Maybe they should be called crud rails.

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wow, that's beautiful and dirty!! I use a dry lube on all mine and have never had one look that bad, thank goodness, ha and quite the collection of nickel mags!!

Cool serial number

Yeah, how often do you get a palindrome for your gun's serial number.

He dead!

If it was sitting on real wood, I'd hang the first picture on my wall, it's beautiful.

Judging from the number of mags (37?), and it appears there may be some P226 mags in there, I'm guessing 500-600 rounds fired. Yeah, that looks about the right amount of crud for that many rounds. I guess you'd have to say she's broken in now .

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Exactly 600 rounds.

10 of the mags are P226.
5 are the German 20-rd SWAT mags.
4 are the Mec-Gar 20-rounders.
1 is the Checkmate 20-rounder.

It's good to know you take them out for a walk once in a while!

Now that is hell and back quality right there.

Years ago I cleaned a .22 rifle we'd owned since I was a little kid. It had never been apart. In doing so about an inch and a quarter of machined metal (think rail but sticking straight up) broke off in my hand. I was so upset about it... for a moment. Then it crumbled in my hand. What I thought was an inch and a quarter of rail turned out to just be an inch and a quarter of hardened gunk that had accumulated behind a half inch of actual rail.

When my P226 gets like that I just wipe off the black, put new grease on and put it back in the range bag for the next match.

the best way to empty mags

Nice nickel 228 for shooting!! Whats not to like?

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I like it. Thanks for sharing Q.

Q, sometimes I worry about you!

Is that the next giveaway gun? Cleaning it first? I do like the serial number!

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The president of our local palindrome society just bought a new car: A Toyota

Super nice P228, but.....
My granddaughter came by and saw your P228 picture on my screen and she stopped looked, tells me " That's the one I want!".
She just turned 21 and was on the hunt for P228, now a NI..
Sigs are contagious.

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I'd start with double the mags, go up if needed.