I am selling the first Sig I bought and it lead me to the SIGforum. I have not shot it in years because I figured out after I bought it that I struggle with the double stack grip because of my hand size. I just never shot it well.

I'm selling it to a young man that is marrying my Cousins daughter. He has been going to the range with us for a couple of years now and is ready to own his first gun. I taught him about gun safety and how to shoot.

I have mixed emotions and it is the first gun I have ever sold.

I'm hooking him up with a .22 conversion slide too.

I don't think I'm going to regret it and the 229 is going to a good home. I'm giving him a hell of a deal on the package.

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Pat, I have 2 229’s in case you feel a jones to shoot one again.

I sold my first Sig, a 226 in 9mm...it was a folded slide with West Berlin roll marked on it. I regret selling it now....

I sold my P226 SL years ago - it brought me to this forum, but I stayed for the wit and wisdom :-)
The only SIG I currently own is a .22lr Mosquito, which I use to introduce people to shooting - and it's not really a SIG is it?

The P226 was a nice gun, but simply not appropriate for IPSC, which is what I mainly shoot.

However, this forum remains an absolute must for a daily visit.

The only Sig I’ve sold since becoming a member was a P220 Carry stainless internal extractor. I did trade away a beautiful P245 for a P220C when my retarded agency said they were no longer suitable as a BUG thanks to Sig no longer supporting the platform (I did trade into another 245) Other than those, I don’t plan to part with any of my other Sigs.

I bought my first handgun, a P226 in the mid 1990s. A few years back I picked up a P229 in .357sig which has mostly replaced it but I don't see ever selling it.

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Sorry Para...It is the story of what brought me to the Forum.

You can lock it and I understand.

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I just can’t part with any of my guns. Except one this was a print, knife, and browning lever action .22 commemorating MN game wardens set that I bought from a friend who needed the money. I ended up selling it back to his wife for exactly what I had into it for his birthday ten years later. Now I am glad that I could not sell them because since I am a full time RVer with a mail service and no permanent place of residence I can’t purchase a firearm if I wanted to.

My first Sig was a P229R in .40S&W that led me here. Flork built up a 9mm slide for me, and I bought a .357 Sig barrel for it. Then I got a 22lr conversion kit for it and my son pretty much took it as his training pistol. By then I was shooting a P228 and a P226. A couple years ago he switched from 22lr to 9mm and I thought I was going to eventually be losing my first pistol. Then he tried a P320 and my P229 is safe again. No I just need to make time to get it out so it can get some more love.

I've only ever sold one gun, and I still regret it to this day.

I bought it via private sale at a gun show in Washington Mid-90's. It was a P-226 with full kit. It had 3 barrels (40, 357, and 9mm conversion) 2 slides (one for the 40/357 and the other for the 9mm conversion), 10 magazines (5 of each).

I was in the military, and kept it at the armory. Once I got married, I couldn't keep private arms in the armory any longer, and the wife was adamantly opposed to guns in the house. I sold the kit to my Sgt.

My wife came around many years back, and I've no shortage of guns today, but I still don't have that P-226 kit.

Someday...

Yeah its interesting. Every P22x model I sell, I replace. I've finally learned my lesson.

Good to 'keep it in the family', so to speak.

With the exception of ONE cheap ($20.00), poorly made single-shot .22 rifle I bought in the 1980's for my son when he was 9 (which I turned in a couple years ago at a LEO gun buy-back program and got a $50 Walmart gift card), I regret not having nearly every QUALITY gun I've owned, built, shot and then sold (and in one instance a nice Italian O/U 20 ga. - the best pheasant gun I've ever had - which was stolen and never located).

Over the past 45 years I can count nearly a dozen handguns, including several 1911's, a nickle Colt commander, a .380 Walther PPK/S, S & W Models 10, 17, 19, 36, a pre-1979 29 with 6½ barrel and a model 686 which passed through my hands.
The exception was a Sig P227 SAS which I sold last summer BUT I'd bought two of that model at a very good price and made a respectable profit which immediately went toward purchasing a Sig P229 SAS. In retrospect now that Sig has discontinued producing the P227 I wish I'd kept it...such is life.

I'm now at a point in my life where should I decide to buy a firearm, I can afford to spend however much I want and will keep it - one day they will be passed along to my children and grandchildren.

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