What’s the story with these ? Other than the big gaudy Sig logo on the top of the slide they seem like a good deal at $629.00 . Anyone have this exact model ? Might be unsold Talo stock .
Thanks in advance.

That’s a nice heater for $$

Talo model as you said. Original ones seemed to come out in 2017 and they had some really good sales on them in 2019. They appear to be back in production as you can buy them now with late 2019 and 2020 manufactured dates.

The main thing to be aware of is it uses the legacy P228/P229 frame and as such ships with 13rd magazines. Can't use P229-1 mags. Mec-Gar has 15rd flush fit and 18rd extended mags available for the legacy frame.

It's pretty much a P228 with short extractor legacy slide, factory short reset trigger, custom G10 grips, and some bling on the top of the slide. An outstanding deal and absolutely love mine.

Edit: It's hit or miss but the new ones being made sometimes come with a skeletonized hammer.

You can also use P226 mags in these frames. Flush fit 13 round factory, or 15 round MecGar in the gun, 20 round reload in the mag carrier. Nice.

Offhand, I’m not sure why CDNN separately lists that “elite custom”. Prior to that listing, they already had a listing for the Talo Classic Carry. Seems to be the same except for, perhaps, differences in the overall package and pricing.

By the way, the trash stamp on the slide top is not as bad as it seems. I’ve been really happy with my 226 Classic Carry. I hardly notice the stamp. I didn’t like the styling of those grips and replaced them with black checkered Hogues, but the CC grips were very good - style notwithstanding.

OG 229, back before they started screwing with the 229 to have parts commonality with other stuff.

No rail, short extractor, original 9mm grip...that was “To Hell and Back” Sig. I miss those days. That’s a fair price imo. Usually I would say Sig’s metal pistols are way over priced, but that one makes sense.

So all together good features and a good price ?

No, great features and price!

What is it that so many people have against the Sig emblem on the slide. I have the classic carry talo and it looks cool to me. Excellent gun and looks. The only change I will make on mine is to put in an #18 hammer spring. The double action is waaay to heavy.

Elite Custom, Classic Carry, it's the same GD gun. I can't believe they pull bullshit, giving it different names like that. No differences. And, as stated above, sometimes you get lucky you get one with the skeletonized hammer.

Regarding the circular SIG logo, it's just plain ugly. It doesn't belong anywhere on the gun, be it the slide, frame, or grips. Fugly.

I have a SIG circle logo on my P75 :-P

Thought about getting one of these after seeing the price but decided that the HK P2000SK serves my purpose just as well - while saving my funds for something different.

That logo looks ugly. Now if this was a true German P228 - then that would be a different story.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Elite Custom, Classic Carry, it's the same GD gun. I can't believe they pull bullshit, giving it different names like that. No differences. And, as stated above, sometimes you get lucky you get one with the skeletonized hammer.

Just out of curiosity, what is the advantage of the skeletonized hammer? This is the first factory SIG I've seen with one (but I'm also a bit behind the curve these days)