Saw a listing for a 229 Nickel for sale on the blue forum and it caused me to realize that a 229 I have that i mistakenly THOUGHT was the Gun of the month 229 from 2004 was NOT, in fact, a GOTM but seems to have been produced later, maybe in 2006.

Mine has black controls, Hogue rubber grips, and a serial # starting with ACU. The GOTM has nickel controls and AL serial #. There appear to be some other folks who have one of these - best i can tell from those few posts i found suggest that the pistol was made in 2006. But I can find no record of this model anywhere and the Hogue grips are unusual.

Anyone know if this was some kind of limited run?

Box says 229-40-SN but also has another sticker (the other box photos i found had the same sticker) that says SG29R40ENS.

It's clearly a factory nickel gun but the box label is a little different from the others...makes me think these had to be some kind of one-off run. Any input would help.

Here is what these guns look like:





Any info would be nice. I paid 900 for a NIB example not quite a year ago thinking it was the GOTM (same product number). Silly me I guess...lesson learned to dig more in the future.

i also have seen its cousin on GB for awhile...too expensive for what it is but point being - same hogue grips on same time frame pistol.

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/735488804

My guess is SN is satin nickle and ENS may be electroless nickle satin ? Only thing else I can think of is OMG thats a sweet pistol!

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Don't know anything about these Ni 229s. Did you contact SIG and see what they have to say about yours? If yours was a couple years after the June 2004 GOTM, then they will have some info.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Don't know anything about these Ni 229s. Did you contact SIG and see what they have to say about yours? If yours was a couple years after the June 2004 GOTM, then they will have some info.

Agree, Q. When i realized it was newer, that became the plan. But then I had to go to work and I forgot to call! I'll call them and report back.

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Originally posted by David Lee:
My guess is SN is satin nickle and ENS may be electroless nickle satin ? Only thing else I can think of is OMG thats a sweet pistol!

i agree for sure about SN. Wish the product code wasn't the same as the GOTM. would have saved me some confusion.

Where are you seeing ENS? I saw NS but figured that just meant night sights.

Oooops..I meant NSC which still leaves me confused. Further, I recall some railed nickle P220s but I swear that P226 in the link I never knew of.

In your reference to other box photos, ENS. Perhaps night sights?

ahh yes i do see that now. i wonder now if that was a typo or if my box actually says ENS where this one says NSC. that'd be something.

i'll check and post back.

I think the big sticker is just the distributor's, not SIG's.

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Originally posted by 12131:
I think the big sticker is just the distributor's, not SIG's.

i think you're right. mine has the exact same sticker except it has a slightly different model # from the one in the pic. Mine says SG29R40ENS, the one in the pics i posted says SG29R40NSC.

Mine is 12rd, the one in the pic is 10rd. I guess that could be the difference.

Interestingly, the one in the pic is the next serial # in line. i'm 89, he's 90.

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Originally posted by quantum13:

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Originally posted by 12131:
I think the big sticker is just the distributor's, not SIG's.

i think you're right. mine has the exact same sticker except it has a slightly different model # from the one in the pic. Mine says SG29R40ENS, the one in the pics i posted says SG29R40NSC.

Mine is 12rd, the one in the pic is 10rd. I guess that could be the difference.

Interestingly, the one in the pic is the next serial # in line. i'm 89, he's 90.

And, your box has the factory sticker, 229-40-SN, right? SN = Satin Nickel.

it does have a sticker that says 229-40-SN, yes. The distributor sticker kinda half covers it.

the pic i posted of ACU00090 does not have said sticker.

it's very possible that the distributor sticker is completely covering the 229-40-SN label on the example above.

it is interesting tho - it is different from other sig labels i've seen. since it might help someone i'll go ahead and post it. gimme a sec.

if you look at the pic above i think that same label is hiding underneath the distributor sticker of ACU00090 (look where the sticker is torn). But it is a little weird for a Sig label, isnt it? Makes me think they kinda randomly ran a few of these off for some reason. I don't think it was a normal model.

Looks to me your label is E29R-40-SN (rail) and the GOTM is 229-40-SN (no rail). 2 different models. I have the GOTM model.

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Originally posted by kingfish007:
Looks to me your label is E29R-40-SN (rail) and the GOTM is 229-40-SN (no rail). 2 different models. I have the GOTM model.

Yeah. And, I don't think there's anything weird with that factory label at all. That's the way it's supposed to look.

GOTM also did not have a rail. I bought mine in Aug or Sept of 2004 when they were released. I don't think you overpaid but didn't steal it either. It's a great looking pistol. Enjoy it.

So what's the 'E' in 'E29R' stand for? Exeter?

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Originally posted by soggy_spinout:
So what's the 'E' in 'E29R' stand for? Exeter?

"E" at the front of the Part Number indicates standard capacity.

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Originally posted by dwp10mm:
GOTM also did not have a rail. I bought mine in Aug or Sept of 2004 when they were released. I don't think you overpaid but didn't steal it either. It's a great looking pistol. Enjoy it.

yeah once i started digging into this, i realized that.

it's not like me to miss something so big - guess i just got caught up in the excitement!

once it came in, i put it in a Zerust bag and had not thought about it much until i saw the for sale post and realized something didn't quite 'line up'.