...as people buying these new self shooting plastic ones!

I have to make my weekly rounds to imbibe in the old West German well made ones!

Username checks out! Haha, I agree with you. I love being able to pick up old classics at better prices. But may go broke myself doing it!

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I agree.
Finally able to purchase what I had to put off for so many years.
Came across a pristine P239 in .40 from Cabella's of all places. Discontinued or not it will last me 'til I'm gone.
Just received a BarSto .357sig barrel and will send it to Sig Custom Shop.
Never thought I would /could appreciate plastic
pistols until now.
I'll take a classic any day.

Last I checked it was slim pickings. You're message is encouraging for us with appreciation for the classics!

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Originally posted by jam0:
Last I checked it was slim pickings. Your message is encouraging for us with appreciation for the classics!

Last few times I went to my local shop that deals in a lot of used guns, they had some older Sigs in the case. There was a spur hammer P220 last time that they wanted I think $450 for, but it was in kind of rough shape, so I didn’t ask to look, but it did catch my attention.

^^^

Yeah, the Big-Book-o'-Gun-Prices says they should all go for about $750 in decent shape.

Then you deduct a few bucks because of the heel release magazine.

It doesn't say to add any value if it is a .38 Super or in 7.65mm.

I got a few of 'em that way.

When i came into possession of a large amount of .40 ammunition i went looking, the wife said she could get me a Glock 22-23 at cost from the armorer school that her department would send her to, i replied i wanted a hammer, all metal, and it was going to be a 226....then two 229's....then a 239....then another 226

Boomer sigs

According to all the experts the .40 is dead, all metal pistols are outdated, and a hammer on a pistol is archaic, so my question is who keeps buying them? who keeps driving the prices up? and for those of us who love them why cant we get them at a house fire price?

Looked at that spur hammer P220 yesterday. It’s an ‘89. They want $550 for it, and it’s rougher than I remembered, but damned if I wasn’t toying with the idea of picking it up and sending it off to CCR to have the horrible slide refinish done to it fixed.

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Originally posted by m.p.driver:
According to all the experts the .40 is dead, all metal pistols are outdated, and a hammer on a pistol is archaic, so my question is who keeps buying them? who keeps driving the prices up? and for those of us who love them why cant we get them at a house fire price?

You can. .40 P229s and P226s are all over the place for $400 and below. I'd have bought several by now, except if you shop around you can get 9mm versions for sub-$600, and for my purposes that's a better deal. I live in a 9mm ecosystem...I have a wide variety of guns chambered in it, occasionally work supplies it, and when they don't it's still the cheapest thing for me to source and shoot on my own. I shoot enough that I'd easily surpass the cost savings on the gun in a month or two just in ammo alone. I do have a .40 P229, but I never shoot it as I have three others chambered in 9mm.

But that's me. If you have the logistical stuff in place to feed a .40, and are looking to expand your collection, it's a good time to be you.