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Originally posted by Sunset_Va:
Very interesting, wish I had read this earlier.

As I have never had a P228, I can see the desire for those who have them.

My favorite would be the 2009 model with the SAS frame. Is the SAS designation for Sig pistols for rounded and less angular pistols?
This one shown in your thread appeals to me, are they hard to find? The aluminum grips set it off.

Anyway , thank you for collating all of this for us.

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Originally posted by 12131:

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Originally posted by Sunset_Va:
Very interesting, wish I had read this earlier.

As I have never had a P228, I can see the desire for those who have them.

My favorite would be the 2009 model with the SAS frame. Is the SAS designation for Sig pistols for rounded and less angular pistols?
This one shown in your thread appeals to me, are they hard to find? The aluminum grips set it off.

Anyway , thank you for collating all of this for us.

I can't disagree with you about the "SAS" frame P228. It is the best looking of them all.
The SAS designation comes from us out in SIG land, because of the P229 SAS frame. There is no official SIG SAS designation for this model. It's still just P228 from SIG.

SAS (SIG Anti Snag) = melt job rounding out the sharp corners/edges

I think what makes the SAS frame P228 look so nice is because its slide already looks perfect as is, without any melt job. Slap that slide onto the SAS frame, and you got the perfect looking SIG, imo.

I don't know how many of the SAS frame P228s were made, but since it was only made in one year (2009), it can't be too many.

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Originally posted by Mustang-PaPa:
Sweet!

Great info on American P228's.

You might consider making the pictures smaller.
They are making the page spread out and I have to scroll from side to side to read the text and view the picture. At least that's how its showing on my computer.
It may only be this one picture that's oversized;
Last batch of "regular" P228s (late 2012 to early 2013), with 3-letter serial prefixes, small black plastic box:

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Originally posted by David Lee:

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Originally posted by tanstaafl72555:
Grips question on the 228.

I have two 228s and really love them both.... or rather I USED TO have two. My wife has declared that one of them is "hers."

That is fine, but the other one has two of the hogue hard rubber type panels on it. It is fatter, and I really like the feel of the factory polymer hard grips.

So, I got a pair on ebay. Problem is, they don't fit the gun. They dont lay down flat on the top side of the grips, and are not flush at all with the little notch right under the slide (again on either side)

The pistol is a Suisse police gun, made in Germany. It shoots great. I am just wondering if there is something about matching this thing up to grips that I am missing?

Thanks in advance

Up for those who may know.

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Originally posted by 0658:
This thread reminded me that I had an early 228 that I had bought from a member here on the forum. It had been shot and had the slide refinished in nickle. Although not perfect it was very good.

Some time between the double digit JJ described above and B100691, the years changed as my gun is a JK. The original box showed the vendor as "Buds". to further bastardize the gun I had the lower hard chromed through a well known re-finisher. I like the looks of it now as I have always been partial to the nickle finish. I wish the gun had been in its original condition when I bought it but it wasn't so I felt I had little further to loose in plating it. Even though it does not get shot much, it shoots well.