April 30, 2021, 12:32 PM
12131Answers:
1- SIGforum (& Parabellum): If SIGforum didn’t exist, and Para didn’t own it, this thread would not have been possible.
2- Lee Salter: If he and his team back in the 80s hadn’t decided to tinker with the idea of a compact P226, there wouldn’t have been a PROTO-1.
3- Waynewash: If Lee hadn’t willed PROTO-1 to waynewash, he wouldn’t have signed up on here seeking info on PROTO-1.
4- SIG NH: This thread wouldn’t have been possible, if SIG NH hadn’t failed to work out an agreement to bring PROTO-1 home, once with waynewash and twice with me. The last time, I even offered to donate it for free. Things were heading in the right direction, almost there, then they simply ghosted me, despite many attempts to reach them, crickets. Weird.
5- The Auction: of course the auction. If it didn’t take place, who knows where PROTO-1 would have ended up.
6- 3/30: I deliberately started this thread at 3:30 on March 16, mentioned that it would be run for 2 weeks (until 3/30), posted the update on 3/30, because there were no correct guessers. I was hoping someone would pick up on 3/30 and dig further in past threads,
https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...440098124#6440098124
https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...030003864#8030003864
If I didn’t pop out that day, this thread would not exist.
7- 4/30: I deliberately picked this day to end the Karma, and mentioned it in the OP more than once, hoping someone would pick up on it and dig further, https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...240059864#1240059864
If South Viet Nam didn’t fall, chances are that I wouldn’t be sitting here writing this as a proud Oriental Redneck American. LOL!
So, there is no winner of PROTO-1. It goes back in the safe.
But, I decided to offer up the P228 below to one of the closest guessers (Excam_Man and Snake207).
I flipped the coin, and Snake207 is the winner, that is, if he wants the P228. The gun started life as the M11-A1 that I bought new in 2012 from OttoSig (when he was FFL). I sold the upper assembly years ago. Had SIG NH build me the P228 Nickel slide that is on the gun right now. So, the M11-A1 is now a FrankenP228. It does accept the 229-1 mag, since the frame is M11-A1 originally. Comes with three 17-rd (15+Plus2) 229-1 mags as shown and the original case. The trigger on the gun right now is the GGI original P-series Pistol Intermediate Trigger (P-SPIT) trigger that has since been discontinued.
