Palladan44
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I have a Sig-P228 in caliber 9x19 from the early 90s.
Its in excellent shape, and I also paid good money for it, I didnt "steal" it at the 750$ I paid for it. But to me, it was worth the money. Im guessing it is a former LE/Govt. gun. It did come with 3 Original zipper 13 round magazines, and I purchased 3 additional Mec-Gar 15 rounders for it. It functions as good as any SIG ive ever fired. Accurate, with the great single action trigger as expected from a SIG.
One issue is the Tritium sights have faded to effectively nothing, this is to be expected. I have remedied by painting the front sight dot a bright white (dont care to paint the rear sights) in the interim, until I get new tritium sights for it.
By the time i hash out another 100 or so to get new sights, ill be into this Gun for about 950$ also having purchased the 3 addl. Mec-Gar Magazines. Hmmm. This has got me thinking maybe I should have just got into a new M11/P229 at this point.
What do you all think? Are there many differences between the 228/229 that make a difference to the user? Or is it just the change in manufacture on SIGs end that makes the gun difference? After having fired both, I cannot see or feel a difference in performance when firing.
To me, they are the same gun, theyre just manufactured differently.
All said and done, I saved about 150$-200$ by not going up to the P229. This is a possible oops here for me, ill admit it.
Its in excellent shape, and I also paid good money for it, I didnt "steal" it at the 750$ I paid for it. But to me, it was worth the money. Im guessing it is a former LE/Govt. gun. It did come with 3 Original zipper 13 round magazines, and I purchased 3 additional Mec-Gar 15 rounders for it. It functions as good as any SIG ive ever fired. Accurate, with the great single action trigger as expected from a SIG.
One issue is the Tritium sights have faded to effectively nothing, this is to be expected. I have remedied by painting the front sight dot a bright white (dont care to paint the rear sights) in the interim, until I get new tritium sights for it.
By the time i hash out another 100 or so to get new sights, ill be into this Gun for about 950$ also having purchased the 3 addl. Mec-Gar Magazines. Hmmm. This has got me thinking maybe I should have just got into a new M11/P229 at this point.
What do you all think? Are there many differences between the 228/229 that make a difference to the user? Or is it just the change in manufacture on SIGs end that makes the gun difference? After having fired both, I cannot see or feel a difference in performance when firing.
To me, they are the same gun, theyre just manufactured differently.
All said and done, I saved about 150$-200$ by not going up to the P229. This is a possible oops here for me, ill admit it.