one. Every Sig collection MUST have one.

August 28, 2025, 01:23 PM

neverfollow

So I'm contemplating selling the P365 (which I carry when wearing gym shorts - almost never)and replacing it with the P225. I realize the +8oz difference but never warmed up to the P365.

August 28, 2025, 02:55 PM

kaschi

If you don't get one, you will be missing out on a most extraordinary pistol. I have 3 of 'em!

August 28, 2025, 07:38 PM

AUTiger89

Do you need it? No.

But if you want it, that's a good price in the described condition. The only problem may be finding reliable extra mags. The P225 is low capacity, but feels really good in the hand.

quote:
Originally posted by neverfollow:
I favor the classic Sigs and have a few P220s, P229s, P226s, and a P239 in both 9mm and 40SW. I routinely carry a P229 (40SW) and occasionally carry the P239 (40SW). Local 'other' forum member has a P225/P6 for sale - safe queen with super low mileage at what I think is a fair price ($600 w/5 Sig mags).

Soooooo, is it s 'need' or a 'want' situation. Not sure if I'd carry it but I'm intrigued.

August 28, 2025, 10:24 PM

stiab

quote:
Originally posted by neverfollow:
Local 'other' forum member has a P225/P6 for sale - safe queen with super low mileage at what I think is a fair price ($600 w/5 Sig mags).

You should take a closer look at that ad, there are 5 mags in the picture BUT ONLY 2 COME WITH THE GUN for that price. And no, IMO you do not need a P6, but you may need a P225. They only look the same from the outside.

August 28, 2025, 10:54 PM

eclayton

quote:
Originally posted by Pale Horse:

One of the things that really turned me off from Sigs was that when the P6s came in and got popular, instead of being cool and releasing new mags and maybe re-releasing the P225, they released the P225-A1 with incompatible magazines.

For that matter, looking farther back I was a little annoyed when they introduced the P239 and could not bring themselves to make the 9mm version share mags with the P225.

To the OP’s question, I personally have no use whatsoever for a single stack, 8-shot 9mm pistol, and yet we own two P225s and a P6, plus a gallon ziploc bag full of P225 magazines to last us through the end of the world. Reason for that is that the P225/P6 is one of the sweetest handling and pleasant to shoot pistols we own. My wife brought two of them into the marriage (good woman) and carried one for years until she got a P365. The P220, P226, P228, and more than a dozen plastic striker pistols in my safe are better options for a defensive handgun, but we still treasure the P225s and will never sell them. The P6 is also cool, but ours is an early one with the original feedramp geometry that is choosy what hollow points it will feed. In the heyday of cheap P6s there were people offering to modify the barrel to P225 specs so it would feed anything, but since we don’t carry it, we left the P6 as is and occasionally take it out and shoot ball ammo, as it was designed for.

August 29, 2025, 05:40 AM

neverfollow

quote:
Originally posted by stiab:
quote:
Originally posted by neverfollow:
Local 'other' forum member has a P225/P6 for sale - safe queen with super low mileage at what I think is a fair price ($600 w/5 Sig mags).

You should take a closer look at that ad, there are 5 mags in the picture BUT ONLY 2 COME WITH THE GUN for that price. And no, IMO you do not need a P6,
but you may need a P225. They only look the same from the outside.

Yeah - saw that after I posted - trying to meet up to view/handle and neg. package deal.

August 29, 2025, 12:27 PM

MacGyver

quote:
Originally posted by eclayton:
For that matter, looking farther back I was a little annoyed when they introduced the P239 and could not bring themselves to make the 9mm version share mags with the P225.

To the OP’s question, I personally have no use whatsoever for a single stack, 8-shot 9mm pistol, and yet we own two P225s and a P6, plus a gallon ziploc bag full of P225 magazines to last us through the end of the world. Reason for that is that the P225/P6 is one of the sweetest handling and pleasant to shoot pistols we own. My wife brought two of them into the marriage (good woman) and carried one for years until she got a P365. The P220, P226, P228, and more than a dozen plastic striker pistols in my safe are better options for a defensive handgun, but we still treasure the P225s and will never sell them. The P6 is also cool, but ours is an early one with the original feedramp geometry that is choosy what hollow points it will feed. In the heyday of cheap P6s there were people offering to modify the barrel to P225 specs so it would feed anything, but since we don’t carry it, we left the P6 as is and occasionally take it out and shoot ball ammo, as it was designed for.

The P239 was also a touch shorter in the grip, but I agree. They could have at least used the same overall geometry (like P226/P228). Making a proprietary magazine that’s unique to the 9mm P239 (i.e. no interchangeability with 40/357 P239s and no compatibility with P225s) only made any sense to SIG. The later P225-A1 magazine was also handicapped as a result.

If I’m not mistaken, all P225s until 1989 had the old feed ramp geometry, not just P6s.

September 02, 2025, 04:01 PM

neverfollow

Picked it up yesterday. Box, instructions and target as well as 5 mags, base plates and an extra set of grips. Barrel externally shows little wear, frame has some holster wear and barrel looks like it's never been shot. 1989 vintage so probably has the modified barrel ramp and will cycle JHP. All numbers match. And I'd include photos if I knew how...

September 03, 2025, 10:33 AM

bronicabill

If you like classic SIGs like I do, then having at least one P226/P6 is mandatory. Despite being a single-stack, it is still my all-time favorite SIG, and likely the absolute last one I'd ever let go of if for some reason I had to!

Glad to hear that you got it! Those mags are getting very expensive to buy these days, so getting 5 of them with a near pristine pistol for $600.00 sounds like a very good deal to me! FWIW, my P225 is an '88 model (JJ date code) and it feeds hollow point ammo just fine, so yours should also.

September 03, 2025, 11:40 AM

FP2000H

The P225 is a relic. It’s like a single stack P228. The finish does not like acidic sweat I can tell you that. I rusted the crap out of the slide on one having it shoved in my waistband for an hour one afternoon. I would snatch up another P225 given the opportunity. I love the old Sigs.

September 04, 2025, 07:56 AM

paulbriand

I have P228s and a couple 225s and I prefer a single stack pistol so the 225 is my best shooting favorite non micro carry option. I have always wanted to see a nickel P225-A1 to match my p228.

September 04, 2025, 08:21 AM

sigarms229

Do you need one? No.

However, if you have the means and have an itch for one, I say get one.