I work next to a local mom & pop gun shop and swing in from time to time to check out the used gun case. The employees all know my name and that I am an HUGE Sig Sauer enthusiast so when something neat comes in they walk next door and let me know about their recent arrival.

Yesterday they tell me to come check out a 45 Sig they just got in so I went over and to my surprise there was a minty Sig P227 with frame rails that look so clean I wondered if gun had even been fired!

I cannot wait to shoot this baby! I got the pistol with two mags (no box) for $650, not a steal but not a bad price either I don’t think.

I don’t know much about these pistols. They are apparently no longer being made. I’d like to get a few more mags and maybe find a few of the 14rd mags if possible.

I’ll post up a range report soon.

Looks great. Hope it shoots as good as it looks.

Great gun but the 14rd mags are not reliable. I know 2 people that have the gun and they both had issues with them. If you like it after you fire it try to find some mags right away as they will only go up in price.

One of my friends is a retired PA State Police Captain. He was never a Sig guy but I asked him how qualifications went with the new Sig 227 and he said it was first time he ever shot a perfect score and yeah, he really liked it.

PSP doesn't carry the 227 anymore they switched to the Walther PDP.

Newer 14-rounders (in the now-familiar SIG box) are consistently reliable in my experience. Stay away from the earlier ones sold in just a plastic wrap.

Nice!

I like mine:

It’s a very cool gun that came out at the wrong time (way too late for the double-stack .45 game and a little too early for the comeback of 10mm).

The implication in that second note is that the P227 would still be alive today if SIG had made a (steel frame) version of it in 10mm, but the entire model was discontinued before that would have made good business sense.

Congrats on a nice SIG!

Tragically, the P-227 was 25 years too late. The era of the double/single action automatic pistol has passed us by for law-enforcement sales and government law-enforcement.

Great guns, just like any other DA/SA P-series...IF you have a use for a full-size double-stack .45 that only holds 10 rounds flush. Ultimately I decided that I didn't, but YMMV.

I agree with MacGyver...if they had offered a 10mm version they likely would have sold a lot more of them.

Great find, stickman!

They should never have abandoned the P227, err… I mean the P221 in 2001.

Have one. Have yet to fire it, so no opinion on functionality. I will agree with the opinions expressed so far, it was probably a little late to the party for commercial success. I believe Osage and the CD place in Texas both had magazines in the not too distant past. Had G10 grips at one time as well.

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Originally posted by 12131:
They should never have abandoned the P227, err… I mean the P221 in 2001.

I agree. They should have put that one into production and they should have given the 40/357 P226 a real magazine and called that the P227. But the AWB killed all of that.

Nice pick up! Seems like several of us have picked up .45 caliber P series at good prices lately. If you like anything other than 9mm, it appears the prices are better.

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Originally posted by sigarms229:
Great gun but the 14rd mags are not reliable. I know 2 people that have the gun and they both had issues with them. If you like it after you fire it try to find some mags right away as they will only go up in price.

I have a very early P227. I bought it right when they came out. Right out of the gate, the 14-round magazines would not work. They would literally fall out of the gun on the first round.

I didn't shoot it very much, but when I went to the range recently, even the 10-round mags would sometimes fall out. HOWEVER, I sent it to SIG, and they fixed it. No charge, no receipt, no questions.

Now it works with both 10- and 14-round magazines.

So, don't worry about the mags. Most likely they will be fine, but if not, there is a fix. Otherwise, the gun has been entirely reliable; now the mags issue is fixed.

Good luck finding 14-round mags, and I mean that sincerely. I have a couple from way back and haven't been able to find any more anywhere.

You may be able to substitute a P320 mag for the 14 rounders.

I was able to modify a 2011 magazine to work just fine.