Nickel Sig 226

[logical]

Call me a fancy boy but in general I almost always go with stainless and black if given the chioce. In fact, I own a grand total of one blued firearm out of well...a lot....and it's a 40 year old Italian .25 auto and for sale.

I am looking at a Sig 226 9mm factory nickel (fairly rare and has a few hi-cap nickel mags too) to fill a void left by a Taurus 99 stainless that I sold. It will not likely see much holster time and will mainly be a once a month range gun.

Any experience with Nickel...is it easy to mar?...harder to clean?...compared to stainless....any other thoughts on the Sig 226 in general.

 

[XLMiguel]

The P-226 is a thoroughbred handgun - among the classic 'wonder nines'. I have an all nickel 226 that is a real tack-driver, or at least far more accuraate than I am, and it makes me look good. I've had it for about 6 years, it's mostly a range gun, and the finish has shown no signs of wear after a couple thousand rounds. In general, the nickel finish has a good rep for durability, but YMMV, mine has seen very limited carry. I put a set of Hogue Pao Fero stocks on it, very nice. Enjoy.