Well, I done gone and bought something kinda silly: a new-to-me SIG P229 Blue Piranha in 9mm! It popped up on GB for a price that I thought was well worth it, particularly for a pistol which only 500 were supposedly made (not sure if true, don't care...lol).






This one is used with some minor wear here and there but overall very clean, apparently shot a few times then stowed away. One of the grip screws has a LOT of Loctite Red all over it and I've heard of cautions against using alcohol to clean off PVD coatings so...yeah.

I know many will consider the shiny blue PVD coating to be gawdy a f, but I guess I should be thankful to be financially able to justify what I can only call a "safe queen" pistol i.e. kinda frivolous purchase...will need to take it out to the range at some point but yeah, it'll probably be my safe queen until I acquire my holy grail #2: Kimber Sapphire Pro...

And then...I went and did something that I still feel very icky about...




Yeah, I like the color blue, can anyone tell?

Bahhh, don't worry about validation - if you like it, you like it! I'm more into red myself lol

Dang, throw a shiny red PVD coating on a P229 and I'd buy that too !

Sah-wheeett !!!!

Nice looking for sure.

That blue slide is definitely a slippery slope!

Actually, I rather like the blue frame with the blue slide. I think it makes it look better to me.

I'd also change out the grips for some blue/black pattern or something like that in G10.

The straight trigger is also a nice touch.



Too much?? Hey, GO BIG OR GO HOME!!

Or something like this if you could find them for the P229.