If you have serial number U539784 I have your test target.

I purchased a Sig p226 and the seller sent me the test target for the wrong gun. He couldn’t come up with the correct target after several weeks.

The situation irritated me so badly I sold the P226.

I want to get this target to it’s rightful owner so if that is you. Contact me.

Regards and Happy Thanksgiving

Let me get this straight. You sold the gun due to a missing test target?

You must really like test targets.

This is by far the strangest reason I have ever heard for selling a gun.

It's understandable if he wants an all original, collector grade set up.

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Originally posted by darkest2000:
It's understandable if he wants an all original, collector grade set up.

^ I agree.
I was in search of a WG P226 and WG P228 with all of the original goodies.
After a couple years I found both.






Very nice of the OP to try to get that test target back to the gun owner..

The kinds of things that annoy a hardcore collector. Me however, I'm the guy that mixes ups all of contents and causes these kinds of ruckuses.

I wouldn't consider myself a hardcore collector, nor do i have a fetish for test targets.

The "situation" that was irritating was the fact that no resolution was arranged.

So, selling the gun was the answer for me to not getting all spun up over the seller.

My goal wasn't to rehash this but to find the owner of the gun which i have the target for, that is all.

Thanks,

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Originally posted by pbramlett:
I wouldn't consider myself a hardcore collector, nor do i have a fetish for test targets.

I'm not quite hardcore, but I am a collector. I have a real fetish for test targets and more will follow.
Kudos on trying to reconnect the paper and the gun.

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Originally posted by Green Highlander:
Let me get this straight. You sold the gun due to a missing test target?

I've sold guns for the same reason - and other reasons even less annoying. I once sold an otherwise pristine vintage COLT Combat Commander which showed up ay my FFL with a tiny ding on the edge of the slide. The seller vowed the mark was not present prior to shipment - the FFL denied damaging the pistol. I was so irritated by the incident I ultimately sold the pistol - which resulted in a couple hundred dollar loss due to disclosure of the mark. Thus is the cost of chasing perfection in the world of firearms collecting.

Man I've heard everything now . You can have all my test targets .

OK, the point has been made. Let's have mercy.

Mighty thoughtful of you pramlett.

Well, while we are on the subject..

can somebody explain to me what a test target is?

I've bought two new sigs over the past year and they did not come with a test target...

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Originally posted by Blume9mm:
Well, while we are on the subject..

can somebody explain to me what a test target is?

I've bought two new sigs over the past year and they did not come with a test target...

Someone else will come in with more details, but the old Classic, German SIGs came with a target showing where the pistol was test fired at the factory.

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Originally posted by Blume9mm:
Well, while we are on the subject..

can somebody explain to me what a test target is?

I've bought two new sigs over the past year and they did not come with a test target...

From my 1988 P226..



The P225 I sold a few years ago..

I am so happy to see this thread! I was chastised by the SigForum SC (sophisticated cognoscenti) for trying to locate a spare barrel for my soon-to-pickup P6. In the case of the P6, owner said he has a half-box for it which apparently shows the SN. It has a 1982 date on it so I will be hitting up fleaBay soon for some kind of box. I'll be happy with a blue plastic box then I'll make up a faux label and glue it on. Target? I'm sure it won't have a numbered target but I fully understand and appreciate someone wanting to have all the correct items for a $600+ pistol! In fact, the P6 has an M-series serial number ... maybe someone has a test target and SIG booklet for such an animal ...

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Originally posted by pbramlett:
If you have serial number U539784 I have your test target.

I purchased a Sig p226 and the seller sent me the test target for the wrong gun. He couldn’t come up with the correct target after several weeks.

The situation irritated me so badly I sold the P226.

I want to get this target to it’s rightful owner so if that is you. Contact me.

Regards and Happy Thanksgiving

Thanks for taking the time posting this pbramlett! Not mine but maybe you will help the rightful owner of the test target find it.

I took a class at the Sig Academy this past June with a guy who works at the Sig factory... his job is testing / shooting the sigs that comes off the line... now that's a job.